A unit for National 5 on Graeme Armstrong’s The Cloud Factory as a critical essay text.

Includes:

• Lesson Slides on approaching and analysing the text and teaching to write strong PEAR paragraphs.
• Pre-reading theme stations and vocabulary tasks
• Example critical essays from students.
• Essay plans and grids.
• A match-up activity template so students can understand the purpose of prose techniques.
• A graphic organiser with key information and quotes from the text.
• A series of key quotes in a table for students to analyse.

This was my second critical essay text so preparation for writing PEAR paragraphs is less thorough but looks at the difference between a top mark and a passing paragraph to encourage students to analyse further and include evaluative language.