Crafting setting and mood in creative writing

A lesson guiding students through how to create an effective setting and related mood for a piece of creative or personal/non-fiction writing.

Included:

• Learning intentions
• ‘Hotel X’ extract by George Orwell
• Examples and visual stimuli
• Explanations of terminology and techniques
• A range of activities, building up to independent practice
• A ranking activity to check understanding (plenary)

This is the second lesson in my ‘Creative and personal writing’ mini-unit. The first lesson, introducing the genre, is available for free: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13479744