How Am I Finding English?

The first bit of this half term went rather slowly, but that's expected since we were covering the basic grammar techniques.

Nevertheless, it was definitely helpful to go over grammar that I haven't been taught recently. Although, I'm still bound to make gramatical errors, especially with the lack of autocorrect on this blog.

 We've also been looking at how to link two texts together using linguistic methods to help us out with out exam in the summer. Mr Clifford came up with a very creative idea; to plant different texts all around the room and then to trust us with balls of string, and link each text with another. This then made the class room into a very interesting maze, looking something like this:

So far I can say that I've been enjoying English Language and I'm almost looking forward to starting the coursework since that sounds interesting. If we have more lessons that involve turning the classroom into a maze, we'd be onto a winner.

Inspiration For My Story

My class were given a task to write a Halloween themed flash fiction. Due to the word count being 500 words, we had to be exta creative with out writing and make every word count. Mine however, is actually under the word count but because it had to be a short story I didn't see this as a problem.
The story had to be written to suit years 7-9 and was then entered into the school's flash fiction competition. By using different linguistic methods such as; lexis, pragmatics and grammar, I hope that my story fits to all that read it.

I wrote my story about being in the dark because the dark is actually a fear of mine. I thought that this would help me write an accurate story well enough so that the reader feels my fear, too. This is because being scared of it myself I could then write about all of the elements and factors of the dark that make me scared of it; the way it makes me feel, how it takes away one of your senses making you feel highly vulnerable.