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The Island

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The Island by Armin Greder: Originally published in 2002 in German, and winner of multiple German and French book awards, Armin Greder's The Island is now available in English. While this picture book might be disturbing for the very young, it is an allegory that can be appreciated by all ages (the publisher indicates 8-18). It only takes a few minutes to read, but leaves you contemplating its implications and greater meanings. Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments Assessing Prior Knowledge: The children will think, pair, share with a partner about what Ireland was like in the Early Christian times before the invasion of the Vikings. One morning, the people of the island found a man on the beach, where fate and ocean currents had washed his raft ashore. When he saw them coming, he stood up.’

LoveReading4Kids exists because books change lives, and buying books through LoveReading4Kids means you get to change the lives of future generations, with 25% of the cover price donated to schools in need. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. Welcome guide, description, letter of advice, analysis, comparison, diary entry in role, imagined conversation Main Outcome: A man, drawn naked and therefore appears to be vulnerable, washes up on the island and the people there are worried. However, they take him in, placing him in a goat pen and neglecting to feed them, yet still think they have done him a kindness. When they realise that they need to provide food for him they are outraged and decide to remove him from the island and punish the fisherman who convinced everyone else to help the man. They then build a wall around the island to prevent outsiders from ever finding them again. Text analyst: The text is interrogated to examine the use of certain visual techniques, which can be explored when considering the illustrator's purpose. Group size 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.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. Children carry out hot seating activities - interviewing people that know or knew the subject of their writing. Discuss texts with some understanding of meaning beyond the literal level, moving towards the inferential level

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: 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/Actively listen and extract meaning and enjoyment from conversations and texts in a range of genres and where possible, in various languages. accompany, desperate, necessary, persuade, prejudice, privilege, sufficient Spelling Rules and Patterns Clan Wars: Each group will be divided into different Early Christian tribes that were living in Ireland before the Viking invasion. They must create the following for their tribe: Recognise themselves as listeners and speakers, engaging purposefully and empathetically with others.

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. 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. 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. Have I ever read a more politically timely picture book? You may well ask! The answer would be probably not!

Leave space between each statement for students to write a comment after the reading to explain their thinking.



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