Natalie’s adventure
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Focus concepts:
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Effective teaching:
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Learning intentions
Students will:
- identify and evaluate similarities and differences between Natalie’s experiences in China and their own lives here in New Zealand
- identify with Natalie’s unfamiliar experience by relating it to one of their own.
Resource: School Journal, Part 3 No. 3. (2006).'Finding China' as told to Eva Wong Ng (Natalie Grace Ling-Yun). Wellington: Learning Media.
Years 0–3
Activity 1 – Reading and comparing
Read the story to the class and show them the pictures; the students could examine the pictures in pairs. As a class, decide what is distinctive about Natalie’s life in China and what we do that is the same. Create a Venn diagram together to show this.
Years 4–6
The students read the story individually.
As a class, compare and contrast similarities and differences as above, but using two Venn diagrams focusing on food and school.
Activity 1 – Writing
Have the students complete a PMI (positive, minus, interesting) chart like the one below about Natalie’s experience, that is, what was positive, negative (minus), and interesting about her experience.
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Postive |
Minus |
Interesting |
Have the students write about going to a new place and what it felt like.
Key questions
- What would you like/dislike about going to China? (See language lesson 4 – Likes and dislikes.)
- What are some of the different feelings that Natalie had when she went to China?
- Have you ever felt this way? Describe.
- Can you answer any of your questions from the wall display you created in lesson 1 - It's in the bag!?
- Do you have any further questions to add to this display now that you have read Natalie’s story?
Language focus
Refer to language lesson 2 - The middle kingdom.
