The Black Flamingo - L4: What is the Genre and Narrative Structure of The Black Flamingo?

This is the fourth lesson in a scheme of work using Dean Atta’s modern novel ‘The Black Flamingo’, to explore AQA’s GCSE paper 2 unseen poetry component.

The lesson can be broken down as follows:
Focus Five: Recap political and social contextual knowledge.
TASK: Introduce focus on genre from the core concepts and what genre is.
TASK: Discussion on past genres of texts studied at KS3 and then a focus on the genre of ‘The Black Flamingo’ with direct interview responses from Dean Atta.
TASK: Opportunity to return to this and fill in information on the book’s genre components after reading the text.
TASK: Introduce narrative structure definition and recap Freytag’s pyramid from earlier in KS3.
TASK: Students to flick through the text and discuss the structure of the book and how it appears.
TASK: Opportunity to return to this and fill in information on the book’s narrative structural components after reading the text.
TASK: Class discussion on importance of considering genre and narrative structure of a literary text.
TASK: Opportunity to continue with creative competition using contextual knowledge to create PRIDE poster.
PLENARY: Review of learning on roadmap.