This document provides lesson content on writing descriptively using vocabulary. It includes a list of vocabulary words to review from the book Floodland and instructions for students to research definitions. Students are challenged to describe a scene from the book that the character likens to "hell" using sensory details about lighting, inhabitants, and conditions in the cathedral ruins. The lesson encourages applying techniques for setting descriptions and requests students upload examples to receive the next part of the story.

1. Summer 1 – Lesson 2
Floodland
LQ: How can I write descriptively?
C: I can research definitions of key vocabulary.
A: I can use vocabulary to maintain the readers
interest.
E: I can vary my sentence structure.

2. derelict
Norwich
mob
sprawling
ruts
keel
sodden
Vocabulary – Review (Before: Chapter 1)
allotments
oars
hunched
compass
methodical
stupor

3. Vocabulary – Review (Before: Chapter 1)

4. Floodland – ‘LDPP’ Table/Predictions (your examples)
Bella Adams

5. Floodland – ‘LDPP’ Table/Predictions (your examples)

6. scrag
dimly
shore
cathedral
‘Udan-Adan’
tribe
uneasy
sniggered
TASK 1:
Please research
these definitions
using an online
dictionary. Complete
a definition list like
Insaf and I will
feature it in this
lesson (PPT)!
Vocabulary – (Then) Chapter 1 – Part 1
masonry
reinforced
meekly
primitive
patched
vaults
infernal
nave

7. They walked up the soggy hill to to where the ruins of old stone
walls appeared from the sea and led to the cathedral gates.
Rising out of the water beside one of these old walls was a row of
white posts.
They made their way in and around bits of fallen masonry, and
then not long after, the main door to the cathedral was in front
of them. It look out across a large patch of muddy grass, on one
corner of which stood an ancient cannon.
Two boys stood guarding the gateway. Past them was a long porch
which led to the doors themselves. These has been reinforced
with bands of metal and beams of wood. The two gatekeepers
nodded at Dooby, meekly, though they were much bigger than
him.
“All right, Dooby,” said one. The other nodded. Neither smiled.
One of them shoved hard, and the door to the cathedral swung
open.
“Well, Zoe,” said Dooby, “welcome to hell.”
Extract from (Then) Chapter 1

8. “Well, Zoe,” said Dooby, “welcome to hell.”
Your challenge is to describe the scene that faces Zoe,
which Dooby has likened to ‘hell’.
- What makes it look or feel like ‘hell’?
- Think carefully about the lighting (or lack of), the possible
inhabitants (people present), and what might remain of the
cathedral.
- What sort of conditions would people be surviving in?
- How might the inhabitants be clothed? What is the atmosphere?
The smell…? I doubt there would be many bathroom facilities in a
cathedral!
Use the same techniques we discussed from the lesson where we
wrote setting descriptions after Emily Grazebrook came to visit
(Victorian Ghost Story!).
Task 2: Descriptive Writing

9. Want to hear Part 2?
Upload your examples to ‘Gallery: Your Work’ and I will add it below.
Part 2 of this particular chapter will not be released until I have seen
enough evidence of your writing!
Use this document to help you
(Descriptosaurus!):
Descriptive Writing – Your examples!
https://www.routledge.com/rsc/downloa
ds/temp_file_Descriptosaurus_Genre_Writ
ing_Toolkit1.pdf