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Year 11

Non-fiction: explorers

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  • English Language GCSE
  • Non-fiction reading and writing

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In this unit, pupils develop their non-fiction reading and writing skills by looking at non-fiction texts about explorers. They first conceptualise travel writing, before building towards making concise and developed comparisons between texts. They finally create a compelling account about a place.

This unit uses and builds on pupils' expertise in non-fiction reading and writing from 'teenage kicks'. Having already compared texts, they now start to complete increasingly precise and developed comparisons of viewpoints. They also coninue to refine their non-fiction writing by using all that they have learnt in the previous non-fiction writing units to write compelling accounts that engage, inform and entertain readers.

  1. Conceptualising travel writing and making predictions based on titles
  2. Comparing Stevenson and Steinbeck's attitudes to their travelling companions
  3. Identifying and using different perspectives
  4. Making inferences from two non-fiction texts
  5. Writing concise and developed comparisons of non-fiction texts
  6. Using inverted sentence structures and chiasmus for effect
  7. Using compound adjectives and analogies for effect in non-fiction writing
  8. Writing a compelling account
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