Year 10 - English
'Suite Française': evaluating ideas about a writer's craft
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 evaluate how well a writer achieves certain effects.
Key Notes
- Evaluation requires you to critically examine something, thus it is more complex than understanding and analysis.
- Using evaluative adverbs and adjectives is good way to signpost your evaluation.
- Evaluative adverbs show you are able to comment on how well a writer does something.
- You should use evidence from the text to support your evaluative comments.
Vocabulary To Learn
- evaluate: to judge the value or quality of something
- critical: to think seriously about something; considering what is good or bad about it
- signpost: showing how something is going to develop
- evaluative adverb: adverbs that express a judgement about something
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Students may think that they only way to evaluate is to write whether they 'agree' or 'disagree' with something.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
Evaluation requires you to critically examine something, thus it is more complex than understanding and analysis. Using evaluative adverbs and adjectives is good way to signpost your evaluation.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'evaluate'
to judge the value or quality of something.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: Students may think that they only way to evaluate is to write whether they 'agree' or 'disagree' with something. Correction: In Learning Cycle 2, students learn that they can phrase and signpost their evaluations in a more sophisticated way, directly commenting on the writer's craft with evaluative adverbs.
More Lessons In This Unit
- 'After Dark': exploring Murakami's extended metaphor Study Guide
- 'After Dark': selecting evidence to support language analysis 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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