Year 11: Reading to Write

Pitched at: Year 11 Standard

**Context: Students are studying different fiction genres and culminating product is writing a narrative fiction in a genre of their choice.

Lesson sequence:

• Introdution and goal setting
• Student get to know you/diagnostic
• What is genre?
• Recap of form, structure, language
• The Gothic Genre (several lessons, looking at extracts from Dracula, Frankenstein, The Werewolf by Angela Carter.
• The Fantasy Genre (looking at Tolkien, WOT, world-building etc)
• The Dystopian genre
• What is narrative structure?
• How to write critical paragraphs analysing language
• How to structure a creative response
• Show, don’t tell workshop

Resources included:

• Main power-point
• Model creatives and critical paragraphs
• Worlshop power-points on structure and narratology, symbolism, types of fantasy worlds
• All extracts
• Worksheets
• Peer marking activities