Thinking from Paddington and Floella Benjamin's perspectives
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can think from another person or character's perspective.
Key learning points
- One way of inferring a character's feelings is looking at their expressions in an illustration.
- One way of inferring a character's feelings is reading about how they move, what they do and what they say.
- Imagining how people might feel because of certain actions can help to understand the perspective of others.
- Discussing feelings of others helps to generate alternative & more powerful adjectives to describe an emotion or event.
- Using 'I', 'me' or 'my' is a way of speaking in the first person.
Keywords
Character - a person or animal in a story
Emotion - a feeling or mood
Facial expression - a way of communicating emotion through the face
Perspective - point of view
Common misconception
Pupils may struggle to speak in the fist person imagining they are someone else.
The sentence stems should support. Teachers should ask the question, then say the sentence stem and provide children time to speak to someone to rehearse answers in full sentences. If they don't reply in full sentences, always re-phrase it for them.
Teacher tip
As well as understanding character emotions and feelings based on actions, a primary purpose of the lesson is to support vocabulary development. When the pupils freeze-frame, label their emotions for them: "You feel proud!" and ask them to repeat "We feel proud." to support this development.
Equipment
You will need copies of the 2014 Harper Collins Children's Books edition of 'Paddington' by Michael Bond and the 2020 Macmillan Children's Books edition of 'Coming to England' by Floella Benjamin.
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is an adjective?
Q2.Which of these adjectives describe feelings or emotions?
Q3.What is the adjective in the following sentence? 'Floella felt overjoyed when she saw her Marmie.'
Q4.What is the adjective in the following sentence? 'Paddington feels confused.'
Q5.Match each word class to its example in the following sentence: 'Floella feels excited.'
Floella
feels
excited
Q6.Which words would you use when talking about yourself?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What does perspective mean?
Q2.Which of these words would you use if you were speaking in the first person perspective?
Q3.Imagine that you are Paddington. What is your favourite food?
Q4.Imagine that you are Floella. How would your describe the cabin of the boat you stayed in?
Q5.Imagine that you are Paddington. Which room did you flood?
Q6.Imagine that you are Floella. Which adjectives could you use to describe how Floella felt when she was honoured by the Queen?
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