Observing and describing in Storm Boy 4: Describing a relationship

About Standards
Detailed practice
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
Storm Boy
Colin Thiele
project
describing character relationships
distanced perspective
action reaction loops
expansion
contrasting sentence lengths
lyrical prose
poetic style
metaphor
simile
observational description
Purpose
Describe a relationship through a series of examples.
Description
Students are often familiar with the idea of describing a character, but less familiar with describing a relationship over time. This lesson models a passage in which Colin Thiele describes Storm Boy's relationship with Mr Percival in a series of if/then examples.
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