Overview

In this lesson package, students read, respond and analyse the language of the short story, 'Defying the Doctor'. 

Students will learn how to:

• craft sentences like a professional writer

• create motion picture images, 

• and shape sentences to create inferences in their texts. 

Students learn how to use non-finite clauses to improve their writing. They read a short story and respond to it.

Students:

• compose a story impression task which is refined at the end of the lesson

• read a short story and respond to either comprehension questions or a three level reading guide

• learn about non-finite clause

• refine their story impression to include non-finite clauses

Outcomes:

• EN4–3B uses and describes language forms, features and structures of texts appropriate to a range of purposes, audiences and contexts

  • analyse and examine how effective authors control and use a variety of clause structures, including clauses embedded within the structure of a noun group/phrase or clause

This lesson deepens student understanding of how to use non-finite clauses to improve their writing. Students examine a short story to learn how authors control and use a variety of clause structures. Students analyse sentence patterns and create their own imitations of author sentence patterns.

Outcomes:

• EN4–3B uses and describes language forms, features and structures of texts appropriate to a range of purposes, audiences and contexts

  • interpret and analyse language choices, including sentence patterns, dialogue, imagery and other language features, in short stories, literary essays and plays

Students read the first chapter of a novel of their own choice. They locate and add specific non-finite clause sentence patterns to their writer’s palette task.

Outcomes:

• EN4–3B uses and describes language forms, features and structures of texts appropriate to a range of purposes, audiences and contexts

  • analyse and examine how effective authors control and use a variety of clause structures, including clauses embedded within the structure of a noun group/phrase or clause

Students use sentences from their writer's palette task to create posters. They may use interactive web tools such as Adobe Spark, or Canva to create their poster. The poster can also be created offline.

Outcomes:

• EN4-2A effectively uses a widening range of processes, skills, strategies and knowledge for responding to and composing texts in different media and technologies

  • use a range of software, including word processing programs, to create, edit and publish texts imaginatively

In this lesson, student create a composition based on the short story. This success criteria for the composition is based on the use of the specific structures the students have mastered during the previous four lessons.

Outcomes:

• EN4-1A responds to and composes texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis, imaginative expression and pleasure 

  • experiment with language forms and features to compose texts for pleasure and enjoyment

• EN4-4B - makes effective language choices to creatively Shape meaning with accuracy and coherence.

  • experiment with text structures and language features to refine and clarify ideas to improve the effectiveness of students' own texts

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