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Programme 2: Through an Animal's Eyes
Activities
- Ask the pupils to find excerpts from Dick’s books that describe their favourite character. They then read them aloud but omit the character’s name, and their partner tries to guess the character.
- Develop the pupils’ understanding of one of their favourite Dick King-Smith characters. Ask them to build up a character sketch as they read. This could be done using words and pictures and presented as a web diagram with the following headings: name of character, age, home, appearance, personality, family, friends, strengths, likes and dislikes, hopes and fears, and so on.
- Pupils could develop their own anthropomorphic style by choosing an animal and planning how best to give it human characteristics. They must consider: what they look like, what they do, how they speak and sound, where they live, how others view them, how they treat others, and so on.
- Dick writes about cruelty that occurs in the wild and the cruelty of humans to animals. Select extracts of his work that portray this. Ask the pupils to discuss their impact on the reader. Possible questions: How does this make you feel? Where are you as you read this extract; in the action, a bystander or an outside observer? Where does this extract occur in the story? How does this affect the other characters and your view of them?
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