10 minutes

Silent Reading
 Coursework Planning

LO: To choose a question and create

an introduction and thesis statement.

Starter: On your google document write and compare how the texts you
have studied are similar and different. (Disabled, Out, Out-,, Whistle and I’ll
Come...)
Challenge: Comment on similar techniques as well as similar events.
Coursework Assessment Objectives
AO1
Read and understand a variety of texts,
selecting and interpreting information,
ideas and perspectives (6 marks)

AO2
Understand and analyse how writers use
linguistic and structural devices to achieve
their effects (18 marks)
Choose ONE question to answer and decide which texts you will use.

1. Explore how setting is used for effect in three texts you have studied .
2. In what ways do writers use language and structure to illustrate the fragility of life in
three texts you have studied?

3. Discuss how writers explore a sense of loss in three texts you have studied.

4. Explore ideas of innocence in three texts you have read.

5. How effectively do writers use language and structure to create sympathy for their
characters in three texts you have studied?
How writers create sympathy
● Information
● Ideas
● Perspectives
● Linguistic and structural
devices
Fragility of Life

● Information
● Ideas
● Perspectives
● Linguistic and structural devices
Theme of innocence

● Information
● Ideas
● Perspectives
● Linguistic and structural
devices
Setting

● Information
● Ideas
● Perspectives
● Linguistic and structural
devices
Create a new Google Document
Title it as follows:

Your Name Poetry-Prose Coursework 2023

Copy and paste your chosen question into the

top of the document.
Introduction
DO NOT START: ‘IN THIS ESSAY I AM GOING TO WRITE
ABOUT….’

Give a BRIEF summary of the texts, focusing your summary on aspects

relevant to the question (sympathy/ setting/ innocence/fragility of life).

● What is the first text about? How are the second & third texts
similar or different?
● What is the author’s purpose in the first text? How is this similar or
different in the second or third?
● What do you like about the first text? What do you like about the
second? What do you like about the third?
Thesis Statement
This will form the main part of your essay. It should have:
• A WHAT – what claim are you making about the texts, in particular
sympathy/ setting/ innocence?
• A WHY- why the authors chosen to present the text in this way and
why is this important?
• A HOW- How do both texts show this theme (sympathy/ setting/
innocence?
• Focus- it should be two sentences including the why. These must be
at the end of the introduction.
 Refer to the poet as Wilfred Owen the first time,
and Owen after that. Refer to World War One the
Thesis Statement first time, and WW1 after that.

• A WHAT – what claim are you making about the texts, in particular
sympathy/ setting/ innocence?
• A WHY- why the authors chosen to present the text in this way and
why is this important?

Wilfred Owen shows us how a young man let his vanity get the better of
him and ruined his life to show that young men should consider the
consequences of enlisting in the army during World War One more
carefully .
 - Write about structure
- Refer back to question at the end of the paragraph
Thesis Statement
• A WHAT – what claim are you making about the texts, in particular
sympathy/ setting/ innocence?
• A WHY- why the authors chosen to present the text in this way and
why is this important?

Wilfred Owen shows us how a young man let his vanity get the better of
him and ruined his life to show that young men should consider the
consequences of enlisting in the army during World War One more
carefully .
Thesis Statement
• A HOW- How do both texts show this theme (sympathy/ setting/
innocence?

List three major techniques or methods the writers use to show

demonstrate your WHAT and WHY.

He does this by showing us the contrast between the soldier’s life before
and after war; by X and by Z.
 Essay Plan:
● Introduction

● Body Paragraphs x 6 (2 PEAS paragraphs each text)

● Conclusion (compare texts).

 Peer Check:
● Read to your partner what you have written this lesson
and then listen to their work.
● Try to give some positive feedback for improvement!