Snapshot from today - Desert Island

My students in year 8 are slowly finishing their projects "Desert Island". Some of them have put a lot of effort into this theme project and the results are fantastic. I am looking forward to reading and assessing these during the weekend. Good job my friends! :)

Update on Desert Island - the chapters - year 8

Here you will find chapters 1 - 5 of Desert Island.. try to finish writing chapter 4 for the lesson on Thursday. If you have the time, and want to, then continue with chapter 5. Chapter 6 - the final one - will be presented to you in class. Best of luck! :)

Desert Island
Chapters 1 - 5

Desert Island year 8 - develop your descriptive writing

Here are some tips on how to use other words than the usual ones when writing descriptively:

 screenshots from http://www.pearltrees.com/mrslaning

Also, here's the link to the previous information about Desert Island. Hope your writing is going well - I'm really looking forward to reading your stories!

Desert Island, year 8

Week 8 is the start of Desert Island, a thematic project in year 8. On Monday week 8 I will introduce the theme to you but I also want you to have a look at the video below to make sure that when you show up for class you already know what we are going to do. 

Following are some links to pages that might come in handy during your writing and work with Desert Island. 

Survival Guide 1

Survival Guide 2

Cast Away trailer (from 2008 - starring Tom Hanks):