Main Outcomes:
A rhyming couplet and a first-person narrative based on an imagined journey to the North Pole to see Santa Claus.
Overview and Outcomes:
This is a week’s worth of work around the poem, 'Twas. the Night Before Christmas' and the text, 'The Polar Express'. Children will have analysed a narrative poem and identified rhyming couplets with a view to creating their own. Children will have participated in role-play and written a narrative stemming from an imagined experience based on a book and a film.
Synopsis of Text:
Late one Christmas Eve, a boy boards a mysterious train that waits for him: the Polar Express bound for the North Pole. When he arrives, Santa offers him any gift he desires. The boy modestly asks for one bell from the reindeer's harness. It turns out to be a very special gift, for only believers in Santa can hear it ring.
Links:
Christmas, narrative poetry, trains
