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Lesson Plan
Grade: Date: 25/02/2026
Subject: English Literature
Lesson Topic: Analysing the ways in which choices regarding form, structure and language interact to create a distinctive style, for different forms and genres.
Learning Objective/s:
  • Identify and describe the form, structure, and language choices in a given literary text.
  • Analyse how these choices interact to create a distinctive style.
  • Evaluate the effect of stylistic choices on theme, character, and meaning across poetry, drama, and prose.
  • Apply an analytical framework to produce a written commentary that links style to authorial intent.
Materials Needed:
  • Projector and screen
  • Whiteboard and markers
  • Handouts with sample texts (poem, play excerpt, prose paragraph)
  • Annotated worksheets for the analytical framework
  • Sticky notes for group activity
  • Audio recording of a spoken poem (optional)
 Introduction:
Begin with a quick poll: “What makes a writer’s voice unique?” Connect responses to previous lessons on literary devices. Explain that today’s success criteria are to identify form, structure, and language, and to show how they combine to shape style.
Lesson Structure:
  1. Do‑now (5'): Students write a brief definition of “style” with an example; teacher collects for a quick check.
  2. Mini‑lecture (10'): Introduce form, structure, language and their interaction using a Venn‑diagram slide.
  3. Guided close reading (15'): Whole‑class annotate a short scene from a play, marking structural breaks and language features.
  4. Group activity (15'): Teams rewrite a prose paragraph as a sonnet and discuss how stylistic choices shift.
  5. Analytical framework practice (10'): Individual worksheet applying the 5‑step framework to a poem handout.
  6. Plenary (5'): Students share one insight about the interplay of form, structure, and language; teacher summarises key points.
Conclusion:
Recap the main ways form, structure, and language combine to create distinctive style. For the exit ticket, learners write one concrete example from today’s texts illustrating this interaction. Assign a short homework: analyse the style of a chosen passage using the five‑step framework.