While keeping the demands of the exam in focus, the material and the approaches are designed for lively, memorable lessons. A range of activities, from close language work to creative writing and from comparative analysis to role play and debate, develop pupils' reading skills. There are also activities to develop pupils' ability to express their ideas in writing.
Sight/Unseen Non-Fiction
Summary
A pupil book providing a full range of engaging 19th, 20th and 21st century texts, with strategies to support students in developing the skills needed to tackle unseen non-fiction across all specifications.
Sight/Unseen Non-Fiction Summary
About
The English and Media Centre is an independent educational charity with a national and international reputation as a Centre of Excellence. It is a development centre, serving the needs of secondary and FE teachers and students of English and Media Studies in the UK and beyond. We are unique in being a group of teachers, working in a voluntary sector organisation and able to draw on our close connections with colleagues in the classroom.
Table of Contents
Teachers' Notes and IntroductionSection 1 1. What Is Non-fiction?Introduction: Working Towards a DefinitionThe Many Forms of Non-fiction2. WanderlustWriting That Refuses to Sit StillInto Thin Air: a Personal Account of the Everest DisasterThe Ascent of Long's PeakExplore EverythingGround Level Exploration: 'Night Walks'3. Single Text Study: You're Not Special - a Commencement Address4. First-Person WitnessThe Opening of the Liverpool to Manchester RailwayThe Death of Lord NelsonNothing to Declare5. Single Text Study: Exploring a Speech6. Take My AdviceA Concerned AuntNothing Good Gets AwayFossil Record7. Single Text Study: Cats and Dogs8. Waging War The End of ImaginationThe First Atomic Bomb: Daily Mail CommentWomen on the Front Line9. Single Text Study: The InventionKatharine Mansfield's DiaryMy Left Foot12 Years a Slave11. Single Text Study: Sleeve Tattoos Are Now a Hipster Habit12. Big CatsMy Struggle with a TigerHarrods Pet Department to Shut After Nearly 100 YearsSection 2Exploring Texts in Class and for RevisionResponding to a TextEvaluating a TextAudience and PurposeStructureVocabularySentencesTone of VoiceReading the Nineteenth CenturyThinking about TextsSection 3Ten Additional Texts
Additional information
GOR009980176
9781906101367
1906101361
Sight/Unseen Non-Fiction by
Used - Very Good
Paperback
English & Media Centre
2015-05-31
192
N/A
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