AQA GCSE English Lang Paper 1 A Christmas Carol Dickens Creative reading & writing Q1-5 Grade 9

AQA GCSE English Lang Paper 1 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Creative reading & writing Q1-5 Grade 9 responses

Full lesson on Paper 1 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens looking at the AQA full paper 1 style questions.

40 slides of a breakdown of the reading and writing sections, with grade 9 model answers and top tips to achieve a grade 9. Lesson focuses on exploding and developing inference. Each activity is broken down with tips and build up activities.

The lesson will include activities on:
-discussion centred around Christmas, what is important?
-developing vocabulary and synonyms
-colour symbolism in A Christmas Carol black and white
-red and blue colour symbolism
-Q2,Q3,Q4 activities and breakdown with grade 9 model answer
-writing frames for Q2 language analysis
-Q3 definition of structural devices
-Q3 flow chart, start, middle, end
-planning frames

• answer checklists for Q2, Q3, Q4
  -writing checklist to maximise marks for content and technical accuracy
  -self assessment activity
  -Scrabble review activity

Lesson objectives
-Discuss the importance of Christmas.
-Match colour symbolism with themes in A Christmas Carol
-Consider the character of Scrooge
-Analyse the beginning section from A Christmas Carol looking at Paper 1 assessment questions for the reading and writing section
-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
-Explain structural techniques and their effect on the reader
-Create 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 PEEL
-Create a word bank and plan in preparation for the Q5 writing task
-Complete the Q5 writing task applying AFORESTRIP and punctuation variety
-Review your writing task, highlighting techniques
-Create the longest and highest scoring Scrabble word