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KS3 · Year 7 - Foundations · Term 1 - Autumn · Week 10
Pages: Chapters 16-17 + read Chapters 18-19 for homework
Homework
Read Chapters 18-19.
Lesson 1
What students do
Choral reading + group discussion. Whole class reads extracts together; pause to discuss meaning and identify similarities between the girls. Teacher facilitates rather than leads.
Task
What do the girls have in common? What moments show understanding developing?
Success criteria
Can explain one similarity between Caylin and Reema that was not clear earlier in the novel.
Lesson 2
What students do
Compare quotations showing emotional similarities.
Task
Stems: "Both characters…" / "This suggests they…" / "The writer begins to show…"
Success criteria
Can explain one similarity that emerges later in the novel.
Lesson 3
What students do
Teacher models comparative paragraph with embedded quotations and comparative connectives.
Task
Comparative WHAT/HOW/WHY paragraph.
Success criteria
Can embed quotations from two chapters.
Lesson 4
What students do
Guided comparative writing with minimal scaffold.
Task
Comparative paragraph completion.
Success criteria
Can write one comparative paragraph using evidence from both characters and a comparative connective.
Lesson 5
What students do
Independent writing. Support: LOW-MEDIUM.
Task
How does the writer begin to connect Caylin and Reema?
Success criteria
Sustained comparison using evidence.
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