Diary entry creative writing

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​Creative writing session 1

​ Imagine you lived on a farm, like Anne of Green Gables. Write a diary entry describing a day in your life. (25 marks)


SPAG (5)
Content (15)
Structure (5)

​Mark scheme

​SPAG

• punctuated correctly throughout, full stops and commas.

• Ensure you hve not included overly long sentences.

• different punctuation used: speech, exclamation marks, semi colons and colons.

• ambitious vocabulary used accurately and frequently
  

​Mark scheme

Structure

- is there a clear beginning/middle and end in your story?
-are there varied sentence structures, long and short?
- Is your story equally split between character development and setting?

​Mark scheme

Content
- Have you used different literary devices? similes, metaphors, personification, onomatopoeia, (purposeful) repetition, alliteration, short sentences to build tension, juxtaposition, hyperbole, irony, sibilance,
-have you used ambitious vocabulary?

- have you answered the task?

It's important to remember we are writing a diary entry

this means it will be Anne's honest thoughts and first impressions of her new life at the farm
Important aspects to remember

Discussing feelings
recounting everything from Anne's perspective
First impressions on the farm
Including memories or ideas for the future.

​Let's remind ourselves of some of the key details from the text that we can include in our diary entry to give it more credibility

​Model

​Dear Diary

What a distressing first night