Week 2 Lesson Plan
Week 2 Lesson Plan
Week 2 Lesson Plan
Learning Outcomes:
1. Students will discuss different versions of Cinderella stories in which characters, events and
settings are portrayed in different ways, and speculate on the author’s reasons (ACELT1594)
2. Students will plan, draft and publish an imaginative text demonstrating increasing control over
text structures and language features and select multimodal elements appropriate to the audience
and purpose (ACELY1682)
1.3.Students will use software including word processing programs with growing speed and
efficiency to construct and edit texts featuring visual and print elements (ACELY1685)
2.4.Students will gain an understanding of the language/character emotions from the picture book
3.5.Students will discuss how language is used to describe the settings in texts, and explore how the
settings shape the events and influence the mood of the narrative (ACELT1599)
Learning Sequence
Stage Learning & teaching strategies Questions Resources
Re-count the story: Cinderella from Who are the Cinderella picture
Building the lesson 1. Have discussion about what characters in this book
Field they remember. story? (Cinderella,
evil stepsister,
prince, godmother)
With students sitting on the class mat, What sort of The Rough-Face Girl
De- read Rough-face girl. characters are they picture book
constructing Get students to predict what the story is in Rough-face girl?
the text about from just seeing the title and cover. Describe the
This introduces predicting and visual characters.
language. Are the
Explore ‘Fairy Tales from Around the characters/character
World’ on Google Earth in pairs. traits the
Students identify common features of same/different Computers/laptops
fairy tales. Are they the same across across cultures?
different cultures? What are some of the
differences? How do settings
Students choose two to compare more differ across
deeply. Students will need to use the cultures? ‘Fairy Tales from
internet to research their chosen stories Around the World’
further. Probing questions: (Google Earth)
Have a class discussion about the How does the story
features in both stories. Brain storm and start? (Once upon a
write key features that students come up time)
with on the board. How does it end?
Examples may include: (happily ever after)
Sspecial beginning and ends, magical How do the settings
characters, character traits (good vs evil) differ? How do they
etc represent different
Highlight this in both the text: “Once cultures?
upon a time”
“They lived happily ever after”
What might this story be like if the Guiding questions Writing books for
Joint setting was different again? might include: planning
Construction In groups of two, create a fairy tale. How might the
Ccome up with a new setting for the cultural setting Computer/laptop with
story (this can be fictional, but within a influence your internet
real country/place (something within story? Students may
their story must make a cultural link to require guidance Padlet on interactive
their chosen country such as fairies & with this through whiteboard
leprechauns in Irish folklore), and create researching their
a mini fairy tale with the key features of chosen
a fairy tale and write down what features place/culture. A
of the story would be the same? What culture/place can be
would be different? suggested if
required.
Using PowerPoint, students create a mini Wikipedia search of
poster with an appropriate photo of the fairy tale in
origin of their fairy tale and their short “selected Country”
story, like that on Google Earth. is a great start.
How does the story
Have pairs present their ideas to the class start? What does the
and add their posters to a class map on setting look like?
Padlet. Who are the
characters? Are the
characters
significant to the
cultural context?
Who is the good
character? What is
the moral of the
story? How does the
story end?