# English daily scripts — Unit 3 Topic 1 opening practice

Each day is 25 minutes: 3 + 5 + 6 + 5 + 4 + 2. The teacher uses [Texts A and B](student-materials.md); Text C is held for Day 10. Use [teacher key](teacher-key.md) for examples, diagnostic readings and next moves. The quick exits are formative and never QCAA marks. Extend with the school's actual texts and full senior timetable.

## Day 1 — A door and an audience

**Success:** Name Text A's proposed change and use two words from the text to explain whom it addresses.

1. **Notice · 3 min.** Display “Open to everyone” beside “the door shuts before everyone is free to arrive”. Ask: What tension does this pair make? Accept a private written thought.
2. **Model · 5 min.** Read Text A's first paragraph aloud or invite independent reading. Underline “trial” and “six weeks”. Say: “This is a bounded proposal, not a demand for permanent opening.”
3. **Try · 6 min.** Learners mark claim, intended decision maker and the people the writer asks that decision maker to imagine. Pair talk is optional; a written annotation works.
4. **Compare · 5 min.** Ask what “public decision” at the end adds to the opening image of the door. Invite two different readings, each tied to wording.
5. **Transfer · 4 min.** Learners complete: “Night Desk asks the board to ___ because ___; the phrase ___ positions the board to ___.” No personal example is needed.
6. **Exit · 2 min.** Collect one precise claim plus audience. If learners write merely “the library”, point back to the board and the published open-letter form tomorrow.

## Day 2 — An example is not a count

**Success:** Distinguish Text A's illustrative people from measured evidence and name one useful pilot measure.

1. **Notice · 3 min.** Show “apprentice”, “parent”, “student” from Text A. Ask: Are these reported interview participants? Why can we not tell?
2. **Model · 5 min.** Label the three as examples chosen to widen the imagined audience. Contrast with Text A's requested future count of use, which has not yet been collected.
3. **Try · 6 min.** Learners mark one appeal to access and one limit the writer states about what six weeks can prove.
4. **Compare · 5 min.** Two groups propose a measure: arrivals, costs, journey home or quiet-space use. Ask who might still be invisible in each measure.
5. **Transfer · 4 min.** Write two sentences: one about the text's persuasive effect and one about evidence the board still needs.
6. **Exit · 2 min.** Ask “Did Text A prove demand?” Expected: no; it proposes a trial and gives illustrative cases. Reteach claim/evidence if the answer is yes.

## Day 3 — A reply that partly agrees

**Success:** Explain Text B's qualified support with a quotation from both letters.

1. **Notice · 3 min.** Display Text B's “right to ask” and “But”. Invite a guess: disagreement, agreement or both?
2. **Model · 5 min.** Read Text B. Trace its path: accept the access problem; add transport and labour; propose conditions for a trial.
3. **Try · 6 min.** On the [two-voice map](../../../term-1/print/text-conversation.svg) or plain text equivalent, place one phrase in agree and one in challenge. If writing is slow, point then dictate.
4. **Compare · 5 min.** Ask how the paper board pack audience differs from the online noticeboard audience, and which detail might matter most to each. Avoid assuming all readers have digital access.
5. **Transfer · 4 min.** Complete a two-text sentence with a real connective: “While both ___, B complicates A's ___ by ___.”
6. **Exit · 2 min.** Collect one word or phrase that signals qualified support and the condition attached to it. If learners call B wholly opposed, revisit its final paragraph.

## Day 4 — Inclusion and omission

**Success:** Identify a foregrounded perspective and an unanswered question without inventing anyone's experience.

1. **Notice · 3 min.** Place “who arrives” (A) and “who can get home” (B) side by side. Ask what each makes visible.
2. **Model · 5 min.** Say: “An omission is an unanswered issue, not proof the writer intended harm.” Demonstrate with accessible transport: A mentions safe travel but gives no service timetable.
3. **Try · 6 min.** Learners annotate a text's emphasis and a question that a board would need to investigate. Require the question to be answerable, not a guess about a population.
4. **Compare · 5 min.** Sort proposed questions into usable pilot information, unsupported allegation or private disclosure request. Reject private disclosure requests.
5. **Transfer · 4 min.** Draft: “The writer foregrounds ___ through ___; this helps ___, although the decision still needs ___.”
6. **Exit · 2 min.** Collect the question. If it asserts an invented fact, convert it to an inquiry tomorrow.

## Day 5 — First independent comparison

**Success:** Compare how two form/language choices influence the same public issue, with an explicit limit.

1. **Notice · 3 min.** Return Texts A and B with no annotations shown. Give the prompt in [student assessment](student-assessment.md), Check 1.
2. **Model · 5 min.** Model only a structure with an unrelated example: claim, exact words, effect, connection. Do not supply the board-room answer.
3. **Try · 6 min.** Learners write or record a 90–130 word comparison; offer the text and a word bank, but log support used.
4. **Compare · 5 min.** Learners underline one exact phrase from each text and circle the connective joining them. Ask whether the evidence supports each claim.
5. **Transfer · 4 min.** Add one sentence naming what the letters cannot establish about likely attendance or access.
6. **Exit · 2 min.** Save the first version. Use the formative rubric in the teacher key to choose a next move; no QCAA standard is awarded.

## Day 6 — Modality changes power

**Success:** Explain how changing “could” to “will” changes a claim's certainty and audience relationship.

1. **Notice · 3 min.** Display Text A's “could tell us” and the hypothetical edit “will prove”. Which promise is larger?
2. **Model · 5 min.** Show modal verbs as degrees of commitment. “Could” is cautious; “will” claims certainty the pilot cannot give.
3. **Try · 6 min.** Learners locate “might”, “should” and “if” across A and B and annotate how each manages pressure or condition.
4. **Compare · 5 min.** In pairs or solo, rewrite one sentence in stronger and weaker modality; discuss which version is ethical with the available evidence.
5. **Transfer · 4 min.** Write two lines for a fictional board submission: one defensible claim, one evidence condition.
6. **Exit · 2 min.** Ask which is justified now: “a pilot could help us learn” or “later hours will solve access”. Require a reason from the texts.

## Day 7 — Shape a spoken argument

**Success:** Open a 45-second persuasive practice statement for a named public audience, using a concession and reason.

1. **Notice · 3 min.** Read Text B's opening line in two tones, one dismissive and one invitational. Ask which fits the wording and why.
2. **Model · 5 min.** Draft aloud: “Board members, a trial is worth considering. Before we choose the hours, we need a way home for users.” Identify address, position and condition.
3. **Try · 6 min.** Learners choose A's position, B's conditional position or a third defensible position, then draft an opening and one supporting reason. No lived-experience disclosure.
4. **Compare · 5 min.** Offer private rehearsal, typed script, AAC or spoken rehearsal. Peers note whether the audience, claim and condition are audible/readable, rather than judging performance identity.
5. **Transfer · 4 min.** Revise one sentence to be clearer and more respectful to a person who disagrees.
6. **Exit · 2 min.** Collect the opening plus its evidence source. A made-up statistic must be labelled as hypothetical or removed.

## Day 8 — Counterargument without a straw person

**Success:** State another position fairly before answering it with relevant evidence or a research question.

1. **Notice · 3 min.** Display “Volunteers dislike helping” and ask if Text B actually says this. It does not.
2. **Model · 5 min.** Replace the distortion: “B warns that unpaid labour should not carry the trial.” Answer: A also requests paid staffing; remaining cost needs checking.
3. **Try · 6 min.** Learners select a genuine concern from the other letter and paraphrase it in terms that writer might recognise.
4. **Compare · 5 min.** Read only the paraphrase to a peer. The peer finds the text location. If it cannot be found, revise.
5. **Transfer · 4 min.** Add an answer that cites a shared point or proposes an information-gathering step, not a personal attack.
6. **Exit · 2 min.** Hand in a three-line concession, evidence and answer. If the concession is distorted, the next lesson starts with a neutral paraphrase model.

## Day 9 — Connect two texts in one argument

**Success:** Produce a short public-facing argument that uses both texts as a conversation and marks uncertainty.

1. **Notice · 3 min.** Revisit the map. Ask: Where is agreement, where is a live choice, and what information is missing?
2. **Model · 5 min.** Demonstrate a paragraph plan: recommendation; A's access case; B's transport condition; a measured next step. Use no invented demand figure.
3. **Try · 6 min.** Learners choose a pilot option and draft 120–160 words or an equivalent 75-second script. Offer a sentence frame only to those who want it.
4. **Compare · 5 min.** Peer reader marks every claimed number, inferred fact and text reference. If a statistic is not in A/B, label it a proposal for measurement.
5. **Transfer · 4 min.** Revise the final sentence to tell the board what to check after the pilot.
6. **Exit · 2 min.** Ask each learner which one revision improved accuracy. Use the answer to form a Day 10 conference group.

## Day 10 — Fresh media text and transfer

**Success:** Explain how Text C's accurate arithmetic can still support an over-wide public claim, then connect it to A or B.

1. **Notice · 3 min.** Distribute [Text C](fresh-text-c.md) now. Students read independently where this is the chosen construct; record supported reading separately.
2. **Model · 5 min.** Remind learners only of the analysis questions: claim, selection, audience and effect. Do not evaluate Text C for them.
3. **Try · 6 min.** Learners complete Check 2 in [student assessment](student-assessment.md) without feedback.
4. **Compare · 5 min.** After collecting first responses, ask students to underline the sampled group and label the headline's broader implied group.
5. **Transfer · 4 min.** Learners add one sentence connecting C's “do not wait” to A's or B's position, with a justified difference.
6. **Exit · 2 min.** Save original and revision separately. Use the teacher key's next moves to decide whether to teach sampling, rhetorical effect or text connection next.

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