A* accents essay and lesson - AQA A Level English Language

A full lesson including an A* exemplar accents (language diversity) essay produced for my Year 12 AQA English Language students as a modelling example in the Autumn term and 22 slide PowerPoint.
This lesson guides Year 12 students through potential content for an AQA Paper 1 Section A evaluative essay (after I had taught the accents part of my accent and dialect SoW). This is followed by use of the exemplar essay to guide students through the AQA mark scheme and exemplify level 4 and some level 5 AO1 and AO2 success criteria.
Initially, I cut up the essay and asked students to organise it into an argument (AO1 level 4), then we discussed whether it guided the reader (AO1 level 5). We then explored the use of precise AO1 terminology and academic register before exploring evidence of detailed knowledge and comments on different views and approaches (AO2 level 4) and how some of these views were challenged and evaluated (AO2 level 5). The PowerPoint also helps students understand what the mark scheme wording means.
I then gave my students two new accents essay titles to choose from for their first A Level essay - details on PowerPoint.
All lesson details are on the PowerPoint with some additional tips/ideas/links in the notes sections.
This lesson proved a great success with high quality A Level essays produced by my students.
The AQA Paper 2 Section A mark scheme can be found on the AQA website.