LO: To use descriptive vocabulary in my own writing

Your task: To write a

description of a ghost as
suggested by this picture:
Planning your answer:
1. On five post –its write 5
areas that you could focus
on in the picture e.g. his
clothes, what he might be
feeling.
2. Arrange your post-its in
the order you would write
about them –these will be
your paragraphs.
3. Read the Hamlet ghost
scene again and magpie 5
words or phrases you
could use in your own
work
Ghost: I am thy father's spirit, doom'd for a certain term to
walk the night, and for the day confined to fast in fires, till the
foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purged away.
(Hamlet buries his face in his hands in horror) List, list O list!
If thou didst ever thy dear father love—

Hamlet: O God!

Ghost: Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder!

Hamlet: Murder!

Ghost: Murder most foul, as in the best it is. Now Hamlet,

hear. ‘Tis given out that, sleeping my orchard a
serpent stung me. But know thou, noble youth, the serpent
that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown.
LO: To use descriptive vocabulary in my own writing

Success criteria
Write a description of a ghost as suggested by AO5
this picture: • A clear description with
appropriate level of detail
• Use paragraphs (of varying
lengths)
• Use descriptive techniques
(senses description, similes,
metaphors, personification)
• Use a wide range of
vocabulary: your specific
focus is using PREFIXES AND
SUFFIXES
AO6
• Use a range of punctuation
accurately
• Use a variety of sentence
types (including varying the
beginnings of your
sentences)
• Accurate spelling
• Stay in the same tense