This fun and informative lesson helps students to understand two of the key themes throughout David Walliams ‘Billionaire Boy:’ money and happiness. Students explore Joe’s happiness, before then producing their own writing to argue piece on the topic of whether they believe money can buy happiness.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
-Considering what they would buy if they were a billionaire, and detailing this through a mind-map!
- Reading and understanding extracts from the opening section of Billionaire Boy, in which Joe's wealth and unhappiness is detailed;
- Identifying and analysing Walliams's use of devices to demonstrate Joe's unhappiness;
- Writing their own arguments (using a help-sheet and model examples for influence) about whether they think money can buy happiness;
- Self assessing their own learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- 'Joe's Unhappiness' Worksheet (and answer sheet);
- Selected extracts - Billionaire Boy;
- Writing to Argue Help-sheet;
- Billionaire Mind-Map (and PDF version);
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with a mixed-ability year 7 class, however colleagues have used them for between years 3 and 9 with some adaptations.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
-Considering what they would buy if they were a billionaire, and detailing this through a mind-map!
- Reading and understanding extracts from the opening section of Billionaire Boy, in which Joe's wealth and unhappiness is detailed;
- Identifying and analysing Walliams's use of devices to demonstrate Joe's unhappiness;
- Writing their own arguments (using a help-sheet and model examples for influence) about whether they think money can buy happiness;
- Self assessing their own learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- 'Joe's Unhappiness' Worksheet (and answer sheet);
- Selected extracts - Billionaire Boy;
- Writing to Argue Help-sheet;
- Billionaire Mind-Map (and PDF version);
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with a mixed-ability year 7 class, however colleagues have used them for between years 3 and 9 with some adaptations.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
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THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE BILLIONAIRE BOY LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET AND THE POINTLESS GAME! This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of David Walliams' 'Billionaire Boy.' Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer's ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding language devices. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: \- Engaging \- Defining/ Understanding \- Identifying/Remembering \- Analysing/ Creating \- Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Billionaire Boy Lesson Bundle!
These engaging, varied, and informative lessons have been designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the plot, characters, language, and key messages in David Walliams' 'Billionaire Boy.' All of the resources that you need to teach are included in the bundle: Whole lesson step-by-step PowerPoint presentations, informative and engaging , worksheets, activities, and lesson plans. Contained in the bundle are lessons based on: \- 1\. Bumfresh Towers!; \- 2\. Money vs Happiness; \- 3\. The Ending; Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: \- Engaging \- Defining/ Understanding \- Identifying/Remembering \- Analysing/ Creating \- Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging.
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