Junior Certificate English: Non-fiction Unit - Leisure

This engaging and fully resourced unit of work is designed to teach some of the key skills required for tacking the Junior Cycle Higher English exam paper. It is built around the topic of Leisure.
There are two sections:
Reading section – exploration of three different non-fiction texts including a leaflet and two digital texts. Assessment opportunities include a piece of extended analytical writing with a focus on the author’s use of language.
Writing section – culminates in writing a critical analysis of a film poster and a review.
This includes a 57 slide teaching PPT (PDF and editable PPT formats) as well as a set of detailed teacher’s notes and all 9 resources in both Word and PDF formats. Tasks and texts are relevant and engaging and ideal preparation for the Junior Cycle exam.

Junior Cycle Learning Outcomes include:
Reading
3. Use a wide range of reading comprehension strategies appropriate to texts, including digital texts.
4. Use an appropriate critical vocabulary while responding to literary texts.
8. Read their texts to understand and appreciate language enrichment by examining an author’s choice of words, the use and effect of simple figurative language, vocabulary and
language patterns, and images, as appropriate to the text.
11. Identify and comment on features of English at word and sentence level using
appropriate terminology, showing how such features contribute to overall effect.
Writing

1. Demonstrate their understanding that there is a clear purpose for all writing activities and be able to plan, draft, re-draft, and edit their own writing as appropriate.
   3.Write for a variety of purposes, for example to analyse, evaluate, imagine, explore,engage, amuse, narrate, inform, explain, argue, persuade, criticise, comment on what they have heard, viewed and read.
2. Write competently in a range of text forms, for example review.