Category: Writing

NCEA 2.4 Writing Portfolio Option 2: Being There – Setting Description

A description about a place in a single specific moment in time. Using student writing inspired by Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood as a starting point, you will then choose your own scene and develop a description which evokes a sense of being there, of the place, its people, its sights and sounds.

NCEA 2.4 Writing Portfolio – Sample Texts

Extract from Under Milk Wood, by Dylan Thomas Under Milk Wood – An Extract By Dylan Thomas It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched,