Session 1
All resources for this unit can be found at ...
http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/node/18648

USEFUL WORDS FOR TODAY’S LESSON
Use a dictionary to find the meanings of these words. Record your definition in your jotter...
Narrative
Visual
Deduce
Opinion
Something that is told or written or the telling of a story
Something that you can see
Work something out from clues
Something that you believe. Often starts I think that... or I believe that...
online dictionary

WALT
1. To deduce information about a character from a visual text –a picture
2. To give an opinion and provide evidence to support it!
You will have ten minutes to discuss the picture with your group
Record your ideas on the post-it notes
Be ready to share your ideas with the class
Remember ..what is your evidence

What can you tell me about the character from the picture?
What do you think he might be like ?
Who do you think he might be ?
Remember...what is your evidence?
Illustration by Charles Keeping. Used with kind permission of B.L. Kearley Ltd.
From.. http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/node/18648

Now let’s share our ideas and evidence..
Illustration by Charles Keeping. Used with kind permission of B.L. Kearley Ltd.
From.. http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/node/18648

Alfred Noyes
Charles Keeping
What do you know about Highwaymen?
Talk to your table partners – record your ideas in your jotters
From.. http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/node/18648
Illustration by Charles Keeping. Used with kind permission of B.L. Kearley Ltd.

What do we know already?
Let’s see what we can find out...
highwaymen website
Research/homework – what can you find out about highwaymen?

The Highwayman is a narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes
Listen to this reading of the poem
The Highwayman
The Highwayman from free audio books- LiteralSystems.org
http://literalsystems.org/abooks/index.php/Audio-Book/TheHighwayman

PLENARY
WALT
1. To deduce information about a character from a visual text –a picture
2. To give an opinion and provide evidence to support it!
Thinking about the picture- now that we have heard the poem do you think this is an accurate picture of the
Highwayman ?
Tell your partner.
(Don’t forget ....what is your evidence?)

Extension/Additional activity
Treasure box
Imagine the highwayman had a treasure box.
What would the box look like? What would the Highwayman have in it?
Think of three things that were inside the box. Write down what they are, why they were in the box, where the highwayman got them from, why are they special.....