Non Fiction - 30 page Travel Writing Extracts Homework Booklet for 6 weeks with 6 extracts, questions and writing space.

Resources include:

• Week 1 - Travel Writing Conventions where pupils must match conventions to their definition and create an example for each.

• Week 2 - Holiday Advert using an advert for a fictional company called Jet, Set & Go with 6 categories of activities using the advert, including: first impressions, language, presentation and layout, audience and purpose, fact and opinion, and creative writing.

• Week 3 - Travel Writing extract swith 2 extracts: Charles Dickens - Pictures from Italy and Robert Louis Stevenson - Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes. 15 questions organised into 3 sections - identifying conventions, closer extract analysis (with specific questions on each extract) and comparative questions.

• Week 4 - Non Fiction Travel Blog using a blog post with 5 categories of activities using the blog post, including: vocabulary, comprehension, language and techniques, structure and organisation, and creative writing.

• Week 5 - Historic Travel Writing using an extract from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson. 5 categories of activities using the extract, including: vocabulary, comprehension, writer’s choices, language, and extended response.

• Week 6 - Newspaper Article on the Easyjet misleading 5.99 cabin bag advert. 5 categories of activities using the article, including: vocabulary, comprehension, language and tone, writer’s viewpoint and purpose, and creative writing.