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1. Private Peaceful
Knowledge and skills
This novel is a powerful story of family, friendship, war and honour. Students often say that
they enjoy this novel more than any other they study with us. We will look at how language
is powerful enough to convince young men to risk their lives for ideas they do not fully
understand.
They will study:
 Speaking and listening – discussion and presentation skills
 Select and retrieve
 Inference and deduction
 Explaining the writers use of language
 Writing persuasive speeches
 Using a persuasive structure
Texts
Novel
 Private Peaceful – Michael Morpurgo
Poems
 Dulce et Decorum est – Wilfred Owen
Non fiction
 War posters
 Modern army adverts
Assessment
Writing– persuasive speech(thiscanbe to jointhe armyor notto jointhe army – studentschoice)
1hr writing,1hrpresenting
Reading– How doWilfredOwenandMichael Morpurgopresentwarand conflict?1hr