Year 10 - English
Evaluating and improving model responses on non-fiction texts
Spoken language: the language of change
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils look at powerful speeches and emulate them by writing their own speeches. They first read, analyse and compare powerful speeches. They then hone their craft by understanding the features that contribute towards creating a powerful speech. They finally plan and write a speech.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to understand the expectations of a comparative response and use them to evaluate and rewrite model responses.
Key Notes
- Evaluating model responses with a specific checklist can help improve your own responses.
- You can use comparative conjunctions to make clear links between the texts.
- Your paragraph must focus on both texts in equal detail, with evidence from both.
- You must ensure that the focus of your comparison links to the question.
- You need to compare the writers' methods and their tone, as well as their overall attitudes.
Vocabulary To Learn
- resililence: the ability to bounce back from difficulties or challenges
- incite: to encourage or provoke someone to take action
- inequality: things are not fair or equal for everyone
- assertive: to confidently express your thoughts or feelings in a respectful and clear manner
- anecdote: a short and personal account or story, used in persuasive writing to create a rapport with the audience
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Looking at other essays is cheating or copying.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
Evaluating model responses with a specific checklist can help improve your own responses. You can use comparative conjunctions to make clear links between the texts.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'resililence'
the ability to bounce back from difficulties or challenges.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: Looking at other essays is cheating or copying. Correction: Working with model responses helps develop your critical skills in order to evaluate your own work. Using and adapting others' ideas is a great thing to do!
More Lessons In This Unit
- Analysing a persuasive speech Study Guide
- Comparing non-fiction texts Study Guide
- Comparing tone and methods in non-fiction texts Study Guide
- Engaging your audience: creating effective opening and closing paragraphs Study Guide
- Having productive discussions in response to a non-fiction text Study Guide
- Planning and writing a persuasive speech Study Guide
- Preparing to deliver a powerful speech Study Guide
- Proofreading and redrafting a speech Study Guide
- Spoken language: choosing a topic and developing ideas for a speech Study Guide
- Understanding and summarising perspectives Study Guide
- Understanding what makes a powerful speech Study Guide
- Using non-verbal features to present a speech effectively Study Guide
- Using rhetorical devices effectively Study Guide
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