1. LQ: Can I write in a clear and informative manner?
The Beast
LQ: Can I write in a clear and informative manner?
Key terms: deductions, inferences, suspense, fear, tension, genre, Gothic, narrative perspective, literary and social context, superstition, pathetic fallacy, personification, imagery

2. How much progress will I make?
LQ: Can I write in a clear and informative manner?
How much progress will I make?
Outstanding progress: you will give imaginative treatment to an appropriate topic, adapting vocabulary, style and formality to suit purpose and audience using a range of stylistic devices to achieve effect.
Excellent progress: you will develop ideas in some detail, maintaining the features of an informative text and choosing vocabulary for effect.
Writing Level 4/5/6 AF1/2/7
Good progress: you will write with a clear purpose, choose an appropriate topic and vocabulary for interest and develop some description in detail.
Key terms: deductions, inferences, suspense, fear, tension, genre, Gothic, narrative perspective, literary and social context, superstition, pathetic fallacy, personification, imagery

3. LQ: Can I write in a clear and informative manner?
Ext: Can you use imagery to help make your beast more real?
The Beast of Bromley!
Create your own beast of legend. Describe it using interesting adjectives and nouns.
Key terms: deductions, inferences, suspense, fear, tension, genre, Gothic, narrative perspective, literary and social context, superstition, pathetic fallacy, personification, imagery

4. Fill any important details in on the map.
LQ: Can I write in a clear and informative manner?
As a class
Read Chapter 11.
Fill any important details in on the map.
Ext: Can you deduce who the murderer is yet?
Key terms: deductions, inferences, suspense, fear, tension, genre, Gothic, narrative perspective, literary and social context, superstition, pathetic fallacy, personification, imagery

5. LQ: Can I write in a clear and informative manner?
Independently
Create entry for Wikipedia for ‘The Beast of Bromley’.
You need to have:
physical description
when it is seen
habitat and haunts of the Beast.
Ext: Can you use a range of techniques to make information clear and engaging for the reader?
Let’s look at the Wikipedia entry for the Beast of Bodmin to figure out what an entry should have and the style we need to write in.
Key terms: deductions, inferences, suspense, fear, tension, genre, Gothic, narrative perspective, literary and social context, superstition, pathetic fallacy, personification, imagery

6. Scientific information Title
LQ: Can I write in a clear and informative manner?
Expert opinion
Scientific information
Title
Contents
Adjectives and verbs to suggest theory: ‘purported’ ‘alleged’ ‘verifiable’
Present tense
Image
subtitles
Scientific language
Data
Modal verbs
Key terms: deductions, inferences, suspense, fear, tension, genre, Gothic, narrative perspective, literary and social context, superstition, pathetic fallacy, personification, imagery

7. LQ: Can I write in a clear and informative manner?
Independently
Create entry for Wikipedia for ‘The Beast of Bromley’.
You need to have:
physical description
when it is seen
habitat and haunts of the Beast.
Ext: Can you use a range of techniques to make information clear and engaging for the reader?
Outstanding progress: give imaginative treatment to an appropriate topic, adapting vocabulary, style and formality to suit purpose and audience using a range of stylistic devices to achieve effect.
Excellent progress: develop ideas in some detail, maintaining the features of an informative text and choosing vocabulary for effect.
Good progress: write with clear purpose, choose an appropriate topic and vocabulary for interest and develop some description.
Key terms: deductions, inferences, suspense, fear, tension, genre, Gothic, narrative perspective, literary and social context, superstition, pathetic fallacy, personification, imagery

8. Each group needs to share their winning entry!
Ext: Can you refer to details to develop your analysis?
LQ: Can I write in a clear and informative manner?
In groups of 4
Who has the scariest beast and most convincing wikipedia entry? Who has made the most progress?
Each group needs to share their winning entry!
Outstanding progress: give imaginative treatment to an appropriate topic, adapting vocabulary, style and formality to suit purpose and audience using a range of stylistic devices to achieve effect.
Prizes for winner!
Excellent progress: develop ideas in some detail, maintaining the features of an informative text and choosing vocabulary for effect.
Good progress: write with a clear purpose, choose an appropriate topic and vocabulary for interest and develop some description in detail.
Key terms: deductions, inferences, suspense, fear, tension, genre, Gothic, narrative perspective, literary and social context, superstition, pathetic fallacy, personification, imagery

9. Homework project Week 1. Scotland Yard Crime report.
LQ: Can I write in a clear and informative manner?
Homework project
This is a whole term project in which you will be creating your own crime file. Progress will be checked throughout the term and the full project will be submitted in the final week. Each task will be completed over the term.
Week 1. Scotland Yard Crime report.
Week 2. Suspect information page.
Week 3. Crime scene sketch.
Week 4. Clues You must have at least three clues represented in your file. They should be in different forms (i.e. photograph, testimony, video clip, DNA results, etc.) Be creative!
Weeks 5 and 6. Create your own short story in which the crime is solved by a detective (two weeks for this part).
Ext: Can you come up with an original crime using a plot twist?
Key terms: deductions, inferences, suspense, fear, tension, genre, Gothic, narrative perspective, literary and social context, superstition, pathetic fallacy, personification, imagery