Al Capone Does My Shirts Novel - KS3

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This is an engaging unit with 19 lessons, which includes lots of pair and group work. It is a great foundational unit for GCSE English as it helps students to build up many key skills. There are teacher notes at the beginning of each PPT to make prep and printing really straightforward and quick.
This unit aims to help the students do the following:
• Explore many issues and themes: family, disability, independence, depression, poverty and peer pressure;
• Pick out key ideas from a book, include evidence and explain (PEEE);
• Explain some of the ways a writer influences a reader through narrative voice (the person telling the story);
• Recognise some of the ways speakers make choices to influence listeners;
• Begin to think about how this book affects a reader through the way it develops;
• Pick out words which show the writer’s viewpoint;
• Reflect on reading strategies and use them for the right purpose, including predicting and building mental images;
• Structure drama performances to explore issues with others in role;

• Plan and write an essay on a key theme.