Lesson Thirteen: Vladimir Propp and Crafting Characters (Exposition)
Students will be introduced to Propp characters and identifying these in fairy tales. Students will differentiate between heroes and villains.
Lesson Fourteen: Linear/Circular Narratives and Crafting Settings (Exposition)
This lesson, students will explore linear and circular narratives, including a close reading of ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’. Students will then begin to plan how they can subvert narrative structures in their assessment next week.
Lesson Fifteen: Advanced Features
Continuing to explore crafting of narrative, students will explore how they can build better sentences, utilise a range of punctuation, craft their vocabulary choices for effect, and incorporate high-level features in their writing.
A DURING-READING booklet (Academic Reading) for ‘A Christmas Carol’.
Gaps to be filled by wonderful LitDrive resouce: ‘A Christmas Carol Reading Companions Stave 1-5’ by @MrsRBxx.
A CPD session exploring the concept of disciplinary literacy and how to support reading in English lessons and across the curriculum.
All research is in the notes section.
A mini-sequence exploring the poem ‘Kamikaze’ by Beatrice Garland from the AQA Power and Conflict cluster through a mixture of reading and writing tasks.