Two lessons - Features of film review writing - KS3 Y9 GCSE transactional writing

Two full lessons on review writing for Y9 taken from GCSE specification.
Homophone starter 'Your/You're'

Lesson 1
Objective: To identify the different features of film reviews.
Outcome: To plan a film review using the required features.

Lesson 2
Objective: To investigate the different features of film reviews.
Outcome: To apply our knowledge and write a film review, using the required features.

First whole lesson, complete with a small section of film reviews to analyse takes pupils through different features of reviews, and the purposes of them (inform, describe, persuade and advise). A starter activity is to go through different kinds of reviews (book/film/restaurant) and who is the possible audience. Then the pupils (in pairs) go through a short review and try and spot the features. Then they can mind-map these features in their books or together on the board at the front of the classroom. Then the pupils watch an embedded clip (trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean) and then can plan to create a review. Extension tasks are added for the most able pupils.

In the second lesson, pupils (on their whiteboards/in books) go through a recap (what is a review, purpose, audience), rewrite a paragraph of a film review using ambitious punctuation, read a WAGOLL (what a good one looks like) to look for AFORREST persuasive features, then read a bad example of a film review. Class then write an WWW/EBI for the reviews. Go over the structure of a review, then write their film review for an independent 15 task. I have also included success criteria checklists to print off for your classes.