 Enjoying Reading the Story. Yn mwynhau darllen y stori. | We have been enjoying shared reading of Michael Morpurgo’s Second World War novel ‘Friend or Foe’ - the story of two friends, David and Tucky, who are evacuated to Devon from London. Some of us read the characters’ dialogue and some of us read the narrative. In our shared reading sessions, we have been discussing the novel’s plot, setting, characters and themes. |
 'Friend or Foe' by Michael Morpurgo | We have also analysed Morpurgo’s language style and use of VCOP - Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation. Can you think of a 'WOW' word to replace the underlined word from Morpurgo's text below?: 'The boys devoured the red tomato soup.' Can you think of an effective opener for this sentence? '________________ the splintered door slammed open and a bearded man blustered into the village hall.' |
We took part in a 'hotseating' activity where someone in the hotseat adopted the role of a character from the novel ‘Friend or Foe’. Lewis adopted the persona of David and later Libby adopted the role of Tucky. They had to empathise with their characters, speaking in role and thinking about the novel’s events from David and Tucky's points of view. We aimed to ask ‘Tucky’ and 'David' open questions to which they could give extended answers.
 Answering 'open' questions. Yn ateb cwestiynau agored. |  Yn y gadair boeth. In the hotseat. |
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