Activities on Chapter 3 from The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo
This creative writing resource is based on Chapter 3 from The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo. Students who are studying this text can read this chapter, discuss events, characters, plot, language techniques and themes to give them a literary understanding of the text.
Students are then able to use the scaffolding and chapter analysis activities to plan and prepare for a piece of creative writing in letter form from a key character's perspective.
There is a sample paragraph for students to review before writing, to give them some supportive ideas around how to incorporate textual details and quotations into their piece of creative writing.
Designed for year 8 and KS3, this supportive resource encourages pupils to use details from the text in an imaginative piece to consolidate learning and understanding of character motivation. Additionally, a relevant success criteria included.
Completing this type of creative writing activity enables students to prepare for writing tasks integral to GCSE English Language and Literature specifications.
You can browse other resources on The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo under the text's section on the Teachit website.
An example of content from this downloadable resource:
Below is an example first paragraph. Notice how the phrases that are in bold and underlined are details from Chapter 3 that have been included in the plan above.
Mama is dead and I am on the way to London. I could not have imagined writing these words just a week ago. Mama dead. Every time I blink, I see the scarlet monster growing on her snow-white uniform. And as if that wasn’t terrible enough, then there was the phone call which told us we were all in danger…
