I am doing a novel study 'Goodnight Mr Tom' with my year 9 students.?

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I have searched the internet but have had little success finding interesting lesson ideas. Any suggestions?

What great ideas so far! You guys are so helpful, thanks!

All your answers were of great help. I'd like to give them all best answer status - but because I have to choose, it will have to go to Paul H. Thanks a mil.

Answer 1

I have just finished teaching this to my Year 9 class. For me it was a great education as I work in an international school (British curriculum) in Spain and of a class of 23, 17 are German. I was amazed by how little they have been previously taught regarding this important part of recent history.

I used the text as a basis for language exploration, learning basic literary analysis and history lessons which fascinated all concerned.

The Cambridge version of the book which I used has consideration points and comprehension questions at the beginning of every chapter and a series of extended projects at the back. One copy for the teacher would avoid having to replace a full class set.

I also found the www.teachit.co.uk website extremely useful (to biblical proportions at keystage 4 and 5).

If you have any ideas please share.

Goodluck.

Answer 2

Goodnight Mr Tom Comprehension Questions

Answer 3

This was the only book at school which I remember. Infact I loved it so much I didn't give the book back to the library (oops).
Did you watch the adaption which featured which John Thore (the detective Morse). That was brilliant. Maybe you could do one chapter reading and show one half of the drama. Iam not a teacher so I don't know how to plan a lesson. But I think you have picked a really good subject. Especially if the kids you are teaching are doing World War 2 in History too.
Good luck

Answer 4

The historical aspect of 'Goodnight, Mr. Tom' is very important. Book reviews are the obvious way to go, but more creative writing can be fun, a piece of writing done from the pupil's prespective as an evacuee or even putting them into William's shoes, perhaps in the form of a series of short diary entries or letters home.
And all kids love drama, so acting imaginary scenes that they themselves write from the book can be fun. This is a good way to get the class thinking about the characters and what they may or may not do in other circumstances...

Answer 5

Make Anderson shelters out of corrugated card sprayed silver. Write a story from the point of view of someone going into an Anderson shelter because the sirens went off. Pretend to be an evacuee and write home. Make a list of adverbs used to describe Mr Tom and do some drama. Make a list of words the author uses to describe Willie at the beginning of the book, then again at the end. How did Willie change?

Answer 6

Good night Mr. Tom was a great movie (have to admit I did not even know there was a book). There are so many areas your class could explore, in addition to the other suggestion of the study of where the story actually takes place, and child abuse, you could also get them to explore the theme of love and how Mr. Tom grew to love this little boy (and vice versa) even though they were not real family. They could do comparisons of similar people in their lives whom they feel the same way about.
* They could also do a stage production of the book
* compare that war to the current Iraq invasion
* Interview war survivors

Answer 7

i do no longer oftentimes watch this im a fifteen 300 and sixty 5 days previous boy and that i purely positioned this on for my nephew who's 3 and grow to be in basic terms approximately in tears haha ??? unhappy ending i'm hoping Andy and his toys meet lower back as chum contained in the subsequent you tale ??

Answer 8

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Answer 9

It is pretty authentic, iwas a school boy in London during WW2.
See if you can get anything of use from these websites.
Good luck to you all!
www.century20war.co.uk
www.flyingbombsandrockets.com/stats
www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/
www.1940.co.uk

Answer 10

Build an air raid shelter at school, that's what mine did,he talked about it for days, it really got him interested.