Literacy-autobiography

• Literacy
• Special Education

What is a homophone and how is the word 'hole' an example?

Learning aim and objectives

Aim: 

Develop an understanding of how to form meaning and express ideas and values of ourselves and others through reading text.

Objectives: 

• Set a personal goal to support your participation in group discussions
• Answer open-ended questions on a text
• Apply the ideas you have discussed to your personal experiences
• Some of you may reflect on your personal goal

How have you done this already?

• What were the key themes or ideas that you generated while we read Mary Poppins? (think about class, sexism and morals)
• How did we share ideas? 

How can we improve and share our understanding of texts?

Setting personal goals!

Reflect on how you normally participate in discussions:

Do you shy away from them, preferring to listen or do you tend to monopolise the discussion with all your ideas?

Personal Goal Examples

Please consider the list of personal goal suggestions or create your own.

• To speak at least three times
• To refer to the text to support my ideas
• To ask a question
• To build on others' comments
• To challenge others' ideas

Please write on your goal on the next slide

What is your personal goal?

My Goal For You All

No hands up!

Please use this opportunity to cooperate in a way that sees you focus on the main speaker and wait your turn to talk.

Be courteous whether you are agreeing or disagreeing with others.

Inspectional Read

"Autobiography in Five Short Chapters"

Take a quick look at the text and discuss with your partner what you think this text could be about.

Background information before we analyse the text.

Portia Nelson (1920-2001) wrote "Autobiography in Five Short Chapters"

She was an American singer, songwriter, actress and author.

Her book of poetic musings, "There's a hole in my sidewalk: The Romance of Self-Discovery" is a popular read for those on the twelve-step programs.

Vocabulary checker

Autobiography

Musings

Self-discovery

Twelve-step programs

Analyse/analytical

Stanza

Maths in an English Lesson?!

Who knows their Roman numerals?

The text we are going to read is written in stanzas numbered by Roman numerals.

Analytical Read

Reading volunteers?

Opening question to be thinking about while I read the text again:

What phrase do you think is the most important?

Questions

Remember your personal goals!

Main ideas from the text

What was your favourite part and why?

Which phrase do you think is most important and why?

Which phrase struck you the most and why?

Questions

Remember your personal goals!

Analyse text details

Why did the speaker fall into the hole? What makes you think that?

In the third stanza, the speaker refers to falling as a habit. What does this mean? What makes you think so?

What do you notice about how long it takes the speaker to get out of the hole as the story goes along?

What do you think the hole symbolises and why?

What happened after the speaker finally accepted the responsibility for falling into the hole?

Plenary Task

What are your holes? This can be in general or in terms of your learning.

What lessons can we learn about falling into our holes?

Place your exit tickets in the hole before you leave for break.

Moving Forward

Next Monday we will be reading a text from Nikita Gill

In preparation for this lesson, I would like each of you to research her work and find a text that resonates with you.

I will share my favourite text of hers next week.

Stretch and Challenge

Review the personal goal you set at the start of the lesson and reflect in writing to what extent you met the goal.

Outline why you think you performed in the way you did.