Lesson overview

Detailed practice
Story - Narrative
Young adult and up
first person narrative
that eye the sky
tim winton
point of view
pov
building tension
growing up
coming of age
foreshadowing
pacing
controlling pace
linking details
perception
describing thoughts
callbacks
first person commentary
judging
beliefs
emotion
feelings
physical detail
contrasting sentence length
reincorporation
sustaining tension
project
In this lesson, we explore a passage from That Eye, the Sky in which the narrator keeps thinking they can hear their father returning. Through a series of false alarms a sense of panic mounts and the narrator realises something has gone wrong. We break the snippet into chunks, and include a checkpoint piece at the end in which students can either write a new version of the piece, or polish their writing from the lesson.