The Island

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All students will be asked to draw upon the language of affect and judgement (evaluative language), to express their evaluation of the visual techniques and articulate how they have been affected by these techniques. Word lists could be generated for students needing support and access to a thesaurus will be important.

These Islanders have being very un accepting of the Stranger by not giving a proper house or shelter “They took him to the uninhabited part of The Island” or “To a goat pen that had been empty …show more content… Compare and Contrast: Children fold an a4 paper in half. On one side they draw what they think pre-viking Ireland would have looked like. What would the building have been like? What about clothes etc. Short-listed for the Children's Book Council award this year, the front cover perfectly delivers the message of the book.All the usual concerns about immigration are lightly understated in the text and fleshed out with a cruel humour in the illustrations. He will eat all our food, cry the villagers. Then give him a job, suggests the good fisherman. "'If he was in my kitchen, nobody would want to eat at my inn,' muttered the inkeeper." This exchange takes place beneath a picture of the interloper paddling his grubby hands in the food while all around him is squalor. The text and pictures work against each other to both illustrate the villagers' fears and illuminate the viciousness of their prejudices. When I started writing this I claimed this book was probably the most important picture book of recent times. I said this because increasingly in the media there are more and more reports about hostility between people, and more than often it is directed at those suffering from those in places of privilege. For example, in the UK, in some places by some people, there is a searing animosity towards refugees. Well, I was wrong to have said this. This is not probably the most important picture book of recent times. This is one of the most important books to have been released to date, I believe it is timeless, I believe this book can actually help us.

This is a three-session spelling seed for the book The Island by Armin Greder. Below is the coverage from Appendix 1 of the National Curriculum 2014. The picture story book, The Island, by Armin Greder, shows the importance of accepting people for who they are. This can be seen when they gave no proper shelter and They didn’t give him any food or water. This is also shown when he didn’t look the same and They didn’t get to know him before they judged him. Starkly illustrated in a sombre expressionist style brightened by a few pertinent flashes of colour, this brilliant and haunting picture book painfully captures the violent hatred that the most harmless of outsiders can engender. Have I ever read a more politically timely picture book? You may well ask! The answer would be probably not! Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical MomentsPlease go out and buy this book! Buy it for your children, your friends, parents, sisters, brothers, cousins, buy it for strangers! Books have the power to mend minds and hearts, and with the utmost sincerity, hand on my heart, I know they can mend the world too. My friend Alex passed me this book today and told me to read it, she also told me to emotionally prepare myself. I took the book over to my desk, sat down and did as she instructed. This was about twelve hours ago and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this story since. Hello Yellow - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health and Support With Anxiety and Wellbeing -

Reflect with students about the factors that led them to the drawings - past experiences with illustrations about islands, having been to an island, Australia as an island, seeing movies about islands. There is a Spelling Seed session for every week of the associated Writing Root. Coverage: Word List Words The Island tells the tale of a man who is washed ashore on a poorly made raft. We’re told he was different to the people of the island, this causes the people to fear and reject him. I’m being too kind here, they don’t simply just reject him, they take his voice away, treat him as an animal and eventually condemn him to a fate we can only too easily imagine. In the morning the people of the island found a man sitting on the shore, there where fate and the ocean currents had set him and his frail raft in the night. When he saw them coming towards him, he rose to his feet. Although the Islanders take the man 'in', they are unwilling to share their own resources and jobs, making the selfish nature of the people all the more prevalent. This can be seen as drawing a striking parallel with some attitudes shown towards refugees and migrants within the UK. Therefore, this is a critical text that should be used to consolidate a welcoming ethos within schools and towards different cultures and communities, so that they can prevent becoming 'The Island'Recognise that ideas in literary texts can be conveyed from different viewpoints, which can lead to different kinds of interpretations and responses ( Content description VCELT315) I couldn’t agree more with your comments about this book. I’ve just interviewed Armin and thought you might be interested: http://www.playingbythebook.net/2016/05/10/an-interview-with-armin-greder/ There is so much depth to this picture book! From the hauntingly memorable charcoal illustrations Greder is able to speak a thousand words. His depiction of the washed up man as naked, slender and hairless contrasts dramatically to the full-bodied, clothed people of the island. I think it’s clear what Greder was trying to convey through his choices to illustrate his characters as such, wealth, culture and history all playing their part in the construction of attitudes towards difference. I keep asking myself if there was a reason for why the washed up man is depicted as fair-skinned. I haven’t come up with an answer to this which I’m completely happy with yet, but I suppose this choice proposes the idea that hatred is evolving. Read into that what you will.

We are learning to examine the techniques used by illustrators to position the reader. Success criteria Leave space between each statement for students to write a comment after the reading to explain their thinking.Complete an anticipation guide prior to reading the text. This strategy involves teacher developed statements, which students mark with agree or disagree and then re-visit once the text has been read. For example: Students needing support may benefit from exploring or creating a range of images, which focus on the visual techniques examined in this lesson - colour, image size, the use of white spaces and perspective.