- Diary entry in role as Rose Blanche
- Diary entry in role as boy who tried to escape
- Letter of complaint to Mayor
- Note from Rose to her mother before her last visit to the camp
- Add dialogue to specific scenes
- Playscript of specific scenes
- Write more developed and detailed text for specific scenes
- Agony aunt column to advise Rose Blanche
- Extended description of specific scenes
- Discussion - What would I do to help someone in trouble?
- Information text on the White Rose movement in Germany
- Newspaper article about the disappearance of Rose Blanche
- Discussion - Did the townspeople behave well?
/ 1. Responding to the Text
- Explore picture of Rose walking through the forest. What is happening? Start role on the wall.
- Explore the first 2 illustrations? Note thoughts.
- Find the clues that tell the reader where and when the story takes place
- How did Rose's thinking change through the story?
- What danger was Rose in? Why did she go on helping?
- What would you have done if you were Rose?
- Compare the illustration with Rose placing a flower on the barbed wire with the last picture showing the return of spring. Why did Innocenti decide to end the book with this picture? Why did he include the blue flower?
- Discuss the character of the mayor and how he may be perceived by the public.
- Why is there so little dialogue in the text? What do you notice about the punctuation of any dialogue? Why do you think it has been written in this way?
- How has the writer used adjectives and verbs? What is the impact?
Hook
- Short clip from The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas of concentration camp
2. Capturing Ideas
- Role play conversation between Rose and her mother – what may Rose ask and how will mother respond?
- Freeze Frame and thought track the incident with the mayor, the lorry and the boy.
- Freeze frame and thought track other scenes.
- Conscience Alley – What should Rose do? Help the children or ignore their needs?
- Interview Rose’s mother and her friend to gather information.
- Role play conversations between characters.
- Research information about the holocaust/White Rose resistance movement.
- Build word banks
- Play with different sentence starters - adjective, ing, ed, adverbial
- Improve a sentence - focus on the grammatical elements that need consolidation or review
- Experiment with verbs and adverbs for speech
- Review and consolidate direct speech
- Use of comma in direct speech
- Use of verbs and adverbs of speaker in direct speech
- Use of adverbials - how, when and where
Guided Reading Possibilities
- Read other diary extracts - Diary of Anne Frank, Archies’ War
- More able readers (Y5 and 6)The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
- Identify and discuss features of text type for final written outcome. Level of text can be pitched at each groups’ level, ensuring both access and challenge.
4. Modelled Writing
Shared Writing
Guided Writing
Independent Writing