Starter – Finding Out What You Know

Activity
All What kind of person
would have the following
items in their bag:
• lip balm
• Hand cream
• Thesaurus
• Phone
• Bottle of water
• Photos
Extension Use a thesaurus to help
you find ambitious word
choices.

SMSC Lesson Focus: Exploration

Date: Friday, 16 August 2019
Title: What’s in my pocket? The title and date must be
underlined with a ruler.

Level Learning Objectives Key Words SPAG

To be able to use Description Discussion
All adjectives and nouns to
create a character profile. Sentences
Renato, Janzib

To be able to use varied Adjectives

Most descriptive techniques Punctuation
Mario,
Jheison, Rafael within your writing to Senses
create interest. Spelling
To be able to use a range Inferences
Some of sentence structures
Andreia and varied vocabulary to
create effects.
SMSC Lesson Focus: Exploration
Starter – inferencing
Meet Task: What could
Ms Wolanin… we deduce about Ms
Wolanin from the
items she carried in
her bag?

SMSC Lesson Focus: Exploration

Main Task - Inferencing
Meet ▪ Ms Wolanin likes the nice things in life –
even when it comes down to fragranced
Ms hand cream!
Wolanin…
▪ Ms Wolanin enjoys a healthy eating
regime and uses water to regularly detox.
Inferencing
means making an ▪ Ms Wolanin likes to have a wide
educated guess about vocabulary and makes sure she doesn’t
something based on what
you already know.
always use the same boring words.
▪ Ms Wolanin is sociable and uses her phone
It’s reading between the
lines often texting friends.
▪ Ms Wolanin is very busy with her work so
doesn’t get to see her friends as often as
she’d like. She keeps photos of her family
close by to remind her of good times.

SMSC Lesson Focus: Exploration

Main Activity –
Task:

What’s in your pocket (or bag)?

Create an imaginary character. Think

of a few details about them such as
name, age, and job.

Now imagine which objects they

might carry in their pocket or bag.

Write down or draw at least three of

these and put them into the envelope
on your desk.

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Main Activity – building up a character profile
Hair gel or
hair spray

Celebrity
address Wrinkle
book cream

Simon Cowell

Cigarettes Contracts

Microphone

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Main Activity – Create your character profile
Name:____
_______
Age:____
Job:____

3 objects in their bag/ pocket: _____________

______________, ________________

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Main Activity –

Task: Now you have created your character’s

‘pocket’ or ‘bag’, pass the envelope onto the
person next to you.

Remove the items from your partners envelope,

one at a time. Try to imagine what kind of
person would own these items. Share your ideas
with your partner.

SMSC Lesson Focus: Exploration

Assessment Phase – Task Write this out.

Task: Write one or two paragraphs about the

character you created, making use of some items
from their pocket to develop character.

To be able to use a range

Some of sentence structures
Andreia and varied vocabulary to
create effects.
To be able to use varied
Most descriptive techniques
Mario,
Jheison, Rafael within your writing to

create interest.
To be able to use
All adjectives and nouns to
create a character profile.
Renato, Janzib

SMSC Lesson Focus: Exploration

Assessment Phase
Level Assessment Task Expectations

Write about the character you created, Use adjectives to describe the
making use of some items from their people and their possessions.
pocket to develop character.

All Who is he/she? What’s their job?

What are their hobbies? Where do the
live?

Write at least 3 sentences

Write one or two paragraphs about the character Use descriptive techniques
your partner created, using some of the items in accurately to create interest.
their pocket to develop character. Use past tense correctly.
Most
What happened to your character yesterday? Why
do the carry all those objects with them?
As above plus write about a meeting between Use an array of ambitious
meeting between your character and your verbs and write concisely.
Some class mates.

SMSC Lesson Focus: Exploration

Plenary
What would the following characters carry in their
bags, and why?

Read your post it note and write down 3 items they

might carry with them

SMSC Lesson Focus: Exploration

Logos to copy into presentation

No hands up task