Creative/Humour Writing - 'Wednesday'

A thoughtfully structured creative writing lesson aimed at KS3 students using the character of Wednesday Addams as a stimulus. Students are tasked with writing a short story where Wednesday interacts with a setting she would find uncomfortable to generate humour.

• Do Now task linking to lesson outcome
• Clear objective shared with students and linked back to previous learning
• Introduction to stimulus with discussion and feedback tasks to generate ideas
• Definition of sensory language and then a modelled task applying it to a setting for the creative writing
• Task for students to generate their own ideas for sensory language of two further settings
• Model opening shared and deconstructed
• End of lesson task linked back to objective with clear success criteria as well as sentence starters to support students with starting their creative writing