AQA GCSE English Lang Paper 1 Boy in The Striped Pjs J Boyne Creative reading & writing Q1-5 grade 9

AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 The Boy in The Striped Pjs J Boyne Creative reading & writing Q1-5 Achieve a grade 9

Full lesson on Paper 1 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne looking at the AQA paper with grade 9 model answers for the reading and writing sections. Achieve a grade 9 jam packed with plenaries, AfL, TLA activities and tasks.

55 slides of a breakdown of the reading and writing sections, with grade 9 model answers and top tips to achieve a grade 9. Lesson focuses on exploding and developing inference. Starter task, discussion activity, build up tasks highlighting and analysing text to draw out inference, review and self assessment looking at EBI and WWW with a self assessment exit card activity.

This lesson focuses on British values, equality and it talks about the extract’s theme of difference. Activities based around racism, prejudice, inequality and World War II. Students will be asked to look at an image of Auschwitz Concentration Camp exploring feelings and emotions linked to it. Designed to get students to put themselves in the shoes of Bruno and Shmuel. This lesson really focuses on exploding inference with the powerful metaphor of Shmuel’s watch and what that represents on a deeper level. It also focuses on the juxtaposition of the two boys exploring the themes of privilege and the horror of war.

• Consider the difference between racism, prejudice, inequality & discrimination
• Define the word difference and think of other synonyms for the word
• Deliberate how colour symbolism can foreshadow events to come
• Analyse a section from The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne for Paper 1
• Identify and discuss the difference between language and structural techniques
• Focus specifically on questions 2 to 4 in terms of developing detail and inference
• Explode and develop interpretations for Q2 language analysis
• Construct a flow chart for Q3 structure from start, middle, end looking at effect
• Develop and explain interpretation and impressions in Q4
• Review grade 9 model answers for Q1-4 looking at exploding inference using PEEL
• Create a word bank and plan in preparation for the Q5 writing task
• Read and review a piece of grade 9 descriptive writing
• Complete the Q5 writing task applying AFORESTRIP and punctuation variety
• Review your writing task, highlighting techniques
• Complete self-assessment exit card on today’s lesson