Empire Film Review
This teaching guide for students of medium to high-ability is designed as a self-contained unit which can be used to produce the AQA A GCSE English Media coursework. As this piece is assessed for writing (rather than reading), your students’ ability to craft their writing for their audience and purpose is key to this unit.
Let us remind ourselves of the assessment objectives for En3 (Writing):
English
Candidates are required to demonstrate their ability to:
(i) communicate clearly and imaginatively, using and adapting forms for different readers and purposes;
(ii) organise ideas into sentences, paragraphs and whole texts using a variety of linguistic and structural features;
(iii) use a range of sentence structures effectively with accurate punctuation and spelling.
As this unit is aimed at higher ability students, it is also useful to consider the skills and content descriptors for a notional A grade response:
Notional A (15 – 16 marks)
- writing is shaped
- demonstrates assured control of style
- uses range of grammatical constructions accurately
- uses well-constructed paragraphs
- paragraphs linked to clarify organisation of writing as a whole
- shows focus on text(s) and detailed treatment of task and their purposes by expressing ideas coherently, logically and persuasively. There may be a judicious mix of overview...
