Friday 28 November 2014

Settings

This week we have been revisiting stories of mystery and suspense. In the story 'Staying Out', the author shows the characters moving from one setting to another.
Your task is to look carefully at the picture below and write about travelling to that setting and what it was like when you got there. Think carefully about;

  • where you would have been beforehand
  • how you would have travelled there
  • why you were going there
  • what it was like when you got there.



Remember to use short sentences and lots of description!

Write your descriptions in the comment box below. Please remember to write your name on your comments. 

I'm really looking forward to reading them!


Miss Tracey


16 comments:

  1. I went for a stroll in the forest. until I heard a strange noise coming out of nowhere.
    something was chasing me I didn't look back I paused for a moment. I looked higher and higher and there was a rusty old house floorboards cracked what was it?
    I walked nearly 9 kilometers I didn't have water I ran out of breath I was thirsty since I walked 4 kilometers! "i'm thirsty" I said to myself.
    I was going for a stroll in the forest and suddenly I did not know where I was going
    and I ended up in this haunted house.
    I felt like something dangerous might happen or maybe the door will open and I go
    inside and a net will fall and lock me up in it!

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  2. One Sunday night, I went to pick up my best friend Jack from his house. We walked along the wooded path which ran parallel to river, the river was flowing as fast as a tornado. It was a damp night as it had been raining non stop.
    As we walked along the river, we could hear Christmas bells ringing in the distance, they were coming from the Village Square. It was Christmas eve, and Jack and I were going to the village square to watch the Christmas play in the local hall.
    We crossed the bridge, and in front of us was the Village Hall, it was very dark and spooky, and there were not many lights on. We approached the hall carefully as we were frightened, I pushed open the big creaky door, I look around the door and saw people lighting candles, they were putting them on the window ledge. I asked someone what had happened and they said there had been a power cut.
    We all sat down and waited in the hall, the power came back on in 5 minutes and the Christmas play started. My favourite part of the Christmas play was when Santa got stuck up the chimney.

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  3. it's fun learning about settings .

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  4. One saturday night i went to my friend's house. i had to go through the forest it was very dark and sceary no one was around only the birds.When i was walking past the trees i saw something very interesting so i stopped walking i saw a very big house.The house was very weird and dengerous and then i heard a noise i turned around and i saw a old man with a knife so i stared to run very fast and then i went to the house i closed the door behind me.I was hiden beside the sofa and then i heard no one.I went outiside i was looking around and i never saw anyone soo i stareted running away and then i saw my friend Joshi and we went home together that was the most scariest night ever.

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  5. I was playing in my favourite play ground when suddenly I saw a girl walking alone towards the alley way. I followed her. When I got there no one was there. I walked through the alley way down a strange path. The path did not stop. It was dark, wet, spooky and frightening me. I could feel that this was a haunted path. Suddenly it led me to a narrow, wooden bridge amongst a Forrest. I felt a stone hit me. Where did it come from? I turned around straight away but nothing was there. I looked ahead and saw a large, old cottage. There was a light on inside. The cottage door opened but I could not see anyone there.

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  6. I want my setting to be in the jungle
    KADEER

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  7. I was walking along a path when I remembered to see the Halloween real live show. It was 4pm. I was 5 mins late. I was in such a hurry that I crashed into a crunchy old door that got smashed into cornflakes.

    Stealthily, I tiptoed through the door.When suddenly,I felt a tap on the back.I saw a person who put a bag over my head.CRASH! BANG! WALLOP! The man opened the bag and at that moment he said ''SURPRISE''! I did not know what he was up to.Finally I got out of the bag and saw all my family and friends dressed up in Halloween costumes.

    My favourite part was when my dad dressed up as a ghost and chased me with a sword.

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  8. I was at home playing Minecraft on Xbox 360. Then I heard a loud noise. I opened the door and I went on my bike and went on full speed and arrived but I got lost! I went in the house and it was dark. I went upstairs and heard the noise again. Then, I saw a light so I went towards it. I realized it was a torch and I picked it up and started exploring the house. I saw a room and went in it and there was a a dead body...

    - Hady

























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  9. •where you would have been beforehand
    Answer:
    •how you would have travelled there
    •why you were going there
    •what it was like when you got there.

    I was in my bedroom writing in my diary when I heard a freaky howling sound. I followed the sound of the howl until I found a dark, scary forest.
    It was very spooky because the trees looked like they had faces and were trying to grab me. I was all alone.

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  10. I am going to do a book review about The BFG by Roald Dahl.
    The story is about a girl called Sophie who lives in an orphanage because her parents died.
    One day when Sophie is supposed to be sleeping she sees the BFG. The BFG does not want her to see him so he takes her to Giant-Land to his cave. Sophie thinks that the BFG is going to eat her.
    But he is not going to eat her because he is the Big Friendly Giant and he is nice to humans .Because he is nice to humans he does not eat them either.
    All of the rest of the giants in Giant-Land are horrible and they eat humans. They make fun of the BFG because he does not eat humans.
    The BFG decides to keep Sophie. On the night that Sophie saw the BFG for the first time, Sophie saw the BFG blowing something into someone's house with trumpet. Sophie eventually finds out what the BFG was doing. He was blowing a dream into their house.
    The BFG`s ears are so big that he can hear dreams making the tiniest little buzz and he captures all of the dreams. If they are bad then he locks them up and makes sure that no-one has them. With the good ones that are floating about, he captures them and spreads them out to all the children.
    Both of them together tell the Queen how bad the giants are and the Queen helps to get the bad giants locked up and they finally defeat them.
    Sophie taught the BFG how to read and write because he didn't know how to .
    Sophie and the BFG live happily eve after in Giant-Land with no nasty giants to disturb them.

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  11. One day, I and my brother decided to go on bicycles to my auntie’s house because she lives near us.
    There was woodland between our houses that we can use it. When we were on our way, we heard a scary noise behind us. We decided to stop and see what was going on. There was nothing but a small house lightened up with small lights, then we decided to go and see inside the house.
    The house was dark, spooky and filled up with spider webs. Suddenly I heard that noise again and I saw something moving through the doors. I and my brother were really frightened of what was happening and my little brother started to cry and asked me to leave the house.
    We ran out of that house without knowing where was that noise coming from and after that, we never used that woodland again.

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  13. It was Saturday and we had just finished our tea. Rusty started to howl and jump around the place like crazy. He wanted to go out for a walk. We all took our bikes to ride through the woods.

    It was autumn and most of the leaves had fallen off the trees. We rode along the path with Rusty running along behind us. As we approached the narrow bridge, we saw a light through a window of the old cottage.

    We stopped in our tracks. No one had lived in that cottage for years.

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  14. The architecture of Ancient Greece is the architecture produced by the Greek-speaking people (Hellenic people) whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland and Peloponnesus, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Asia Minor and Italy for a period from about 900 BC until the 1st century AD, with the earliest remaining architectural works dating from around 600 BC.[1]

    Ancient Greek architecture is best known from its temples, many of which are found throughout the region, mostly as ruins but many substantially intact. The second important type of building that survives all over the Hellenic world is the open-air theatre, with the earliest dating from around 350 BC. Other architectural forms that are still in evidence are the processional gateway the public square (agora) surrounded by storied colonnade (the town council building, the public monument, the monumental tomb (mausoleum) and the stadium.

    Ancient Greek architecture is distinguished by its highly formalised characteristics, both of structure and decoration. This is particularly so in the case of temples where each building appears to have been conceived as a sculptural entity within the landscape, most often raised on high ground so that the elegance of its proportions and the effects of light on its surfaces might be viewed from all angles.[2] Nikolaus Pevsner refers to "the plastic shape of the [Greek] temple.....placed before us with a physical presence more intense, more alive than that of any later building".[3]

    The formal vocabulary of Ancient Greek architecture, in particular the division of architectural style into three defined orders: the Doric Order, the Ionic Order and the Corinthian Order, was to have profound effect on Western architecture of later periods. The architecture of Ancient Rome grew out of that of Greece and maintained its influence in Italy unbroken until the present day. From the Renaissance, revivals of Classicism have kept alive not only the precise forms and ordered details of Greek architecture, but also its concept of architectural beauty based on balance and proportion. The successive styles of Neoclassical architecture and Greek Revival architecture

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  15. sorry i did my comment on the wrong page!

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  16. It was a Sunday night and I was in my bedroom I Saw a dog figure.

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