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Thinking from the character's perspective in 'Anna Hibiscus' Song'

'Anna Hibiscus' Song': reading and writing

Unit Summary

In this unit, pupils explore the characters, setting and plot in 'Anna Hibiscus' Song'. They apply their learning of adjectives to writing about characters and settings. In scaffolded writing tasks, they use adverbs to describe characters' actions, leading to writing a letter about their family.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to think from someone else's perspective.

Key Notes

  • One way of inferring a character's feelings is looking at their expressions in an illustration
  • One way of inferring a character's feelings is reading about how they move, what they do and what they say
  • Discussing the feelings of others helps to generate powerful adjectives to describe an emotion or event
  • Using 'I', 'me', 'my', 'we' or 'us' is a way of speaking in the first person

Vocabulary To Learn

  • perspective: a point of view
  • adjective: describes a noun
  • emotion: a feeling or mood
  • first person: the 'I/we' perspective

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Pupils may struggle to recall the event of the story to be able to express that part.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.

One way of inferring a character's feelings is looking at their expressions in an illustration. One way of inferring a character's feelings is reading about how they move, what they do and what they say.

2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'perspective'

a point of view.

3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.

Mistake: Pupils may struggle to recall the event of the story to be able to express that part. Correction: When you are re-reading the story at the start of the lesson, model the expression of the characters as you are reading and drip-feed in some vocabulary that you could use.

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