Read the passage below and answer the question on your post-it

Grey post-it-Pick out a key word and analyse the connotations

Orange post-it: Read between the lines: what does this tell us about MCC Berkshire?

Yellow post-it: What effect does this have on the reader?

When he had gone, Mr Berkshire wiped his hands down his jacket and beamed. ‘That’s the way to sell a thing,’ he said with massive satisfaction.‘But it was all lies,’ whispered Mrs Povey, there being no polite way to put it.MCC Berkshire drew himself up to his full six foot and more. ‘Lies, madam?’

Key TermsConnotation: The associations we have with a word eg. Red=blood, danger, loveInfer: Reading between the lines to draw out different meaningsEffect: How it makes the reader think or feel

Feedback

If you had a orange post-it, pick up a yellow post-it

If you had a yellow post-it, pick up a grey post-it

If you had a grey post-it, pick up a orange post-it

Use their answer to think about…How is the character of MCC Berkshire presented in Chapter 2?

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What am I learning to

do?

Today, you are going to set your own learning objective.

It should be based on your feedback from your a Midsummer Night’s Dream assessment and based on one of the following:RAF3: Reading between the lines of a textRAF5: Focusing on the effect of language choicesRAF6: Thinking about what the writer is trying to show

For example:To read between the lines of a text to draw out key meanings (RAF3)To analyse connotations of words (RAF5)To think about the writer’s craft (RAF6)

What does the picture show?RAF3: What does the picture suggest to you?

RAF5: What do you think the light symbolises?

RAF6: What is the artist trying to show?

Let’s reflect…What are we focusing on today? What will

we achieve by the end of the lesson?