What aspects of a person’s character are essential for survival?
Area of Interaction
Human Ingenuity: the negative impact of laws discriminating against a class of people to justify genocide.
Health and Social Education: The ability to support one another using the language skills of encouragement and moral support.
Aims
Use Language to narrate, describe, analyze, explain, argue, persuade, inform, entertain and express feelings.
Express ideas with clarity and coherence in both oral and written communication.
Use and understand an appropriate and varied range of vocabulary and idiom
Show awareness of the need for an effective choice of register suited to the audience in both oral and written communication
Content
Using the novel ‘Escape from Warsaw’and ‘Matthew Henson: On Top of the |World’, students explore the meaning of survival, in order to understand the specific qualities necessary to survive in different situations. They will analyze the characters and the attributes they display throughout the novel, especially by attempting to think from the point of view of some of the characters. They will also apply those to other examples of survival, including an original short story of their own.
Summative task
Series of 3 journals (200-300 words each) from one character’s point of view, describiing different events from the novel and their survival.
