"Private Peaceful" Complete Unit

A complete Unit of work for both student and teacher - engaging and original.

There are many options for close reading comprehensions for “Private Peaceful”, but this unit offers thoughtful, engaging and skill-enhancing work for each chapter. The student is encouraged to critique and explain the development of character; or writer’s craft, creating PEE paragraphs and PETE paragraphs - with the inclusion of TECHNIQUE, among other challenges…

All excepts are copyright of Michael Murpurgo.

In my classroom,** “Private Peaceful”** is taught in tandem with “War Poetry” and there are several occasions when overlap is made - check out my complete Student and Teacher Booklets, as well as some free samples below:

War Poetry Booklets + PP
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12375733

Wildred Owen’s “Dolce” - free
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12366844

Jessie Pope’s “Who’s for the Game” - free
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12366846

“The Target” Essay Analysis
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12506386

Included here:
Chapter 1 - notes and tasks

Chapter 2 - description of mother, example supplied; character analysis of Big Joe - mix and match creation of PETE paragraphs; close analysis of Grandma Wolf using BARSCAP - all with answers.

Chapter 3 - close analysis of entire chapter - close reading, technique spotting and explanations - annotated chapter included - with answers.

Chapter 4 - tasks including PETE development, creation of newspaper article - all with answers and samples

Chapter 5 - tasks including the development of Charlie and Molly’s relationship, creation of Love Letter between them - guidance and sample pupil example provided - with answers.

Chapter 6 - tasks including Big Joe’s disappearance and close analysis of negative and positive atmosphere - how it is created - all with answers

Chapter 7 - tasks including close reading, differentiated work for the Seargant Major’s speech, propaganda work (linked to “War Poetry” resource - all with answers

Chapter 8 - tasks including close reading, scaffolding of PETE paragraphs, BARSCAP analysis of Sergeant Hanley - with answers

Chapter 9 - tasks including reality of life in the trenches - notes and table supplied; PETE paragraph work for Tension; PEE and technique work; links to ‘The Target’ - with answers

Chapter 10 - three options for close analysis - scaffolded and guided analysis using PEE/PETE; a look at colloquial language and Tommo’s changing feelings - with answers

Chapter 11 - thorough questions of the whole chapter - could be used as an assessment - close references to ‘Dulce’; Letter home from Tommo with notes to assist - with answers

Chapter 12 - key questions to aid understanding of what happened and why - looking again at Hanley (add to BARSCAP from Chapter 8); notes to aid creation of the courtroom dialogue - with answers

Chapter 13 + Postscript - analysis of Charlie’s last moments, and questions