Welcome to Miss B's Writing Workshop on Horror writing. The students in this workshop brainstormed genres they liked, and then voted on the most popular genre. The most popular genre was...Horror! During this term, we will be using techniques to scare, thrill and horrify you - sending shivers down your spine at every turn! Keep an eye on our wiki as we journey together through the magic of writing, and the sensational stories we come up with at the end....mwwwahhhahahaaaa......
WEEK 1
Session 1 - We thought it was important to brainstorm a list of words we might need to use during our horror writing sessions. So to start off our narrative topic, we broke into groups and had a big think of all the words we might need to use. Everybody said some words to include in our word bank.
Session 2 - Today we began to PLAN our horror writing workshop. We used inspriation from sounds and pictures to help us launch our ideas. Planning our stories was very important to make sure we had a solid direction of where to go with our writing.
Week 2
Session 1 - We began our week learning about 'Sizzling starts'. Making sure each paragraph is exciting for the reader was important for us to focus on. So today we looked at some ideas to make our sentences powerful with lots of horror words from our word bank in week 1.
Session 2 - We were writing sizzling starts for our own stories. We gave each other advice on how to improve some of our sizzling starts.
Session 3 - Today we continued to work on our story by learning about 'Tightening the Tension'.
Week 3
Session 1 - Today we were focusing on dynamic dialogue. Miss B gave us a sheet to
re-write and edit.
Session 2 - We began learning how to show don't tell.
Week 4
Session 1 - BAN THE BORING BITS! Our task was to edit a piece of writing and cut out the boring bits. Also to add in power full and descriptive language.
Session 2 - Today we went straight on writing. We were all really focused on getting our storys finished.
Session 3 - This week we learnt how to write an exiting ending. We got into pairs and had to discuss an exiting ending for a BORING story.
WEEK 1
Session 1 - We thought it was important to brainstorm a list of words we might need to use during our horror writing sessions. So to start off our narrative topic, we broke into groups and had a big think of all the words we might need to use. Everybody said some words to include in our word bank.
Session 2 - Today we began to PLAN our horror writing workshop. We used inspriation from sounds and pictures to help us launch our ideas. Planning our stories was very important to make sure we had a solid direction of where to go with our writing.
Week 2
Session 1 - We began our week learning about 'Sizzling starts'. Making sure each paragraph is exciting for the reader was important for us to focus on. So today we looked at some ideas to make our sentences powerful with lots of horror words from our word bank in week 1.
Session 2 - We were writing sizzling starts for our own stories. We gave each other advice on how to improve some of our sizzling starts.
Session 3 - Today we continued to work on our story by learning about 'Tightening the Tension'.
Week 3
Session 1 - Today we were focusing on dynamic dialogue. Miss B gave us a sheet to
re-write and edit.
Session 2 - We began learning how to show don't tell.
Week 4
Session 1 - BAN THE BORING BITS! Our task was to edit a piece of writing and cut out the boring bits. Also to add in power full and descriptive language.
Session 2 - Today we went straight on writing. We were all really focused on getting our storys finished.
Session 3 - This week we learnt how to write an exiting ending. We got into pairs and had to discuss an exiting ending for a BORING story.