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BIOGRAPHY
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includes:
- looking at biography
as a genre;
- learning how to
research biographical information and organise it clearly;
- debating how far
you can or should investigate other people's lives;
- writing a full
biography yoursel
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| GOTHIC
HORROR |
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includes:
- reading a short
story;
- discovering how
writers evoke horror;
- building up an
understanding of the genre of Gothic horror;
- telling and writing
horror stories.
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| MACBETH |
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includes:
- study of the play's
events, act by act;
- reviews of plot,
characters and themes;
- close scrutiny
of particular scenes and language;
- work on test questions.
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| INVESTIGATING
NARRATIVE TEXTS |
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includes:
- investigating different
narrative structures and styles, and considering 'point of view';
- close reading in
order to analyse a writer's effects before planning and writing your
own narrative;
- revision of the
best ways of tackling the narrative reading tasks in National Curriculum
tests;
- guidance on ways
of approaching narrative writing task in National Curriculum tests.
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| INVESTIGATING
NON-NARRATIVE TEXTS |
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includes:
- revision of the
major non-fiction text types;
- close reading and
analysis followed directly by supported writing tasks;
- opportunites for
self and peer assessment as an aid to revision;
- guidance on effective
ways of preparing for reading and writing non-fiction in the tests.
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| WRITING
WRONGS |
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includes:
- reading classic
accounts of misfortune and injustice;
- analysing the effectiveness
of contemporary campaigning literature;
- speaking out on
behalf of the unfortunate and the oppressed;
- mounting a campaign
on an issue of your own choosing.
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| THE
POETRY BACKPACK |
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includes:
- exploring the themes
of power, isolation and change;
- creating a 'backpack'
of essential items for a literary journey;
- writing poems through
organisation of ideas, sharing own work with others;
- analysing five
poems using comaprison and contrast.
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