Travelling Through Time
Overview
Pupils will use Ray Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder as stimulus to produce a piece of cross-curricular creative writing – a series of diary entries. Pupils will build on creative writing skills exercised in previous units, including quality/engaging sentences, ambitious vocabulary choices and methods to create a specific tone/mood.
Unit aims:
- Build on creative writing skills exercised in previous unit; quality/engaging sentences/ambitious vocabulary choices/deliberately creating a specific tone/mood
- Semantics – how to use specific banks of language to create deliberate effects
- Maximise artistic opportunities by illustrating their work, drawing and labelling time machine and dinosaur
- Use historical facts to inform creative writing
Example Key Words
Extinction
The fact or process of a species, family, or other group of animals or plants becoming extinct.
Authoritarianism
The enforcement or advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.
Totalitarian
Relating to a system of government that is centralised and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
Morality
Principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behaviour.
Predator
An animal that naturally preys on others.
Repetition
The action of repeating something that has already been said or written.
External Links
Einstein’s ‘light clock’ theory could provide an interesting angle: