The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas at KS3

Ideally for Year 8 or low ability Year 9, this unit of work contains 25 lessons covering the whole of the text. It focuses on writer’s use of language, how the writer uses structure, evaluating a statement and creative writing. It comes fully resourced with contextual information, Auschwitz survivor stories, chapter extracts, freeze frame cards and IWB activities. This is perfect to embed the skills needed for GCSE Literature Paper 1 preparation at KS3.

Lesson 1: Context
Lesson 2: Boyne’s narrative style
Lesson 3: Exploring sibling relationships
Lesson 4: Descriptive writing
Lesson 5: The importance of Bruno’s father
Lesson 6: Good and evil
Lesson 7: Pavel as a symbol of Jewish struggles
Lesson 8: Uniforms
Lesson 9: Exploring
Lesson 10: Friendships
Lesson 11: Bruno and Shmuel
Lesson 12: Shmuel’s background
Lesson 13: Using inference
Lesson 14: Writing a TV script
Lesson 15: Lieutenant Kotler
Lesson 16: Radicalization and the Hitler Youth
Lesson 17: Bruno’s mother
Lesson 18: Bruno’s world
Lesson 19: Writing the ending
Lesson 20: Poetic justice
Lesson 21: The end
Lesson 22: Interview with John Boyne
Lesson 23: Planning your assessment
Lesson 24: Writing your assessment
Lesson 25: Feedback and improve