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Introduced **What How Why** to students yesterday.
A short THREAD on exactly how I did it.
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A short THREAD on exactly how I did it.
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Started by explaining that whether Y7 or A Level or even university WHW is a way to frame how we think/write/read about literature.
I also explained they probably already do it in some form but I want to make this process explicit and self-conscious.
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I also explained they probably already do it in some form but I want to make this process explicit and self-conscious.
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I then explained each one in turn, starting with WHAT
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Then HOW
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Then WHY
I made the same point that these way remain across different ages but what will change is the level of sophistical we bring to the text
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I made the same point that these way remain across different ages but what will change is the level of sophistical we bring to the text
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I then summarised this process in the simplest way I could using this set of prompts
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Finally I explained this process could be applied to the smallest part of a text (a word, an imagine, a line) to the largest (the entire text)
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I then took a single line of poetry and live modelled exactly how to use WHW to frame my written response, asking questions along the way
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And at the end of the lesson we had enough time for them to have a go with a separate line of poetry, using my model as a prompt.
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