Year 9 - English
Exploring a non-fiction text with multiple perspectives
Women's rights across the ages: non-fiction reading and writing
Study Hub
Study Guides
This pupil-friendly study guide includes a unit summary, clear notes, common mistakes, and quick questions with answers.
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 different voices and perspectives within a text.
Key Notes
- The article is a profile piece, written in third person. However, it also conveys the subject's perspective.
- The writer uses hyperbole, imagery and lists to bring Hine's experiences to life.
- Direct quotations use the exact words from an original source.
- Indirect quotations use your own words to paraphrase or express ideas from another source.
- Writers will use direct and indirect quotations to capture the subject's voice authentically.
Vocabulary To Learn
- profile: a description of a person, often highlighting their background, personality and achievements - can also be used as a verb
- hyperbole: to exaggerate something a lot to make a point or to make it sound more dramatic
- imagery: using words to create vivid pictures in a reader's mind
- paraphrase: involves expressing an idea using different words while retaining its original meaning
- objective: something that is based on facts and not influenced by personal feelings or opinions
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- The only perspective presented in a text is the writer's.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
The article is a profile piece, written in third person. However, it also conveys the subject's perspective. The writer uses hyperbole, imagery and lists to bring Hine's experiences to life.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'profile'
a description of a person, often highlighting their background, personality and achievements - can also be used as a verb.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: The only perspective presented in a text is the writer's. Correction: Texts can also include viewpoints of characters, experts or sources the writer references. In this article we also hear the subject's perspective through the use of quotations.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Comparing and evaluating non-fiction texts Study Guide
- Comparing the presentation of perspectives in non-fiction texts Study Guide
- Comparing tone and language choices in non-fiction texts Study Guide
- Considering alternative perspectives of war in non-fiction texts Study Guide
- Considering non-verbal features in presenting a speech Study Guide
- Creating comparative analytical paragraphs Study Guide
- Creating layered language analysis Study Guide
- Developing a viewpoint using structural features Study Guide
- Developing analytical responses Study Guide
- Discussing historical and societal attitudes Study Guide
- Exploring autobiographical texts Study Guide
- Exploring historical attitudes and perspectives in non-fiction texts Study Guide
- Exploring historical perspectives of men Study Guide
- 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
- Preparing to write a persuasive speech Study Guide
- Re-drafting a persuasive speech Study Guide
- Reading and forming opinions on a 19th century text Study Guide
- Understanding what makes a persuasive speech Study Guide
- Varying sentences and using anecdotes to express a viewpoint Study Guide
- Writing a speech: openings and closings Study Guide
Browse all guides in the Year 9 English guide library.