The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein - Year 5 Unit of Writing

A Year 5 Hampshire inspired Learning Journey for The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein. This medium term plan comprises of 15 lessons with a clear writing outcome for a biography about Philippe Petit. The plan is able to be downloaded as a Word and pdf document to allow easy editing. The lesson resources and flipchart can also be brought separately.

Learning Intentions include:

• Cold Write.
• To justify opinions using inference and retrieval skills.
• To answer questions through justifying and giving reasons.
• Site of Application (informal writing).
• To use fronted adverbials to describe events.
• To use the subjunctive form.
• To use metaphors and similes to create tension.
• To use modal verbs and prefixes to indicate degrees of possibility.
• Apprentice Write (persuasive speech).
• To research and plan a biography.
• To plan a biography.
• To write a biography.
• To edit my work.