DYSTOPIAN STORY OPENINGS

1: PREPOSITIONS

This learning sequence was developed as a response to the clear need in our Key Stage 3 students’ work for a shift away from narrative-dominant action sequences towards creative writing that evokes a mood and atmosphere, it is provided here for your free use, we hope you and your students have as much fun with it as we did

PART TWO: Noun Phrases - Lesson Plan

PART TWO: Noun Phrases - Lesson Plan

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2: ADVERBIALSgrammar-1.html
3: NOUN PHRASES
4: RELATIVE CLAUSESgrammar-3.html
5: SUB CLAUSESgrammar-4.html
LEARNING PLANgrammar-5.html
FINAL PIECEgrammar-plan.html
5a: ADVERB CLAUSESgrammar-final.html
REFLECTIONgrammar-reflection.html
ANNOTATIONgrammar-annotation.html

Note of interest: the image in the presentation is a capture from the film "Children of Men" where the Battersea Power station is used as an establishment called "The Ark of the Arts" - which in this dystopian future where no more children are being born is a place where all the world's artistic treasures are being stored. Flying above, but tethered to, one of the chimneys is a very big pig. This is a reference to the artwork from a Pink Floyd album cover ("Animals"). These dystopias have multiple layers of cultural reference which I LOVE sharing with the students. The word "Pig" in the presentation stimulates that conversation.