Character Description Audioboo

11+ English Year 6 Fiction: Character Description Audioboo

We love describing characters, but character descriptions can sometimes break the 'flow' of a story. We have been learning about incorporating character descriptions into the 'flow' of our narratives.

Listen to my 'eduboo' audioboo before you start writing! You can also listen to S's example character description audioboo:


Task: Write a second dialogue and description between two of the characters at the party. Make sure you write the description from the point-of-view of one of the other characters.

Due: Thursday

Year 5 Class Reader and Describing a Character's Appearance Homework

Homework:

Visit our 'Montmorency' page on the FSG pupil wiki. Click: http://fsg.wikispaces.com/Year+5+Summer+Class+Reader+Montmorency

1. Read the first four chapters of Montmorency. As you read, I want you to annotate the text. Please highlight or underline the following:

- Any similes
- Any smells
- Any reference to taste
- Any useful adjectives

Bring your annotated draft in on Friday.

2. One element of a short story most of you forgot to include in our Timed Writing ('Cat in a Hat') story last Friday was a character description. Doh! Please (click here to remind yourself of this key skill).

Reread the descriptions of 'Freakshow Frank' on page 19.

Imagine - or sketch - another prisioner in Montmorency's prison. Describe that prisioner, 'zooming in' on details of his appearance. You can write the description on paper, or create it in Microsoft Word and then cut and paste it onto the wiki page. Note: Please don't write directly onto the wiki, because that will stop your classmates copying and pasting up their work!

Feeling clever: See if you can include the bracketing comma in your description, like this:

Crowbar Bob, a safecracker, had a quite hideous face...

P.S. Don't forget it is our 'c' words spelling test tomorrow!
Due: Friday