Starter quiz
- What is someone's perspective?
- the way someone uses punctuation
- the way someone wants to be treated
- the way someone thinks, feels or sees something ✓
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- What is the name for a book that people write down their experiences, thoughts and feelings?
- a story book
- a diary ✓
- a comic book
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- True or false? Each time a person writes in their diary, it is called a chapter.
- True
- False ✓
- True or false? A diary is personal and private to the writer.
- True ✓
- False
- Florence travelled to Crimea with a team of 38 ...
- teachers.
- nurses. ✓
- doctors.
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- When Florence saw the hospital in Scutari, what do you think she thought?
- It was excellent.
- It was not good enough. ✓
- It was not too bad.
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Exit quiz
- Diaries are a type of...
- recount ✓
- poem
- fiction
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- A diary entry is written in which tense?
- past ✓
- present
- future
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- Which of these verbs are past tense?
- look
- looking
- looked ✓
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- Fill in the blank. A diary entry should be written in the __________ person.
- first ✓
- second
- third
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- Which of these words would you likely use when writing in the first person?
- you
- he
- I ✓
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- Which of these is written in the first person perspective?
- She saw the hospital.
- Florence saw the hospital.
- I saw the hospital. ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Perspective is the way someone thinks, feels or sees something.
- Writing in a diary will mostly be in the past tense.
- A diary entry should be written in the first person.
- First person is a point of view in writing or storytelling where the narrator or speaker refers to themselves.
Common misconception
Pupils may struggle to maintain a consistent tense in their writing. Usually, this is moving betwen past and present tense.
Teach children that words such as 'was' and 'had' can change the tense of verbs to the past tense. Play a game where children have to change present tense verbs into past tense.
Keywords
Perspective - the way someone thinks, feels or sees something
Past tense - tells the reader the action happened before now
First person - a point of view in writing or storytelling where the narrator or speaker refers to themselves using 'I'
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