David Balfours Letter

Letter Writing Task

Imagine you are David Balfour.
You are writing a letter to the minister Mister Campbell after the events of the first act.
You have just arrived on a small Island as stated in the first lines of Act Two.
You are writing to inform him what has happened to you and to ask him advice on
how you should proceed.
As we previously discussed your letter must include the following points:
An account of what has happened to you since you last saw Mister
Campbell.
How you feel about everything that has happened top you.
How you feel about the people you have met since your departure.
What you plan to do now.
Your letter should include events from the play but you must use your imagination to
describe how David is feeling.
Remember circle time when we were imagining we were David or
Ebenezer and describing how we felt?
Letter Writing Skills
Remember the conventions of letter writing we
discussed in class? We must include:
Senders address (use your imagination)
Recipients address (use your imagination and the
text)
Date (use your imagination and the text)
Recipients name The Minister Mister Balfour
Senders name David Balfour

Remember you want people to want to read your letter. How can you make it as
Recipients
Address
Senders
interesting as you
possibly can?
Address
10th December
1746
Can you improve
your vocabulary?
Have you included all the details regarding what has happened to you sine you
Dearlast
Mister
Campbell,
saw Mister
Campbell?
Paragraph One:
Letter
Writing Guide
Explain why you are writing this
letter:
1. To explain to Mister Campbell what has happened to you.
2. To ask his advice about what to do now?
Paragraph Two:
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3.
4.

What happened on your journey to Shaw House?

Who did you meet?
What did they say?
How did you feel when you met then and heard what they had to say?

Paragraph Three:
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What happened to you when you arrived at Shaw House?

Was Uncle Ebenezer pleased to see you?
Is he a nice man?
What did he do?
Why are you not still in Shaw House?
How do you feel about your Uncle Ebenezer?

Paragraph Four:
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What happened after you left Shaw House?

What happened on board The Covenant?
Who did you meet?
Did you like the people you met?
Did you make any friends?

Paragraph Five:
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4.

Where are you now?

How did you get there?
What do you plan to do now?
What do you feel about everything that has happened to you so far?