GCSE English Language creative writing narrative structure strips
How it works: Cut out the strip and place the sections on the inside margin of your writing page and it will serve as a great organisation/structural reminder to students as they create their narrative, paragraph by paragraph, ensuring content and SPaG (technical accuracy) is covered.
Writing prompt/scaffolding for:
-setting
-character
-foreshadowing
-pathetic fallacy
-colour symbolism
-language techniques
-rising action
-pivotal moment
-falling action
-denouement
-cliffhanger
GCSE English Language: Paper 2 Comparing writers’ viewpoints and perspectives looking at Q3, Q4 and Q5. Achieve a grade 9!
Packed full of engaging activities: starter activity, assessment activities and plenaries, reviews, self assessment.
It breakdowns questions on the reading giving tips and strategies and model responses to answer the questions.
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee: Q2 language analysis on the Queen’s speech
Q4 Compare writers viewpoints and Q5 Generating discussion and writing
to express our viewpoints & perspectives. 35 slide complete lesson, this will give you material for multiple lessons, focusing on 2 writing tasks and 2 reading analysis questions, focusing on British values and E&D too. The Queen’s speech for Q3 language analysis, 2 sources to compare writers’ viewpoints for Q4 and 2 Q5 writing tasks with build up work and top tips to achieve a grade 9!
-Consider the significance of colour symbolism in the Union Jack flag.
-Express and share our viewpoints and perspectives
-Analyse and dissect the Queen’s speech analysing language techniques for Q3 language analysis
-Discuss British values and equality & diversity in power/gender roles
-Compare writers viewpoints and perspectives from 2 sources for Q4 compare writers’ viewpoints and perspectives, looking at a feelings wheel for ideas. Plan and discuss this question and use information to complete Q4.
-Develop your word banks using a thesaurus
-Plan your response to aid your writing
-Measure and justify both sides of an argument
-Complete a piece of writing expressing your point of view
-Review learning from the lesson
-Apply understanding with an additional Q5 writing task
AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 Frankenstein Creative reading & writing Q1-5 Grade 9 Mary Shelley
Full lesson on Paper 1 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley looking at AQA style questions relating to Paper 1 Creative reading and writing. A 52 slide lesson with grade 9 model answers for the reading and writing sections. Achieve a grade 9, this is jam packed with plenaries, AfL, TLA activities and self reflection and assessment tasks.
52 slides of a breakdown of the reading and writing sections, with grade 9 model answers 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 text to draw out inference, review and self assessment looking at EBI and WWW with a self assessment exit card activity.
Please note that AQA Paper 1 will only use texts from C20th/C21st in the exam. Frankenstein has just been adapted for this lesson.
Lesson objecives:
• Build words from word scramble anagram
• Identify language and structural devices to solve Catch Phrase puzzle
• Discuss light and dark symbolism
• Analyse a section from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 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 and check against mark scheme
• Complete the Q5 writing task applying AFORESTRIP and punctuation variety
• Review your writing task, highlighting techniques
• Complete self-assessment exit card