CHAPTER 6

Cross-over from Literature

into Language: Directed
Writing
Narrative Writing
LO To be able to apply stylistic features to your own
directed writing
Stylistic Features Recall
Who can remember the 20 stylistic features we identified
last lesson from the opening of Chapter 6?
Stylistic Features Recall
Anaphora
Rhetorical Question
Hyperbole
Auditory imagery
Declarative statement
Ellipsis
Phrases for sentences (a phrase lacks a main verb)
Tactile imagery
Kinesthetic image
Synesthesia
Visual imagery
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Personification
Alliteration
Exclamatory statement
Sibilance
Italics
Hyphen
Short, clipped sentences
Narrative Writing
Watch the following clip from Sir David Attenboroughs
BBC programme Hunt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mgnf6t9VEc&index
=5&list=
PL5A4nPQbUF8C_g1Q_0lmiYfoIFz3hrTYE

Your teacher will play this video with no sound

After you have watched it carefully, write down the main
feelings that you think the polar bear is experiencing
Watch again, this time with sound. Attenborough may
help you empathise with the polar bear, which will help
you write from his / her point of view
 Write in first person, present
Activity tense, just like Frayn in the
opening to Chapter 6 of Spies

Write 350 450 words in response to the title The

Hunt, narrating from the viewpoint of the polar bear.

Experiment with some of the stylistic features from our

list of 20.

Annotate (underline / highlight + label) every time you

use one of the 20 stylistic features.
Narrative Writing Ingredients (25 marks
in total)

Apply the stylistic features you identified and analysed

last lesson to help you add:

Descriptive detail
Rising action and sense of climax
Characterised narrative voice
Plenary
Students peer assess, commenting on how well students
have applied stylistic features to add:

Descriptive detail
Rising action and sense of climax
Characterised narrative voice

Read aloud any particularly good practice as identified

by students.
More Practice
Tiger:

https
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK5Kq6tVMJg&list=PL5A4n
PQbUF8C_g1Q_0lmiYfoIFz3hrTYE&index=
2

Octopus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFzpC_e44Tg&list=P
L5A4nPQbUF8C_g1Q_0lmiYfoIFz3hrTYE&index=
10