WJEC/EDUQAS GCSE English Language and Inference Skills/Reading and Writing 'The Joker.'

A very engaging and interesting lesson with resources- ideally suitable for KS4 English GCSE learners. Can be used for both AQA or EDUQAS as skills focused as opposed to question specific.
Pack includes:
FIRST PART: READING SKILLS

• A 20 page PowerPoint
• Reflection tasks on progress required for GCSE (language and inference)
• Spotlight activities on’Arthur ;‘The Joker.’
• Inference activities on character and relationships.
• Two visual clips from ‘The Joker’ identifying positive and negative relationships between mother and son.
• ‘The Joker’ Script extract.
• Quotation explosion examples and grid resource.
• Key learning question ‘How does the writer use language to…?’ Accompanying example response.
  SECOND PART: WRITING SKILLS
• What is defamiliarization?
• Example of clown description - ‘The art of making strange.’
• Describing objects using the defamiliarization technique with a teacher example response - very entertaining, great for creaive and descriptive writing.
• Mini peer assessment activity.
• Two David Attenborough clips with descriptions - making the familiar unfamiliar.
• Flash fiction 200 word challenge task - ‘The Joker’s’ Journal entry.