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Year 10
AQA
‘Suite Française’: forming opinions on fiction
I can confidently form and justify my own opinions about a fiction text.
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Year 10
AQA
‘Suite Française’: forming opinions on fiction
I can confidently form and justify my own opinions about a fiction text.
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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.
Keywords
Opinion - a thought or belief about something
Justify - to give a reason for
Credible - able to believed or trusted
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.
During Learning Cycle 2, you could use a visualiser to model reading a text and tracking ideas to show how one of the Oak pupils formed their opinion.
Teacher tip
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).Lesson video
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Starter quiz
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6 Questions
Q1.
What is an opinion?
a thing that is known or proved to be true
a rational type of abstract thinking
Q2.
Which war took place between 1939 and 1945?
Cold War
World War One
Q3.
Which opinion below is justified?
I thought the production was unique.
The production allowed me to reflect upon a lot in my life.
Q4.
Which of these is not a credible source?
books written by experts
researched newspaper articles
Q5.
What is an air raid?
an attack from the ground
an attack with at least three parties involved
Q6.
Which of the settings below is the most mundane?
a battlefield
a tropical paradise
Exit quiz
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6 Questions
Q1.
What happens during the opening of 'Suite Française'?
the war ends
someone dies
Q2.
What does it mean to be credible?
to be accurate
to be intelligent
Q3.
In order to add credibility, what can you do when stating your opinion?
prove it
only state it if someone else agrees with you
Q4.
In the opening of 'Suite Française', how do most people react to the air raid?
frantically
aggressively
Q5.
Which of the below is not an opinion regarding the opening of 'Suite Française'?
Nemirovsky creates a sense of hope.
The writer captures the innocence of the Parisian citizens.
Q6.
Which of these opinions is not sufficiently justified?
Personally, I liked the text because it showed an intimate perspective.
The text was interesting because it used a lot of imagery.
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