English : Diary Writing

We briefly recalled the various genres we have already covered - non chronological report, chronological report, narrative, letters, instructions, etc.

Introduced genre of diary writing.

We listed the features of diary writing
Writtin in first person
Chronological
May express feelings or opinions

We looked at a former SATs paper in which students were asked to write two conflicting diary entries for a brother and sister attending the same event. In liked it and one didn't.

We discussed a method of approach which would enable us to represent two differing points of view.

Students were ginen the statutory ?SATs 45 minutes to complete the task - focus on Purpose and Organisation