Exploring themes in 'No Country'
I can give a personal response to a graphic novel text.
Exploring themes in 'No Country'
I can give a personal response to a graphic novel text.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- We can develop our personal response to a text by reflecting on what we have read so far.
- When giving a personal response, we can focus on emotional impact, characters, narrative elements, atmosphere & setting.
- One of the prominent themes in the text is survival; it follows a family as they struggle to survive during a civil war.
- Take-away ideas within a graphic novel may link to themes that are explored and developed in it.
Keywords
Personal response - reflections that we make about a text after reading it
Theme - a big idea, topic or message that recurs within a text
Common misconception
Pupils may find it challenging to discuss themes part way through a narrative.
Model examples of themes with how they are portrayed in the graphic novel text. For example, war and politics can be seen in the newspaper clippings and the discussion between Beatrice's parents.
Equipment
You need a copy of the 2021 David Fickling Books edition of ‘No Country’, written by Joe Brady and illustrated by Patrice Aggs, for this lesson.
Content guidance
- Depiction or discussion of upsetting content
Supervision
Adult supervision recommended
Licence
Lesson video
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
Exit quiz
6 Questions
older sister
mother
father
brother
There is not much freedom. The family are not able to be together.
The narrative focuses on Beatrice, her parents and brother.
Newspapers report on clashes between the Prime Minister &Free Kingdom.