Year 6 No Outsiders lesson plan
Text: The only way is badger by Stella J Jones and Carmen Saldana
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Learning intention: To consider use of language and freedom of
speech.
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Success criteria: I know what Freedom of speech means / I know
how language can be used to persuade people / I know how important pupil
voice is
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Starter: What does Freedom of speech mean? Explain it is the freedom to say
what you think. Can words hurt people? What if someone says a group of people
should be hurt – is it always ok for people to say what they think?
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Main: Read “We are all Badger” stop at points in the story to discuss
following questions:
- How does Badger make
other animals listen to him?
- Discuss the
language Badger uses such as “I’m only trying to help you” – why is this
effective?
- When Badger
starts chanting “No deer here” what is the impact on a) deer b) other
animals?
- Why does Badger
interrupt Moose when he says, “I really think..”
- Why do the
smaller animals skip in to the small badger burrows, how are they feeling?
- When Badger
instructs the animals to bark, why does rabbit say, “I don’t like where this
is going?” what is rabbit realising?
- Why does Badger
end up alone?
- What does Badger
learn at the end of the story
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Role play: By the end of the story the forest is empty; Badger has made
everyone an outsider. At the end of the story he changes his mind and
hopefully he has learned it’s ok to be different, but many animals had to
leave their homes during this story. How will these events affect the animals
in the forest? When would have been the best time to stop this happening?
Look at the very start of the story – how does it all begin? Give children
the lines that Badger says on the first two or three pages; in the story the
animals comply, but what other options are there when we hear people saying these
lines? Ask children to consider responses and reply to Badger; speak up, use
pupil voice and change the outcome of the story.
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Activity: The ending is
very quick. Does Badger really understand or is he only changing his
behaviour because all his friends have left? What happens next? Do you think
the animals accept Badger? Continue the story to show what happens next and
show how the animals make sure this never happens again, or devise a lesson
plan for young animals in the forest school to teach about diversity and
difference so that this never happens again.
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Plenary: Consider freedom
of speech- what is it? Should Badger have freedom of speech? Do you think if
we had a discussion with Badger at the start, we could have changed his mind
or maybe stopped animals having to leave? If Badger believed all deers should
be killed, should he be allowed to say that? Would Badger just change his mind
by himself? How do people change their minds? How do we get people to hear
and think about different ideas?
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Afl questions: What is freedom of speech? Should everyone have
freedom of speech? Is there a time when someone should be denied freedom of
speech? Why is this story about No Outsiders?
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