Activities Post Reading: A Sound of Thunder by R. Bradbury Station 1: Thinking about the creative process – from book to movie. Imagine you are the director of the movie for the ‘Sound of Thunder’. Your job is to bring the words of the story to ‘life’ in a movie. You will need to consider the description in the passage carefully. Remember movie audiences are there to be entertained. 1. What would you keep in the details of the story and what would you change? Details to Keep Details to Change S.Dowle. 14 Nov 2010
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Activities Post Reading: A Sound of Thunder by R. Bradbury
Station 1: Thinking about the creative process – from book to movie.
Imagine you are the director of the movie for the ‘Sound of Thunder’. Your job is to bring the words of the story to ‘life’ in a movie. You will need to consider the description in the passage carefully. Remember movie audiences are there to be entertained.
1. What would you keep in the details of the story and what would you change?
Details to Keep Details to Change
2. How would you go about creating the setting of the story? What would you do first, second ….Please write this on a separate sheet of paper. You can add drawings if you want to.
S.Dowle. 14 Nov 2010
Activities Post Reading: A Sound of Thunder by R. Bradbury
Station 2 : Descriptive WritingThis is a picture from a graphic novel. Pick out details from the picture and write a short description of the dinosaur using the words below.
When you describe something, you need to make use of the FIVE senses.You can also use similes, and metaphors (remember the extended metaphor of the machine in the passage?
Write your description on a separate sheet of paper. Do not be afraid to try new expressions – we learn from experimenting. Remember that DETAILS are VITAL!
S.Dowle. 14 Nov 2010
Activities Post Reading: A Sound of Thunder by R. Bradbury
Station 3 : Adding details to Descriptions – Making the dull exciting.
Remember some tips we learnt from class:1. PAPTA – ways of starting your sentences. Adverb, Adjective, Place, Time and Action.2. Use details which are connected with commas to give the idea of speed. (eg: it tore the flesh, bit the insides and pulled away a chunk of bleeding meat)
Also you can use short sentences to show many action sequences happening simultaneously (at the same time)
3. When describing, always make sentences longer and full of details in phrases.(Eg: it ambled, the limbs moving in a gentle sway as if in no hurry to kill its victim.
4. Word choice. Try to avoid using words that are too easy or those which don’t mean much. Be specific and original!
NOW YOUR TURN: Re-write this into a more exciting and detailed passage, especially those words in bold. You can change more words, of course. The key is to make this truly EXCITING!
The big monster came out of the dark forest. It was huge. Its legs were really big, and full of muscles. Its nose was lifted to the air. It was smelling the air for prey. Then suddenly, it stood still. Its eyes became sharp and its body became tensed. Then it saw the infant hiding in the leaves. The disks in its eyes became narrow. It knew that it was feeding time.
Make your plan here and write on a separate sheet of paper.
S.Dowle. 14 Nov 2010
Activities Post Reading: A Sound of Thunder by R. Bradbury
Station 4: Revision on Sentence Structure
Use PAPTA : Adverbs, Adjectives, Place, Time and Action to start these sentences in different ways. Don’t be afraid of changing words and expressions. EXPERIMENT! Just make sure that the meaning stays the same.
1. She knew that she hadn’t studied. She was going to fail her exams.
2. Marie was afraid that the bus would leave without her. So she woke up earlier and was down at the bus stop before dawn.
3. He reached for the gun lying just one inch away. He grasped it in his hand and whipped around just in time to shoot the animal that was about to pounce on him.
4. It was night and the sun had sunk below the horizon. Shelley knew that she had to be indoors before the werewolves came out to play.
5. Joseph was lonely and depressed. He knew that it was time to move to another country where there was sunshine. He had had enough of Iceland!
6. She walked quietly and softly across the floor of the hallway. Her footsteps made no sound on the carpet but she knew that she still had to get out through that heavy wooden door without waking the Keeper.
