Year 11 - English
Writing a compelling account
Non-fiction: explorers
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils develop their non-fiction reading and writing skills by looking at non-fiction texts about explorers. They first conceptualise travel writing, before building towards making concise and developed comparisons between texts. They finally create a compelling account about a place.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to plan and write a compelling account about a place that you have explored.
Key Notes
- Any topic can be interesting if the account is well written.
- Compelling writing is irresistible often because of its emotional power or theme.
- Examples of wordplay are assonance and alliteration and inverted syntax.
- A good plan has an overall structure and details about tone, ideas and feelings.
Vocabulary To Learn
- compelling: having a powerful or irresistible draw
- mundane: lacking excitement, everyday, dull
- memorable: worth remembering or easily remembered, especially because of being special or unusual
- reflective: thoughtful and deliberate
- assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds in the middle of nearby words
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Students often think that they need exciting experiences to write in a compelling manner.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
Any topic can be interesting if the account is well written. Compelling writing is irresistible often because of its emotional power or theme.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'compelling'
having a powerful or irresistible draw.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: Students often think that they need exciting experiences to write in a compelling manner. Correction: Stress how the quality of writing is more important than the topic being written about.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Comparing Stevenson and Steinbeck's attitudes to their travelling companions Study Guide
- Conceptualising travel writing and making predictions based on titles Study Guide
- Identifying and using different perspectives Study Guide
- Making inferences from two non-fiction texts Study Guide
- Using compound adjectives and analogies for effect in non-fiction writing Study Guide
- Using inverted sentence structures and chiasmus for effect Study Guide
- Writing concise and developed comparisons of non-fiction texts Study Guide
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