1. Opening Pages
Scan through the text and write the following on sticky notes:
Personal information about the protagonist (family, friends, home, hobbies)
Information about the dystopian culture (rules, organisations)
Mentions of unfamiliar and unknown places, professions, or events
Phrases using colour

2. "I would write a book, or a short story, at least three times—once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing."
- Bernard Malamud

3. The Giver The Hunger Games Divergent
Protagonist
Has working parents and a sister, Lily
Asher, best friend
Has a mother and a younger sister, Primrose; father died in a mining accident
A hunter and supplier
16 years old
Has parents and a brother named Caleb
Culture/society
Communications through speakers
Pilots, Street Cleaners, Landscape Workers, Food Delivery people
Childcare Centre
Lives in District 12/The Seam, home for miners
A field, the Meadow, behind gates
Electric fence to keep wild animals away
Three hours of electricity
Trespassing and poaching is illegal
Execution for rebels
Not allowed to regularly look in the mirror/cut her hair
Does not celebrate birthdays
Aptitude test, choosing ceremony
The Hub
Takes place in Seattle
Lower, Middle and Upper levels
Unfamiliar
The community
Release
The reaping
Districts
Flesh-eaters
Peacekeepers
Faction
Abnegation
Candor
Dauntless
Colour
Eyes the colour of rotting squash
Muddy yellow coat
Black cinder streets
Squat gray houses
Dull, blond hair
Grey robe
Dark hair, green eyes
Black suit, white tie
A black pillar

4. Communicate clearly, effectively and imaginatively, selecting and adapting tone, style and register for different forms, purposes and audiences.
Organise information and ideas, using structural and grammatical features to support coherence and cohesion of texts.
Level 4
19-24 marks
Content
• Communication is convincing and compelling throughout
• Tone style and register assuredly matched to purpose, form and audience; manipulative, subtle and increasingly abstract
• Extensive and ambitious vocabulary with sustained crafting of linguistic devices
Organisation
• Highly structured and developed writing, incorporating a range of integrated and complex ideas
• Fluently linked paragraphs with seamlessly integrated discourse markers
• Varied and inventive use of structural features
Level 3
13-18 marks
• Communication is consistently clear and effective
• Tone, style and register matched to purpose, form and audience
• Increasingly sophisticated vocabulary and phrasing , chosen for effect with a range of appropriate linguistic devices
• Writing is engaging with a range of detailed connected ideas
• Coherent paragraphs with integrated discourse markers
• Effective use of structural features

5. If not, where can they use them?
Reviewing a Story
Does the story…
Feature a protagonist? What do we learn about their lives?
Introduce us to the dystopian society? What sense do we get of that future?
Present us with unknown concepts? What questions are raised by the end of the story?
Feature colour? Which one, and how is it used?
If not, what can they add?
Does the writer use…
Noun phrases?
Adverbials?
Propositions?
Relative/subordinate clauses?
If not, where can they use them?

6. Length of a sentence For example… Tell a story in 10 sentences
Every sentence must contain a specific number of words
All of the numbers must be used, but the order is up to you
For example…
3 · 5 · 1
5 That pizza was so delicious.
1 Ouch!
3 Bit my tongue.