We have been doing some imaginative writing – concentrating this week on writing a description of the setting. We watched the first part of the short film ‘The Lost Thing’ to help us.
Here is Sophie’s description:
” It was a bright summers dasy many years ago. I was walking along the beach. That is until I found the thing. That moment changed my life forever.
I was heading up to the rock pools when I heard a high pitched screeching noise. It was a noise that I had never heard before. It was like someone scraping a jagged piece of metal down a blackboard but a thousand times worse. As I got closer it got louder and louder. Finally I saw it. It was thin and boy. It looked lost, abandoned, hurt. Suddenly it stopped screeching. It had seen me.. It turned towards me and was staring at me with its pupiless, unblinking eyes. they were dark like a pitch black cave and murderous like a snake about to lunge on it’s prey. It was a pale reddish brown and had an extremely long neck. It had three long fingers on each hand and a large head with two slits in the middle of it instead of a nose. I had never seen anything like it. I wanted to run away but it was as though someone had glued my feet to the spot. It stretched out a long bony arm and beckoned me closer. As I went towards it I saw it had a series of gashes and bruises all over its body. I reached out to touch it but it curled and hissed like a cat. I was unsure what to think. Then I realised it had rows and rows of sharp teeth like thousands of tiny knives. It looked like there were some missing. Suddenly it lunged and it bit my hand. It felt like millions of wasps were stinging the same spot on my hand over and over again. I tried to shake it off, but it just bit me harder. Then a very strange thing happened…”
