Mrs Gardner's Class BNMS

Nature is Speaking

Nature Is Speaking is Conservation International’s invitation to the human race to listen to nature.

Check out the website for more information:

Nature Is Speaking

Your Task:

Watch the following videos.

Consider the following as you watch:

What do they have in common?

What language features (personification, metaphors, smilies, alliteration, repetition, emotive language, symbolism, etc.) do they share?

What sentence structures (simple, complex, compound) do they use?

Find out more here: Julia Roberts is Mother Nature

Find out more here: Lee Pace is Mountain

Find out more here: Reese Witherspoon is Home

Find out more here: Liam Neeson is Ice

Find out more here: Harrison Ford is The Ocean

Find out more here: Edward Norton is The Soil

Find out more here: Robert Redford is The Redwood

Find out more here: Penelope Cruz is Water

Find out more here: Ian Somerhalder is Coral Reef

Find out more here: Lupita Nyong'o is Flower

Find out more here: Shailene Woodley is Forest

Find out more here: Joan Chen is Sky

Start Writing!

Select your own "part of nature" and bring to life their perspective (This quiz might help you to decide).
Brainstorm all the elements that come with that form of nature (e.g. - ICE (synonyms = cool, cold, glacier, sleet, frozen, hail | antonyms = hot, warm, etc | thundering, ocean, sea).
Your writing should begin with, I AM ...... and then your nature element.
Craft your piece of writing (remembering to construct it in the FIRST PERSON, using terms such as I, MY and ME). These are not long pieces of writing, they are short, sharp and direct factual pieces of text that have a clear message behind them that link back to the part of nature you are speaking on behalf of.
Below are some of the writing indicators so you can think about how best to reach Level 4/5 in these pieces of writing, while you are working from home.

Get Creative!

If you want to go that one step further and be creative, you have 2 different options:

Create your own Nature is Speaking VIDEO. Turn your piece of writing into its very own video message, where YOU become the narrator. Source some appropriate images from the internet that link to your "part of nature" and create a collage of images to form a video, where you narrate your story/poem over the top. This could be done in a number of different sites - feel free to explore and find a platform that works best for you.
Secondly - you could just turn your story into a powerful poster with a striking visual image that links back to the message within your piece of writing. Use CANVA or you could use your own artistic skills and paint, draw or sketch your own visual representation.

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