Suite Française’: evaluating ideas about a writer’s craft
I can evaluate how well a writer achieves certain effects.
Suite Française’: evaluating ideas about a writer’s craft
I can evaluate how well a writer achieves certain effects.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Evaluation requires you to critically examine something, thus it is more complex than understanding and analysis.
- Using evaluative adverbs and adjectives is good way to signpost your evaluation.
- Evaluative adverbs show you are able to comment on how well a writer does something.
- You should use evidence from the text to support your evaluative comments.
Keywords
Evaluate - to judge the value or quality of something
Critical - to think seriously about something; considering what is good or bad about it
Signpost - showing how something is going to develop
Evaluative adverb - adverbs that express a judgement about something
Common misconception
Students may think that they only way to evaluate is to write whether they 'agree' or 'disagree' with something.
In Learning Cycle 2, students learn that they can phrase and signpost their evaluations in a more sophisticated way, directly commenting on the writer's craft with evaluative adverbs.
Equipment
You will need access to Chapter 1 of 'Suite Française' by Irene Nemirovsky for this lesson. You will find a copy in the additional materials.
Content guidance
- Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering
Supervision
Adult supervision recommended
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
Lesson video
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
make sense of something
unpick a text, identify patterns
critically examine and make judgements
Exit quiz
6 Questions
The verb "wailing" conveys the discomforting sound of the air raid.
The extract events take place on 4th June.
Nemirovsky effectively conveys the innocence of the Parisian citizens.
words that express certainty
action words, tentative language
evaluative adverbs/adjectives