‘Suite Française’: forming opinions on fiction
I can confidently form and justify my own opinions about a fiction text.
‘Suite Française’: forming opinions on fiction
I can confidently form and justify my own opinions about a fiction text.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- You can begin to form a personal response to a text by asking yourself what feelings the text evoked in you.
- Opinions are personal, so each person may have a different opinion on a text.
- In order to make your opinion more credible, you should justify it.
- Appropriate justification comes in the form of evidence from the text.
Common misconception
'Everyone is entitled to their own opinion', therefore there is no need to justify our opinions.
Although we are all entitled to our opinion, justifying your opinion allows people to trust and listen to your opinion more carefully.
Keywords
Opinion - a thought or belief about something
Justify - to give a reason for
Credible - able to believed or trusted
Equipment
You will need access to Chapter 1 of 'Suite Française' by Irene Nemirovsky for this lesson. You can find this 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).
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