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Day 16 · Choose your public purposeYear 12 English · T1 W3–4 · Day 16 lesson

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Year 12 / English / Term 1 / Weeks 03 04

Part of the full lesson sequence. Check the pack guide and taught point before teaching.

Open for this lesson: Pack guide · Sources and materials · Daily routes · Worked swaps · Fresh learner checks · Aids and text routes.

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Learner prompts

Goal: Develop an own contention for an identified imagined public audience and select/synthesise suitable source matter.

Prepare: Offer the complete P/Q/W sources plus the available dated actual pair. New work is acceptable; reserve fresh E for later. No actual personal problem or public campaign required.

  1. Make a start · 5 min. Invite: “Who is your argument for, and what do you want them to consider?” Choose an imagined forum, school-resource meeting or another suitable public audience. Write/say an own opening immediately. The audience can be imagined; no actual group consent or response is invented.
  2. Read/encounter · 8 min. Revisit source matter relevant to the chosen purpose. Use P/Q as fiction or exact dated media actually encountered. Identify a contention and at least one complication to develop; one useful detail now is sufficient. Do not demand current factual research or personal repair experiences.
  3. Model or independent fresh start · 12 min. Model contrasting openings: “Forum members, compare the options before printing a verdict” asks for a procedure; “Forum members, keep the sign until you can explain the decision” advocates caution in another direction. Both can be argued. Show how W01 establishes a public role without pretending the forum is real.
  4. Develop · 15 min. Compose an own sustained section that connects a source detail to a reason and anticipates an audience question. Build toward a possible address, perhaps imagined as 3–5 minutes eventually, but no time/word quota applies. Learner may choose a different purpose/structure, an actual available composition or a plan; no audience persuasion is preprinted.
  5. Review or retain first · 6 min. Self-review whether the contention, audience address and reasons fit together. Keep a source-derived claim dated and a fictional claim labelled as fictional. Choose one part to expand or simplify. Any actual reader feedback stays attributed separately from the learner’s own preference.
  6. Keep/next move · 4 min. Record the available contention and purpose, exact source access and composition mode. A planned public relationship is a text feature, not proof of public delivery. Unfinished work remains useful; arrange another sitting rather than rushing into a compulsory speech.

Actual evidence: Own purpose/role/contention and synthesis opportunities; public delivery and actual listener effect remain conditional.

Selected unit-objective opportunities: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9; conditional/partial as crosswalk explains.