Conceptualising voice in fiction texts

English

'Alias Grace': forming opinions on characters

Emulating Atwood’s use of an untrustworthy character in ‘Alias Grace’

Exploring unique narrative voices

‘The Yellow Wallpaper’: analysing character

'The Yellow Wallpaper': crafting voice

Exploring voice in ‘Klara and the Sun’

Emulating Ishiguro's use of an artificial voice in 'Klara and the Sun'

Comparing dystopian voices

Creating voice in our narratives

Planning outstanding narratives

Writing a narrative with a compelling voice

In 'Fiction: Inner Musings', pupils develop narrative writing skills. In 'Writing Masters', pupils experiment using language and structure to write interesting and creative texts.

In 'Fiction: Books that Changed My World', pupils explore how authors use language for effect in their writing. In 'Fiction: Inner Musings', pupils develop focus on using author's language choices to make nuanced evaluations about a text.

In this unit, pupils explore and practise emulating a range of different narrative voices. They explore narrative voice in 'Alias Grace', 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and 'Klara and the sun' before crafting their own narrative voices. At the end of the unit, they write a narrative with a compelling voice.

Fiction: inner musings

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

What might a writer use to convey an anxious voice?

The word 'cool' is an informal word for 'good'. What type of word is 'remarkable' if it is used to mean 'good'?

What might the repeated use of question marks suggest about a voice?

What might use of imperatives convey about a voice?

"Feet Samuels is ...broke ...there is no percentage in hanging around brokers."

"Why am I going there now? Am I capable of that? Is that serious?"

Which of the below might reflect an erratic voice?

A voice can help best shape the reader's perception of ...

Match the narrative perspective to the words that matches to this perspective.

the style the author chooses to tell a story

Which of these is an imperative sentence?

This lesson was made for home learning during the pandemic.

Conceptualising voice in fiction texts

Lesson outcome

Content guidance

This lesson was made for home learning during the pandemic.