Engaging and ready to teach one hour lesson (ppt and worksheet) to introduce students to ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ by John Boyne. This lesson requires students to infer what themes they think the novel will cover and then guides them through independent analysis of some key quotes by Bruno at the start of the novel. This lesson is easy to differentiate for different abilities.
This resource includes a Powerpoint presentation and a worksheet.
Students have the opportunity to practise inference considering connotations of words, and they also practise analysis by zooming in on specific quotes from chapter 1. This lesson is easy to differentiate for different abilities.
Learning Objective: Develop inference skills to make predictions about The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
Learning Outcomes:
Bronze: Infer basic details about Bruno.
Silver: Add creative details to your inferences.
Gold: Independently choose a quote from the text from which you can infer details about Bruno.
Lesson Overview:
Do It Now: What can you infer from the title?
Starter: Mind map based on front covers.
Activity 1: Think – pair – share based on the inferences they have made.
Activity 2: Reading and response with worksheet
Peer assessment
Plenary: How would you describe Bruno in 3 words?
More Freebies:
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Two pre-reading lessons to introduce students to the context of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is available for free here.
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A scheme of work for teaching the entire novel is available for free here.
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