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Friday 25 July 2008 (the school is currently on holiday) | email | E-learning

English > Key Stage 3 > Unit 6 Scripts and Sketches

Scripts and Sketches

Key Framework Objectives

  • W13 understand the implication when a word is in quotation marks or used ironically.
  • S1 combine clauses into complex sentences, using the comma effectively as a boundary signpost and checking for fluency and clarity.
  • R5 Trace the development of themes, values or ideas in texts.
  • R7 identify the ways implied and explicit meanings are conveyed in different texts e.g. satire, irony.
  • R11 Investigate the different ways familiar themes are eplored and presented by different writers.
  • R16 recognise how texts refer to and reflect the culture in which they were produced
  • Wr16 weigh different viewpoints and present a balanced analysis of an event or issue

Key Skills: Reading

Key Skills: Writing

  • AF3 Deduce, infer or interpret information
  • AF6 identify and comment on writers’ purposes and viewpoints and the overall effect of the text on the reader
  • AF2 Produce texts which are appropriate to task, reader and purpose
  • AF5 Vary sentences for clarity, purpose and effectAF6 Write with technical accuracy of syntax and punctuation.

Learning Outcomes - All students should be able to:

  • explore strategies to help them work out the meaning of unfamiliar words
  • understand the term ‘culture’
  • select relevant information from a text to support a statement
  • recognise the writers’ feelings on a topic e.g. angry, sympathetic
  • explore a range of material on the same topic

Homework areas for this unit will include the following:

  • weekly spelling/vocabulary test
  • recognising and using adjectives
  • basic commas
  • rules of speech punctuation
  • reading for understanding
  • explore a range of ‘hooking’ techniques used in a story opening
  • comment on specific techniques used in a given short story.

 

 

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