Lesson 4.1
Lesson 4.1
Lesson 4.1
SMALL BUT
PERFECT
S/Topic:
Flash fiction
In this session, the students will:
1.describe the features of flash
fiction story.
2.identify symbols and descriptive
images in a text.
3.analyze how a writer uses symbols
and images for effect.
STARTER(10 Minutes)
LEARNING
OBJECTIVES:
1. ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’. Discuss In this session, the
what you think this proverb means? students will:
2. Describe one of the images below. Describe it
to your partner and explain why you think it is
1. describe the
powerful. features of flash
3. How is it connected to flash fiction? fiction story.
2. identify symbols
and descriptive
images in a text.
3. analyze how a
writer uses symbols
and images for
effect
FEEDBACK FROM STARTER
(10 Minutes) LEARNING
OBJECTIVES:
• Flash fiction is a type of In this session, the
students will:
short story written with 1. describe the
few words, based on the features of flash
fiction story.
idea of saying something 2. identify symbols
powerful in a few words. and descriptive
images in a text.
• You are going to read the 3. analyze how a
flash fiction story about a writer uses symbols
refuge by Helen Rye and and images for
effect
answer the questions in the
next slide:
ACTIVITY 2 (10 Minutes)
SYMBOLS AND DESCRIPTIVE IMAGES LEARNING
OBJECTIVES:
1. Which two words reflect the mood of the speaker? Give reasons
for each of your choices and support them with quotations.
In this session, the
students will:
desperate angry 1. describe the
hungry happy features of flash
hopeful sad fiction story.
2. Why does the writer use the ‘FIG’ as a symbol in the story? Give 3
2. identify symbols
possible reasons. and descriptive
3. Write a summary of about 6 sentences for the given story. images in a text.
Sequence your writing by using words connected with time 3. analyze how a
such as ‘first’, ‘next’, ‘then’. writer uses symbols
Begin with: The family enjoyed their beautiful land, filled with
nature…
and images for
effect
LEARNING
ACTIVITY 3 (10 Minutes) OBJECTIVES:
USES OF SYMBOLS AND IMAGES FOR EFFECT In this session,
1. Reread the first two paragraphs of the flash the students will:
1. describe the
fiction story. Find two quotations about the features of
figs and explain what each one suggests. For flash fiction
story.
example: ‘nothing like it anywhere’: This 2. identify
suggests that the writer feels her country is symbols and
unique. She misses it. descriptive
images in a
2. Consider the way images carry meaning in this text.
story. What do you think this line suggests 3. analyze how a
about the link between the tree and the man? writer uses
symbols and
‘The last fruit was ripe on its branches and the leaves had almost images for
gone, the day the rebels took him away’.
effect
HOME LEARNING (20 Minutes)
PUNCTUATIONS – copy down the given passage adding
paragraphs, speech marks, capital letters, commas and full
stops as you go.
• “My heart leaps when I see a
• My heart leaps when I see a rainbow in the sky!” wrote
rainbow in the sky wrote William William Wordsworth, the
Wordsworth the famous poet most famous poet.
of us share his feelings when we • Most of us share his feelings
are lucky enough to see a rainbow when we are lucky enough to
a rainbow is really just the result see a rainbow. A rainbow is
of raindrops reflecting and really just the result of
refracting light from the sun raindrops reflecting and
there are seven colors in the refracting light from the
sun. There are seven colors
rainbow in the rainbow.
PLENARY (20 Minutes)
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
In this session, the
1.Today I have learnt two students will:
1. describe the features
things______and________ of flash fiction story.
__ 2. identify symbols and
descriptive images in a
2.Two things I have not text.
3. analyze how a writer
understood today uses symbols and
images for effect
are_________and_______