Starter quiz
- Who is the main character in the story?
- Anna Hibiscus ✓
- Mama
- Papa
- Grandfather
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- Where is the setting of the story?
- the woods
- the park
- Anna's house ✓
- the shopping centre
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- Which of these explains the meaning of emotions?
- Emotions describe what someone looks like
- Emotions describe your feelings on the inside and your appearance
- Emotions are how you are feeling on the inside ✓
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- Complete this sentence. Words that describe nouns, including emotions are called ...
- nouns
- verbs
- adjectives ✓
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- Which adjectives could you use to describe Anna during the story?
- happy ✓
- upset
- lonely
- calm ✓
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- Match the term to its example from the story 'Anna Hibiscus' Song'
- character⇔Anna ✓
- setting⇔Nigeria, Africa ✓
- plot⇔Anna wants to find out what her family do when they are happy ✓
Exit quiz
- Imagine you are Anna. What did Uncle Tunde tell you that he does when he feels happy?
- He told me he pounds yams
- He told me he counts to five
- He told me he dances to his car radio ✓
- He told me he hugs people
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- Imagine you are Anna. What did the Cousins tell you that they do when they feel happy?
- They told me they like to do gymnastics ✓
- They told me they like to dance to the car radio
- They told me they like to squeeze someone's hands
- They told me they count to five
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- Which is another adjective you could use to describe feeling calm?
- angry
- confused
- relaxed ✓
- energetic
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- What inspired Anna to sing a song?
- the sound of the waves
- the sound of the birdsong ✓
- the smell of the mangoes in the tree
- the music from the car radio
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- Which of these words would you use if you were speaking from your own perspective about yourself?
- I ✓
- she
- me ✓
- my ✓
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- Match the feelings of Anna at different points in the story.
- Anna sitting in the tree⇔calm ✓
- Anna pounding yams⇔strong ✓
- Anna doing gymnastics⇔active ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- One way of inferring a character's feelings is looking at their expressions in an illustration
- One way of inferring a character's feelings is reading about how they move, what they do and what they say
- Discussing the feelings of others helps to generate powerful adjectives to describe an emotion or event
- Using 'I', 'me', 'my', 'we' or 'us' is a way of speaking in the first person
Common misconception
Pupils may struggle to recall the event of the story to be able to express that part.
When you are re-reading the story at the start of the lesson, model the expression of the characters as you are reading and drip-feed in some vocabulary that you could use.
Keywords
Perspective - a point of view
Adjective - describes a noun
Emotion - a feeling or mood
First person - the 'I/we' perspective
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