A full lesson of 24 slides and resources looking at Roald Dahl’s Boy extract on sweets and linking it to a piece of descriptive writing describing a sweet shop. This lesson gives tips on how to achieve a grade 9 looking at building word banks and technique banks so that they can feel confident attempting their assessment tasks.
This lesson focuses specifically on language analysis and build up tasks, planning ideas and the descriptive writing task based around creative reading Q2 language analysis on Roald Dahl’s ‘Boy’ and creative writing Q5 describe a sweet shop using a taste test activity to get students to really focus on their senses to describe taste, touch, smells, sights, noises.
-To focus and reflect on past memories of sweets
-Read and analyse a piece of fiction text (Roald Dahl’s ‘Boy’) relating to sweets to give use as inspiration for a piece of creative writing
-Identify and name language techniques
-Write a developed response to Q2 language analysis
-Develop a sophisticated word bank
-Generate and discuss descriptive ideas
-Express our own viewpoints and perspectives
-To create and develop a piece of creative writing describing a sweet shop
-Self review activity
-To recall learning from the lesson in a A-Z activity
This is a full lesson looking at the opening of Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love (extract included) for paper 1 Creative reading and writing. 39 slides looking at top tips for answering each question Q1 to Q4 from the reading section and build up writing tips for a successful piece of writing looking at content and technical accuracy.
The powerpoint is crammed with tips to develop a range of sophisticated vocabulary and exploding inference. Colour coded grade 9 PEE structured answers and ideas to stratch and develop inference.
Starter activity- what is the difference between language and structural techniques?
Lesson objectives
-Analyse the beginning section from Enduring Love 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
-Develop and explain interpretation and impressions in Q4
-Review grade 9 model answers for Q1-4 looking at exploding inference using PEE
-Create a word bank and plan in preparation for the Q5 writing task
-Tips for descriptive and narrative writing, what to include for a grade 9.
-Complete the Q5 writing task applying AFORESTRIP and punctuation variety
-Review your writing task (self assess), highlighting techniques before submission
This lesson is based on the AQA spec English Language Paper 2 comparing writers’ viewpoints and perspectives looking at the November 2021 resit paper on sweets and working conditions. Achieve a grade 9!
Packed full of engaging activities: starter activity, assessment activities and plenaries.
It breakdowns each question on the reading section 1-4 giving tips and strategies and model responses to answer the questions.
-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
Q5 writing task will focus on article writing, expressing viewpoints and developing ideas fast fashion and the consequences of unfair working conditions.
Self-assessment marking task, highlighting the language techniques.
This lesson will also reintroduce paper 1, talking about the differences between paper 1 and paper 2 writing tasks.
Q5 Paper 1 writing task, describe a sweet shop, with lots of build-up extension tasks to help prepare, plan and structure their response.
This lesson is full of activities and covers 43 slides.