1. What is Courage?

2. Aims of session To define courage and to understand the different ways this quality can be shown To read and analyse Section B Reading coursework texts to gain an idea of how courage is being presented in the texts To share analysis and decide which text(s) you wish to explore further for the Reading coursework task (worth 10% of your Language coursework mark)

3. How would YOU define courage?

6. Task The following five Section B Anthology texts all present a message about courage In Home groups of 5 students, each choose one text that you will become expert on

7. In your expert group… Find at least one other expert from another group with whom you can study the text Read the text you have been allocated with your partner and fill out the grid to analyse what kind of courage is being presented, by whom, and how You have 20 minutes to read, analyse and annotate your text and record your findings on the grid. Get to know your text well! Use any of the support material on offer to help you

8. The 5 texts… Disabled: a WW1 poem by Wilfred Owen The Last Night: an extract from a novel by Sebastian Faulks The Necklace: A 19c short story by Guy de Maupassant A Hero: a short story by R. K. Narayan King Schahriar: the first in the cycle of short stories known as The Arabian Nights or 1001 Nights

9. Rejoin your Home group Share your findings about the 5 texts. What messages is each giving about courage, and how? Do a PMI on all 5 texts to consider the pros and cons of each as a coursework text What connections can you make between the texts? Think about thematic and stylistic connections. Use a diagram to represent commonalities and differences

10. Homework Decide whether you are going to analyse one or two texts in your coursework Decide which text(s) you are going to analyse Print out these texts from the Anthology