A/A* English Language Paper 1: Writing to Persuade

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A/A English LanguagePaper 1 Writing to
Persuade Lesson 2

• Have we moved on?
• Starter
• Thinking back to the last session, what
  techniques can you use in your writing to be more
  persuasive?

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William Hogarth
Who is this man?
What might his profession be?
When was he alive?
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William Hogarth

• William Hogarth (10 November, 1697 26 October,
  1764) was a major English painter, printmaker,
  pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial
  cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering
  western sequential art. His work ranged from
  excellent realistic portraiture to comic
  strip-like series of pictures called "modern
  moral subjects". Much of his work, though at
  times vicious, poked fun at contemporary politics
  and customs. Illustrations in such style are
  often referred to as "Hogarthian".

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Gin Lane
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Gin Lane

• Looking at your copy of Gin Lane
• Discuss these comments and questions
• What image of London is Hogarth trying to
  portray?
• Why might he be doing this?
• How does Hogarth persuade
• you to a way of thinking?
• Can you draw any comparisons
• between this image and one
• of modern day?

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Bleak House

• from George II 1751 (Hogarth)
• to Queen Victoria 1852 (Dickens)

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Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1852-1853), chapter
46

• In this extract from Bleak House, Allan
  Woodcourt, a doctor, comes across Jo, a homeless
  boy in Tom-all-Alones, a slum in central London.
  Although he had previously encountered Jo at a
  coroners inquest, Dr Woodcourt here struggles to
  recognise him. Eventually he is forced to
  acknowledge the child as the boy whom his friend,
  the good young lady, had taken into her home.
• What are Woodcourts first impressions of Jo?
• Pick out the words and phrases which best convey
  Woodcourts feelings.
• When, and how, do those feelings change?
• What words and phrases suggest the shift?

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Plenary - Changing Times

• Have we moved on since the Georgian and Victorian
  times?
• Left side Yes, we have Right side No, we
  havent
• 5 points each side with justification