Year 10 - English
'Suite Française': forming opinions on fiction
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 confidently form and justify your own opinions about a fiction text.
Key Notes
- You can begin to form a personal response to a text by asking yourself what feelings the text evoked in you.
- Opinions are personal, so each person may have a different opinion on a text.
- In order to make your opinion more credible, you should justify it.
- Appropriate justification comes in the form of evidence from the text.
Vocabulary To Learn
- opinion: a thought or belief about something
- justify: to give a reason for
- credible: able to believed or trusted
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- 'Everyone is entitled to their own opinion', therefore there is no need to justify our opinions.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
You can begin to form a personal response to a text by asking yourself what feelings the text evoked in you. Opinions are personal, so each person may have a different opinion on a text.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'opinion'
a thought or belief about something.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: 'Everyone is entitled to their own opinion', therefore there is no need to justify our opinions. Correction: Although we are all entitled to our opinion, justifying your opinion allows people to trust and listen to your opinion more carefully.
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
- '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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