Writing to Describe: The Art of Making Strange - David Lodge

A fabulous lesson that successfully demonstrates and practises the art of ‘making strange’- a defamiliarisation technique that can be used when writing to describe:characters, locations or settings.
Lesson includes:

• 11 page PowerPoint
• was or were starter activity
• explanation of the dfamiliarisation technique and how to apply it, successfully.
• Check point stop to address misconceptions
• Defamiliarisation writing tasks
• x2 visual clips from David Attenborough.
• Plenary: peer assessment.
  A really interesting lesson that aids students to think out of the box!