Cirque Du Freak - Unit of Work

Cirque Du Freak - Unit of Work

Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan (Unit of work, 91 slide PowerPoint and 10 worksheets)

This engaging Year 6/7 teaching unit (it can be used with a high ability Year 6 or a Year 7 group) explores the novel Cirque Du Freak in detail and covers the following areas of study:

• Developing inference and deduction skills and active reading skills and strategies

• The novel’s context and background – Victorian freak shows (research task)

• Character study and creating character profiles

• How to use embed quotes in an answer

• Writing a P.E.A.R.L. response

• Summarising and reporting

• Individual, pair and group activities

• Identifying, understanding and using adverbs effectively

• The author’s use of language in Cirque Du Freak

• Using speech marks in writing

• Structuring and writing an extra chapter for Cirque Du Freak for assessment