Engaging and ready to teach one hour lesson to cover chapter three of ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ by John Boyne. This lesson introduces the key word mondegreen (misheard words that are given a new meaning) and prompts students to analyse the effect of the Fuhrer being misheard as “The Fury” and Auschwitz being misheard as “Out-With”. Students are given scaffolding to write an analytical paragraph to consider the effect of this technique.
Learning Objective: Analyse the effect of mondegreens as symbols in the text.
Learning Outcomes:
Bronze: Understand what a mondegreen is and give examples from the text.
Silver: Explain clearly how these words are used as symbolds.
Gold: Explain clearly what the effect is on the reader.
**Lesson Outline: **
Do It Now: What do you notice about the chapter titles?
Starter: Listen to ‘Message in a Bottle’ – what is a mondegreen?
Activity one: Discussion and reading
Activity two: PETER paragraph
Peer assessment
Plenary: Would all readers of this book be able to consider the mondegreens?
Freebies:
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Two pre-reading lessons to introduce students to the context of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is available for free here.
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A lesson on chapter 1 of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is available for free here.
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- A scheme of work for teaching the entire novel is available for free here.
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