The Black Hat

by Maia Walczak

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Learning Outcomes

Write a description of the forest at the start of the film and write a list poem with a repeating line, inspired by The Black Hat film and The Magic Box poem.

Curriculum Objectives

  • Increase their familiarity with a wide range of books, including fairy stories, myths and legends, and retelling some of these orally.
  • Identify themes and conventions in a wide range of books.
  • Draft and write by progressively building a varied and rich vocabulary.
  • Use adverbs.
  • In narratives, create settings, characters and plot.
  • Plan their writing by discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar.
  • Discuss and record ideas.
  • Increase the legibility, consistency and quality of their handwriting.