6 Week SoW on Persuasive/ Transactional Writing & Language Analysis KS3/KS4/ GCSE Language Paper 2

Introduce an engegaing transactional and persuasive writing unit to your school’s KS3 or KS4 curriculum. Students will explore a range of historic and contemporary non-fiction texts addressing inequality in society in different forms in preparation for a transactional writing assessment.

Texts:
• Extract from Wild Swans - Jung Chang (1991)
• Akala: ‘As I grew up, I became embarrassed by my mother’s whiteness’ –
• Ought women not to be abolished altogether? – Clementine Churchill (1912)
• Give women the vote – Bertha Brewster (1913)
• An Open Letter To My Family Announcing My Resignation From Motherhood – N. Graham (2020)
• ‘We must continue to dream big’: an open letter - Serena Williams (2016)
• We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013)
• The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes - Caroline Criado-Perez (2019)
• To My Old Master - Jourdon Anderson (1865)
• Brown is as pretty as white – W. E. B. Du Bois (1914)
• 17 million Negroes cannot wait for the hearts of men to change – Jackie Robinson (1958)
• An Open Letter To The Man Who Yelled “Go Back To Africa” At Me - Jd Dillard (2019)
• Blogs from Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013)
• I’m no longer engaging with white people on the topic of race – Reni Eddo Lodge (2014)
• Why Explore Space? - Ernst Stuhlinger (1970)
• Distilling Existence: A Study with Wilson Amunga - Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor & Bernd Hartung (2019)
• Kebab Kid, London: ‘Take-away as a cult’ – Jay Rayner (2021)
• Extract from Down and Out in Paris and London – Orwell (1933)