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COVID-19 Expository Essay
SecondaryYear 7 - 8EnglishPersuasive writingText AnalysisEconomicIndustry, Innovation and InfrastructureSystems Thinking
Lesson Summary
Students will gain a greater understanding of COVID-19 including its symptoms, how it is contracted, at risk groups, incubation period and how it is different to influenza by reading through an article. Next, they will complete a set of activities that will revise over parts of speech, connectives and conjunctions and sentence types that they will use to improve their writing by making it more interesting. Using the information from the articles and the learning from the activities, students will complete a planning template and will then write an informative/expository essay.
This lesson is designed to be completed independently by students.
Learning intentions
Students will:
- re-cap your knowledge of parts of speech, connectives and sentence types
- understand the correct essay structure for an expository essay.
- write an expository essay about COVID-19.
Success criteria
Students can:
- identify parts of speech, connectives and sentence types in a piece of writing
- apply parts of speech, connectives and sentence types to improve your writing
- use a planning template to organise your information
- write an expository essay about COVID-19.
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