1. Grade 7 English Term One Lesson 1&2- What makes someone inspirational?
LO- to investigate the qualities of inspirational people
Lesson 3- Who inspires you?
LO- to identify people who are your role models
Lesson 4- How are the stories of inspirational people recorded?
LO- to understand the differences between biographies and autobiographies
Lesson 5&6- Why is Nelson Mandela inspirational?
LO- to explore the biography of Nelson Mandela

2. Lesson 1&2- What makes someone inspirational?
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Lesson 1&2- What makes someone inspirational?
LO: to investigate the qualities of inspirational people
Key Words
Inspirational
Famous
Qualities

3. What makes someone inspirational
What makes someone inspirational? LO: to investigate the qualities of inspirational people.
5 Minute Starter Activity: Inspirational Faces
How many names can you list in your book?

4. What makes someone inspirational
What makes someone inspirational? LO: to investigate the qualities of inspirational people.
Is there a difference between someone who is FAMOUS and someone who is INSPIRATIONAL? Why/why not?

5. What makes someone inspirational
What makes someone inspirational? LO: to investigate the qualities of inspirational people.
Is there a difference between someone who is FAMOUS and someone who is INSPIRATIONAL? Why/why not?
Famous:
known by many people
Inspirational:
someone who has influenced other people to want to achieve success.
inspirational people have qualities that helped them to achieve success.
They then become an example to other people.

6. Why do others inspire us
Why do others inspire us? LO: to understand what makes someone inspirational.
Mind Map:
What qualities does an inspirational person need to have?
What sacrifices might they have to make?

7. What makes someone inspirational
What makes someone inspirational? LO: to investigate the qualities of inspirational people.
Complete the mix and match sheet

8. What makes someone inspirational
What makes someone inspirational? LO: to investigate the qualities of inspirational people.
Choose 10 names from the worksheet and create a timeline of when these inspirational people were born. You’ll need to use your own device to locate when they were born.

9. What makes someone inspirational
What makes someone inspirational? LO: to investigate the qualities of inspirational people.
EXTENSION! Create a True/False question about each of the 10 people you chose to test on the rest of the class.

10. characteristic at the top...
What makes someone inspirational? LO: to investigate the qualities of inspirational people.
Put the most important
characteristic at the top...
Narrow the list on the board of what makes someone inspirational and write these in your book

11. Lesson 3- Who inspires you?
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Lesson 3- Who inspires you?
LO: to identify people who are your role models
RECAP- Last lesson we aimed to…
Investigate the qualities of inspirational people
Who can define what makes a person inspirational?
Key Words
* Role Model

12. Who inspires you? LO: to identify people who are your role models
5 Minute Starter Activity- Remember this?
Famous Failures
(click me)
A copy of this is also in ‘The Dumper’

13. Who inspires you? LO: to identify people who are your role models
Recall- Famous Failures
Inspirational Person
There were 11 inspirational people in the video. How many can you list?
Signature for the most

14. Who inspires you? LO: to identify people who are your role models
Recall- Famous Failures
Inspirational Person
Failure/Problem/Challenge
Michael Jordan
Albert Einstein
Oprah Winfrey
Walt Disney
Lionel Messi
Steve Jobs
Eminem
Thomas Edison
The Beatles
Dr. Seuss
Abraham Lincoln
Now list the failures/problems/challenges for each person
Signature for the most

15. Who inspires you? LO: to identify people who are your role models
List as many people as you can who inspire you (these are your role models)
Try to have a mix of very famous people and people who aren’t famous (e.g. your humble EST teacher…)

16. Who inspires you? LO: to identify people who are your role models
List as many people as you can who inspire you (these are your role models)
You need to find at least three people in the room who have a very similar name on their list to yours. YOU CAN ONLY WHISPER!
E.g. you might both have a family member on your list / you might both have a leader or ruler etc.

17. Who inspires you? LO: to identify people who are your role models
Choose one person’s name from your list to create a detailed fact file
Fact File –
Who are they?
What does this person mean to you?
Why do they inspire you? (think about their qualities)
What have they achieved?

22. Who inspires you? LO: to identify people who are your role models
You as an inspirational person
Write a paragraph about yourself where you explain how and why you would like to inspire others
I, Mr. Jeremy hope to inspire the world. How? By inspiring every child I teach how to PEE on the page…

25. Who inspires you? LO: to identify people who are your role models
5 Minute Reflection- Rapid share.
In the next five minutes, we need as many people as possible to share with the class:
A.) Their fact file
B.) Their inspirational paragraph

26. HOMEWORK
Part One
Bring in images of people who inspire you (at least one) to add to a collage we will create.
Cut these out so they can be stuck onto the collage straight away
Part Two
Download/save the Nelson Mandela biography on Edmodo onto your own device READY FOR NEXT CLASS.
If you have problems, me and I will organise a paper copy.

28. Lesson 4- How are the stories of inspirational people recorded?
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Lesson 4- How are the stories of inspirational people recorded?
LO: to understand the differences between biographies and autobiographies
RECAP- Last lesson we aimed to…
Identify people who are your role models
What were our most common types of role models?
Key Words
Biography
Autobiography

29. Stone Cold Steve Austin
How are the stories of inspirational people recorded? LO: to understand the differences between biographies and autobiographies
5 Minute Starter Activity- Book Titles
Can you match the book title with the famous person (I’m not saying they are inspirational people…)?
Hard Drive
Angel in Disguise
Don’t Hassle the Hoff
The Stone Cold Truth
Sly Moves
Hitting Back
Stori Telling
EXTENSION
Miles to Go
Sylvester Stallone
Tori Spelling
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Andy Murray
Angelina Jolie
David Hasselhoff
Bill Gates
5 minutes

30. How are the stories of inspirational people recorded
How are the stories of inspirational people recorded? LO: to understand the differences between biographies and autobiographies
5 Minute Starter Activity- Book Titles
Can you match the book title with the famous person?
Hard Drive (Bill Gates)
Angel in Disguise (Angelina Jolie)
Don’t Hassle the Hoff (David Hasselhoff)
The Stone Cold Truth (Stone Cold Steve Austin)
Sly Moves (Sylvester Stallone)
Hitting Back (Andy Murray)
Stori Telling (Tori Spelling)
Miles to Go (Myley Cyrus)

31. How are the stories of inspirational people recorded
How are the stories of inspirational people recorded? LO: to understand the differences between biographies and autobiographies
Definition time.
A biography is…
An autobiography is…

32. Biography A biography is about somebody else’s life.
It is about a real person, but is not written by the person. It is written in third person.
The author must know a lot about the person and research the person, so that they can write a lot about them.

33. Autobiography
An autobiography is written in first person because it contains facts about the author’s own experiences.
An autobiography recounts key incidents/events in the author’s life.
It is written in chronological order

43. Is this a biography or autobiography?
Radcliffe made his acting debut at age ten in BBC One's television movie David Copperfield (1999), followed by his film debut in 2001's The Tailor of Panama. Cast as Harry at the age of eleven, Radcliffe has starred in eight Harry Potter films since 2001, with the final installment released in July 2011.
Is this written in the first or third person?

44. Autobiography or Biography?
During his childhood, Justin Bieber was interested in hockey, soccer, and chess; he often kept his musical aspirations to himself. As he grew up, Bieber taught himself to play the piano, drums, guitar, and trumpet.
Biography – written in the third person!

45. Annotate the sheet

46. Biography or Autobiography? the story of someone’s life
Journals, letters, diaries, books
Use of third person
Orientation about early life
Personal feelings
Autobiography
Overview of life’s important events in sequence
Summing up of achievements
List of source material used
Bibliography
Use of past tense
Biography
Use of first person
Books, TV and radio programs, articles in newspapers and magazines, websites
Private reflections
the story of your life, or part of it, written by you
About an important event in his life
Annotate the sheet by adding the features of a biography and an autobiography in the correct spot

47. ANSWERS!

48. ANSWERS

49. Copy and complete a bubble.
How are the stories of inspirational people recorded? LO: to understand the differences between biographies and autobiographies
The most important thing I learned today is…..
Today I have learnt that…..
I have found out several things on the topic of….
Firstly I found out that…..
Furthermore, I found that…..
One thing I need to remember from today’s lesson is that…..
Copy and complete a bubble.
Today I have tried to…..

50. Lesson 5- Why is Nelson Mandela inspirational?
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Lesson 5- Why is Nelson Mandela inspirational?
LO: to explore the biography of Nelson Mandela
RECAP- Last lesson we aimed to…
Understand the differences between biographies and autobiographies
Who can tell me what the differences are?
Key Words
Nelson Mandela

51. Choose one quote- what do you like about it?
Why is Nelson Mandela inspirational? LO: to explore the biography of Nelson Mandela
5 Minute Starter Activity- the power of words
Choose one quote- what do you like about it?

52. Read the quote…
Simplify what Mandela is saying into a simple sentence.

53. Why is Nelson Mandela inspirational
Why is Nelson Mandela inspirational? LO: to explore the biography of Nelson Mandela
Biography in focus- Nelson Mandela.
We will read p.7-11 of the biography (either electronic version available on Edmodo or printed A3 worksheet)
Complete comprehension questions 1-5

54. Copy and complete a bubble.
How are the stories of inspirational people recorded? LO: to understand the differences between biographies and autobiographies
The most important thing I learned today is…..
Today I have learnt that…..
I have found out several things on the topic of….
Firstly I found out that…..
Furthermore, I found that…..
One thing I need to remember from today’s lesson is that…..
Copy and complete a bubble.
Today I have tried to…..

55. Lesson 6- Why is Nelson Mandela inspirational? (continued)
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Lesson 6- Why is Nelson Mandela inspirational? (continued)
LO: to explore the biography of Nelson Mandela
RECAP- Last lesson we aimed to…
Explore the biography of Nelson Mandela
Who can remember one of Mandela’s quotes from yesterday?
Key Words
Nelson Mandela

56. Why is Nelson Mandela inspirational
Why is Nelson Mandela inspirational? LO: to continue to explore the biography of Nelson Mandela
5 Minute Starter Activity- Hot Seat!!
Based entirely on what we read/learnt last lesson about Mandela, write three interview questions for ___(volunteer needed)__ who will sit in the hot seat as Nelson Mandela.

57. Why is Nelson Mandela inspirational
Why is Nelson Mandela inspirational? LO: to explore the biography of Nelson Mandela
Continuing on with Mandela’s biography
Turn to page (Imprisonment and Freedom)
Complete comprehension questions 6-11

58. Go to the next slide to revise the correct style
Why is Nelson Mandela inspirational? LO: to explore the biography of Nelson Mandela
Re-read this first person explanation. Re-write it in the correct biographical style (third person) to summarise all that you have learnt about Mandela’s life.
Nelson Mandela
I have been the President of South Africa and was the first South African person to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. I have spent a great deal of my life campaigning for equal rights in South Africa and spent 27 years in prison due to this.
Go to the next slide to revise the correct style

60. Why is Nelson Mandela inspirational
Why is Nelson Mandela inspirational? LO: to explore the biography of Nelson Mandela
5 Minute Reflection- Read your neighbours work.
Are they following the correct structure?