Myth Creative Writing Feedback

1. Myth Creative Writing Feedback Thank you for your patience in waiting for your feedback. The English department have been trialling a new moderation tool called ‘Comparative Judgement’. When you get your work back, you will notice that your teacher has not written on your work, but your work has been judged more than 8 times!

2. What were we looking for? • Writing that was developed • How successfully you were able to adapt one of the stories you had read into a modern-day setting • How successfully you treated the aspects of the original story and how successfully you added your own twist (this could have been through humour/ by taking a different angle with the original story) • Ideas to be developed fully, with sophisticated description and vocabulary • To be engaged and on the edges of our seats! • The narrative to be well-structured, with a clear beginning, development and ending • The work to be accurate, using a range of sentences and controlled grammatical structures- and you use paragraphs! • Characters to be introduced and developed successfully.

3. Firstly, we are going to look at some examples from girls in your year group. As we read, you may wish to make notes about what you notice as this will help you in your own work.

4. Let’s look at an opening Discuss: How does this student create an interesting and exciting opening to her story? How does she introduce her characters? Do you notice anything else that makes this engaging?

5. Let’s look at how you could introduce characters Discuss: How does she introduce her character in an interesting and exciting way?

6. Let’s look at using sentences for impact Discuss: How does this student vary her sentence structures for effect? What is the effect on the reader here?

7. Let’s look at structure Look back at your work, did your plot have a clear and defined structure? Did you build tension before the climax of the text? Bullet point what happens in each paragraph, does it follow this structure? If it doesn’t, rewrite a plan for how this story could have followed a logical structure.

8. Let’s look at punctuating dialogue Discuss: Does this student follow the rules for punctuating dialogue?

9. Now, using the checklist provided, look at your own work. Complete the checklist and the activities mentioned in red pen. You have the rest of today’s lesson and HL in which to do that.