Thinking from the character's perspective in 'Anna Hibiscus' Song'
I can think from someone else's perspective.
Thinking from the character's perspective in 'Anna Hibiscus' Song'
I can think from someone else's perspective.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- One way of inferring a character's feelings is looking at their expressions in an illustration
- One way of inferring a character's feelings is reading about how they move, what they do and what they say
- Discussing the feelings of others helps to generate powerful adjectives to describe an emotion or event
- Using 'I', 'me', 'my', 'we' or 'us' is a way of speaking in the first person
Keywords
Perspective - a point of view
Adjective - describes a noun
Emotion - a feeling or mood
First person - the 'I/we' perspective
Common misconception
Pupils may struggle to recall the event of the story to be able to express that part.
When you are re-reading the story at the start of the lesson, model the expression of the characters as you are reading and drip-feed in some vocabulary that you could use.
Equipment
You will need a copy of the 2012 Walker Books edition of 'Anna Hibiscus' Song' by Atinuke.
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
Lesson video
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Starter quiz
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Anna
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Anna wants to find out what her family do when they are happy
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