Slow writing activities: Robinson Crusoe
Ideal for KS3 students, this engaging resource introduces two short extracts from Daniel Defoe's 1721 novel Robinson Crusoe to help students to consider the impact of word choices on writing, through a series of tasks.
Students then use extracts as inspiration for their own 'slow writing' experiments, with scaffolded sentence starters and clear guidance on a range of sentence types to include in their own piece of creative writing.
An extract from the teaching worksheet:
1. The writer's use of 'fatal' is more effective than a word like 'harmful' because it conveys...............................................................................
2. The writer's use of the verb 'strangled' is powerful as it suggests...............................................................................
3. The writer's use of the phrase 'swallow me up' is engaging because...............................................................................
Choose 3 more effective words or phrases and annotate them to explain how each contributes to the atmosphere or mood of the passage.
