Companion activities for Joel Plunkett’s short silent film The Man and the Thief, available on YouTube. Suitable for student-paced or teacher-paced completion.
This bauble-themed critical thinking and quotations codebreaker is designed specifically for classroom engagement and discussion of creativity in learning. The coded alphabet features tiny bauble images to encourage attention to fine detail.
Start with discussion questions like “what have you been learning about over the last six weeks?” and “what is one key idea you are proud that you learned about this term?” before moving on to deeper thinking…
How does creativity help us solve complex problems?
Can creativity be taught, or is it something you’re born with?
Why is it important to take risks when being creative?
INCLUDES…
Three lessons with lesson plans
Differentiated code reference pages
Codebreaking practice and initial discussion questions
Critical thinking coded task cards
Coded quotations choice activity
Bauble design activity for fast finishers
Perfect for those studying Foster by Claire Keegan as part of the revised WJEC Literature specification.
37 pages of close analysis and thoughtful discussion prompts in quick-print format. More activities to come, and although this pack does NOT currently include an answer key, this will be added in the future and previous buyers will have free access to all updates.
Track Arthur Kipps’ emotional reactions to various events in this chapter. Includes grids with quotations, without quotations, and a teacher answer guide. Example rows included on all versions.
Included as A4 landscape size documents, but easily printed as A3 using your printer resizing settings.
Track Arthur Kipps’ emotional reactions to various events in this chapter. Includes grids with quotations, without quotations, and a teacher answer guide. Example rows included on all versions.
Included as A4 landscape size documents, but easily printed as A3 using your printer resizing settings.
Track Arthur Kipps’ emotional reactions to various events in this chapter. Includes grids with quotations, without quotations, and a teacher answer guide. Example rows included on all versions.
Included as A4 landscape size documents, but easily printed as A3 using your printer resizing settings.
Track Arthur Kipps’ emotional reactions to various events in this chapter. Includes grids with quotations, without quotations, and a teacher answer guide. Example rows included on all versions.
Included as A4 landscape size documents, but easily printed as A3 using your printer resizing settings.
Track Arthur Kipps’ emotional reactions to various events in this chapter. Includes grids with quotations, without quotations, and a teacher answer guide. Example rows included on all versions.
Included as A4 landscape size documents, but easily printed as A3 using your printer resizing settings.
Track Arthur Kipps’ emotional reactions to various events in this chapter. Includes grids with quotations, without quotations, and a teacher answer guide. Example rows included on all versions.
Included as A4 landscape size documents, but easily printed as A3 using your printer resizing settings.
UPDATED due to an error on one of the pages. Thank you for your patience.
Track Arthur Kipps’ emotional reactions to various events in this chapter. Includes grids with quotations, without quotations, and a teacher answer guide. Example rows included on all versions.
Included as A4 landscape size documents, but easily printed as A3 using your printer resizing settings.
Track Arthur Kipps’ emotional reactions to various events in this chapter. Includes grids with quotations, without quotations, and a teacher answer guide. Example rows included on all versions.
Included as A4 landscape size documents, but easily printed as A3 using your printer resizing settings.
Track Arthur Kipps’ emotional reactions to various events in this chapter. Includes grids with quotations, without quotations, and a teacher answer guide. Example rows included on all versions.
Included as A4 landscape size documents, but easily printed as A3 using your printer resizing settings.
Track Arthur Kipps’ emotional reactions to various events in this chapter. Includes grids with quotations, without quotations, and a teacher answer guide. Example rows included on all versions.
Included as A4 landscape size documents, but easily printed as A3 using your printer resizing settings.
Track Arthur Kipps’ emotional reactions to various events in this chapter. Includes grids with quotations, without quotations, and a teacher answer guide. Example rows included on all versions.
Included as A4 landscape size documents, but easily printed as A3 using your printer resizing settings.
Use the provided quotations or copies of the novel to create a map of the setting in Susan Hill’s novel The Woman in Black.
Provided in A4 landscape document size.
Deconstruct and conduct a pre-reading study of Goodbye by Alun Lewis… without the poem! This pre-reading pack of 11 mini-lessons will guide your students as they consider the settings, concepts, colors, emotions, movement, people and imagery in the poem they are about to study, before creating a hexagonal thinking map of their expectations.
Need the lesson plans too? Check out my FREE Lesson Plans for Poetry Deconstruction.
Deconstructing the poem means to pull it apart and and study the broken segments before putting it back together. Your students’ depth of understanding when you finally read the poem together may surprise you!
Includes…
Deconstruction of Setting worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Color worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Visuals worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Sound worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Concept worksheet and slides
Deconstruction of Emotions worksheet and slides
Deconstruction of Movement worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Objects worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of People worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Imagery worksheets and slides
Instructions for Hexagonal Thinking handout and slides
Printable pre-populated hexagons
Digital hexagon map with moveable elements
The full poem can be found online.
Deconstruct and conduct a pre-reading study of a well-known poem… without the poem! This pack of nine pre-reading lesson plans will help you prepare to guide your students as they consider the settings, concepts, people, emotions, movement and imagery in the poem they are about to study, before creating a hexagonal thinking map of their expectations.
Use these lesson plans alongside the pre-made poem packs here on TES and on TPT, and let the students do all the hard work!
Deconstructing the poem means to pull it apart and and study the broken segments before putting it back together. Your students’ depth of understanding when you finally read the poem together may surprise you!
Includes…
Deconstruction of Setting lesson plan
Deconstruction of Color lesson plan
Deconstruction of Sound, Smell and Taste lesson plan
Deconstruction of Concept lesson plan
Deconstruction of Emotions lesson plan
Deconstruction of Movement lesson plan
Deconstruction of Objects lesson plan
Deconstruction of Imagery lesson plan
Hexagonal Thinking lesson plan
Deconstruction of People lesson plan coming soon!
PACK AVAILABLE:
Poem Deconstruction of Goodbye by Alun Lewis | Pre-Reading
Poem Deconstruction of Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath | Pre-Reading Activity
Poem Deconstruction of Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
Poem Deconstruction of My Mother’s Perfume by Pascale Petit | Pre-Reading
Deconstruct and conduct a pre-reading study of Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath… without the poem! This pre-reading pack of ten mini-lessons will guide your students as they consider the settings, concepts, colors, emotions, movement and imagery in the poem they are about to study, before creating a hexagonal thinking map of their expectations.
Need the lesson plans too? Check out my FREE Lesson Plans for Poetry Deconstruction!
Deconstructing the poem means to pull it apart and and study the broken segments before putting it back together. Your students’ depth of understanding when you finally read the poem together may surprise you!
Includes…
Deconstruction of Setting worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Color worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Visuals worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Sound worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Concept worksheet and slides
Deconstruction of Emotions worksheet and slides
Deconstruction of Movement worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Objects worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Imagery worksheets and slides
Instructions for Hexagonal Thinking handout and slides
Printable pre-populated hexagons
Digital hexagon map with moveable elements
The full poem can be found online.
Deconstruct and conduct a pre-reading study of Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas… without the poem! This pre-reading pack of six mini-lessons will guide your students as they consider the settings, sensory elements, emotions and movement in the poem they are about to study, before creating a hexagonal thinking map of their expectations.
Need the lesson plans too? Check out my FREE Lesson Plans for Poetry Deconstruction!
Deconstructing the poem means to pull it apart and and study the broken segments before putting it back together. Your students’ depth of understanding when you finally read the poem together may surprise you!
Includes…
Deconstruction of Setting worksheet and slides
Deconstruction of Sound worksheet and slides
Deconstruction of Emotions worksheet and slides
Deconstruction of Movement worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Objects worksheets and slides
Instructions for Hexagonal Thinking handout and slides
Printable pre-populated hexagons
Digital hexagon map with moveable elements
Please note that a copy of the full poem itself is not included with this pack.
Deconstruct and conduct a pre-reading study of My Mother’s Perfume by Pascale Petit… without the poem! This pre-reading pack of 11 mini-lessons will guide your students as they consider the settings, concepts, colors, emotions, movement, people and imagery in the poem they are about to study, before creating a hexagonal thinking map of their expectations.
Need the lesson plans too? Check out my FREE Lesson Plans for Poetry Deconstruction!
Deconstructing the poem means to pull it apart and and study the broken segments before putting it back together. Your students’ depth of understanding when you finally read the poem together may surprise you!
Includes…
Deconstruction of Setting worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Color worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Visuals worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Smell and Taste worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Concept worksheet and slides
Deconstruction of Emotions worksheet and slides
Deconstruction of Movement worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Objects worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of People worksheets and slides
Deconstruction of Imagery worksheets and slides
Instructions for Hexagonal Thinking handout and slides
Printable pre-populated hexagons
Digital hexagon map with moveable elements
The full poem can be found online.