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

2. 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.

3. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

5. British values PREVENT

6. What does ‘evaluation’ mean?

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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:

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

11. Use QuAL

12. 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

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

14. Descriptive language

15. 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.

16. C A N E S