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an EAGLE in the SNOW An Eagle in the Snow begins with Barney being evacuated to the countryside with his mother. On the way, he remembers his house being destroyed in an air raid. This is an extract from the text when he ventures out of the air raid shelter: When at last the All Clear siren sounded and the terror was over and we came up out of the shelter – how many hours we were down there I do not know – we found the world about us a place of rubble and ruin, hot with fires that were still smouldering everywhere. Mulberry Road, what was left of it, was filled with acrid smoke that hung like a fog around us and above us. There was no good air to breathe, no sky to see. Hoping against hope, we made our way home, to our house at the end of the road. But we had no house. We had no home. Writing challenge Write a description of the air raid that destroyed Barney’s house. Morpurgo masterclass
Just like Michael Morpurgo, you could use: - a mixture of long descriptive sentences and short punchy sentences - powerful verbs that capture what happened - similes and metaphors to create images for your reader - alliteration and repetition of key ideas
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You could write about: - walls crumbling - windows breaking - explosions - shops being damaged - trees falling
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