Tuesday 11 March 2014

Girl and Robot, est. 1892

On Monday we watched a short animated movie about a girl and her steam-powered robot.  Tomorrow (Wednesday), you will be responding to that movie in some form:

  • Write a narrative of the story (from the girl’s, the robot’s or the audience’s (third person) perspective).
  • Write a narrative of what happens next.
  • Create a script for the story to be acted out.
  • Design your own steam-powered robot; label each element of the robot with detail.

For whichever one you choose, you're going to need lots of juicy adjectives, powerful verbs and other descriptive language.  So let's start a collection of great descriptive language that you might be able to use in your Girl and Robot work tomorrow.

Here are some of the adjectives and verbs that spring to mind when I watch the film: hissing, frustrated, the eyes glimmer.  What have you got?

You can rewatch the movie here if you like: http://www.literacyshed.com/the-inventors-shed.html
(Scroll down to 'Girl and Robot, est. 1892)

14 comments:

  1. how about eyes glistened, curious, frustrated etc

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  2. eyes sparkled, grumpy and hopefull

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  3. hawked eyes, smooth armor and swift engine.... (this is my list of great ideas)

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  4. I thought of:
    Grimy
    Hissing
    Electric
    Devoted
    Thoughtful
    Spitting sparks
    Determined
    Disappointed
    Disastrous
    Chaotic
    Wonder
    Tragic

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  5. My ideas are:
    Bulky (the robot)
    Inventor
    Metal... Glass... Electricity
    Circular eyes
    Faceless (the robot)
    Irritated

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  6. defeated,emotion,devotion,delight,driven

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  7. Puffs of smoke, crashing (the place collapsing) disappointment, devastation, sorrowful. That's the things I thought of.

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  8. I am the robot so I think of: big, glistening eyes, nice, playful because he moves when she doesn't look.

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  9. I though of:
    Solid (robot)
    disappointing
    flickering eyes (robot)
    Anger (when robot wasn't working)

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  10. frustrated
    annoyed
    steamy
    doubtful
    thats all i can think of right now...i'm tired.

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  11. bulky
    creaky
    defiant
    solid

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  12. Robot: sneaky
    Girl: impatient

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  13. frustrated
    anger
    impatience

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  14. flickering eyes
    stressed

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