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    Diary writing involves expressing one's personal thoughts, views, and feelings in an informal way. It can include descriptions of events, observations, imaginations, and opinions. In exams, students may be prompted to reflect on their actions and emotions in response to a general question. Successful diary writing uses the first person, clear paragraphs, a sense of personality and changing emotions, focus on key moments, and varied punctuation and sentence structures. The format includes the date, a salutation like "Dear Diary," and a closing like "Love." Higher quality entries capture voice and provide vivid descriptions using different tenses to describe past, present and future.

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    Diary writing involves expressing one's personal thoughts, views, and feelings in an informal way. It can include descriptions of events, observations, imaginations, and opinions. In exams, students may be prompted to reflect on their actions and emotions in response to a general question. Successful diary writing uses the first person, clear paragraphs, a sense of personality and changing emotions, focus on key moments, and varied punctuation and sentence structures. The format includes the date, a salutation like "Dear Diary," and a closing like "Love." Higher quality entries capture voice and provide vivid descriptions using different tenses to describe past, present and future.

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    Y7 Diary Writing

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    Diary writing involves expressing one's personal thoughts, views, and feelings in an informal way. It can include descriptions of events, observations, imaginations, and opinions. In exams, students may be prompted to reflect on their actions and emotions in response to a general question. Successful diary writing uses the first person, clear paragraphs, a sense of personality and changing emotions, focus on key moments, and varied punctuation and sentence structures. The format includes the date, a salutation like "Dear Diary," and a closing like "Love." Higher quality entries capture voice and provide vivid descriptions using different tenses to describe past, present and future.

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    ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE

    WRITING LESSON
    (DIARY WRITING)
    WHAT IS DIARY WRITING?

    Diary writing is all about expressing your thoughts, opinions and feelings
    in writing form, using informal language, appropriately.
    In diary writing, you may include your personal views/interests,
    observations, imaginations and background knowledge as your content,
    while including one part of description, in your writing.
    Keep in mind that diary writing is a reflection on what had happened and
    it is regarded as a record of your actions which helps you to express your
    feelings
    DIARY WRITING (EXAM-BASED)
    In exam, you will be given a general question which will probe you into expressing your
    feelings and reflecting on your actions.
    You may highlight on the following as a way to express your feelings/emotions better, in your
    exam:
    a) ideas/dreams
    b) Expressions/phrases that you have heard and you agree/disagree with it
    c) Interesting events which makes you feel happy/relaxed/contented/rejuvenated
    d) Information on people which attracts your attention

    -
    SUCCESS CRITERIA (WHAT TO INCLUDE)
    Write using the first person pronoun : 'I‘, ‘We’, ‘Us’
    Clear paragraphs written, which complements the requirement of the question
    A clear sense of the writer's personality and explanation on their feelings and changing emotions
    Focus on key moments or incidents that happened at a particular time
    Provide a sense of time and sequence (use time connectives: finally, afterwards, earlier, later that day...)
    Varied Punctuation (fullstop, quotation marks, question marks, exclamation marks)
    Varied Sentence types (use of dialogue, interjection, statements, questions, etc)
    -
    FORMAT(STANDARDISED)

    Example
    Basic Format
    DateDay March 1st, 2021Friday
    Salutation, Dear Diary,
    -Content- -Content-
    Love,Shazlin Love,
    Shazlin
    COMPARISON OF CONTENT
    Grade C writing
    1) Write in the first person pronoun and gives a sense of character2) Use time references and details
    correctly

    Grade A writing
    1) You capture the voice of the person and their world2) You provide a vivid portrait of what has
    happened (descriptive)3) You use tenses fluently between past, present and future.
    COMPARISON OF CONTENT(FURTHER
    EXAMPLE)
    Grade C writing
    Dear Diary,
    This morning was great. I have always been excited in receiving presents. But this morning is just
    indescribable. I didn’t expect to receive a present on my birthday. I am very happy.
    Grade A writing
    Dear Diary,
    Wow! I couldn’t believe it just yet. The moment I greeted everyone at the dining table for breakfast
    this morning, I saw a lilac box tied with a white ribbon placed at my usual dining spot. I grinned and
    hugged Mom and Dad with my squeaky voice as I said, ‘Thank you!’ to them. Well, that’s how I
    sound when I couldn’t control the rush I feel in my body out of excitement. I had received a present
    for my 14th birthday from my loved ones. Truly a pleasant surprise!
    ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE
    HAPPY LEARNING!

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