the way someone thinks or feels about a particular thing

background information that can help us understand a text further (e.g. when it was written)

causing great public interest and excitement

not easily convinced; having doubts or reservations

Considering and analysing attitude in non-fiction writing

English

Developing reading skills and personal responses to non-fiction texts

Using inference and embedded quotations to craft effective summaries

Considering and understanding the attitude of a non-fiction text

Crafting an effective comparison of non-fiction texts

Considering and emulating the use of direct address in the opening of a speech

Considering and emulating the use of anaphora in speech writing

Considering and emulating onomatopoeia and alliteration in speech writing

Using colons, dashes, and semicolons effectively in opinion writing

Considering and emulating the use of rhetorical questions in opinion writing

Considering and emulating the use of extended analogies in non-fiction writing

Considering and analysing the use of anecdotes in a non-fiction text

Considering and emulating the use of similes in non-fiction writing

Analysing and comparing language techniques in non-fiction writing

Considering and emulating the use of hyperbole in opinion writing

Using comparatives and superlatives to effectively compare non-fiction texts

Planning a speech and building your counter-argument

Using rhetorical devices to write an effective speech

In 'Non-Fiction: Changing Views', pupils compare language choices used in non-fiction texts. In 'Non-Fiction: Teenage Kicks', pupils evaluate how authors use language, to express similar or differing viewpoints.

In 'Non-Fiction: Crime and Punishment', pupils analyse the language choices of authors in non-fiction texts. In 'Non-Fiction: Changing Views', pupils compare language choices in non-fiction texts.

In this unit, pupils develop their non-fiction reading and writing skills. They look at a range of nineteenth century and modern texts in tandem, and practise comparing viewpoints. They then practise emulating different techniques from the texts in order to develop their speech and opinion writing.

Non-fiction: changing views

Depiction or discussion of mental health issues

In Dickens' 'Greenwich Fair', Dickens' attitude might be described as which of the following?

'Causing great public interest and excitement' is the definition of which word beginning with 's'? 

Day is attending for work rather than pleasure.

Day is extremely excited to attend the festival.

Day's account could be sensational in nature.

The title suggests an informative article.

The contextual information we have about Day's 'Are we having fun yet?' is that it's a journalist’s account of attending the Glastonbury festival in 2005. What inferences might we make from this?

By opening 'Are we having fun yet?' with repeated references to the colour 'brown', Day arguably creates {{}} atmosphere.

'Truthful and straightforward; frank' is the definition of which word beginning with 'c'?

'Not easily convinced; having doubts or reservations' is the definition of which word beginning with 's'?

Charles Dickens wrote his account of Greenwich Fair in 1839, as such it is an example of ...

'The way someone thinks or feels about a particular thing' is the definition of which word beginning with 'a'?

attribution of human emotions to non-human things

attribution of human characteristics to non-human things

the use of images, words or nouns to represent abstract ideas or qualities

Which of the following is the definition of 'pathetic fallacy'?

What is being described here: 'the words, ideas, feelings or concepts we associate with a word or symbol.'?

Which of the following might be connotations of the colour pink?

Which of the options below could be useful synonyms for 'this suggests'?

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