1. ‘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.

5. 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…

6. 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.