For the last few weeks in Te Ngahere we have been learning about mood and atmosphere. We had 3 texts to pick from, they were called The Promise, Mirror Image and Brave Flower. For my story I picked The Promise, The Promise is about 5 kids that are trapped in a bunker and there are bombs going on outside and they are arguing when the right time to go and get more resources. With the story we had to pick a small extract from the story and find all the language features like metaphors,similes, concrete nouns,verbs and adverbs. When we found a language feature we would try and find what mood the sentence made for example The colours in the bunker were muted, fading in the grey shadows. The author uses the words muted, grey and fading to make a mood of gloom, and then we had to write why. When we finished we had to right a script to explain what we learnt for a DLO. Can you analyse a text for its mood and atmosphere?
Here is my script so far.
Sounds like you would be great at turning your story into a movie Archie. I enjoyed reading your blog :) Mr Smith, BOIC
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