Lesson Plan 4: Create Your Piece of Creative Writing

By the end of the lesson students will be able to:

Understand creative writing techniques when it comes to novels and films.
Apply their understanding of characterisation to develop interesting and emotionally provoking characters.
Use techniques of representation to create characters that culturally safe.

Final Activity

You have the entire 40-minute lesson to create your own short story or film script based of the techniques you have learnt throughout this unit.

To get started, consider the five elements of a story. Make sure you have a plot, theme, conflict, place and character. Then identify whether you want to write in first, second or third person.

Then using the mind map below, create your main character:

Remember the five elements of characterisation as you begin to write about your character. Consider how you would describe their looks, speech, relationships, actions and inner thoughts.

Consider what form you want to present your world in. Do you want to do a script or story? If you choose script, insert what camera angles you would have in different scenes to evoke emotion in your audience. A template below is provided for you.

Screenplay Format TEMPLATE 1

Submit your work into a google doc and then upload the link to the below google slides.

Final Task

Additional resource if needed for students who choose to write a screenplay:

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