Mr.Clarke is an incredibly proud teacher! This week P7BC were tasked with the challenge of writing another scene based on the Michael Morpurgo novel Kensuke’s Kingdom. The class had learned about how the character known as Michael had just heard that his parents had been made redundant. They had to write a scene as if they were Michael, i.e. in the first person.
Pupils had to tell the reader how miserable life is now for Michael, use repetition, talk to the reader using phrases such as “by the way”, “do you know” etc. The purpose of this scene was to make the reader feel sorry for Michael and empathise with him.
Once they had written their scenes they shared these with their peers. As a class we conducted some peer assessment where pupils made comments about each other’s writing on small sticky notes. This was called two stars and one wish. The two stars represented what the reader enjoyed most about the piece of writing, while the one wish highlighted an area of improvement which could be made in the future.
The pupils were terrific at this and were really engaged throughout the entire lesson. Several pupils were really brave and shared their scene with the class! Well done to Kathryn, Nicole, Ethan, Ben, Luke and Theo.
The writers really helped the reader empathise with Michael. Michael Morpurgo would be very impressed! I think even Mr Clarke had a slight tear in his eye!
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