Holes Lesson 9: Yellow-spotted Lizards
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Year 6 English Teaching Resources; Holes by Louis Sachar; a medium term plan overview, 23 lesson plans and 20 worksheets along with 161 slides of PowerPoint presentations. Our Holes teaching resource is made up of an extensive assortment of activities for upper KS2 students. It explores the following in detail: Youth detention in the USA and boot camps, The historical context of the American South (racial segregation, civil rights, Jim Crow laws), Analysis of the characters of Stanley Yelnats, Mr Sir, Mr Pendanski, The Warden, Kate Barlow, Sam and Zero, Exploring key themes - crime and punishment, friendship, redemption, Key features of a novel - narrative hooks, building tension, setting the scene, Writing about the book using Point/Evidence/Explain, Louis Sachar's purpose and viewpoint, Activities to consolidate understanding of the plot, Language study in key scenes, Hot seating activities, Empathy writing tasks - diary and letter writing - to show understanding of plot, character and themes, Links to online games, quizzes and more lesson ideas.
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1. Developing Reading Skills
10. The Changing Stan
11. Themes
12. Infer and Deduce
13. The Past and the Present
14. Kissin' Kate Barlow
15. Sam the Onion Man
16. Racial Segregation
17. Sam and Kate
18. 'a hundred times zero was still nothing'
19. Crime and Punishment
2. Narrative Devices
20. The Past is a Foreign Country
21. Lifting the Curse
22. One More Hole
23. Filling in the Holes
3. Stanley and the Curse
4. Building Tension
5. Mr. Sir
6. Mr. Pedanski and Mr. Sir
7. Point, Evidence, Explain
8. Got the Sub-plot?