English Language - Exploring connotations - ECT friendly

Perfect lesson for KS3 language analysis.

Exploring connotations is built for KS3 classes or weak KS4 classes to guide them through the process of extract annotation and connotation analysis. This lesson comes with a full video breakdown and walkthrough for teachers. If you are an ECT this will be a perfect way for you to become confident with the material. The video breaks down each slide’s content, what to focus on, what to expect, and how to question students throughout the lesson. Lesson has been adapted to be SEND friendly with comic sans font and yellow background.

Lesson includes:
Revisiting what connotations are
Read a short extract
Identify tone and emotion
Do a close language analysis of a chosen quote (with guided questions)
Look at a writing frame (with sentence starters)
There are 3 models of varying levels of analysis (all colour coded to match success criteria)
Writing at least one paragraph
Opportunity for peer assessment

Lesson is pick up and teach with optional printing of extract and models.