Year Six Magazine Work - P.G. Wodehouse's The Drones Club - 'Setting the Scene'

L.O. To revise techniques used to 'set the scene' in a short story using personfication

We have been studying P.G. Wodehouse's bucolic descriptions, noting how they 'set the scene' for his comedies.

Homework: Write a seven-eight line description of the Drones Club. Use all of our descriptive techniques, but focus on your use of personification.

Feeling clever? Don't forget to include a semi-colon, bracket, dash and a colon in the eight lines!

Click here to learn more about personification

Click here to revise the key descriptive techniques.

Year Six Magazine Work - P.G. Wodehouse's The Drones Club first draft

L.O. To understand the importance of class in comedy

Homework: In class we created plans for a story set in P.G. Wodehouse's Drones club.
Your task tonight is to write the first draft of this story. Remember to include plenty of Wodehouse slang! Write 1 1/2 sides of A4.

Don't forget to visit the pupil wiki here for useful links and further information, and to download a copy of the example plan we created in class.

Year Six Magazine Work - P.G. Wodehouse's The Drones Club

Click here for useful links and information on the fsg pupil wiki.

Homework: Write a dialogue between two members of the Drones Club and a servant about a prank (a trick) on a third member of the club. Write 1 sides of A4, and use as much Wodehousian slang as you can! Remember, the Drones Club members are twits; the servants are the smart ones!

An example opening:

“Hullo, old bean!” cried Pongo.
“Oh, how are you, my good man?” enquired Catsmeat
Pongo lowered his voice: “I’ve bad blood with Lord Emsworth. That blighter gave me a five shilling fine for stealing a policeman’s helmet! I thought the old poop was going to throw me in the jug!”

Don't forget to check the punctuation of your direct speech!Feeling clever? Try to include semi-colons and colons as part of your prose.