1. Today’s Learning Objectives:
To improve your analysis using ‘QuAL’

2. What do you want to achieve today?

3. What can you remember from last week?
WHY?
The reader might infer that …
Connotations …

5. Analysing words and phrases

6. Implicit meaning/ Inference
Explicit meaning
Implicit meaning/ Inference
She glowered at him
She was angry at him for a particular reason
His expression was cold
Language feature? His feelings were…?
The exams were finally over! ??
The boy slinked away after his telling-off.
Was there anything this man didn’t know?
He was sure his health was good; yes, he was sure of that.

7. Use these sentence stems -
The implication of ……. is ……. The implied meaning of this ……. The inference of this is ………

8. Connotation/ associated ideas
Denotation
Connotation/ associated ideas
Red
Passion, anger, danger, a warning, love, etc?
Green
The Union Jack
The Home Counties
Cricket
Salesmen/ women

9. QuAL
QuAL = Qu – Introduce or ‘embed’ a quotation A – Analyse (Zoom IN) L – Make a Link (Zoom OUT)

11. Analyse
ZOOM IN on individual words, features or phrases to say how and why they are effective.
The word ‘…’ is effective because…

14. Digging below the surface for layers of meaning!

15. Explaining what you think… Linking – what other meanings or views can you think of?

16. Archaeology skills Spot something and pick it up! (a quote)
Analyse/ interpret its significance (what effect or role does it play in the text?)

17. QuAL analysis LINK: What does it tell you about the characters?
Or, the writer’s viewpoint?
Are there alternative interpretations?
How might other readers view it?
Can you link to another part of the text?
Try to relate it to the wider context.

18. Think – sometimes it’s not possible to make a link to something broader. You don’t have to. It depends on the quote you have chosen and why you have chosen it.

20. Descriptive language

21. Modelling - QuAL

22. Your turn
Find one word or short phrase to focus on.