Alice - Teaching Slides

The teaching slides provided by Focus Education UK Ltd. delve into the classic tale of "Alice in Wonderland," prompting students to engage with the story on a deeper level. The materials encourage pupils to ponder questions such as Alice's thoughts about books lacking pictures or conversation, and why she chose to follow the White Rabbit. Students are asked to think critically about the story's setting and the use of the name 'Wonderland,' while also exploring the characters' feelings, actions, and the reactions of others through activities like 'Role on the Wall.' The slides guide students to explore their own opinions, such as whether Alice should have drunk from the mysterious bottle and what she might have seen as she tumbled down the rabbit hole.

Further into the lesson, the focus shifts to understanding and using language effectively. Students are tasked with finding synonyms, identifying homophones, and expanding nouns with descriptive adjectives and prepositional phrases. They also work on building sentences, understanding the use of powerful verbs, and the proper application of past perfect tense. The slides guide students through the process of retelling events from Alice's perspective, using first-person narrative and past tense to create a vivid recount of her experiences. The toolkit provided aids in evaluating the impact of their writing on the reader, ensuring the correct use of various sentence types, and engaging language to add detail and create atmosphere. The slides culminate in a comparative historical information text, prompting students to reflect on Victorian childhood and how it compares to the present day, using precise words and technical vocabulary.