Today we used our new text, Floodland, to inspire a setting description of the cathedral Zoe found on Eels island. We were trying to use amazing vocabulary choices and our senses to create an atmosphere. The picture is Zach's beautiful drawing of his cathedral. Here are some amazing descriptions:

Emilia:

I stood, looking up at the immense building in front of me. Cathedrals are built to be imposing structures – the centre of a community – a consistent strength within the hustle and bustle of busy city life. But this building was cold and dark. I felt a little nervous in the eerie silence, aware that any sound would echo and reverberate around, magnified and distorted by the quietness of the surroundings, but if it came, it would still make me jump. 

Up close I could study the worn, ornate patchwork of stone, the old unsteady arches rising high above me. The brickwork was aged, worn by centuries of rain and wind, but you could still see the work, the detail that went into creating the intricate carving in the stone. 

The vast glittering windows, loomed above me. Once bright and welcoming, now dulled by age and a little melancholy. The memories of happier times bouncing off them in the weak sunlight that was struggling to pierce through the clouds. 

The dizzyingly high spires rose ominously from the vast grey roof, adding extra height and weight to this imposing giant, where none was really needed. I could imagine the surroundings in better times, rolling green lawns, zigzagged with narrow paths, neatly tended shrubs and pretty beds of bright flowers, welcoming visitors in. The floods would have swept all of this away, leaving behind them dark, hard, shiny rock.