Lesson overview:Reading skills: Samphire
- In this lesson, we will examine a short story by Patrick O'Brian called 'Samphire'. We'll be reading the whole narrative over the next few lessons, but just starting with the first half today. Whilst reading the extract, we will be following our reading strategy routines. You will be provided with prompt questions to help you track your way through the text systematically, thinking about what happens - first / next / then and finally.
- In this lesson, we will examine a short story by Patrick O'Brian called 'Samphire'. We'll be reading the whole narrative over the next few lessons, but just starting with the first half today. Whilst reading the extract, we will be following our reading strategy routines. You will be provided with prompt questions to help you track your way through the text systematically, thinking about what happens - first / next / then and finally.
Fiction: Reading and descriptive writing:
- Approaches to reading unseen fiction texts
- Character types and function
- Analysing language: Selecting evidence
- Analysing language: Analytical writing
- Examining structural choices
- Unseen Fiction Texts: Pre-1900
- Mary/Eve Dichotomy
- Thinking about space: Where do women belong?
- Responding to evaluation questions
- Evaluation: Writing it up
- Reading skills: Unseen fiction - Cold Mountain
- Journeys in literature: Cold Mountain
- Descriptive detail: Close analysis
- Descriptive writing: Planning techniques
- Descriptive writing: Slow write
- Reading skills: Samphire
- Reading skills: Samphire (Part 2)
- Narrative writing: What makes a good opening?
- Narrative writing: Creating movement in our writing
- Narrative writing: Effective endings
- Reading skills: Pre-1900 unseen fiction - Heart of Darkness
- Writing skills: Responding to a setting stimulus image
- Writing skills: Responding to a person stimulus image
- Writing skills: Using symbolism
- Writing skills: A writing process