Formal, Informal, Open Letters - Persuasive/ Transactional Writing SOW KS3/ KS4/ GCSE

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)