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Author Mentors

Using Writers to Improve Your Writing

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Read page __ of Heat and Light by Ellen Van Neerven. The extract we will focus on starts with ‘Thirteen is the age that makes you’ and ends with ‘Go easy. I have to see if we’re related, first.’

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Talk about the following with another student before writing your responses:

  1. Tell me what you liked best about this extract.
  2. Tell me about the main character in the extract..
  3. Tell me how you would feel if you had been kicked out of English.
  4. Tell me about the Grandmother.
  5. Tell me why the main character is so interested in Mia.

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Extract #3

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Connecting & Connecting & Connecting

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What is something you have in common with or something that makes you different from Colin?

To Self

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What is a similarity that this extract shares with another text? (Also: name the text)

To Text

03

What is something from the wider world or history that you can relate to this extract?

To World

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Considering Theme

2. What opinion do you think the author might have about the single word you just wrote?

3. What do you think the extract is saying about this word?

4. You’ve now developed a thematic understanding of the extract. Find three quotes that supports this.

5. Explain how each quote supports your thematic understanding.

Heat and Light

Reflect:

1. If you had to summarise this extract as being about something in a single word, what would it be?