How can we be creative with Guided Reading?
How can we help students synthesise information from more than one text?
Sam Hunt's Poem - School Policy on Stickmen - read the poem and draw what it tells you using orange and brown. In small groups discuss why they may have banned stick figures.
Unpacking the poem -
Who might have banned stick figures and why?
Why the exclamation mark?
And yet ... suggests that Sam Hunt doesn't think much of this policy. What words does he use to show a positive image of the picture?
What about Sam Hunt's description of colour?
Introduce terms: Subversion: Sub - under, version to turn about
Complementary Text - Comic Man
Highlight any parts which you think have similar ideas to School Policy on Stickmen.
How could we show these similarities in a table?
Comic Man (Dylan Horrocks) Similarities Stickmen
Cartoon proper images, books Stick images
frowned upon, but do it
drawing from a young age
every possible school project
determination, positive, happy place
Year 7 and 8 Students should be developing their own framework/templates/graphic organisers - ways to present their work. Make sure they have been exposed to them and had them explained the purpose
- Compare and Contrast Chart - Two columns of similarities and differences using bullet points.
- Single List using bullet points
- List the descriptive words, phrases
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