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Lesson plan: Long Walk to Freedom - fact, fiction and opinion
From the Nelson Mandela online resource
Resources:
You will need:
Introduction and whole-class activity:
Show the selection of books again. Ask the pupils:
1. What is the difference between the books written about Nelson
Mandela and the book written by Nelson Mandela?
2. Why would someone want to write about their own life for others
to read?
3. What can you learn about a person by reading about his or her
life?
Write the words 'biography' and 'autobiography' on the board. Ask
a couple of pupils to look up and read out the dictionary definition
of each word. Make a list for each with ideas from the pupils. For
biography, you should expect suggestions such as these:
tells us about the person's environment; what effect that person has had on others; shows that the author knows a lot about the
person; telling facts about a real person's life; showing the truth, the person's strengths and
weaknesses; tells us why this person is interesting; tells us how the writer feels about the person; is written in the third person.
For autobiography, as well as some of the above, you should also
expect that it:
is written by the central person in the book; shows the emotions and feelings of the writer; tells of the people who have had the biggest
influence on the author's life; recounts the main significant events that have
changed and influenced the author; is written in the first person.
Read Extract 1 from Long
Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela.
Group activity:
Show the pupils the Fact, fiction and opinion
statements worksheet.
Read out two statements about Nelson Mandela. The pupils need to
decide which is fact and which is fiction.
Write each statement in the correct column.
Say, 'I think Nelson Mandela is a very courageous man'. Ask the
pupils where they think that should go.
Give the pupils the fact, fiction and opinion statements. The pupils
should cut them up and stick them in the correct column the fact,
fiction and opinion table.
Once the pupils have completed the worksheet, they will need to
think about their own opinion of Nelson Mandela. They may already
have their own ideas for this section; if not, they will need to
consider what they have learnt and what they now think about him
from the information they have read.
Plenary:
Check through the statements. Did all the pupils put the statements
in the correct column? Do they all understand the difference between
fact, fiction and opinion?
Ask some of the pupils to share their opinions of Nelson Mandela.
What made the pupils have these opinions? What influenced them?
From the Nelson Mandela online resource
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