Year 5/6 Sea-based letter/diary entry unit

This Year 5/6 unit is based on creating a game which includes a diary entry about a ship being wrecked in a storm and persuasive letter sent from a desert island. It is designed to get the children to produce purposeful writing where they give the final game to a family member/carer/friend. The unit starts by playing an example version of the game (included in the plan as a link) and builds towards the writing a descriptive diary entry describing the sinking of a ship. The historical time period is meant to be based in the classical pirate era, however this can be altered. The unit then goes into the second section where children simulate the feelings of being shipwrecked then write a persuasive letter begging to be rescued. The children will use metaphors, rhetorical questions, modal verbs and emotive adjectives/verbs to create their diary entries and letters.