having a profound influence on someone's development

Using juxtaposition and foreshadowing in childhood accounts

English

Exploring attitudes to teenagers across time

Applying reading strategies to non-fiction texts

Comparing ideas and advice on love in different centuries

Exploring how love has changed over time

Exploring vivid childhood accounts

Understanding and planning open letters

Writing an open letter

Using and understanding irony in non-fiction writing

Writing humorously

Analysing a dramatic description of an event

Structural methods in a dramatic account

Withholding information and timing revelations

Using dialogue effectively

Analysing and improving an article

Using credible expert views in a non-fiction article

Planning an effective article

Writing an effective article

In 'Non-Fiction: Teenage Kicks', pupils evaluate how authors use language, to express similar or differing viewpoints. In 'Non-Fiction: Explorers', pupils analyse how historical or social context may lead to authors having differing views, on the same topics.

In 'Non-Fiction: Changing Views', pupils compare language choices used in non-fiction texts. In 'Non-Fiction: Teenage Kicks', pupils evaluate how authors use language to expresses similar or differing viewpoints.

In this unit, pupils develop their non-fiction reading and writing skills by looking at a collection of non-fiction texts about the theme of teenagers. They first build towards writing an open letter, before then looking at how they can write nuanced and sophisticated articles in an original voice.

Non-fiction: teenage kicks

Depiction or discussion of distress or humiliation e.g. bullying.

Depiction or discussion of peer pressure or bullying

vivid childhood scene: being amongst the gardens of her southern home

background and family life: how she was named, her disposition as a toddler

formative moment: illness that interrupted her idyllic childhood

Starting with the first, arrange the parts of Keller according to the order that she writes them in her memoir 'The Story of My Life'.

Which word beginning with 'f' describes something that has had a profound effect on someone's development?

'The humble greenery of my childhood will forever be etched into my memory despite the chaotic roar of adolescence.' This sentence uses ...

to create a vivid image of the idyllic gardens

to build intrigue and signpost a change in tone

What is the purpose of Keller's foreshadowing in her memoir 'A Story of My Life'?

Which sentence uses the word 'alight' correctly?

"Oh how I would love to have stayed viewing the world with this lens of wonder and enchantment." This sentence uses ...

Which of the following words could refer to a writer's use of structure?

an embellished account of the highlights of someone's life

a written account of someone's own life and experiences

What word beginning with 'j' describes two contrasting things being placed next to each other for contrasting effect?

What word beginning with 'f' is a method we might use to warn or indicate a future event?

producing a powerful feeling or strong, clear images in one's mind

Which of the below might be described as 'quaint'?

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