AQA Step Up to English Gold AO2 LESSONS Component 2 Secret Spies

AQA Step Up to English Gold AO2 Lessons Component 2 Secret Spies.
Step Up to English - Gold Level.
Fully resourced lessons for assessment objective AO2.
Component 2 (creative reading and writing).
Here is the second, series of lessons to complement the Secret Spies assessment at Gold level – Component 2.

This unit of work aims to support the acquisition and development of the assessment objective AO2:

• begin to show awareness of the writer’s craft
• identify some features of the language used by the writer
• begin to show awareness of structure.

These lessons are based on extracts taken from the engaging text driver, ‘Farewell My Lovely’ written by Raymond Chandler – featuring the Los Angeles private eye, Philip Marlowe. The 1940s American setting is used to context set a suite of engaging exercises.

I am a practising English teacher as well as a head of department and my resources are developed for use by my own students, a number of which have SEN and/or challenging behaviour. In order to meet their needs, I create resources which are SEN aware, engaging as well as academically challenging. My own students have responded extremely well to these resources; the resources are targeted to support progress and attainment towards the qualification.
This resource comprises 12 engaging, short, sharp activities to support students who are working at pre-GCSE level and require support with the first of the assessment objectives – AO2.

This high-quality resource contains:
UNIT 2: AO2 lessons

• Act 1 Visual Imagery
• Act 1a What are your Thoughts
• Act 2 Descriptive Words and Phrases
• Act 3 Interesting Adjectives and Similes
• Act 4 Word Check
• Act 5 Farewell My Lovely extract
• Act 6 Draw the Image
• Act 7 Change the Adjectives and Simile
• Act 8 Has the Visual Imagery Changed
• Act 9 Figurative Language TARANTULA
• Act 10 Figurative Language RAT
• Act 11 Extract Visual Imagery
• Act 12 What is Good about the Language
• Act 13 Describe the Difference

Attribution of images used in this resource:
shutterstock and pixabay
Attribution of extracts used in this resource:
‘Farewell My Lovely’ by Raymond Chandler