STARTER: The car is as quick as a bullet He sighed. What’s meant by ‘narrowing focus’?

Learning Objectives: Write at least three paragraphs evaluating a reader’s response to an extract of ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’. Practise planning an opening to a story, based on a picture prompt.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcUKwOKZ3fw

British values PREVENT

What does ‘evaluation’ mean?

Paper 1 Question 4 deciding whether the reader’s response can be supported from the text. You can talk about the language effects & structure having a sense of your own response.

A student, having read this section of the novel “The Boy in Striped Pyjamas” said: “It shows what it’s like to be a child who doesn’t understand why something’s happening. Bruno is left feeling confused and frustrated.” To what extent do you agree? In your response, you could: consider your own impressions of Bruno. evaluate how the writer presents him in this passage. support your own opinions with quotations from the text.

Q4 – thinking prompts What am I agreeing with? Idea 1: Idea 2: Idea 6: 1. It shows what it’s like to be a child who doesn’t know why something’s happening. 2. Bruno is left feeling confused and frustrated. Idea 1: Idea 2: Idea 6: Idea 3: Idea 4: Idea 5:

Extension: Is there anything else you think the writer shows about Bruno? You can include this.

Use QuAL

Question 5 Either: Write a description (suggested by a visual or written prompt). Or: Write an opening part to a story (about …) 40 marks/ 45 minutes

Description Plan it! Senses ‘TipTop’ Perspective Say a lot about a little Use figurative language and interesting vocabulary

Descriptive language

Write a description suggested by this picture Write a description suggested by this picture. Or, write the opening part of a story set at night.

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