Honey and Trouble: character

In this lesson, we will listen to the story 'Honey and Trouble' and think about the characters and main plot points.

In this lesson, we will create a story map and 'step' the story of 'Honey and Trouble'.

In this lesson, we will use our character writing toolkit to explore the main inner quality of the monkey through song and a mood map.

In this lesson, we will think of adjectives to describe the character of the monkey, and use them to write sentences about his appearance and personality.

In this lesson, we will practise our reading strategies and look for clues to infer information about the wise woman of the forest.

In this lesson, we will 'box up' our story of 'Honey and Trouble', focusing on how the monkey feels at different points in the story, and what this tells us about his character.

In this lesson, we will read a section of our 'Honey and Trouble' story as a writer, thinking about how the woman has been described, using our writing toolkit, before adding to our monkey adjective list and writing independent sentences.

In this lesson, we will use our adjective list, and everything we have learned from the character writing toolkit, to start writing a description of the monkey, focusing first on his physical appearance and dress.

In this lesson, we will use our adjective list, and everything we have learned from the character writing toolkit, to continue writing a description of the monkey, focusing on how his actions show his personality.

In this lesson, we will use our adjective list, and everything we have learned from the character writing toolkit, to finish writing a description of the monkey, focusing on how his speech, thoughts and feelings, show us what he is like.