Blueback novel starter, and theme introduction

There are 10 vocabulary building slides to be completed as ‘hang-man’ games. Ideally they will copy them into their books. The images will help students to define the word. All of the words come from the first chapter of the novel.

Next are two lessons exploring Blueback. Firstly, looking at the them of stewardship vs ownership, with a scaffold for a PEEL paragraph. Then a look at the novel’s relevance and real world problems that relate, with a scaffold for a PEEL paragraph.