Paper 1 Question 2 Lesson & Work Booklet - GCSE Language Analysis - AQA - Great Expectations Extract

This lesson helps students to write more detailed, developed responses to Paper 1 Question 2 "How does the writer use language to…?" through low, mid and high level models, as well as teaching paragraph structures. It uses an extract from Charles’ Dickens Great Expectations which portrays the protagonist’s encounter with an escaped convict, answering the question “How does the writer use language to describe the man?”

Lesson Content

• Retrieval & Recap: A quick retrieval quiz to consolidate understanding of language techniques
• Explicitly teaches the mark scheme, showing students what descriptors each band includes.
• The ‘PETAZ’ Framework: A step by step guide through Point, Evidence, Technique analysis and Zoom, putting emphasis on the ‘Zoom’ step to add detail to responses.
• Three models: a low-level, mid-level and high-level response, with questions and exercises prompting students to analyse what was done well, what could be improved and what could be added to each.
• Paired task that gets students discussing how to improve low-level responses.
• Optional task to have students write their own analytical paragraph in response to the question, with scaffolds that use the improvements taught throughout the lesson.

What is Included?

Instructional Presentation Slides: A clean, logically sequenced slide deck containing all text extracts, explicit model answers, writing frames, and instructions.

Optional Work Booklet that follows the slides.