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Controlled Assessment Task: Place a character from a literary text you have read into a new piece of your own writing.

Text: “Great Expectations” by Charles DickensRead chapter 1 and then write your imagined next chapter. You can select from: Magwitch or Pip

Magwitch

is a fearsome criminal, a fugitive from a prison ship when he meets Pip on the marshes one Christmas Eve.

Pip, an orphan

is being raised by his sister and her husband Joe in the marshes of

Kent.

Pip dreams of following in Joe’s footsteps as a blacksmith.

A

fter

a summons to meet Miss

Havisham

and her daughter

Estella,

Pip’s horizons open up and he starts to imagine a different future for himself.Slide2

Location and weatherYour character [Pip]Other character [Magwitch] and dialogue

Something happensRealisationStructureSlide3

Planning ideas2. Pip:

3. Magwitch:

1. Location:1. Weather:

4. What happens?:

5. Realisation/reflection/learning?:

3. Dialogue topic:Slide4

The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed. On the edge of the river I could faintly make out the only two black things in all the prospect that seemed to be standing upright; one of these was the beacon by which the sailors steered,—like an unhooped cask upon a pole,—an ugly thing when you were near it; the other, a gibbet, with some chains hanging to it which had once held a pirate.

Section 1: Describe location: Dickens in “Great Expectations”Slide5

Section 1:Describe weather: Dickens using the weather to create mood and atmosphere in another novelFog everywhere

. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on

the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships;

fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards;

fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down in his close cabin; fog cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little 'prentice boy on deck. Slide6

Section 2: Character 1

Face shape and bone structure

Eyes and eyebrows

Nose, mouth

Body shape, posture and clothing

Hair – colour, length, style, condition

Clothing and items Slide7

Section 2: Character 2

Face shape and bone structure

Eyes and eyebrows

Nose, mouth

Body shape, posture and clothingHair – colour, length, style, condition

Clothing and items Slide8

Section 2: CharacterAgatha had a narrow, oblong face with angular cheekbones and a pointed chin. Her slit-like eyes were a clouded hazel, and her thinly plucked eyebrows were shaped into a deceivingly perfect arch that followed the slight curve of her eye. A long nose hooked over continually pursed lips, which were painted a bright red in an unsuccessful effort to mask their natural thinness. Bleached blonde hair, made thin from too many years of hair dye, hung straight down into an angular cut at her jaw. The sharp features of Agatha's face were merely a reflection of her entire body structure, and

everything—from her skeletal arms to her paper-thin waste—screamed of unnatural skinniness. She walked in long strides, her shoulders back and face held forward, wearing tall stiletto heels and a bold leopard-print mini-dress.Slide9

Section 3: Dialogue 1. Who talks first? Why? What is the response?

Facial expression / body language / gesture/ prop/movement?2. Remember to use specific word-tags. Do not overuse saidAlternatives include: whispered – answered – muttered – stuttered – declared – snapped – shouted – barked – bellowed – screamed. Do you have any of your own alternatives? Slide10

Section 4: Something happensWhat is going to happen between the two characters? Does the dialogue link/trigger this event?

Remember to use short, simple sentences for to emphasise the action in this section as well as other varied sentences too.Slide11

Ways of EndingCliffhanger:

Leave a character in jeopardy where they wonder/question how they will survive/escape/move on, etc

Echo:Repeat image, colour, weather or sentence from the opening and add a change to it.

Keyhole/ClueSuggest next development without giving any detail. Possibly ending in a question?

Extreme Close-up

:

End with

a focused description of something to show emphasis

Section 5: Realisation pointSlide12

bolt

bounce careen

dart dash dive

drop

plummet propel

rush

race

ram

rip

scamper

shove

speed

spin

spring

sprint

stride

swerve

swoop

zip

stray

sway

scramble

amble

crawl

creep

drag

drift

droop

heave

edge

loiter

lumber

plod

saunter

slink

Sight Words:

Movement

Texture

/ Touch

WordsSlide13

Above all, after all, indeed, as a matter of fact, the main issue is, chiefly, especially, actually, the most significant, the chief characteristic, the major point, the most necessary, extremely, to emphasize, to highlight, to stress, by all means, undoubtedly, more importantly, most important of all, most of all, moreover, furthermore, significantly, without a doubt, certainly, to be sure, surely, absolutely, obviously, more and more, of major interest, to culminate, in truth, the climax of, to add to that, without question, unquestionably, as a result, probability

Emphasis

Discourse markers for emphasisSlide14

Frankly, he/ she

Honestly, he/ she

She/he thought,He/ She supposed,

After all, No doubt,

He was/ she was afraid, Actually, A

s a matter of fact,

To tell the truth,

Unfortunately,

She/ he believed,

To express

attitude: