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Fiction Writing Year 9
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Turn your favourite fairy-
tale into a gothic tale! 2
sides of A4 (font size 12).
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Write a short narrative in which
you use an extended metaphor.
Using a range of sentence types,
write the climax in a short story,
whereby the length of sentence
contributes to increasing the
suspense!
Select a page from a gothic text
of your choice, annotate it with
key terms, and comment on
how it fulfils the expectations of
gothic literature.
Using zoomorphism, turn the
description of a playground into a
gothic scene.
Go on Google Classroom and
enter the code: vfnnbxd
Find the image titled:
Desolation

Write a description.

Identify all verb types, and
create a table with their
name, definition and
example.
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Identify 4 different types of
metaphor, and create a table with
their name, definition and
example.
Graveyards are popular places
to create a gothic feel in movies.
Which other locations may suit
the gothic genre? Write a list of
5, and for each write a
descriptive paragraph to set an
eerie scene.
Zoomorphism is a technique of
gothic writing. Once you know
what it means, describe an
inanimate object, coming to life,
using zoomorphism.
Go on Google Classroom and enter
the code: vfnnbxd
Find the extract titled: Dracula
Extract Y9 Homework.
Answer the question: How does
the writer structure the text to
engage you as a reader?
Visit Cliffe Castle in Keighley, and
look at the artefacts on display.
Create a character and write a
description of them, based on
your chosen artefact.

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learnt from this, write an event. Answer the question: How does Explain why you believe Whitby
complete 10 opening paragraph, the writer use language to make was the perfect inspiring location
tasks. Your Medium whereby you have a series the reader fear Count Dracula? for the novel Dracula?
of unanswered questions
teacher will for your reader.
decide how
these are
checked. The Identify all word classes, Dracula is a famous Gothic Novel. Write a description in which you Design a leaflet instructing Research one of the following Create a film poster for a Gothic
chili rating and create a table with Identify 3 other Gothic novels, use personification to make a someone on how to write a Gothic writers: Edgar Allan Poe, film to be released this year. Use a
suggests the their name, definition and and write a brief summary of their candle flame, appear alive in a gothic novel. – what are the Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, range of presentational features
example. plot. dark room. conventions they must include? Bram Stoker, or Anne Rice . Use including images, colour and
difficulty of the your research to create an typography, and make sure that it
task, or the Mild information leaflet about them. fits with the Gothic genre. On the
back of your poster explain what
challenge it makes your film truly Gothic.
might offer. You
cannot choose
all the same Identify the 4 sentence Selecting an extract from a What would a modern Dracula Dracula features letters between Gothic characters can be Create a plot for a Gothic film.
lengths, write a definition reading book of your choice, label look like now? Design and write Jonathan Harker and his wife. mesmerising is appearance, but
strength of task and give an example. the creative writing techniques a description. Write a letter to a loved one, as sinister in mind. Who would be the
each time. Try at being used. though you are staying in a cast for a modern Dracula?
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