AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 The Pearl John Steinbeck Q1-5 Grade 9 responses

This is a full lesson looking at each question in depth from the June 2022 GCSE English Language Paper 1 looking at John Steinbeck’s The Pearl. 36 slides which includes starter, Wordle activity, plenaries and assessment tasks for each of the questions 1 to 5.

Model answers are given for each question, looking at how students can achieve a grade 9. This lesson is heavily based around analysis and inference in the reading section and includes a grade 9 piece of writing for the Q5 task. The lesson generates discussion, looks at developing ideas and looking deeper into the metaphorical links of the matriarch figure, power, gender.

Lesson objectives include

-Match language devices to their definition and create your own sentences
-Analyse the beginning section from John Steinbeck’s The Pearl 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
-Develop and explain interpretation and impressions in Q4
-Review grade 9 model answers for Q1-4 looking at exploding inference using PEE
-Create a word bank and plan in preparation for the Q5 writing task
-Read and discuss, justifying your opinion on a grade 9 written response to Q5.
-Complete the Q5 writing task applying AFORESTRIP and punctuation variety
-Review your writing task, highlighting techniques