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COVID-19 Creative Writing - English - Year 7 & 8
SecondaryYear 7 - 8EnglishCreative writingEnvironmentalDisaster resilienceSocialSocial Action
Lesson Summary
This lesson is designed to be completed independently by students.
Students will gain a greater understanding of the challenges COVID-19 presents in a country other than Australia. They will begin by reading through an article and answering comprehension questions to make sense of the COVID-19 pandemic in India. Next, they will complete a set of activities that uses visual stimulus from the article to develop deeper thinking. Students will then complete sets of detailed planning activities that focus on character, setting and narrative development for their own writing. Finally, students will put all of their planning together to write a narrative based on COVID-19 in India.
Learning intentions
Students will:
- understand the key components of narrative writing by completing a range of planning activities on character, setting and narrative structure
- write a narrative story based on stimulus material from the article and on the issue of COVID-19 in India.
Success criteria
Students can:
- develop well rounded characters for your narrative
- develop an atmospheric setting for your narrative
- develop an exciting narrative structure
- use all of your planning to write a final narrative piece based on information from the article and on the issue of COVID-19 in India.
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