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LI: Learn how to write a problem and solution, moving from simple to complicated problems and solutions. media type="custom" key="18681770" Kelly: LI: Identify verbs and learn how to write effective similes to describe a character, setting or object.

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LI: Understand how to punctuate dialogues correctly

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LI: Use descriptive language to describe a variety of settings.

What is a setting?

- The setting explains where and when the narrative takes place. - It locates the action in a certain place or places, such as the city or the  beach. - The story can happen at any time, in the past, the present or the future. - Some writers invent fantasy settings including maps of whole new worlds. - The setting can help create the feeling or mood of a story, especially if the  writer has used descriptive language.

Why is it important? Name some different types of settings.

Activity 1: Brainstorm of descriptive language, media type="custom" key="17989826"

Activity 2: Write a descriptive sentence for each picture.

Identifying key features of a narrative and critically critiquing analyse a variety of short stories.

What is a narrative? It is a short story that has a problem and a solution.

What makes up a narrative? - You will need to have a beginning, middle and end. - Problem and a solution. You decide on how many problems and solutions you can have in your story. - Orientation. - Sequence of events - in order.- - Character - description, through use of adjectives, verbs, similes, sound effects, metaphors, personification. - Paragraphs - Punctuation - Editing, all the way through. - Spelling - Dialogues - Sentence types - simple, compound, complex, compound - complex sentences. - Story/Sentence starters. - Time connectives

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LI: Recall information and write a recount of events on our trip to the Auckland Museum.

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LI: Identify what we know about narrative writing

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Term 2 Goals:

Set your goals for this term. Identify 2 learning areas that you would like to improve on and explain how this will take place - IN DETAIL. Complete this in your language book and bring it to me for marking. Do this before you publish it.

http://www.autobiographyof.me/how_to%20_write_an_autobiography.html

**How your life began** The first things you do when writing an autobiography is start off with a lot of facts about your life; for example, your name and your parents name, where they came from including their family history, when and where you were born, where you lived, where you spent your childhood, where you went to school. You have to give a lot of information so your reader can clearly understand your beginning. Once you have written this introduction, you are ready to start your second Chapter of your autobiography.

**What life means to you?** <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">In this chapter you should state how you see life--what does life mean to you. Are you happy or sad? Do you have a lot of friends or just a few? How do you make your days go by? Do you have a relationship? What are your favourite places to go on?

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">**Your life experience and where you are in life?** <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">When you are writing this part of the autobiography, you usually explain the type of person you are; use facts about yourself such as: have you won any awards? Did you achieve anything? State any changes throughout your life! Remembering any events in your life! Your personal and family experiences!

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">**What is your outlook on life?** <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">In this chapter you should explain what you think of your life and what the future will be like. Explain through your eyes: Where will you be in the future? What your expectations of the future, good or bad? Would you have changed anything in your past? If so what?

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">**Conclusion** <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">The conclusion is the last chapter of your autobiography and an important one, too. In the conclusion you usually try to re-word the introduction and add some type of closure to bring the whole autobiography together, and how you would like to be remembered?

Before we begin our autobiography about ourselves, I would like to know some basic information about you. To do this, you will need to write a BIO-POEM and to do this just follow the format below.

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