English Writing Skills – KS3/EAL - Gothic SOW

20 lessons with a revision guide and an online end-of-unit test.
SOW was made initially for secondary school students in the UK. However, this SOW especially has had huge success in boosting grades in international schools because of its accommodation of various learning styles, engaging content, deep levels of differentiation, and development of core skills.
Lessons are as follows:
Gothic Stories – to be applied to apply a range of adjectives.
Sentence Structures - To investigate a variety of sentence structures and their effect on the reader
Imaginative Sentences – To edit sentences and make them imaginative.
Using the senses - To create an effect using senses in my writing.
Using sound effects - To be able to identify and explain tension.
Character descriptions - To explain the effect of the language chosen by the author
Pathetic Fallacy - To apply pathetic fallacy
Addams Family Punctuation - To create a character through punctuation
Varied Sentences – To apply a variety of sentence styles.
Introduction to poetry techniques - To analyze poetic techniques used
Persuasive Techniques – Speaking and listening skills
Persuasive techniques – speaking and listening presentation
Genre conventions – To create your own gothic character
Similes and Metaphors - To manipulate adventurous vocabulary, similes, and metaphors to describe a haunted house.
Understanding criteria - To understand the assessment criteria
Planning extended writing - To plan a gothic story
Extended Writing Assessment - To create a gothic story
Poetry techniques – To analyze the language of a poem.
Gothic poetry – To apply poetic techniques to your own poem.
Gothic Film Review
Gothic homework task grids (this homework works for the entire SOW and pupils complete it at their own pace).
 
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