Lesson Plan

Year: Six
Learning Area: English

TASK

Draw a character of your creation, annotating main aspects, (e.g. blue eyes, long
hair etc.) around the image

Syllabus Covered in this Lesson

- Interpreting, Analysing & Evaluating (ACELY1714) (ACELY1716)

- Interacting with others (ACELY1709)
- Creating Literature (ACELT1800)

Students prior knowledge and experience

- Adjectives; What it is and how they work

- List of Vocabulary Words suitable for Year 5 & 6 (spelling)
- Planning a story (Who, what, where, why, how)

Learning objectives Focusing on character construction when planning a

story

- Developing handwriting skills

- Displaying information in a different form (using both visual and textual
aids)
- Confidently able to present information in front of a class

Evaluation

Student will be evaluated on

- Their participation in class discussion

- Their ability to explain their poster
- The poster must contain enough information (visually and textually) about
their character
- Students must show their knowledge in using adjectives
- Poster is visually appealing

Preparation & Resource

- Introduction text and image from the novel I Am Princess X (2015) by

Cherie Priest
- A3/A4 Paper
- Pencil
- Eraser
- Colour Pencil
- Texter (Colour Markers)

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Timing: 60 Learning Experiences:
mins
1. Introduction
1. 10 Everyone sitting on the mat area/ in their designated seats.
mins Place image (Appendix 1.) of novel cover on the smart board, (use the
actual novel cover if smart board is not available)
Ask questions to whole class per Costass levels of Inquiry about the
image
Level 1
What can you tell me about the image?
- What kind of shoes is she wearing? (red sneakers)
- What kind of person is she? (cool, a princess, bad-ass)
- Who is she? (Princess X)
- Can you describe Princess X to me?
Level 2
Why do you think she wears sneakers and not glass slippers?
Think of all the princesses you know, is she like any ordinary princess?
Level 3
Can you think of some of the adventures she might have?

2. Shared Reading
Reading the excerpt of Princess X (Priest, 2015) where the two main
2. 5
characters created Princess X (p 1- 4)
mins

End of shared reading, bring up image from p. 5 with annotations (by

teacher; must be done before lesson) (Appendix 2.) on the smartboard
with the Paint software (use an A3 printout if smartboard is not
available)
Point out the annotations around the image.

3. Whole class activity

3. 10 Modelling individual activity.
mins Does anyone remember the names of the two girls who created Princess
X?
What would you have done differently? with each suggestion, change
the image.

4. 30 4. Individual activity
mins Now its your turn. I would like you to create a character! Please think
about what you want them to be: an alien, a king, a soldier, a turtle
Dont forget to annotate your image (put adjectives around it to describe
your image)
- Get a few people to give example of what they want to create
- Give specific instructions;
(When you return to your seats) Please get out your pencils,
erasers, colour pencils and wait patiently for your paper
- Ask them to return to their seats if they were on the mat area.
Go around and assist those who needs it.

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 5. Conclusion
5. 5 Ask them to stop what they are doing and start packing up. Assure them it
mins is ok if they havent finished. Ask each child to present work and comment
on ONE aspect of their character.

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Timing: 10 mins 1 Whole class activity

CREATING A CHARACTER TOGETHER

Basing off the image from I Am

1 min Princess X (Christie, 2015) Appendix 1

Starting off with a unanimous vote on:

Gender: MALE/FEMALE
Hair: LONG/SHORT
5 mins Build: SKINNY/STOCKY

Place them in groups, hand them a

piece of paper per group which have a
description that should be filled. (Along
with a visual accompaniment)

OCCUPATION
EYE COLOUR
HAIR COLOUR
SKIN COLOUR???NATIONALITY
CLOTHES
SHOES
SPECIAL ACESSORY
SPECIAL SKILL

4 mins #Teacher should be drawing up the

outline of character based off the votes

Place paper into pile/bowl.

Paste paper onto image (this will serve

as the annotation part of the poster)
and add detail onto image.

Leave the image up for reference for

their own individual task.
Mini-Lesson Plan (expanded from lesson plan
above)

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