Extend your thinking@ Bishop Justus 2013/2014

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Extend your thinking@ Bishop Justus 2013/2014

Year 10 Term 3 – English Language 3b Unit

Controlled Assessment #2Lesson 13

LQ: Am I able to engage the reader in my story opener?

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Literary terms: onomatopoeia, adverbs, metaphor, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, powerful adjectives, simile, monosyllabic phrase, pathetic fallacy, emotive language, short sentences, structure, sensuous description, rule of three, extended vocabulary, varied punctuation

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Homework:

Due: Find a story opener that you think is particularly engaging, bring it in and be

ready to discuss it with the class.

Set: When watching TV this week identify moments of tension and consider how

this is achieved and how you would achieve it in writing. Bring an example in

to discuss.



Good Progress: I will identify what is effective in the modelled story openers

Excellent Progress: I will identify the effective techniques and language used in the story openers and use this in my own work to make it engaging

Outstanding Progress: I will write an engaging story opener using effective techniques and language observed in modelled examples

How much progress will you make today?



Literary Techniques: Dramatic irony, imagery, simile, metaphor, oxymoron, rule of 3Formula Words: portrays, suggests, emphasises, represents, reflects, illustrates, highlightsKey Words: Shakespeare, tragedy, character, Verona, interpretation, Elizabethan audience


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The BIG PictureThis term you are completing two Controlled Assessments for the English Language 3b Unit: 1. Recreation 2. Moving ImageThese are worth 10 marks each and your average accuracy mark out of 10 will make up your mark out of 30 for this section. This is 15% of your whole English Language Grade.


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Recreation CA Title Use a character from a literary text you have read as the inspiration for a piece of your own writing. Write a monologue as if you were Crooks from Of Mice and Men

Moving Image CA TitleUse a still image taken from a film as the basis of a piece of writing.


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Literary Technique Quiz...

1. Name a technique2. Define3. Provide an example4. Explain the effect5. State when it is appropriate to use Ext: What is

sensuous language and

how is it effective?

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Starter: Paired Task

Share your story opener with your partner and discuss what makes it effective

Ext: Can you identify

any techniques or effective language choices?

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Introduction: Class Discussion Task

Look at the story openers on the following page – these are taken from the top 10 of the top 100 story openers of all time.

Which stands out and why?

Do any inspire you?

How are they different?

Ext: Can you identify

any techniques or effective language choices?

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LQ: Am I able to use techniques in my work to make it more effective and engaging?


1. Call me Ishmael. —Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in

possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)

3. A screaming comes across the sky. —Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

4. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. —Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967; trans. Gregory Rabassa)

5. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. —George Orwell, 1984 (1949)

6. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. —Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

7. I am an invisible man. —Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)

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Main Task: Individual Task

Write the opening of a story titled ‘The Warning’.

You must include:1. Short sentence2. Semi colon 3. Pathetic fallacy4. References to three of the senses 5. Extended vocabulary

Ext: Can you use ‘artful’ language choices?

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Plenary: Peer Evaluation Task

Read your partner’s paragraph and place each aspect on the target board with bulls eye being a band 5.

Ext: Provide an

improvement comment

for your partner

1. Short sentence2. Semi colon 3. Pathetic fallacy4. References to three of the

senses 5. Extended vocabulary

B5B4

B3B2

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Self Evaluation Task

Ext: Compare your check list to the marking

criteria for your target

band

Good Progress: I will identify what is effective in the modelled story openers

Excellent Progress: I will identify the effective techniques and language used in the story openers and use this in my own work to make it engaging

Outstanding Progress: I will write an engaging story opener using effective techniques and language observed in modelled examples

How much progress will you make today?



Literary Techniques: Dramatic irony, imagery, simile, metaphor, oxymoron, rule of 3Formula Words: portrays, suggests, emphasises, represents, reflects, illustrates, highlightsKey Words: Shakespeare, tragedy, character, Verona, interpretation, Elizabethan audience


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