Bog Child - Lesson Pack

Designed for a high-ability Y8 class to study the novel “Bog Child” by Siobhan O’Dowd.
Lessons take students through the novel chapter-by-chapter, focusing on analytical reading skills as well as formal writing skills. Resources include quizzes, starter activities, grammar and punctuation worksheets, learning mats on language techniques, character worksheets and contextual information.
At the end of the unit students produced a news text, responding to Joe’s hunger strike, but either from the perspective of an Irish or British newspaper to practise showing bias.