background information that helps something to be fully understood

a style or category of art, music or literature

Developing reading skills by responding to Murakami's 'After Dark'

English

In 'Fiction: Read Around the World', pupils identify and comment on a range of language devices in extracts from texts. In 'Fiction: Science Fiction Writing', pupils identify and comment on recurring images and symbolism in texts.

In 'A World at War: Short Stories', pupils read short stories, analysing how authors structure full texts. In 'Fiction: Read Around the World', pupils analyse structural choices in smaller extracts of texts.

In this unit, pupils read extracts from four novels from around the world, and use them to develop their narrative writing. In particular, pupils explore writers' use of structure. At the end of the unit, pupils consider their own use of paragraphs for effect and write an engaging narrative.

Fiction: read around the world

useful or important; communicating something that is not directly expressed

'After Dark': selecting evidence to support language analysis

a metaphor that extends multiple lines of a text

characterised by constant change or activity

‘After Dark’: exploring Murakami’s extended metaphor

Exploring structure in Murakami's ‘After Dark’

allowing someone to become completely absorbed or involved in something

a metaphor that extends several lines of text

attribution of human characteristics to non-human things

Emulating Murakami’s craft to write a descriptive opening

words that connect clauses by indicating time relationships between them

a state of anxious uncertainty about what may happen

Analysing Saramago's use of structural devices in 'Blindness'

the most important or exciting part of a story

Emulating Saramago's use of structure in 'Blindness'

changed from its normal position by being ordered in the opposite way

the omission of conjunctions between parts of a sentence

repetition of conjunctions in close succession within a sentence

Using inversion and asyndeton to craft interesting sentence structures

sound imagery describes things we hear to transport the reader to a scene

when you use words that include sounds that are similar to the noises the words refer to

repeating similar sounds in neighbouring words throughout a sentence

Using onomatopoeia and alliteration to craft interesting sound imagery

‘Suite Française’: forming opinions on fiction

to judge the value or quality of something

to think seriously about something; considering what is good or bad about it

showing how something is going to develop

adverbs that express a judgement about something

Suite Française’: evaluating ideas about a writer’s craft

having an attitude of patronising superiority

feeling that someone is unworthy of attention

Exploring and emulating character description in Nemirovsky's 'Suite Française'

surround a place with armed forces in order to capture it or force its surrender

spread through and be present in every part

the basic and most important part of something

Analysing images of hope and destruction in Galloway's 'The Cellist of Sarajevo'

a transition in a story to an earlier time in the life of one or more characters

a transition in a story to a future time in the life of one or more characters

Exploring the use of time in Galloway's ‘The Cellist of Sarajevo’

to be evaluative is to judge something carefully

being critical means judging the quality of something

a word to express the highest or lowest quality of something

expressing possibility rather than certainty

'The Cellist of Sarajevo': expressing a personal and critical response to a text

something that represents intangible ideas; for example, a rose as a symbol for love

behaviour in which you refuse to obey something or someone

make something visible or bright by shining light on it

Exploring and emulating Galloway's use of symbols in ‘The Cellist of Sarajevo’

Structuring paragraphs effectively in creative writing

a small piece of something left from a larger original amount

carefully check for errors in a text before it is published or finished

Fiction: read around the world

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These lessons will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.