Year 9 · English · beta

Literary perspectives from the First World War

In this unit, pupils explore and compare texts written about the First World War. They first read Beck's 'Propping up the line', Mansfield's 'The Fly' and Wilfred Owen's 1917 letter home to his mum. They finally read Brittain's 'Testament of Youth', and then plan and write a comparative response.

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Prior knowledge

  • Pupils can decode an unseen text and make appropriate annotations
  • Pupils can understand that writers use a range of linguistic and structural techniques, to convey meaning
  • Pupils are able to make evaluative judgements and offer counter-arguments, with textual evidence
  • Pupils are able to select quotations in support of an argument
  • Pupils can identify and comment on the use of a symbol within a text
  • Pupils are able to offer a chronological narrative or a recount of events in writing
  • Pupils can select an appropriate tense for recount writing and maintain this
  • Pupils can identify the conventions of a letter

Source curriculum references

  • Read increasingly challenging material independently
  • Understanding increasingly challenging texts through making inferences
  • Understanding increasingly challenging texts through knowing purpose, audience and context of writing
  • Read critically through making critical comparisons across texts
  • Write a personal letter
  • Applying vocabulary, grammar and text structure to writing
  • Studying the impact of grammar features of texts

Oak source metadata. DASKEREL has not independently verified school-level coverage.

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