Stories with Issues and Dilemmas

This was a fantastic week of English lessons, including lots of speaking and listening activities, resulting in effective writing. This genre was studied through the story ‘Journey to Jo’Burg’. To which we read the first two chapters online (pdf linked in planning) and ended up writing the third chapter as our ‘big write’ including an issue and dilemma.

Lesson 1: Children explore the terms issue and dilemma by engaging in a conscience alley, forcing the child acting as the main character to make a decision based on a dilemma. (thoroughly enjoyable).
Lesson 2: Children read through the chapter 1 and 2 (linked in planning) and underline dialogue, action and different words for the word ‘said’. This allows children to see the exact style used by the author in order for them to recreate their very own chapter 3 in the style of the story. Planning is also done in this lesson.
Lesson 3: The success criteria is shared with the children and they are then allowed the remainder of the lesson to finish off their chapter 3.

The end product was fantastic! The children came up with their own title for their chapter and really took on the style of the author, alternating between dialogue and action. It was fantastic!

INCLUDED:
*4 day detailed lesson plan
*Colourful Notebook File
*Success Criteria
*Identifying features Prompt
*Moral Dilemmas for discussion
*Positive and Negative grid