1. Write your own fi ve-part short story version of ‘The Visitor’. You can add in details from the Writing Circle you completed in your Writing Skills Book (p. 22).
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2. Read your story aloud to a group of classmates. You can dramatise it by adding sound eff ects, for example, footsteps, howling wind, claps of thunder, heavy raindrops, the clatter of bones on fl oorboards. (You will read more about adding sound eff ects in your Speaking Task at the end of this collection.)
SELF-ASSESSMENT Copy and fi ll in this assessment grid in relation to your work.
EXCELLENT VERY GOOD
I think my description of setting is
My best word(s) or phrase(s)
My best sentence
EXCELLENT VERY GOOD
I think my fi nal sentence is
GOOD MIGHT BE BETTER IF … GOOD MIGHT BE BETTER IF …