AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2: Doctors & Nurses Grade 9 response to June 24 paper 2 exam Compare Viewpoints & Perspectives This lesson is based on the AQA spec English Language Paper 2 comparing writers’ viewpoints and perspectives looking at the June 2024 Summer paper on Doctors & Nurses (medical care). Achieve a grade 9! Looking at the two source documents: Source A: This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay Source B: The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole Packed full of engaging activities: Do now activity, starter activity, full paper assessment activities and plenaries, with every question modelled with a grade 9 responses for questions 1 to 5. It breakdowns each question on the reading section 1-4 giving tips and strategies and grade 9 model responses to answer these questions on smedical care (doctors and nurses). -Q1 Select true statements -Q2 Summarising similarities and differences adding inference Q3 Commenting and expanding on language techniques Q4 Comparing viewpoints and perspectives, using contrasting connectives Question 5 writing gives a grade 9 model response looking at tips and an ideas builder. Q5 writing task will focus on article writing, expressing viewpoints and developing ideas on medical care and helping others over making money. Grade 9 model speech response included. Self-assessment marking task, highlighting the language techniques. This lesson will focus on the paper 2 reading and writing tasks. This lesson is full of activities and covers 39 slides, using images to summarise the differences and building inference, historical context on the roles of women in the C19th century and using exit cards to review learning. Compare images, discussion points, reflect and review. Lesson objectives: • Recall language techniques for Paper 2 writing • Summarise and infer from two images based on the theme of doctors & nurses • Consider the historical context of women nurses in the C19th • To familiarise ourselves with two unseen (21st and 19th Century) texts This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay and The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole • Identify true statements using the text as evidence • Summarise the differences applying quotes and inference • Develop language techniques and explode inference • Compare viewpoints and perspectives identifying how the writer feels • Review and discuss a grade 9 piece of writing • Share and discuss opinions and viewpoints • Complete a writing task and plan • Express our own viewpoints and perspectives • Demonstrate your learning & understanding of Paper 2 with your exit card

A3 Storm creative writing build up sheet expand ideas and vocabulary. Great build up sheet, allowing students to identify and pick out the similes, metaphors, personification and alliteration from 20 sentences linked to the image. Students can use their thesaurus to find sophisticated words and synonyms for a descriptive piece of writing on a storm. Students will have to think of adjectives, adverbs and personification, and then follow the creative prompts for sentence starters.

AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 The Boy in The Striped Pjs J Boyne Creative reading & writing Q1-5 Achieve a grade 9 Full lesson on Paper 1 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne looking at the AQA 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. 55 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. This lesson focuses on British values, equality and it talks about the extract’s theme of difference. Activities based around racism, prejudice, inequality and World War II. Students will be asked to look at an image of Auschwitz Concentration Camp exploring feelings and emotions linked to it. Designed to get students to put themselves in the shoes of Bruno and Shmuel. This lesson really focuses on exploding inference with the powerful metaphor of Shmuel’s watch and what that represents on a deeper level. It also focuses on the juxtaposition of the two boys exploring the themes of privilege and the horror of war. • Consider the difference between racism, prejudice, inequality & discrimination • Define the word difference and think of other synonyms for the word • Deliberate how colour symbolism can foreshadow events to come • Analyse a section from The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne 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 from start, middle, end looking at effect • 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 on today’s lesson