Starter quiz
- What is the correct description of a fiction book?
- a book that gives factual information
- a book with lots of poems
- a book about a made-up story ✓
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- Match the word to the correct definition.
- biography⇔an information text about a real person's life ✓
- information text⇔a text that provides real facts or information ✓
- poem⇔a type of writing that can evoke emotion and can rhyme ✓
- fictional story⇔a story that is written about imaginary characters and events ✓
- What is an author?
- a person who writes poems
- a person who writes stories or other texts ✓
- a person who writes music
- a person who draws illustrations
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- What is a character?
- a person or animal in a story that action happens to ✓
- where the story takes place
- the person who writes the story
- the person who reads the story
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- What is a setting?
- the people or animals in the story
- where the author wrote the story
- where the story takes place ✓
- where a book is bought from
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- What is the moral of a story?
- the ending of the story
- the lesson that can be learned from the story ✓
- the opening of the story
- the most exciting moment of the story
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Exit quiz
- Who was the original author of ‘The Happy Prince’?
- 'Oscar Wilde' ✓
- Who are the main characters in 'The Happy Prince'?
- the sick boy
- the statue of the prince ✓
- the sad seamstress
- the bird ✓
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- True or false? 'The prince was able to give the ruby to the seamstress himself.'
- True
- False ✓
- What happened to the statue when he realised that the bird was dying?
- He tried to rescue the bird
- His heart broke into two pieces ✓
- He began to cry
- He gasped in shock
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- True or false? This is the moral of 'The Happy Prince': always share your belongings with others.
- True
- False ✓
- Order these key moments from 'The Happy Prince' in chronological order.
- 1⇔The statue was upset by all the suffering in the city
- 2⇔The bird and the statue helped the people who were suffering
- 3⇔The bird became frailer and weaker in the cold winter
- 4⇔The bird and the prince died
- 5⇔God asked the bird and the prince to look after the city's people.
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- 'The Happy Prince' is a story originally written in 1888 by Oscar Wilde, which has been adapted into different versions.
- The story tells of a statue of a prince witnessing great poverty and sadness in a city.
- Together with a swallow, the prince performs selfless acts of kindness to help the poor people of the city.
- The moral of the story in ‘The Happy Prince’ is to be compassionate and to help those who are suffering.
- Summarising the key events in a story helps us to build our understanding of the text and the meaning behind it.
Common misconception
Pupils may be confused by how the statue can speak and used to be a living person.
'The Happy Prince' is a fictional text so the characters act in ways that are not usual for humans.
Keywords
Plot - the sequence of events that make up the narrative
Moral - a lesson that can be learnt from a story or experience
Summarise - to pull out the key events and ideas from a text
Classic text - a piece of literature that has stood the test of time
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