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Files Included in this Download |
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Resource Name |
Format |
Objectives |
Resource Details |
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Story of Odysseus
(20 pages) |
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3
Group discussion and interaction
Use discussion to organize roles and action |
The written version simplified to tell
the adventures of Odysseus and his men on their way home
from Troy |
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Pictures of story of Odysseus
(16 slides) |
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3
Group discussion and interaction
Use discussion to organize roles and action |
Pictures from the story on PowerPoint
to be shown on whiteboard for size and effect as the story
is read (as a whole or in parts.) |
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Role play the story
(2 pages) |
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3
Group discussion and interaction
Use discussion to organize roles and action |
Titles to choose as to which part of
the story each group can discuss for roles and actions. |
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Step into the shoes
(1 page) |
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3
Group discussion and interaction
Actively include and respond to all members of the group |
Decide on a character, make notes using
the given suggestions, read out notes for others to guess
the character |
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A fun game
(1 page) |
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3
Group discussion and interaction
Actively include and respond to all members of the group |
Just a fun easy board game about the
story of The Odyssey. Laminate and use with dice and
counters. |
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Prefix practice
(2 pages) |
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6
word structure and spelling
Recognise a range of prefixes |
Not actually in unit objective but
includes practise using common prefixes |
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Monsters in the story
(4 pages) |
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8
Engaging with / responding to texts
Identify features that writers use to provoke readers’
reactions |
Draw and describe the monsters in the
story – as each part is discussed. Say how you feel about
it. |
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Questions about The Odyssey
(1 page) |
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8
Engaging with / responding to texts
Identify features that writers use to provoke readers’
reactions |
Answer the questions in sentences about
the stories in The Odyssey |
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Make sentences
(1 page) |
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8
Engaging with / responding to texts
Identify features that writers use to provoke readers’
reactions |
Fill in the gaps in the sentences –
alliterative words.
Recognise the similarities in the sentences. |
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Events in the story
(2 pages) |
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8
Engaging with / responding to texts
Identify features that writers use to provoke readers’
reactions |
Decide what you think are the main four
events in the story, write sentences and illustrate. |
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Write your own myth
(3 pages) |
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9
Creating and shaping texts
Use beginning, middle and end to write narratives |
For use in group discussion – ideas on
how to write a myth using start, middle, end. Phrases for
opening, continuation and finishing lines |
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My myth
(3 pages) |
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9
Creating and shaping texts
Use beginning, middle and end to write narratives
11
Sentence structure and punctuation
Show relationships of time, reason and cause, through
connectives and subordination |
Step by step guide to write own myth |
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Odysseus and Cyclops sequence
(1 page) |
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10
Text structure and organisation
Signal sequence, place and time to give coherence |
Sequence the sentences about Odysseus
and Cyclops |
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Connectives
(2 pages) |
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11
Sentence structure and punctuation
Show relationships of time, reason and cause, through
connectives and subordination |
Explanation and practice sentences to find correct
connective in the sentences |
