Year 5 Fiction - Designing a 'Bad Guy'

L.O. To understand the benefits of a distinctive nemesis to create tension/excitement in an adventure story

We are going to be writing some spy stories, but to do so we need some 'bad guys'

In a short story, you don't have long to grab your reader's attention. One way to do this is to create a powerful, original 'bad guy' - and think about how they look, speak and act.

Homework: In the picture above you can see a mug shot. Learn more about mugshots by clicking here.
These are the photos the police take when they arrest someone. They take one photo 'face on', and one from the side. Here is a shot of a famous criminal:



Your task is in two parts:

1. Either dress up a member of your family as your criminal (use hats/wigs/makeup/an patch) and take two 'mug shot' photos with a digital camera - and send the file to baldworm@baldworm.co.uk. We'll display these around school.

or

Draw/paint a mug shot. We'll scan these and put them up on the wiki.

2. Write a description of the character in your draft book. Write 5/6 lines, and concentrate on how they look. Click here to revise this skill. This is an example, taken from Stormbreaker:

The man was ordinary to look at. Grey hair, grey suit, grey lips and grey eyes. His face was expressionless, the eyes behind the square, gunmetal glasses completely empty. Perhaps that was what disturbed Alex. Whoever this man was, he seemed to have less life than anyone in the cemetery. Above or below ground.

We'll be using these character descriptions to record mini-podcasts - and we'll need them next week when we begin to revise suspense techniques.