📖 Part 1: Reading Comprehension

1. What caused the damage to the narrator's house?

2. How long has the house been abandoned?

3. What object does the narrator find under the dining table?

4. Circle the correct inference about the narrator's feelings:

The narrator feels only sadness about the house

The narrator has mixed feelings of nostalgia and discomfort

5. Circle what the "hungry ghosts" most likely represents:

Actual supernatural beings in the house

The narrator's memories and emotions about the past

🎨 Part 2: Literary Devices Analysis

6. Identify the metaphor in "My home has a cracked spine." What is being compared?

The house is being compared to ________________________

This comparison suggests that the house is ________________________

7. Find an example of personification in the text and explain what is being personified:

Example: ________________________________________________

What is given human qualities: ________________________

This makes the reader feel: ________________________

8. Analyse this listing technique: "Since the quake, minutes have dropped dust onto the once polished floorboards, hours have draped webs across the ceilings, and five years of leaks have coated the stairs with sticky slime."

The time periods mentioned are: _____________, _____________, and _____________

How does the increase in time help emphasise the damage?

✍️ Part 3: Creative Writing Planning

9. Choose your abandoned place. Circle one or write your own:

Old abandoned dairy

Desolate playground

Burned-down building

Other: _________________________

10. Create your own time-based listing using these sentence starters:

Minutes have ________________________________________________

Hours have ________________________________________________

Years have ________________________________________________

11. Plan your three key moments:

Moment 1 - Viewing one part while ignoring another:

I focus on: ________________________________________________

I try to ignore: ________________________________________________

Moment 2 - Object that triggers positive memories:

Object/structure: ________________________________________________

Memory it triggers: ________________________________________________

Moment 3 - Being startled by a noise:

The noise: ________________________________________________

My reaction: ________________________________________________

📝 Part 4: Draft Your Creative Writing

12. Write your creative writing piece using your planning from above. Include all three moments and your time-based listing.

🔍 Part 5: Editing and Word Choice Review

13. Example of editing for better word choice:

Original: "The old building was very damaged."

Improved: "The ancient structure was utterly devastated."

Why it's better: "Ancient" is more specific than "old," "structure" sounds more formal than "building," and "utterly devastated" is more powerful than "very damaged."

14. Select 5 words from your writing and find synonyms. Decide if any synonyms are better:

Word 1: _________________ Synonyms: _________________, _________________