Wednesday 15 June 2016

Copy of R1: Arriving in KIngston - Piano Rock - Gavin Bishop



ARRIVING IN KINGSTON - From PIANO ROCK - Written By Gavin Bishop
IALT analyse a piece of writing and discuss the writer's techniques.
IALT make connections with the reader through using descriptive language.



Arriving in Kingston

I have a photograph. It was taken on a Box Brownie in 1949. A photo of us - Mum, Dad and me. I am little, about three. There we are, standing at the railway station in Kingston, just arrived from Invercargill. We had travelled up by goods train, sitting on our own couch in the guard’s van with the doors open to watch the landscape slip by. In front of us is a lake, Lake Wakatipu. On either side of is a row of mountains. And up on the hill behind is Piano  Rock.
What punctuation feature has the author used below?
A photo of us - Mum, Dad and me.

Have a look at the two sentences below. What do you notice about them?
I am little, about three.
In front of us is a lake, Lake Wakatipu.




Read the paragraph above. What information is included in this paragraph?I have a photograph. It was taken on a Box Brownie in 1949. A photo of us - Mum, Dad and me. I am little, about three. There we are, standing at the railway station in Kingston, just arrived from Invercargill. We had travelled up by goods train, sitting on our own couch in the guard’s van with the doors open to watch the landscape slip by. In front of us is a lake, Lake Wakatipu. On either side of is a row of mountains. And up on the hill behind is Piano  Rock.
When they took it and what they took the photo on(box brownie,) How old he is, Where he is, what is around him, what he can see and who the photo was with.


** On Wednesday bring your own photograph to school because we are going to use the structures present in this writing (and a bit more) to write our own short memoir.

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This is a photo. It was taken on a chromebook in 2015. A photo of me, hugh and my egg Egg sheeran. I am 9 years old.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
There we are in room 1 under the white board table, Just came here from home.  Around us every one in room 1 wer doing there daily photo. Behind us there is the sun shining on our back.

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