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

2. 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 online dictionary Something that is told or written or the telling of a story Something that you can see Work something out from clues OpinionSomething that you believe. Often starts I think that... or I believe that...

3. 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

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

5. 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/18648http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/node/18648

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

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

8. 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

9. 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?)

11. 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.....