Inside the Villains

by Clotilde Perrin

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Learning Outcomes

Write ‘All About Me’ pages for three malevolent fairy tale characters.

Write a personal statement/personality card in role as The Troll, as an entry for Inside the Villains.

Write the story of The Three Billy Goat’s Gruff from The Troll’s perspective.

Curriculum Objectives

  • Increase their familiarity with a wide range of books, including myths, legends and traditional stories, modern fiction, fiction from our literary heritage, and books from other cultures and traditions.
  • Identify and discuss themes and conventions in and across a wide range of writing, making comparisons within and across books.
  • Use brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis
  • Use a colon to introduce a list.
  • Use semi-colons, colons or dashes to mark boundaries between independent clauses.
  • In narratives, describing settings, characters and atmosphere and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action.
  • Plan their writing by identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own.
  • Use relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or with an implied (i.e. omitted) relative pronoun.
  • Evaluate and edit by assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing, proposing changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning.
  • Proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors.
  • Write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed.