Learning Outcomes:
-To look at a range of texts in order to understand how writers set a tone and write for a particular genre.
-To find out what genre conventions are and how we recognise them.
-To understand how an author portrays the tone through use of language.
Exercise:
“It was almost midnight…”
- It was almost midnight and I still hadn’t finished everything on my to-do list, if I don’t finish everything by tomorrow only God knows how I’ll be able to get through the day.
- 23:45pm, it was almost midnight and he still hadn’t turned up, he promised? How could he let me down again…
- It was almost midnight, I’m nearly 16! I can’t wait I’m so excited! I wonder what Mum and Dad have bought me.
- The day was coming to an end, it was almost midnight and I had to be up by 7:30am the next morning, but yet, I still couldn’t sleep.
- It was almost midnight, I only have 10 minutes until the deadline and I’m still writing my essay! This essay counts for the majority of my grade I have to get it perfect.
- After three long weeks they’re finally nearly here, its almost midnight! I can’t wait to see them.
- It was almost midnight when I noticed the porch light come on, was someone outside? I’m home alone…
- It was almost midnight! 10! 9! 8! 7! 6! 5! 4! 3! 2! 1! HAPPY NEW YEAR!
- It was almost midnight and he just kissed me. I couldn’t believe it. Everyone had left the party already and I was just getting my jacket and there he was and he kissed me.
- It was almost midnight, tomorrow’s the big day. I wonder if he’s doing okay, I’m so nervous.
Writing Task:
Romance…
As I lay there in silence, the sound of the gushing waves hitting against the shore soothed me. The air was warm and the sun was turning in for another night. Paradise. There he lay to my right, his hair moving with the breeze, how could someone be so beautiful while they slept? As I watched the water move back and forth, allowing the sand to dry then suddenly drowning it all over again in an instant, I watched in awe.
Historical…
Single file the woman said. We walked slowly, trying to take in all of the scenery, the rocks were slippery and my backpack was heavy but every second of the discomfort was worth it. I looked to my left and had the sudden urge to freeze, there it was, Niagara Falls. The power of that water rushing down with such force but still managing to look so beautiful, I couldn’t comprehend what my eyes had just witnessed. Even the sound was beautiful, it echoed for miles.
My 10 personal fears:
- Losing my family
- Being alone
- Feeling constantly anxious
- Not really ever knowing my purpose in life
- Dying
- Feeling the pain of losing someone I love again
- Fear of not being understood
- Being in a horrible accident
- Black bin bags
- Being abducted
Writing Task:
I was running and running and running and yet I still felt like I was still there. My heart pounding so fast I could feel it all over my body, I could hear it so loud in my head. I was panting for air but I couldn’t stop, if I stopped I would die, I know I would. He wasn’t far behind me, I could hear him calling out my name, taunting me. Every time I hear my name now, I flinch. It’s been 17 days and I still haven’t slept longer than 10 minutes at a time, I’m scared that he’s going to find me and take me back there I can’t go back there I won’t go back there I won’t do it.
Evaluation of the session:
In this session we took a sentence “It was almost midnight…” and had to write 10 different sentences from that sentence starter, we then done a writing task where we explored different genres and wrote short stories within those genres, I chose romance and historical. After that I wrote a list of my 10 personal fears in order to explore and find out where fear lay inside of my mind, I then wrote a short story in the mind of one of those fears. By doing these tasks and finding these fears it has allowed me to open my mind to another page and allow my creative side to write about things that haven’t happened directly to me but can grow from something I fear. I still need to develop in finding different styles of writing and being able to write about new things using those styles. I believe that a lot of my writing is influenced by my personal pain or experiences and I want to challenge myself to be able to use that pain but still be able to write about something positive and constructive.
Almost midnight – very imaginative
They do all feel similar in tone – which genre’s do you you think they would sit in?
night, paradise
consider editing
night. Paradise.
as we done so = met pet hate – done? this is because people say done when they mean did
ion this case I’m not sure you even need it at all.
back pack – one word = backpack
sudden urge to freeze – not sure we get an urge to freeze – it’s more of an instinct or an involuntary body adjustment – its a biological thing between brain and body.
over my body I could hear it so loud in my head. – ? punctuation needed
over my body, I could hear it so loud in my head.
would die, I know I would
please get all blogs as up to date as possible over the half term
Here is some guidance on the structure and content when writing your blogs posts:
I want you to imagine that an alien has landed and has no idea about the session the blog reflects, you have to give the all the details and put everything in context: What we did in the session (skills, theories, tips literary devices and narrative devices), how we did it (reading extracts, watching video clips etc. warm up and free writing exercises plus demonstrating the skills by experimenting/trying the skills out with our own writing ), why we did it (because it helps the reader understand the message, gives it power, paints images in readers mind etc.) and how it impacted on our writing and will affect your future writing (evaluation).
I’m noticing that many of you are writing up notes, short stories/plays etc without giving the writing, the analysis, and the warm up exercises any context.
Here is a breakdown that I will also put up on the blog posts to guide you.
You blogs posts on WordPress should explore some of the theory and/or related texts with regards to writing skills and techniques deployed in the areas of your choice over the week. In this blog post you must demonstrate/summarise how you have responded to the chosen texts and clips and reflect upon the process and development of your work. Writers should demonstrate a critical awareness of personal writing, process and reflections on relationships between ideas, aims, development and technique.
Summarise the key theory and/or skills you have learned and practiced for the week and how you have done so. This blog post should contain:
· A description of the skills being learned and used.
· Show an example of these being used professionally
· Demonstrate your own example of how you used the skills
· Evaluate your use of the skill with reference to the professional example.
List your bibliography sources (books, journals and other media and multimedia sources. SEE Reading Resources on Media Blog pages plus Reading in LRC)
Hope that helps – please go back through work and ad the context and as you move forward use this to help you with the structure of the blog posts.
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I have adjusted my work on the area’s you mentioned.
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but still no evaluation of the session: what we did, how we did it, what impact it will have your writing – why we did it, who influenced your witting – what do you still need to develop, how will you do this.
This is an essential part of the course that is hard but necessary to learn in order to pass.
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Also think about how word choice affects the tone of a piece: eerie words, dark, ghostly and sinister words – light and happy, positive words, aggressive, violent and threatening words – sad, depressing, melancholy, lamenting words – love, romance, they all set a tone and suit different genres.
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