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Alan Parkinson Teacher of Geography King’s Ely School Cambridgeshire @ GeoBlogs

Alan Parkinson Teacher of Geography King’s Ely School Cambridgeshire @ GeoBlogs. http://livinggeography.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/ga-conference-writings-on-wall.html has further details and links to supporting sheets.

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Alan Parkinson Teacher of Geography King’s Ely School Cambridgeshire @ GeoBlogs

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  1. Alan ParkinsonTeacher of GeographyKing’s Ely SchoolCambridgeshire@GeoBlogs http://livinggeography.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/ga-conference-writings-on-wall.html has further details and links to supporting sheets

  2. Whole school Reading FestivalEvery subject asked to focus on a book or literacy focus during one week in the Autumn term

  3. Other work in the Geography Dept • Display in the department of relevant books • Teachers pictured with their favourite books • Following migrant stories from an article in ‘Geographical’ magazine • Descriptions of homes from Lynsey Hanley’s ‘Estates’ book

  4. Touching the VoidScholastic Edition usedAvailable from Amazonhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Touching-the-Void-Scholastic-Readers/dp/1905775083

  5. Siula Grande, Peru, S. America Show on Google Earth…. Fly there and explore…

  6. Starting point…How would you feel setting out to climb this mountain ? Discuss the emotions of themselves Read the first Chapter to find Joe and Simon’s thoughts…

  7. George took his grankle out of the docujeb where he’d left it the night before. He unjeckled the dawb and carefully started to climb the hickyhick. Do you understand this ? You need to know subject specific vocabulary relating to climbing Complete vocabulary sheet

  8. George took his grankle out of the docujeb where he’d left it the night before. He unjeckled the dawb and carefully started to climb the hickyhick. Vocabulary Importance of Vocabulary in understanding story Time to fill in http://www.scribd.com/doc/176648659/Touching-the-Void-Literacy-support

  9. Touching the VoidOur Map Students asked to fill in a map as they went… Key Tent – Walk

  10. Emotion Line Sadder/More scared Less scared/Happy 16 columns – 1 for each chapter… Fill in with emotional state of Joe and Simon as reading the book…

  11. Emotion Line Sadder/More scared Less scared/Happy

  12. Activities • Suggest new titles for the chapters if the action was reported in a newspaper • What is ‘the Void’ that is referred to in the title of the book ? • What would you have called the book ? • What did Joe and Simon do next ?

  13. Homeworks Find out more about the book / film • Come up with 2 ‘spoilers’: things that are coming up that I didn’t want you to know before we read them • If you don’t want to spoil the story, then I’d like you to create a better map to show where Siula Grande is.

  14. Observed lesson

  15. Also formed part of Year 7 exam

  16. Adaptations of the task for other contexts… • Stories of: • Migrants – crossing deserts / arriving in cities • Explorers – biomes / environments • Formation of natural landscapes (Old Harry as a person… ) • Food stories – Banana diaries and Following the Things…

  17. Google Form to fill in at your leisureWhat books have you used ? • http://bit.ly/geogbooks • QR CODE

  18. Other recommended reads • The Ice Man – see GeographyPods unit • http://www.geographypods.com/the-ice-man.html

  19. Other ‘recommended reads’ • The Ice Man – see GeographyPods unit • Games of Thrones – Castle Pyke – coastal scenery • Africa Diary – Kibera with its flying toilets • The Snail and the Whale – what is Geography ? • Clear Waters Rising – mountain landscapes • What is the What – refugee camps • Shantaram – description of Dharavi • Inferno – Dan Brown – Malthus and resource depletion • One more river – Lynn Reid Banks - conflict

  20. e.g. Cities It wasn’t a city, it was a process, a weight on the world that distorted the land for hundreds of miles around. People who’d never see it in their whole lives nevertheless spent their life working for it. Thousands and thousands of green acres were part of it, forests were part of it. It drew in and consumed… …and gave back the dung from its pens and the soot from its chimneys, and steel, and saucepans, and all the tools by which its food was made. And also its clothes, and fashions and ideas and interesting vices, songs and knowledge and something which if looked at in the right light, was called civilization. That’s what civilization meant. It meant the city. ‘Night Watch’ – Terry Pratchett

  21. Tony Cassidy‘A White Darkness’ – quoted here

  22. GeoLibrary – hundreds of bookshttp://geolibrary2013.blogspot.co.uk

  23. References • http://www.kirkhallam.derbyshire.sch.uk/content/files/OfstedReports/Literacy/files/assets/downloads/publication.pdf - with thanks to Tony Cassidy • http://www.geographypods.com/the-ice-man.html - with thanks to Matt Podbury • Thanks to Claire, Jane and Tom from King’s Ely Geography Department

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