Lesson Aims:To explore emotions and the motives for peoples’ actions

Lesson Objectives:Create a comic strip portraying how a character’s emotions change

The Little BeggarA folk tale told by David Heathfield

Thinking Points

Who gave the Little Beggar some fish?

Who is the third person that encounters the beggar?

Where does the Muslim Steward work?

How does the Barber solve the problem?

What could the moral of the story be?

Pulling

Faces!

Play this game with a partner

Take it in turns to make a face showing different emotions

Your partner has to guess what you are feeling, just by looking at your face!

Character Portraits

1. Choose one of the characters from the story

2. Split your page into four boxes, and in the first box draw your chosen character’s face

3. Try to show what they were feeling when they are first introduced

4. Think about how your character felt at different times in the story

5. Show how their feelings change by the expression your draw on their face

For example

Character Portraits

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How should we act?

Why did the characters choose to act the way they did?

Have there been any times that we have acted in a similar way?