Skellig Year 7 Unit 1 Lesson 1 Predicting

Skellig Year 7: Unit 1

Lesson 1 Predicting

Lesson Focus Today our learning aims are: To use skills of inference and deduction to make predictions about a text To begin developing our understanding of the novel by reading Chapter 1 Key Words: Inference Deduction Character Genre Prediction 5, 12, 13, 18

What’s New? Over the next 6 weeks we will studying the novel Skellig by David Almond. In this unit you will: Ø Develop your reading skills by engaging with a novel and completing various activities relating to each chapter Ø Explore characters and events within the novel Ø Develop your writing skills by exploring tension and suspense and then rewriting a chapter of the book Ø Improve your communication and presentation skills through group presentations, drama and class debates Ø Recap what PEE is and be able to write PEE paragraphs Ø Debate the issue of home-schooling and write a structured essay about it Ø Compare the book with the film adaptation Ø…and lots more!

Predicting What might the book be about? What genre could the book belong to? What could the plot be? Who could be the main characters?

Group Presentation In your groups you will each examine a cover from the book Skellig. Your task is to look at your cover and use it to help you make predictions about the text including: v Genre v Characters v Plot Discuss your ideas as a group and then prepare a short presentation to the rest of the class.

Reading Let’s begin to read the novel. Turn to Chapter 1.

Chapter 1 Can we answer the following questions? § Who is the main character? § What has happened to him? § Where does he live? § How is he feeling? How we know this?

Reflect Can you add more detail to your predictions?