Year 11 - English
Analysing a dramatic description of an event
Non-fiction: teenage kicks
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils develop their non-fiction reading and writing skills by looking at a collection of non-fiction texts about the theme of teenagers. They first build towards writing an open letter, before then looking at how they can write nuanced and sophisticated articles in an original voice.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to explain your response to a text and identify how imagery is used both descriptively and thematically.
Key Notes
- A dramatic account is likely to be full of emotion, danger and conflict.
- We expect an account of an event to be fact based and significant.
- When talking about our response to a text, it is important to reference details and explain how it affected us.
- Analysing language means looking at what it suggests.
- We an also link the writer's choices to the wider themes and ideas.
Vocabulary To Learn
- memoir: a first person written record of a person's own life and experiences
- autocratic: demanding that people obey completely, without asking or caring about anyone else's opinions
- surveillance: the careful watching of a person or place, especially by the police or army
- encroaching: the act of gradually taking away someone else's rights, time, work or privacy
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Students may think that Lee's account is true of all North Koreans.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
A dramatic account is likely to be full of emotion, danger and conflict. We expect an account of an event to be fact based and significant.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'memoir'
a first person written record of a person's own life and experiences.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: Students may think that Lee's account is true of all North Koreans. Correction: Draw attention to the fact the book is a memoir. It is personal and about what she recalls and what she felt. The context helps us appreciate her own experience.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Analysing and improving an article Study Guide
- Applying reading strategies to non-fiction texts Study Guide
- Comparing ideas and advice on love in different centuries Study Guide
- Exploring attitudes to teenagers across time Study Guide
- Exploring how love has changed over time Study Guide
- Exploring vivid childhood accounts Study Guide
- Planning an effective article Study Guide
- Structural methods in a dramatic account Study Guide
- Understanding and planning open letters Study Guide
- Using and understanding irony in non-fiction writing Study Guide
- Using credible expert views in a non-fiction article Study Guide
- Using dialogue effectively Study Guide
- Using juxtaposition and foreshadowing in childhood accounts Study Guide
- Withholding information and timing revelations Study Guide
- Writing an effective article Study Guide
- Writing an open letter Study Guide
- Writing humorously Study Guide
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