Year 10 - English
'After Dark': selecting evidence to support language analysis
Fiction: read around the world
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils read extracts from four novels from around the world, and use them to develop their narrative writing. In particular, pupils explore writers' use of structure. At the end of the unit, pupils consider their own use of paragraphs for effect and write an engaging narrative.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use a range of meaningful and relevant evidence to support your language analysis.
Key Notes
- When looking for quotations useful for analysis, we need to ensure our evidence is relevant and meaningful.
- Meaningful evidence is language with powerful connotations that you can dig deeper into.
- We can make our language analysis more effective by linking evidence together to support our ideas.
- Actively search for patterns in language to strengthen your language analysis.
Vocabulary To Learn
- Relevant: connected to what is being discussed
- Meaningful: useful or important; communicating something that is not directly expressed
- Connotations: an idea or feeling that a word evokes
- Patterns: repeating of similar elements in a text
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- A response is successful if it includes relevant quotes.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
When looking for quotations useful for analysis, we need to ensure our evidence is relevant and meaningful. Meaningful evidence is language with powerful connotations that you can dig deeper into.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'Relevant'
connected to what is being discussed.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: A response is successful if it includes relevant quotes. Correction: We should aim high in our language analysis. That means going a step further to use the most meaningful evidence as well as looking for patterns in the text that help us gather a collection of evidence.
More Lessons In This Unit
- 'After Dark': exploring Murakami's extended metaphor Study Guide
- 'Suite Française': evaluating ideas about a writer's craft Study Guide
- 'Suite Française': forming opinions on fiction Study Guide
- 'The Cellist of Sarajevo': expressing a personal and critical response to a text Study Guide
- Analysing images of hope and destruction in Galloway's 'The Cellist of Sarajevo' Study Guide
- Analysing Saramago's use of structural devices in 'Blindness' Study Guide
- Crafting an engaging narrative Study Guide
- Developing reading skills by responding to Murakami's 'After Dark' Study Guide
- Emulating Murakami's craft to write a descriptive opening Study Guide
- Emulating Saramago's use of structure in 'Blindness' Study Guide
- Exploring and emulating Galloway's use of symbols in 'The Cellist of Sarajevo' Study Guide
- Exploring structure in Murakami's 'After Dark' Study Guide
- Exploring the use of time in Galloway's 'The Cellist of Sarajevo' Study Guide
- Structuring paragraphs effectively in creative writing Study Guide
- Using inversion and asyndeton to craft interesting sentence structures Study Guide
- Using onomatopoeia and alliteration to craft interesting sound imagery Study Guide
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