AQA GCSE English Lang Paper 1 The Grass Is Singing Lessing Creative reading & writing Q1-5 Grade 9

AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 The Grass Is Singing D. Lessing Creative reading & writing Q1-5 Grade 9 June 24

Full lesson on Paper 1 The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing looking at the AQA June 2024 paper with grade 9 model answers for the reading and writing sections. Achieve a grade 9 jam packed with plenaries, AfL, TLA activities and tasks.

51 slides of a breakdown of the reading and writing sections, with grade 9 model answers for each question and top tips to achieve a grade 9. Lesson focuses on exploding and developing inference. Starter task, discussion activity, build up tasks highlighting and analysing the text to draw out inference, review and self-assessment looking at EBI and WWW on a piece of grade 9 writing, with a self-assessment exit card activity. Colour images for writing task and structure cards to rearrange and add into the text.

Objectives/aims:
• Solve the English related puzzles from The 1% Club
• Consider the juxtaposition of the colours black and white and what they could symbolise
• Define the word powerful and build a bank of synonyms
• Deliberate how colour symbolism can foreshadow events to come
• Analyse a section from The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing for Paper 1
• 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
• Construct a flow chart for Q3 structure applying in structure cards
• 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
• Read and review a piece of grade 9 descriptive writing
• Complete the Q5 writing task applying AFORESTRIP and punctuation variety
• Review your writing task, highlighting techniques
• Complete self-assessment exit card