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Fiction: read around the world

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

I can apply effective reading skills to an unseen fiction text.

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'After Dark': selecting evidence to support language analysis

I can use a range of meaningful and relevant evidence to support my language analysis.

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‘After Dark’: exploring Murakami’s extended metaphor

I can analyse Murakami's use of semantic field and extended metaphor.

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Exploring structure in Murakami's ‘After Dark’

I can identify and comment on the effect of interesting structural features in ‘After Dark’.

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Emulating Murakami’s craft to write a descriptive opening

I can write an engaging descriptive opening paragraph using an omniscient perspective and extended metaphor.

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

I can confidently write a piece of structural analysis about an unseen fiction text.

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Emulating Saramago's use of structure in 'Blindness'

I can use interesting structural features to create an engaging narrative opening.

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Using inversion and asyndeton to craft interesting sentence structures

I can experiment with a range of different sentence structures to make my creative writing more engaging.

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Using onomatopoeia and alliteration to craft interesting sound imagery

I can create effective sound imagery in my writing.

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‘Suite Française’: forming opinions on fiction

I can confidently form and justify my own opinions about a fiction text.

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

I can evaluate how well a writer achieves certain effects.

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

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

I can understand and analyse the opening of 'The Cellist of Sarajevo'.

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

I can analyse how Galloway uses time and use that as inspiration for the structure of my own narrative.

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

I can express a personal and critical response to a text.

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

I can analyse the use of symbols in fiction and craft a symbol in my own writing.

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Structuring paragraphs effectively in creative writing

I can plan and write a piece of creative writing with effective paragraphing.

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Crafting an engaging narrative

I can plan, write and proofread a complete narrative piece of writing.

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