Creative Writing Assessment - Alien Invasion of Earth
Captain Jack Smith was on leave from the army.
He was in his home in Las Vegas. He had just woken up and turned on the TV.
There was a BREAKING NEWS report: UFOs were in the sky over Las Vegas!
Use the prompts to help you write your orientation.
Captain Jack Smith was on leave from the army and had slept in. He grabbed a coffee and switched on the
TV. The screen was covered with the words BREAKING NEWS! President Trump appeared on screen and
said ________________________________________________________________________.
Jack’s mug crashed _____________________________________________________________________.
He quickly put on his uniform and rang the Las Vegas Army base.
“Captain Jack Smith here. What __________________________________________________________.
The General replied “__________________________________________________________________.
Jumping into his jeep, Jack could see _____________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________.
“How will get to headquarters?” he wondered, worriedly.
As he looked towards the city in the distance he realised there were _______________________________.
The UFOs looked like _________________________________________________________________.
It was _________________________________________________________________
Jack felt _______________ and ________________________.
Suddenly, the UFOs started ______________________________________________________________.
Then, the door opened and ___________________________________________ walked out. Jack gasped.
The aliens were __________________, __________________ and _____________________ . They were
holding _______________________________________________________________________________
and they said “____________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________.”
Creative Writing Activity
Imagine that you have just walked out of your
time-machine into the world in this picture.
Using your notes from last week, write the
orientation of a story.
Remember to use “I” when you write.
Use the prompts to help you write your
orientation.
When I stepped out of the time-machine, the first thing I saw was ____________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________.
Then I saw the _____________________ , _______________________ and ______________________.
The first thing I could hear was __________________________________________________________.
The sky looked so ______________________________________________________________________.
The buildings were very _________________________________________________________________.
There was a train that had come off its tracks. It looked _____________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________.
I felt so _______________ and ________________________.
I turned to my partner, Sam, and said, “___________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________.”
He nodded and said in a worried tone, “____________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________.”
I pointed off into the distance and said, “Look at ___________________________________________.
What do you think happened here?”
Sam sighed and said, “I think ___________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________.”
“What do you think we should do?” I asked.
All of a sudden, a loud noise boomed through the air. I looked up, searching the sky for whatever was
making the noise. I saw a spaceship. It was ________________________________________________.
Suddenly, it started ____________________________________________________________________.
Then, the door opened and ___________________________________________ walked out. I gasped. The
aliens were __________________, __________________ and _____________________ . They were
holding ________________________________________________________________________________
and they said to us, “____________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________.”