Want a challenge? Check out the page for Senior School students for more advanced poetry styles. RECOMMENDATION: Use Rhyme Desk as a space to write your poetry. It makes it easy to look up rhyming words and synonyms as you go. Easy / Quick Styles Diamante Diamante poems are about two opposing things, arranged in…
Category: Creative Text Types
Find a Recount
Narratively has an array of interesting stories about people. https://narratively.com/
Action Stories
Also try: Short Story Website Links. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell. 1924. Full of action! The story features a big-game hunter from New York City who falls off a yacht and swims to what seems to be an abandoned and isolated island in the Caribbean, where he is hunted by a Russian aristocrat….
Non-Chronological Narrative Text Structures
In Medias Res This Jack Reacher short story features In Medias Res structure:Lee Child ‘A Guy Walks into a Bar’
Find a Short Story
Websites where you can find short stories. Classic Shorts – http://www.classicshorts.com/index.shtmlLots of classic popular short stories that are all in the public domain. American Short Stories for High School Students: https://americanliterature.com/high-school-short-stories Short stories for Middle School https://www.weareteachers.com/best-short-stories-for-middle-schoolers/ Links to a lot of Short Story websites: http://www.classicshorts.com/links.html
Connotation and Denotation
BASICS Revise the difference with the PowerPoint we went through in class, Year 10 English 2020. Worksheet on Understanding Connotation and Denotation: Intermediate Go here for a discussion about connotation, and some examples from literature and films: https://literaryterms.net/connotation/ and https://literaryterms.net/denotation/ Using Connotations in poetry writing: https://www.writingforward.com/poetry-writing/denotation-and-connotation-in-poetry-writing The emotional power of words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRt06AvUm0A ADVANCED Connotation and…
Narrative Point of View
Narrative Point of View is the perspective the story or writing is being told from. It is shown in the use of pronouns and there are three main types: What are the Different types of POV? What is it? Effect First Person Pronouns: I, me, my, mine, ours, we. First person tells us the thinking…
Poetic Techniques
Poetry Rap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWwFBGOBAQI Poetry Glossary: https://www.poetry4kids.com/lessons/poetry-dictionary-for-kids/ Figurative Language Sound Techniques Rhyme / Slant Rhyme Sometimes rhymes seem ‘forced’: that means, you have to say it too quickly to make it fit the pattern. Ken Nesbitt, a famous kid’s poet gives advice on how to avoid them here: https://www.poetry4kids.com/lessons/forced-rhymes-and-how-to-avoid-them/ The Raven is a poem by Edgar…
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