6 lesson Remote Learning Booklet

Year 10Writers’ Viewpoints and Perspectives

Humans and Nature: Animals

Lesson One

Task One: Vocabulary

1. Link the word to a picture that best shows that word.2. Link the picture to a definition (a meaning)

Cruelty Sickening Vicious Campaigner

A person who works in an organised way to try and change something.

To create feelings of sickness, nausea, and disgust.

Being particularly cruel or violent.

Inflicting pain or suffering onto someone/something.

Task Two: Picture Inference

1. Answer the questions about the following image

1. What animal do you think this is?

2. What is the person doing?

3. Where is this happening?

4. Who is taking the picture?

5. Is the animal happy?

Task Three: Spelling, punctuation, and grammar.

There are 10 SPAG mistakes highlighted in this paragraph. Try and correct them.

with each repeated blow, the pitchfork makes a sickning thwack as it slams into anne the elephant's hide. She flinches, at one point even apearing to loose her balance under the weight of a particularly vicious strike. The disturbing images come from a secretly filmed video which campaigers say reveals the cruel reality of her life as Britains last circus elephant.

Task Four: Transactional Writing

In your opinion, should circuses be allowed to use animals for entertainment?

Use your four vocabulary words to answer.

Task Five: Reading

Next lesson, we are going to read an article about animal cruelty.

Read the opening to the article below and then answer the question underneath.

With each repeated blow, the pitchfork makes a sickening thwack as it slams into Anne the elephant's hide. She flinches, at one point even appearing to lose her balance under the weight of a particularly vicious strike. The disturbing images come from a secretly filmed video which campaigners say reveals the cruel reality of her life as Britain's last circus elephant.

TICK four statements below which are TRUE.

Anne is the cruel human

Anne is the elephant.

Anne is hit with a pitchfork.

Anne is hit with a shovel.

Anne is the last of many circus elephants in Britain.

Anne is the last circus elephant in Britain

The video of Anne being hit was filmed by journalists

The video of Anne being hit was filmed by campaigners

Lesson Two

Task One: Vocabulary

1. Circle the correct spelling of each word.2. Circle the correct meaning of each word.3. Circle the correct word-type of each word.

Word Definition Word-Type

Cruletie

Cruelty

Inflicting pain or suffering onto someone.

Saying things about someone online.

Noun

VerbSickening

Sickning

Feeling very unwell.

Something that makes you feel disgusted.

Noun

AdjectiveVicious

Viscious

Being particularly unkind and cruel.

An animal who eats meat.

Adjective

VerbCampainger

Campaigner

A person who is cruel to animals.

A person who fights for a cause.

Noun

Verb

Task Two: Reading

1. Read the following newspaper article and answer the questions below it.

Anne's agony: battered, kicked and stabbed, the desperate plight of Britain's last circus elephant

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With each repeated blow, the pitchfork makes a sickening thwack as it slams into Anne the elephant's hide. She flinches, at one point even appearing to lose her balance under the weight of a particularly vicious strike. The disturbing images come from a secretly filmed video which campaigners say reveals the cruel reality of her life as Britain's last circus elephant.

In secretly shot video, a worker swings a vicious kick into the belly of 58-year-old Anne the elephant. Animal Defenders International planted the device because of concerns about how Anne was being treated at Bobby Roberts's Super Circus. It shows Anne suffering abuse at the hands of her so-called ‘carers’ while chained up in a dingy barn during the circus' winter break.

As well as being repeatedly hit with a pitchfork by one worker employed to feed and look after her, the 58-year-old elephant also appears to be stabbed in the face with the tool's metal prongs during one attack. A total of 48 strikes, including kicks to her body and head, were recorded as she was left chained to the spot by her legs.

Campaigners claimed chaining up Anne with leg irons is particularly cruel because she suffers from arthritis and her movements are already badly hampered. They have repeatedly called for circus owner Bobby Roberts to hand over Anne so she can live out her days in a wildlife sanctuary. But Mr Roberts, whose Super Circus began its latest tour on Thursday, insists the elephant is 'part of the family' and to separate her from the circus would cause her to 'pine away and die'.

The Asian elephant has been travelling with the Bobby Roberts Super Circus since the 1950s when she was bought by Mr Roberts's parents for around £3,000. At the time she

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was one of many performing elephants but since then most circuses have stopped using animals and Anne is the oldest surviving elephant in Europe.

Jan Creamer, who leads Animal Defenders International, said her charity has been concerned for Anne's welfare for 'many years'. She has asked police to examine the secret film footage with a view to prosecuting the circus for crimes under the Animal Welfare Act. Miss Creamer said: “Poor Anne has been with the circus for over 50 years since she was a baby, having been caught in the wild and torn from her family. Elephants are social and extremely intelligent so this has been a living hell for her.”

1. Go through the text and circle and examples of EMOTIVE LANGUAGE (words that are used to heighten the reader’s emotions)

2. Sort your words into the following table.

NounPerson, place, or thing.

AdjectiveDescribes a noun

VerbAction/doing words

AdverbDescribes a verb.

3. Label the image with words or phrases used to describe the cruelty that Anne the elephant suffers. Write these as quotations.

Lesson Three

Task One: Vocabulary

1. Without looking, write down your four vocabulary focus words for this week.2. Come up with a synonym for each (a word that means the same)3. Come up with an antonym for each (a word that means the opposite)

Word Synonym Antonym

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4.

Task Two: Summarising

Write a summary about how Anne the elephant was treated by her owners.

Use some quotes from the text (you can use the ones from your labelling) to support your summary.

Task Three: Perspectives

Last lesson, you went through and highlighted all the words that you felt created emotion in the reader (these were all examples of the writer using emotive language.)

By looking at these words, we can work what the WRITER’S own thoughts and feelings were about Anne’s treatment.

Use some of the examples to complete these sentences. The first block is done for you.

The writer’s feelings about the treatment of Anne

The writer feels that Anne was treated extremely badly by her handlers.

For example, it says, “the pitchfork makes a sickening thwack as it slams into Anne the elephant's hide.”

The writer has used the adjective “sickening” here.

This word literally means that it causes someone to feel nausea, or disgust.

It is used here, by the writer, to show their own sense of disgust towards how Anne was treated.

Furthermore, the verb “slams” suggests the pitchfork is used aggressively and powerfully to hurt Anne, again revealing that the writer feels Anne was treated incredibly cruelly.

The writer feels that Anne was…………………………………………………………………………………..

For example, it says, …………………………………………………………………………………………….

The writer has used ………………………………………………………………………………………

This word literally means …………………………………………………………………………………..

It is used here, by the writer, to show ………………………………………………………………………………

Furthermore, ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

The writer feels that Anne was…………………………………………………………………………………..

For example, it says, …………………………………………………………………………………………….

The writer has used ………………………………………………………………………………………

This word literally means …………………………………………………………………………………..

It is used here, by the writer, to show ………………………………………………………………………………

Furthermore, ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Task Four: Your Opinion

“Causing pain to animals should carry the same punishment, by law, as causing pain to humans.”

Write a response below explaining to what extent do you agree with this statement?

Use your own emotive language, and this week’s vocabulary, when writing your response.

Lesson Four

Task One: Vocabulary

1. Link the word to a picture that best shows that word.2. Link the picture to a definition (a meaning)

Trampling Population Rifle Flocked

Individuals moving together in a group, similarly to how we see lots of birds fly together.

An entire group of people from a particular place.

To crush something beneath your feet.

A type of gun often associated with hunting.

Task Two: Picture Inference

2. Answer the questions about the following image1. What time of year is this taken?

6. Where in the world could this be?

7. Is this elephant free? Why?

8. Who may have taken this picture?

9. How is this elephant different to Anne?

Task Three: Spelling, punctuation, and grammar.

There are 10 SPAG mistakes highlighted in this paragraph. Try and correct them.

as I started forward practically the whole populashun of the village floked out of their houses and followed me. They had seen the rifel and were all shouting excitedly that I was going to shoot the elephant. They hadnt shown much interest in the elephant when he was merely tramapling their homes, but it was different now that he was going to be shot. It was a bit of fun two them, as it would be to an english crowd; besides they wanted the meat.

Task Four: Transactional Writing

In your opinion, is there ever a situation in which it is okay to kill an animal?

Use your four vocabulary words to answer.

Task Five: Reading

Next lesson, we are going to read an account of a police officer trying to deal with an elephant.

Read the opening to the article below and then answer the question underneath.

As I started forward practically the whole population of the village flocked out of their houses and followed me. They had seen the rifle and were all shouting excitedly that I was going to shoot the elephant. They had not shown much interest in the elephant when he was merely trampling their homes, but it was different now that he was going to be shot. It was a bit of fun to them, as it would be to an English crowd; besides they wanted the meat.

TICK four statements below which are TRUE.

People were angry that the elephant may be shot

The elephant was in a cage.

The elephant had stomped on some houses.

The villagers felt excited that the elephant may be shot.

This account was set in England.

This account was set in a non-English village.

The villagers thought shooting the elephant would be fun.

The villagers were frightened of the elephant.

Lesson Five

Task One: Vocabulary

1. Circle the correct spelling of each word.2. Circle the correct meaning of each word.3. Circle the correct word-type of each word.

Word Definition Word-Type

Trample

Trampel

A derogatory term for someone who is homeless

Crushing something beneath your foot.

Noun

VerbPopulashun

Population

How well liked someone is.

An entire group of people.

Noun

AdjectiveRifel

Rifle

To go against what you’ve been told to do.

A type of gun usually associated with hunting.

Noun

VerbFlockd

Flocked

To move at one time, in a group.

To fall over.

Noun

Verb

Task Two: Reading

2. Read the following account and answer the questions below it.

George Orwell – ‘Shooting an Elephant’

Set in 1936, a young police officer serving in Burma, India, which was then part of the British Empire has been sent to deal with a troublesome elephant.

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As I started forward practically the whole population of the village flocked out of their houses and followed me. They had seen the rifle and were all shouting excitedly that I was going to shoot the elephant. They had not shown much interest in the elephant when he was merely trampling their homes, but it was different now that he was going to be shot. It was a bit of fun to them, as it would be to an English crowd; besides they wanted the meat. It made me feel uneasy. I had no intention of shooting the elephant – I had only sent for the rifle to defend myself if necessary – and it is always unnerving to have a crowd following you. I marched down the hill, looking and feeling a fool, with the rifle over my shoulder and an ever-growing army of people at my heels. At the bottom, when you got away from the huts, there was a road and beyond that paddy fields a thousand yards across, not yet ploughed but soggy from the first rains and dotted with coarse grass. The elephant was standing eight yards from the road, his left side towards us. He took not the slightest notice of the crowd's approach.

But at that moment I glanced round at the crowd that had followed me. It was an enormous crowd, two thousand at the least and growing every minute. It blocked the road for a long distance on either side. I looked at the sea of yellow faces above the brightly-coloured clothes - faces all happy and excited over this bit of fun, all certain that the elephant was going to be shot. They were watching me as they would watch a magician about to perform a trick. They did not like me, but with the magical rifle in my hands I was momentarily worth watching. And suddenly I realised that I would have to shoot the elephant after all.

But I did not want to shoot the elephant. I watched him beating his bunch of grass against his knees. It seemed to me that it would be murder to shoot him.

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It was perfectly clear to me what I needed to do. I needed to walk up to within, say, twenty-five yards of the elephant and test his behaviour. If he charged, I could shoot; if he took no notice of me, it would be safe to leave him until the mahout came back. But also I knew that I was going to do no such thing. I was a poor shot with a rifle and the ground was soft mud into which one would sink at every step. If the elephant charged and I missed him, I would have about as much chance as a toad under a steam-roller. The only thought in my mind was that if anything went wrong those two thousand Indians would see me chased, caught, trampled on and killed like that Indian up the hill. And if that happened it was quite likely that some of them would laugh. That would never do.

There was only one alternative. I shoved the cartridges into the rifle and lay down on the road to get a better aim. The crowd grew very still, and a deep, low, happy sigh, like people who see the theatre curtain go up at last, breathed from countless throats. They were going to have their bit of fun after all.

Go through the text and highlight the crowd’s reaction to the possibility of an elephant being shot.

Now, with a different colour, highlight the policeman’s reaction to the possibility of an elephant being shot.

Write the quotes you have highlighted in the correct column below.

Villagers Policeman

Write a paragraph summarising the different ways the villagers and the policeman react in the story.

The villagers areFor example, it saysThis shows thatAlternatively, the policeman isFor example, it saysThis shows thatThe difference here is that

Lesson Six

Task One: Vocabulary

1. Without looking, write down your four vocabulary focus words for this week.2. Come up with a synonym for each (a word that means the same)3. Come up with an antonym for each (a word that means the opposite)

Word Synonym Antonym

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3.

4.

Task Two: Summarising

Write a summary about the elephant, the policeman, and the villagers in the account we read last lesson.

Task Three: Perspectives

Read the end of the extract again:

There was only one alternative. I shoved the cartridges into the rifle and lay down on the road to get a better aim. The crowd grew very still, and a deep, low, happy sigh, like people who see the theatre curtain go up at last, breathed from countless throats. They were going to have their bit of fun after all.

How does the writer use language here to show the excitement of the crowd?

The writer shows that the crowd feel

For example, it says,

The writer has used

This is effective because it reveals to the reader

The writer shows that the crowd feel

For example, it says,

The writer has used

This is effective because it reveals to the reader

Task Four: Your Opinion

“The extract we read is from 1936, a time when people were much crueller to animals.

In 2020, nobody would feel excited about watching an animal die.”

Write a response below explaining to what extent do you agree with this statement?

Use your own rhetorical questions, and this week’s vocabulary, when writing your response.