Summarising Walter’s life using ‘Walter Tull’s Scrapbook’
I can summarise Walter Tull's life by identifying significant moments.
Summarising Walter’s life using ‘Walter Tull’s Scrapbook’
I can summarise Walter Tull's life by identifying significant moments.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- A summary is the main ideas of a text, usually from more than one paragraph
- Examining an inspirational figure from history can have an impact on our understanding of events in present day
Keywords
Adversity - Adversity can be described as challenges, prejudice, and hardships a person has had to confront and overcome in their life.
Summarise - To summarise means to pull out the key information and ideas from the text.
Inspire - To inspire is to motivate or encourage through positive influence or example.
Legacy - Legacy is the long-lasting impact of particular events and actions that took place in the past, or in a person’s life.
Epitaph - An epitaph is a phrase or form of words written in memory of a person who has died.
Common misconception
Pupils may find it difficult to draw out the most significant moments when summarising.
Model eliciting the key parts of Walter's life - using the contents page to support. Have these accessible during the lesson.
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- Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour
- Depiction or discussion of upsetting content
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
finding key details or information in the text
a conclusion drawn from information and evidence in a text
information or facts to show something is true
to communicate a message to the reader
to examine something in detail in order to understand it
to show or prove something using evidence
a central idea that the writer intends to convey
Exit quiz
6 Questions
challenges, prejudice and hardships in a person's life
to motivate or encourage through positive influence
the long-lasting impact of particular events and actions