‘The Sign of Four’ Chapter 9 – A Break in the Chain Learning Objective Should: Understand how to prepare for an assessment on ‘The Sign of Four’ and carry out the preparation assessment.

How can I write to achieve all this? Five star paragraphs Analyse further Go round the star again 1. Make a point Author Whole text 5 2. Support your point with a well chosen piece of evidence – probably a quotation Context Audience Topic sentence 3. Zoom in on part of the evidence – a word, a piece of punctuation, a technique and look at its connotations. 4. This suggests…

Preparation Assessment Plan 2 – 3 points you could use for this extract and question. Swap and share these points with your neighbour. You could use post-it notes to help you organise each stage of your five star paragraph.