A 4 week unit of work based on the book Journey to Jo’burg by Beverley Naidoo for English/writing lessons. It includes lesson plans, PowerPoints and resources for each lesson.
Each week covers a different grammatical focus and writing outcome.
This unit corresponds with a reading unit I have created too.
Hope it helps!
In line with the English Curriculum Year 5 Spec ‘Stories from other cultures’, my pack includes:
5 lesson plans
Lesson 1: What is culture? PowerPoint and research sheet. Children required to used website specified to research stories from other cultures.
Lesson 2: Predicting the story based on the front cover. PowerPoint and worksheet.
Lesson 3: Based on the next chapters. 2 worksheets thinking about the characters thoughts and feelings.
Lesson 4: Based on next chapter.
Please download Lesson 5 resources separately. Would not let me upload.
Please refer to lesson planning to see where resources are needed.
This scheme of work was free but somebody downloaded it and started charging for it. +1K downloads before it was priced.
Used with Year 5 and 6. An example of an excellent setting description - using a detailed set of criteria. Perfect slow writing opportunity to aid with descriptive writing. Active Inspire Flipchart to accompany and support delivery. Strong link to the grammar objectives and 2014 Curriculum for writing.
A simple display I used when studying the book ‘Journey to Jo’Burg’. We used this book to create pieces of writing with issues and dilemmas. (Planning is available in my shop also).
Children loved the colorful characters which confirmed their understanding of what a dilemma was, while learning about the country of South Africa at the same time.
*I know the sign in my cover picture (Jo’Berg) is spelled wrong, however I have fixed it in the resource itself.
Explore in more detail the history of apartheid in South Africa, with links to Mandela. Look at the signs that were displayed.
Pick out examples of effects of apartheid on non-whites in Journey to Jo’burg, and act out short scenes that show these effects.
Suitable for years 5 and 6.
"Welcome to Lance’s Learning Lab! Dive into a comprehensive 6-week reading plan for Year 5 or Year 6 students, centered around the captivating book ‘Journey to Jo’burg’ by Beverley Naidoo. This meticulously crafted resource includes 17 engaging lessons complete with detailed lesson plans, Smart notebook slides, and accompanying worksheets for starters and independent activities. Each lesson focuses on a different content domain, clearly labeled for easy navigation.
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Two weeks of planning on the first part of the book and then a few chapters in.
Perfect if you are doing a reading unit looking at different extracts like we did.
Links perfectly to any unit on Africa.
– I have included the three other weeks we used. The front cover of each book is on the slides - hopefully you will be able to make use of these ; if not - who doesn’t love a freebie!
We also completed a writing unit alongside this whereby we wrote a letter as if we were Naledi writing to Mma.
Worked really well.
I hope this helps.
All money raised from these resources is used to buy more books for my year 6 class.
Thanks for reading.
Ks3 Journey to Jo’burg
Created for Year 7 and executed very well with this year. However could be used for Year 6 for the more challenging pupils and can be adapted for EAL.
SOW for the lessons is included with detailed information and culture capital in mind.
18 lessons with resources, comprehension questions included for each chapter with challenge included.
Also included unit assessment with model assessment response slide too.
It will support the pupils to explore and understand:
Discrimination and its forms
Apartheid and its impact - the historic issues
Trauma regarding young adults
The fight for equality
Looking at grief and hope within the novel
Looking at the different activist who worked for human rights
Also included youtube links and TedTalk videos for more information and support understanding
Skills of writing a letter, speech, newspaper article and diary entry.
This is a reading comprehension resource which looks at a lovely book which addresses the inequality in South Africa. The young girl in the story begins to realise that education is for ALL.
Whole Class Reading Ppts and Question slides for ‘Journey to Jo’burg’ by Beverley Naidoo.
One Ppt per chapter with questions based on DERIC model. Each lesson begins with a warm-up slide with link to any video resources included.
A short, one week unit of writing around a balanced argument using the book Journey To Jo'Burg as a stimulus.
The planning includes:
> Grammar blast introductions (connecting adverbs and subjunctive form)
> Reading links (with coverage of several reading skills)
> Links to wider research
> Opportunities to develop speaking and listening through discussion and debate.
Created for mixed ability Year 6 class, these questions have been written in the style of SATs questions linked to the content domains. There are retrieval questions, find and copy questions, inference questions and vocabulary questions. There are questions for the whole story and the page numbers for each question are on the top of each document.
Active Inspire Flipchart and Word Documents. 3 Writing opportunities, linked to the new writing and SPaG objectives. Includes a Slow Write setting description, recount from a different perspective and biography on Nelson Mandela. Full unit of work based around the book Journey to Jo'Burg. Would work well with Year 5 and Year 6 - my students have all been absolutely hooked by this!
This knowledge organiser is based on the Apartheid in South Africa and supports children writing a non-chronological report (this was use in Y4), using the novel ‘Journey to Jo’burg’.
It includes Y3/4 spellings, challenging vocabulary, objectives specifically for Y6, grammar prompts, and suggested planning guidance, so children can use this to write their own report.
The resource is a PowerPoint for three lessons related to Journey to Jo’burg, Chapter 1.
Lesson 1: making predictions about a text
Lesson 2: making inferences about a character (extracting evidence from the text)
Lesson 3: making inferences about a character (using evidence to make inferences and respond to a question)
Accompanying the PowerPoint are lesson starter strips which can be stuck in books.
All answers are provided on the PowerPoint.
This is a series of six lessons (including PP and worksheets) on Journey to Jo’Burg by Beverley Naidoo that focuses on different areas of the UKS2 N.C for Reading following CPD training on how to teach the N.C objectives whilst promoting a love reading. The N.C focus areas are:
To make predictions from details that have been stated and implied
To make inferences from a text
To summarise the main ideas from a text
To give the meaning of words in context
To show understanding through intonation, tone, volume and action
To make comparisons within a text
This series includes extracts from Journey to Jo’Burg as well as samples from other books such as Wolf Brother, A Spoonful of Murder, The Wolf Wilder, The Chocolate Factory Ghost and Shadow for children to enjoy.
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