Crafting sentences for suspense Oliver Twist

This lesson teaches students different sentence types and then models how to craft these sentences to create suspense in writing, gradually building from longer, complex and compound sentences to short simple and one word sentences to build suspense and tension. Students are writing about one of two scenarios (in their study of ‘Oliver Twist’): A chimney sweep who thinks he is going to get stuck in a chimney in the Victorian times or a miner who is worried that the mine might cave in. However, this can be adapted to any scenario if you wanted to change it. Students produced excellent pieces of writing from this lesson.