The Road to Winter: exploring the challenges Finn & Rose face

Learning objective: to show understanding of the challenges the main characters face in the novel.
Success criteria:
1. We can identify key events, challenges and ideas in the novel.
2. We can make links between the genre of dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction and The Road to Winter.
3. We can write thoughtful and convincing paragraphs showing our understanding of Finn's life and the challenges he faces.

Activities today:
1. Reading as a class

2. Before our Socrative quiz: sharing ideas on how to approach reading comprehension questions.

3. Working on Socrative questions.

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4. Sharing progress so far: what have we learned today?

Term Three: Is hope more powerful than fear?

Our big question for Term Three is drawn from The Hunger Games:

Is hope more powerful than fear?

We are going to look at a range of texts (written and visual) which explore this idea, and think about the evidence for hope vs the evidence for fear.

Starter: free writing task:


Main part of the lesson: reading chapter one of The Road to Winter.

Discussion at the end of the lesson: what is an environmental apocalypse?