Session 6

Focus objectives

• To be able to work collaboratively collecting information from a visual image
• To be able to demonstrate their understanding of a text through drawing and annotation

Key teaching approaches

• Drawing
• Annotation
• Discussion

Have a whole-class discussion about what they have found about Jim's life in the workhouse and note the information they find on a large sheet of paper. Model how to use evidence from across a text to support ideas and retrieve helpful information.

Organise the children into groups of three or four and give each group an illustration showing a scene of life in the workhouse, stuck onto a large sheet of paper. See resources for images of life in the workhouse. Ask the children to talk in their groups about what they can see in the image or how it makes them feel and then ask them to make notes around the image on the paper. Share these as a class. Then ask children to make their own annotated drawing of Jim in the workhouse. Ask them to write a caption for their drawing. Encourage discussion of the finished drawings, focusing on what Jim would have been missing about his life before entering the workhouse. Finish the lesson by asking the children to write on a sticky note one of the things that Jim would be missing about his life before he entered the workhouse. The sticky notes can be collected and stuck into the class reading journal.

In a separate PSHE or philosophy session, you could pose the question 'What is a home?' and encourage the children to explore this idea. In a history session, the children could find out more about life in the workhouse.