The Lost Happy Endings by Carol Ann Duffy
Fiction
L.Q. Can I retell the story of The
Lost Happy Endings using a story
map?
Non-Fiction
L.Q. Can I identify the key features of
a persuasive text?
L.Q. Can I compare and contrast
persuasive techniques?
L.Q. Can I identify different
sentence types, punctuation and
language devices and describe
what effect they have on the
reader?
L.Q. Can I use the ‘What I think’
diamond to plan a persuasive essay?
L.Q. Can I write a persuasive essay
which includes at least 3 new
sentence types?
Poetry
L.Q. Can I identify poetic
features of a narrative
poem?
L.Q. Can I describe how and
why the poet has used
these poetic devices?
L.Q. Can I prepare a poem
to perform showing
understanding through
intonation, tone and
volume?
L.Q. Can I innovate the story
of The Lost Happy Endings
taking on a new view point as
a writer?
L.Q Can I assess the
effectiveness of my own and
others’ writing proposing
changes to vocabulary,
grammar and punctuation to
enhance my writing?
Fiction
Short sentence
Complex sentence
2A sentence
Some; other sentence
The more, the more sentence
2 paired sentence
Many question sentence
_ing_ed sentence
Verb, person sentence
3ed sentence
Non-Fiction
Double bind sentence
Does not/does sentence
Subject – 3 examples – are all
sentence
Getting worse/getting better
sentence
Poetry
Similes
Personification
Metaphors