Year 9 - English
Comparing tone and language choices in non-fiction texts
Women's rights across the ages: non-fiction reading and writing
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils read a wide range of non-fiction texts from across history that are centered around the topic of women's rights. They first read a range of texts and identify key themes and techniques within them, before then planning, writing, re-drafting and delivering their own speech.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to identify a writer's use of tone and consider how language is adapted to create this.
Key Notes
- Tone in writing refers to the attitude or feeling conveyed by a writer towards the subject matter and audience.
- Tone is conveyed through word choice, sentence structure, punctuation, and overall language usage.
- Writers will ensure their tone is appropriate for the text's purpose, audience and form.
- Writers will adapt specific language features and rhetorical devices to match the tone of their writing.
Vocabulary To Learn
- incredulous: unwilling or unable to believe something
- defiant: to show resistance or disobedience
- provocative: this describes something that stirs up strong reactions or emotions
- authoritative: if you appear authoritative you seem knowledgeable and command respect
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- When used, rhetorical devices have only one possible effect or outcome.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
Tone in writing refers to the attitude or feeling conveyed by a writer towards the subject matter and audience. Tone is conveyed through word choice, sentence structure, punctuation, and overall language usage.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'incredulous'
unwilling or unable to believe something.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: When used, rhetorical devices have only one possible effect or outcome. Correction: Writers can craft rhetorical devices to create different tones and match their purpose, audience and form. For example, direct address can be used to sound confrontational or it can create an intimate and personal tone.
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- Developing a viewpoint using structural features Study Guide
- Developing analytical responses Study Guide
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- Identifying and analysing a writer's perspective Study Guide
- Identifying and exploring complex ideas in a text Study Guide
- Persuasive writing: using credible and effective rhetorical devices Study Guide
- Planning an analytical response Study Guide
- Preparing and delivering a powerful speech Study Guide
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- Re-drafting a persuasive speech Study Guide
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- Understanding what makes a persuasive speech Study Guide
- Varying sentences and using anecdotes to express a viewpoint Study Guide
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