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Thursday 2nd April 2020

Good morning Year 4.Well done to those children who have logged onto Office 365. Some children have already started to post their work. Please continue to do this as we love to see what you’re all doing. Shout outs to Agit, Otis, Amara and Maya in Wiltshire class for posting some amazing work.

Try to take part in the Joe Wicks PE sessions every day at 9 am.

Thursday 2nd April 2020L.O. I can write a setting description.

What you need to know.

Understand the term ‘setting’.

Become aware of how authors use settings.

Be able to create atmosphere through a setting description.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zpccwmn/articles/z8mqsrd

Follow the link to find out about settings.

Establish your setting -

The setting is the location (place) or locations (places) where a piece of writing

takes place. Stories can start with a description of the setting to set the

scene for the whole story.Read the text to see how the author (Hans Christian Andersen) used short descriptions of the setting to show what the Little Match Girl sees.

It was snowing and the wind grew cold as darkness fell over the city. It was New Year’s Eve. In the gathering gloom a little girl with bare feet padded through the streets. She had been wearingher mother’s slippers when she left home, but they were far too big, and she had lost them whilehurrying across a busy road. One of them was nowhere to be found, and a boy ran off with the other one. So now her bare feet were mottled blue and red with the bitter cold.In her old apron, the little girl carried bundles of matches, which her father had sent her out to sell, but all day long nobody had bought a single match from her. Cold and hungry, she made her way through the city. Brilliant lights streamed from the windows of big houses, where blazing fires crackled merrily in the hearth, and the smell of roast goose hung on the air, for it was New Year’s Eve.

Don’t forget to use your clarifying skills to find the meaning of words you don’t

understand. Use a dictionary (online) if you need to check the meaning.

Establish your setting

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When you are writing a description of a setting, include what you

can smell, hear, feel and perhaps taste, not just what you see. Using you senses makes your writing more interesting.

Don’t have too many different locations in your story, as

this can be confusing; it is better to have a couple of well-

described settings.

Excerpt from Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

It was quite a small room, with heavy black beams in the ceiling. By daylight it was amazingly dirty.

The stones of the floor were stained and greasy, ash was piled within the fender, and the cobwebs hung in dusty droops from the beams. There was a layer of dust on the skull. Sophie absently wiped it off as she went to peer into the sink beside the workbench. She shuddered at the pink and grey slime in it and the white slime dripping from the pump above it. Howl obviously did not care what squalor his servants lived in.

Read the two settings descriptions. Which one do you like the most? Explain why.

Far below where the golden sun shimmered on the surface; deeper than the rainbow coral; beyond the darkest of caverns stood the most glorious of all sights. Like golden shards from heaven, beams of light sliced through the darkness to reveal a myriad of colours. Plants, all neatly placed in organised rows waved at the passing traffic: shoals of silver fish; scuttling, red crab; lumbering purple squid and, of course, the daughters of Triton.

Draw a picture to go with your favourite setting description.

Choose your words carefully -

Careful word choice is really important to describe the setting and can

create real atmosphere. Use adjectives and adverbs to create a picture inthe reader’s mind.

It was summer and the sun’s touch seemed to melt even the normally hard pavements. The cloudless sky was interrupted only by the vapour trails of aeroplanes, jetting excited holidaymakers to their destinations.

Down on the ground, the happy sound of children splashing each other with cold water drifted across the garden. Bees hummed a happy tune as they buzzed from one plant to another, spoilt for choice. I lay, warm and contented, on an old picnic blanket, smelling the cut grass and looking at the sky.

Use positional vocabulary to add interest –

Above me, I saw --------- A few steps in front of me --------.

Up above ----------

Your task today –

Write a poem about your bedroom.

Imagine you are sitting on your bed. What can you see, hear, touch and smell?How do you feel?

From my bed I can:

See piles and piles of printing paper,Hear the steady ticking of my alarm clock,Smell a sock that should have gone in the wash yesterday,Touch the crisp, cotton sheets beneath me,Feel at home.

Your turn -

Extension –

Imagine you are standing in a garden and you have to describe

to someone else what is around you.The writing frame will help you to describe your setting. Use your own adjectivesand phrases to make the picture come alive.

The air was ----------- around me. A few steps in front of me I could see ----------and above me ----------------- The ---------------- sound of ------------- could beheard and I could feel ------------------. To my right, -----------------------------,while to my left, -------------------. If I listened carefully, I could just hear------------- and the ------------- smell of ------------- filled my nose.It felt -------------- in the garden.

We would love to read some of your setting descriptions. Please post them on Office 365.