New AQA Lang Paper 2A for LESS able students: DISCOVERY

Using a journal entry penned by Howard Carter documenting his discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen and an excerpt from Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle where he describes the Fuegians, the theme of these two non-fiction texts is different perspectives of discoveries.

I have adapted the texts ever so slightly, simplifying some vocabulary and sentencing to make them more accessible to students whose reading ages are significantly lower than their chronological age, to provide an appropriate point of access to the skills demanded by the new AQA GCSE Language Paper 2A exam paper. Also included is a set of SMART Notebook slides for whole-class interactive whiteboard teaching of the resource.

UPDATE: If you do not use SMART interactive whiteboards, to view the SMART Notebook slides simply download the SMART Notebook Express viewer, FREE online. It is a piece of software published by SMART Technologies and is completely safe to use.

(express.smarttech.com)

I have adhered to the phrasing of the exam questions, but the tasks are differentiated thus:

Q1 - same as the actual exam paper
Q2 - cloze exercise of the summary (this could be easily tweaked to sentence stems)
Q3a - highlight and write down 3 relevant examples of language used to convey viewpoint
Q3b - cloze exercise of use of language to convey viewpoint and attitude and an extension task
where pupils complete PEE paragraphs, supplying relevant evidence and explanations.

I have not included the Q4 'comparison of methods to convey attitudes' task as it is currently beyond the ability of the students for whom I have produced this resource.

I hope that it might be of some use to others. I've produced nine of these highly differentiated papers for Paper 2A now and all are available FREE at my 'shop' with accompanying SMART Notebook resources, too.

Please help yourself and leave me a review!

Matt :)