Friday 4th December 2015 Focus: I can box up the text to show its structure. Generic text structure Spring’s Child Class Two’s Innovation Main character is introduced who likes the season/ weather and someone who doesn’t like it. Explain the problem with the weather/season. Bella loves the Springtime; she loves nothing more than to pick the multicoloured flowers from her garden and the surrounding fields and hedgerows. She spends hours, joyfully creating daisy chains and swimming in the crystal clear waters of the river which flows next to her house. Grandpa on the other hand, hates Spring, he suffers from hay fever and the blossoming flowers make him sneeze and his eyes water all day long. He hates the Spring showers, which often go on too long and flood his garden causing the fruit and vegetables he grows to ruin, leaving him and the whole family hungry. Character meets a strange child/person and they have fun together. Bella was walking through a field of daisies when she came across a strange looking child who had lime green coloured skin, daisy chains for hair and who was wearing what looked like a dress made from lush green moss. They played together making the longest and most beautiful daisy chains, skipping through the swishy swashy grass and swimming in the crystal waters of the river. The girl had never seen so many different types of fish nor swam with the river dolphins which Bella often swam with. A distant/strange voice is heard That afternoon, there came a strange distant tinkling noise from the tops of the blossom trees. The problems causes by weather/season worsen, but the characters still meet to have fun The next day, the April showers began just as Grandpa had feared. Bella and her friend met once again and played in the fields and river, not taking any notice of the river rising or the vegetable patch is becoming waterlogged. Eventually the vegetable patch became so wet that the vegetables got washed away down the river which was now raging. Main character so worried they change their mind about weather/season and wish it would end. Tells the strange character. Bella and the girl meet once again to play in the Spring showers, but Bella does so with a heavy heart. She sits sadly, on a large stone on the edge of the river bank. The girls asks what is wrong with Bella and Bella explains that her Grandpa is hungry because they have no vegetables to eat and all his hard work gardening has been ruined. The strange character explains how they are the cause of the weather and The main character watches the strange character leave The lime green girls explains that she is Spring’s child and that it is her fault that the April showers are still pouring down and that they will not stop until she disappears. She calls to her mother and Spring’s mother appears on a flower covered thrown floating down the river, as comes closer, thousands of beautiful butterflies flutter towards Spring’s child and carry her off in the wake of Spring’s flowery thrown. Bella watched on in astonishment as her friend left. As she left, Bella said we’ll play again together, next year. Spring’s child replied, at the first sign of Spring! Signs of the end of the weather are seen In the morning, the river was calm once more and the warm summer sunshine began to dry the fields and garden.