Year 10 - English
Exploring structure in Murakami's 'After Dark'
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 identify and comment on the effect of interesting structural features in 'After Dark'.
Key Notes
- Structure refers to the way a text has been organised.
- Different structural features can have different effects on the reader.
- Interesting structural features in 'After Dark' are the perspective choice, repetition and the creation of suspense.
- After identifying a structural feature in a text, it is important to discuss its effect.
Vocabulary To Learn
- Structure: the way a text has been organised
- Omniscient: all-knowing
- Conceptualise: form a concept or idea of (something)
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Students may confuse language and structural features.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
Structure refers to the way a text has been organised. Different structural features can have different effects on the reader.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'Structure'
the way a text has been organised.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: Students may confuse language and structural features. Correction: Getting into a habit of asking a range of questions interrogating perspective, repetition, beginnings and endings can help students ease into the analysis of structure.
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': 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 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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