Engaging with the opening of 'The Firework Maker's Daughter'

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Exploring character relationships in 'The Firework Maker's Daughter'

Developing a character profile for Lila from 'The Firework Maker's Daughter'

Analysing the features of a diary entry

Exploring emotions in the opening of 'The Firework Maker's Daughter'

Planning the first diary entry based on 'The Firework Maker's Daughter'

Writing the first diary entry based on 'The Firework Maker's Daughter'

Planning the second diary entry based on 'The Firework Maker's Daughter'

Writing the second diary entry based on 'The Firework Maker's Daughter'

In this unit, pupils learnt to write a diary entry from a character's perspective with heightened emotions from a fictional context. In 'Into the Forest', pupils will learn to develop their skills of writing a diary from a fictional character's perspective. 

In 'The Journey' unit, pupils learned how to convey character's emotion in a diary using informal tone and language in the first person. In this unit, pupils will continue to develop their skills of conveying emotion through writing. 

Pupils explore the text's opening by summarising events and using inference to understand character traits and relationships. They identify Lila's emotions in the opening and use empathy to develop thoughts that convey these. Pupils then plan and write a diary entry from Lila's perspective.

'The Firework Maker's Daughter': reading and diary writing

a generalised and often unfair or untrue belief about a particular group of people or things

to draw conclusions from clues within the text

a main character or central figure in a story or narrative

the process of building a unique character with depth, personality and clear motivations

the special qualities that make a character in a story unique or interesting

a character analysis activity which encourages readers to infer

a piece of writing that recalls an event or experience

strong feelings resulting from circumstances, mood, or relationships with others

the ability to understand other people’s feelings and points of view

speaking aloud to retell events that have already happened

the point of view where the speaker or writer is the "I" character providing a personal account of events or experiences

a framework that writers create before they write a section or whole text

a verb form used to refer to an action that was ongoing at a time in the past

a verb form used to refer to an action that happened in the past

a sentence formed of a main clause and an adverbial subordinate clause

a question asked to the reader that does not expect an answer

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