Transcript In the Footsteps of Mulan

In the Footsteps of Mulan
Raising Boys’ Achievement in Writing
St. Peter’s School
Year 5
How it was Before
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Individuals not confident
Write a little as fast as you can
Writing is soooooo boring!!
Writing stories takes forever
How do I know what a girl thinks??
I don’t write so fast as the rest
I don’t know enough wow words
Dilemmas
Why Mulan?
Exciting
A good yarn
Heroine/hero
Visually
beautiful
Narrative
poem
Opportunity
to explore
website
Varied
cinematography
Fable from
different
tradition
Making a Difference
Making a Difference
What
we
Did
Encouraged
Explored
narrative poetry
an interest
in Chinese
culture
Transposing
poem to film
Concentrated on
cohesion
Using many
small
activities
Storyboards
Conscience
alley
Working in
pairs
Focus on
‘excerpts’
Hot
seating
Focus on
narrative
structure
Able to ‘see’
detail
More of what we did…….and how
we did it
Mulan : Disney
Film
Excerpts Stills
Whole Film
Applying techniques to
Narrative Poem in
English tradition:
The Green Eye of the
Little Yellow God.
Teacher scribing
Scaffolding
Modelling
Original Chinese
Folk Poem : The
Ballad of Mulan:
Exploring Narrative
Hot seating
Conscience Alley
Script writing
Drama : Script : Film
The Motivation
When we ask children to write, are we saying:  Sing me a Chinese folk song
Paint me a cherry blossom tree
Climb the Great Wall of China
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Perceptions
From the Writing Perceptions Sheet
It is like being a film director
Writing is ‘OK’
Girls are not always the best writers
I understand what is happening more
I think I can write better now
What now?
Roll out interventions
In Year 3
Continue with Target
Group
Use Visual Literacy as
Key Strategy in Year 5
Resource and develop
planning and assessment
Plan for each class
have visual Literacy
experience
Share ideas and
encourage colleagues
to experiment