Starter Activity 1 LESSON 1 Watch the following

Transcript:Starter Activity 1 LESSON 1 Watch the following:
Starter Activity 1 LESSON 1 Watch the following clip and write down your impressions/emotions as you watch. Somalia Civil War Starter Activity 2 Read Carol Anne Duffy’s poem War Photographer. With a partner COMPARE the similarities and differences between the poem and the passage from ‘A Passage to Africa’ by George Alagiah. A Passage to Africa Assessment Objective 2 (i) Read with insight and engagement, making appropriate reference to texts and developing and sustaining interpretations of them. Background George Alagiah was born in Sri Lanka, but when he was five years old his family moved to live in West Africa. He now lives in the United kingdom and works as a newscaster for the BBC. This passage comes from his book A Passage to Africa. In this autobiography he writes about his life and experiences as a TV reporter working mainly in Africa. In this extract, he writes about a report he made when he was covering the civil war in Somalia for the BBC Homework Find some information about George Alagiah. You can look for a profile on him at www.bbc.co.uk Try to find out something about the civil war in Somalia in the 1990s, which continues to this day WRITE 100-150 words on each of these bullet points. Pair work Share your ideas on the following questions: Why do you think people watch news on television? Do you watch it? Why or why not? Have you ever watched a news programme reporting a war on the humanitarian crisis, for instance a famine or an earthquake? What do you remember about it and the effect it had on you? Does the TV reporting of terrible events (e.g. floods, famine) help the people who are suffering? Group Task: Read through the text wearing your allocated COLOUR De Bono hat and be prepared to feed back your ideas in 15 minutes’ time. Group work: De Bono’s SIX Thinking Hats Group 1: White Hat (information and facts) Ask questions about the text that require factual answers. Find out dates, names, places or explore the social and historical context. Group 2: Red Hat (Feelings, emotions and intuition) Ask questions about the emotions of different character(s), or/and about how the text makes the reader feel. Group 3: Black Hat (Judgment or why something might not work) Think about any issues, or difficult situations that the characters face. Consider anything about the text that doesn’t