LKS2 - Fly, Eagle, Fly by Christopher Gregorowski - 2.5 week Writing Unit

Key Details:

• Contains Notebook slides, resources, differentiated Work
• Based of the Power Of Reading Scheme
• 2.5 week unit, could be extended.
• Aimed at year 3 or 4.

Fly, Eagle, Fly! is an adaptation of an African tale, a parable about reaching your potential. A farmer finds an eagle chick, takes it home and rears it as a chicken. The eagle comes to believe he is a chicken; he cannot fly or hunt. When the farmer’s friend comes to visit one day, he tells the farmer that an eagle should be flying high in the sky, not scrabbling on the ground for grain. Over time, the farmer’s friend proves that the bird can be an eagle again, and while watching the sun rise at a mountain top, he finally soars into the sky.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu writes in the foreword: ‘we are not mere chickens but eagles destined to soar to sublime heights… We should be straining to become what we have it in us to become.’

Overall aims of this teaching sequence
• To enjoy a story and discuss its meanings.
• To understand the themes of a text.
• To broaden understanding of writers’ use of language and build a varied vocabulary.
• To write narratives from a character’s perspective.

This teaching sequence is approximately 3 weeks long if spread out over 15 sessions.
The book supports teachers to teach about setting, plot and to explore strong themes in narrative fiction. Settings are well drawn, and the language of the text offers young readers a good model for their own narrative writing.