Year level: 10

Subject: English
Unit: Persuasive Language and Analysis
Date: Tuesday 30th August
Week: 8
Session: 3
Content
Connect + Strengthen

Time
10mins

Jenga Activity
Teacher is to have set up five games of Jenga with PLTs
written on them on tables around the room.
Students are to work in groups of 4/5 and play Jenga PLTs.
Each student will have a turn at taking a block from the
wooden tower. The block they pull out will have a PLT
written on it. The student is to say how the PLT is used and
what effect it is intended to have on the audience.
These answers will be tallied up on a piece of paper shared
between all group members.
Prepare
Students are to copy down the goal and success criteria for
todays lesson
Teacher is to circle the room to ensure students have a
written/typed copy of this.
Connect + Strengthen
Teacher will ask two students to read their conclusions
aloud.
Teacher will demonstrate how to give feedback to the first
reader.
A student will give feedback for the second reader (Prompts
for feedback are provided on under Peer Review if they
are needed).
Strengthen
Students are to answer the language question individually
Teacher to collect results on board.
Teacher is to instruct on the Language scenario challenge.
Students will have to write the same scenario but one is

3mins

4mins

5mins

2mins

3mins per
scenario

Resources
Jenga
Loose-leaf paper

explaining what happened to a friend, the other to a parent.

- This will show students how a writer uses certain
language to appeal/attract their audience.

4mins to
discuss

Strengthen
Students are to answer the tone question individually.
Teacher to collect results on board.

2mins

Show
Teacher is to explain the various words that can be used
when identifying tone in an article/image.

3mins

Strengthen
Students are to write out each line of she only told him that
she loved him with the appropriate emphasis in each
sentence.
Students are to work individually at identifying what the
tone is and how it changes depending on where the
emphasis is.
Teacher is to collect results on the board.
Show
Teacher is to hand out new article Slaves to technology to
the students.
Students give time to read the article there is to be no note
taking at this time.

3mins

4mins

3mins

4-5mins

Strengthen
Students are given time to identify what the issue might be.
Answers will be discussed as a class.

3-4mins
2mins

Students will then identify the contention of the article.

Answers will be discussed as a class.

3mins
2mins

Students will then read the article and find any key
words/phrases in the article that support the contention.
Answers will be discussed as a class.

5-8mins

Teacher is to instruct students on how to find the three main

arguments in the article they will supply the first MA.
- Emphasis needs to be put on all of these arguments
linking back to the contention.

3-4mins

3mins

Students will then find the remaining two

arguments.
Answers will be discussed as a class.
Consider
Students are to write on the supplied post-it note a weakness
and strength in Analytical writing. This must have their
name on it and must be handed up to the teacher at the end
of class.

5-8mins
3-4mins

3mins