Key Stage Three

Heroes and Villains: Design a front cover for this topic

Week One: The Kray TwinsLesson One: To be able to extract, and summarise, information from non-fiction sources.

Write the definitions under each word, then spell them four times.

Attempt 1 Attempt 2 Attempt 3 Attempt 4

Heroes

Villains

Perspective

Opinion

Read the following information about The Kray twins, then answer the comprehension questions.

Ronald "Ronnie" Kray (24 October 1933 – 17 March 1995) and Reginald "Reggie" Kray (24 October 1933 – 1 October 2000), identical twin brothers, were English criminals, the foremost perpetrators of organised crime in the East End of London during the 1950s and 1960s. With their gang "the Firm" the Krays were involved in murder, armed robbery, arson, protection rackets and assaults.

As West End nightclub owners, they mixed with politicians and prominent entertainers such as Diana Dors, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland. In the 1960s, they became celebrities, being photographed by David Bailey and interviewed on television.

They were arrested on 8 May 1968 and convicted in 1969, as a result of the efforts of detectives led by Detective Superintendent Leonard "Nipper" Read. Each was sentenced to life imprisonment. Ronnie remained in Broadmoor Hospital until his death on 17 March 1995; Reggie was released from prison on compassionate grounds in August 2000, eight and a half weeks before his death from cancer.

Comprehension Questions

1. What were the real names of the Kray twins?

2. What were the brothers’ nicknames?

3. In what year were they born?

4. True or false: the twins were non-identical?

5. What part of the country did the Kray twins commit most of their crimes in?

6. What was the name of their gang?

7. List three crimes that the brothers were involved in.

8. What non-criminal job did they have?

9. List the name of three celebrities they spent time with.

10. True or false: they were arrested in 1969?

11. What conviction were they given for their crimes?

12. Which brother died in prison?

13. How did Reggie die?

14. Why was Reggie allowed to leave prison before his death?

Use the information from above, and any of your own knowledge, to write a summary about each twin.

(Remember, a summary is where the most important parts are picked out and put into a shorter piece of information.)

Name one similarity between the two brothers.

Name one difference between the two brothers.

In your opinion, were the brothers heroes or villains? You must give reasons for your answer.

Lesson Two: To be able to compare information from two different sources.

Match the correct word with the definition

A person’s individual viewpoint on an event.

Two or more people who are seen as evil or bad.

Two or more people who do something wonderful or great; who do something to help others.

The opposite of fact: a word that means someone’s own feelings and thoughts.

Heroes Villains Perspective Opinion

Read the following source about The Kray twins.

Would you say this piece is more factual or opinion? Give reasons for your answer.

What is this person’s perspective on the Kray twins? Give reasons for your answer.

Find a quote from the source that is a FACT.

Why do people still admire the notorious East End gangsters who murdered their way to wealth?

This week marks 50 years since the arrest of the notorious East End gangsters Reggie and

Ronnie Kray.The twins were deeply embedded within the post-war Londonunderworld, and were kingpins of organised crime feared for their enforcement of protection rackets, armed robberies, arson attacks and murders, notably the famous dispatching of George Cornell and Jack “The Hat” McVitie.They were also celebrities, Swinging Sixties nightclub owners who courted Hollywood stars like Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra and George Raft and British pin-ups such as Diana Dors and Barbara Windsor. They were even photographed by David Bailey. In Ronnie’s own words: “We were f***ing untouchable”.This gangland Tweedledee and Tweedledum – who loved their dear old mum – were

Find a quote from the source that is an OPINION

Read the following article

What is this person’s perspective on the Kray twins? Give reasons for your answer.

Find a quote from the source that is a FACT.

Find a quote from the source that is an OPINION.

Write a summary of the differences between the writer’s perspectives in source a and source b, twards The ray twins.

What is the opinion of the writer in source A?Give an example to back up your point.What does this show about their perspective towards The Krays?

Use a comparative discourse marker (On the other hand, similarly, alternatively etc.)

What is the opinion of the writer in source B?Give an example to back up your point.What does this show about their perspective towards The Krays?

Why might they be different?

Why do men still find gangland figures like the Krays so appealing?It’s a fair cop, guv’. My hands are up, I confess. I’m mildly obsessed with them (if you need proof, I’ve read their Wikipedia page at least five times – all the way through as well, not just the gory bits). And the Krays aren’t the only ones. Think of all the other guv’nors and geezers and Great Train Robbers who have become cultural icons and urban legends in their own right – immortalised in books, films, and TV series.So what is it about these gangland figures that men (because it's usually men) find so appealing? They’re violent criminals – psychotic even – yet we idolise them, treat them like folk heroesIs there something ingrained in the male psyche that naturally draws us to the danger? Do we live vicariously though their stories? Or do we simply hold a sneaking admiration for anyone who gets away with not playing by the rules?The gangster represents something that’s primal and instinctive; he’s dangerous and exciting, and does the things we’d never dare to. He stays up late, drinks expensive booze and dates beautiful women. He deals in cash only, tells the rozzers where to stick it, and has his own code of ethics.

Lesson Three: To be able to use information gathered this week to write a piece of descriptive writing about The Krays.

Fill in the gaps using the words below.

The Kray twins. Notorious. Legendary. Murderous. Do you listen to the

…………………… of those who knew them, or he hard cold facts? Were they

terrible …………………………, out to rob, murder and steal their way to glory?

That’s one …………………………….. Or were they …………………., great men of their

time, as portrayed in the film “Legend”?

Heroes Villains Perspective Opinions

Your task is to write a piece of description about The Kray twins.

Decide first if you are going to present them as heroes or villains?

You may describe: How they felt committing their first crime? When they went to prison? How they felt on their death beds? How the crowd felt at their funeral? Or come up with your own idea.

Example

BEFORE YOU START WRITING, YOU MUST DECIDE….

Are you going to present them as heroes or villains?

Are you going to write in the past or present tense?

Are you going to write in the first person (their perspective) or third person (an omniscient narrator’s perspective?

Pay attention to spelling.Write in paragraphs.Use full stops and capital letters in the right places.

The thrill. There was nothing like it. Nothing but the thrill, and me, and my brother and the thrill. People always presumed I was in it for the money, but that was Reggie. He was the one who closed his eyes and saw gleaming pound-signs in his dream. Me? The excitement, the adrenaline, the feeling of blood pounding through my veins like a pack of wolves on the chase; that’s why I did it. I can still remember the thrill now, as I lie here, my arms linked up to wires and machines, and fluids being pumped through my blood instead….

WEEK TWO: ACTS OF HEORISMLesson One: to explore what makes a good hero

Write the definitions under each word, then spell them four times.

Attempt 1 Attempt 2 Attempt 3 Attempt 4Heroic

Villainous

Successful

Features

Write down a list for what makes a good hero, and what makes a good villain.

Hero Villain

Choose one of the pictures from above and write a description of them below in as much detail as possible. Read it to a family member and see if they can guess.

See example.

Chippings of blood clung to his teeth in sticky, scarlet shards. The ruby stains were bright against his skin, which was as white and ominous as a full moon in winter. His eyes, as granite as a grave stone, watched my every move as I entered the room, like an eagle watches a mouse creep along the floor, before it dives down and strikes.

Design a hero or villain of your own. Draw them below, then label their features.

Lesson Two: To evaluate what makes a hero

Match the correct word with the definition

An adjective used to describe something that is brave and impressive.

A distinct or particular characteristic of

something.

An adjective used to describe how well something has been done.

An adjective used to describe something that is bad, evil and nasty.

Heroic Villainous Features Successful

Look at this picture and answer the questions below it.

1. Describe what is happening in this picture?

2. Where do you think it is?

3. Do you think it is from real life or a film?

4. What do you think will happen to the little boy?

Read the article below and then answer the comprehension questions.

Spider-Man' of Paris climbs four storeys to rescue dangling boyFootage shows Mamoudou Gassama, a Malian immigrant, climbing up to a fourth-floor balcony to bring the child to safety

A young man has been hailed a hero after he scaled the facade of a building to save a four-year-old child hanging from a fourth-floor balcony.Mamoudou Gassama took just seconds to reach the child in a rescue captured on film and viewed millions of times on social networks.Footage of the rescue shows Gassama, 22, pulling himself up the building’s storeys from balcony to balcony as a man on the fourth floor tries to hold on to the child by leaning across from a neighbouring balcony.On reaching the fourth floor, Gassama puts one leg over the balcony before reaching out with his right arm and grabbing the child.Firefighters arrived at the scene to find the child had already been rescued.“Luckily, there was someone who was physically fit and who had the courage to go and get the child,” a fire service spokesman said.Tracked down by reporters 24 hours after the rescue, Gassama said he had acted without thinking. “I saw all these people shouting, and cars sounding their horns. I climbed up like that and, thank God, I saved the child,” he said.“I felt afraid when I saved the child ... [when] we went into the living room, I started to shake, I could hardly stand up, I had to sit down,” he added.Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, praised him on Twitter for his “act of bravery” as well as phoning him personally to “thank him warmly”. She referred to him as the “Spider-Man of the 18th”, referring to the Paris district where the rescue happened.“He explained to me that he had arrived from Mali a few months ago dreaming of building his life here,” she said. “I told him that his

heroic act is an example to all citizens and that the city of Paris will obviously be very keen to support him in his efforts to settle in France,” she added.

Comprehension Questions

1. What is the name of the hero in this story?

2. What superhero is he compared to?

3. Where did this story happen?

4. What country is the hero of this story originally from

5. How many storeys did he have to climb to rescue the boy?

6. True or False: it took a week for reporters to track Gassama down?

7. How did Gassama feel after saving the little boy?

8. What social networking site did the mayor of Paris use to thank Gassama?

9. Why do you think Gassama saved the little boy?

10. Why do you think other people didn’t try and save the boy?

Imagine you are Gassama

Write a first person (I) diary entry for the day you saved the little boy.

Include: How he first noticed what was happening, how he felt, why he did it, what happened afterwards…

Lesson 3: To evaluate and describe heroic acts that you have experienced

Fill in the gaps using the words below.

The Paris Spider-man story may have been real life, but it had all the ………………………….. of a big, Hollywood action-movie. The …………………………… parents left the little boy home alone while the …………………………… Gassama made a dangerous and ………………………….. attempt to rescue him.

heroic villainous features successful

Scattegories

Adjective to describe a hero

Adjective to describe a villain

Verb to describe what heroes do.

Verb to describe what villains do

Proper noun: an action Movie.

Fill in each category with a word beginning

with B….Fill in each category with a word beginning

with G…Fill in each category with a word beginning

with S….Fill in each category with a word beginning

with E….Fill in each category with a word beginning

with T….Fill in each category with a word beginning

with J….

What is the most heroic thing you have ever witnessed?

What is the most villainous thing you have ever witnessed?

Choose one of the above events. Write a short newspaper article, like the French Spider-man article, outlining what happened

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Week Three: Heroes in all shapes and sizesLesson one: To be able to answer comprehension questions about a short film.

Write the definitions under each word, then spell them four times.

Attempt 1 Attempt 2 Attempt 3 Attempt 4Culture

Disability

Stereotypical

Gender

Type Sanjay’s Super Team into You tube (it is a short Disney Film).

Watch Sanjay’s Super Team and answer the following questions:

What happens at the beginning of the film?

What happens in the middle of the film?

What happened at the end of the film?

What do you think the climax (most exciting bit) was?

What do you think the message in the film was?

The story of Sanjay’s Super Team.“In another first for Pixar, Sanjay’s Super Team announces that it is based on a true story – and shows a photo of Patel and his father at the end of the film to prove it.Patel originally based his film on a more broad concept, of a little boy rejecting his culture, but was encouraged to make it more personal by both Lasseter and the film’s producer, Nadine Grindle.So he told the story of his childhood, how, every morning and evening, in the family motel, he and his father sat side-by-side: the latter undertaking his daily meditation, or puja, and the little boy watching the TV. Patel told the Wall Street Journal: “I told John Lasseter that every morning, my dad would pray to his gods and his shrine, and I would pray to my gods, and my shrine, which was the TV and the cartoon superheroes that I worshipped.”  As the animated Sanjay reluctantly gives up his action figure and joins his father, he undergoes a process in five minutes which took the animator Sanjay 30 years: understanding the religion and culture that explained who his father is.As with most Pixar films, this profound realisation is presented with deft accessibility. Bored by the ceremony, little Sanjay starts daydreaming about superheroes – only these Avengers-style heroes are Vishnu, Hanuman and Durga, three revered Hindu deities.”

How are the three deities presented as superheroes in the film?

Vishnu

HanumanDurga

Lesson Two: Exploring stereotypical heroes.Match the correct word with the definition

A word that is linked to male and female and which a person identifies as.

The expected: typical representations of

something.

Something physical, mental or cognitive that means daily life can be more difficult.

A person’s background and heritage: links to race, ethnicity and religion.

culture gender stereotypical disability

Label this picture of the Marvel Avengers with as many names of characters as you can.

True False Stereotypical heroes are disabled.Stereotypical heroes are male.

Stereotypical heroes are from an Indian culture.

Type “Lost Voice Guy” into You Tube – watch him win the BGT final.Watch the following clip from the Britain’s got talent final and discuss why it was a special moment.

Read this article and answer the questions below it.

Britain's Got Talent: Is Lost Voice Guy's win a watershed moment for disability?On Sunday evening, Britain's Got Talent drew to a close and this year's winner was crowned. Nothing unusual there.

But Lost Voice Guy's victory wasn't just notable because he was the first comedian to win in the show's history - but also because he has cerebral palsy.

Furthermore, the runner-up, another comedian named Robert White, has Asperger syndrome.

The pair helped the show attract its biggest audience since 2015 - an average of 8.7 million viewers tuned into the final, according to overnight figures.

Both acts made light of their own disability in their acts. So is this a watershed mo-ment for disability on TV?

"No," says broadcaster Mik Scarlet, who is now an inclusion and equality trainer. "I think it's just another one of those moments that happens throughout the history of media.

"The media has always believed that the public can't cope with disability, but that's just never been my experience.

"What this actually needs to be is a watershed moment where the media wakes up to the fact that, actually, the general public are absolutely fine with disability."

He adds: "Hopefully what might happen is now the media will stop making it such a terrible tragedy story.

"It's very easy for them to shine a light on the public and go 'Oh look the public voted, they must have changed,' when actually this is the first time the public have been given the chance to vote."What disabilities do Lost Voice Guy and Robert White have?

Why was Lost Voice Guy’s victory a first for the T.V. show?

What does it suggest to you about public reaction towards disability?

You have five minutes. Write down….

As many female super-heroes as you can.

As many disabled super-heroes as you can.

As many black/ethnic minority super-heroes as you can

As many white, male, able-bodied super-heroes as you can.

Which column is fullest?

Design and label a super-hero from one of the columns with the least amount of names in it.

Lesson three: To produce a piece of narrative writing.Fill in the gaps using the words below.

In today’s society, we have come far with being more inclusive, but still, we imagine a ……………………….. super-hero to be a certain way. We imagine his ………………. to be male, not female. We imagine him to be from a white ………………………, most likely British or American. We would be truly shocked if they were in a wheel-chair, or suffering from depression or anxiety, because a hero can’t have a ………………… Right?

gender culture disability stereotypical

Look back at the hero you designed last lesson. You are going to try and write them into a piece of creative writing.

Decide what action/event is going to happen in your story. Will there be a villain too?

Are you going to write in the past or present tense?

Are you going to write in the first person (their perspective) or third person (an omniscient narrator’s perspective?

Pay attention to spelling.Write in paragraphs.Use full stops and capital letters in the right places.

Week four: Harry PotterLesson one: TBAT evaluate the connotations of certain animals. Write the definitions under each word, then spell them four times.

Attempt 1 Attempt 2 Attempt 3 Attempt 4Setting

Character

Atmosphere

Genre

Go onto Youtube and type in “Opening to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.”

Watch the opening 4 minutes and answer these question.

What is the setting of the opening? Why is this effective?

How many characters do we meet and do we think they are heroes or villains?

What is the atmosphere created in the opening?

How is the atmosphere created?

How does this particular opening make you want to watch on?

In this scene, a snake is presented as a villainous animal.

Complete this table, filling in as many animals for each category and giving reasons.

Animals I associate with heroes….

Animals I associate with villains….

Write a sensory description of the snake in this scene. Try to use similes and metaphors.

Think about how it looks, moves, sounds, smells etc…. Can you use alliteration for effect?

Lesson Two: To be able to analyse how a writer has used language for impactMatch the correct word with the definition

A person in a book, play or film.

A category of book, music or film.

The feeling or mood created in a book or film.

The place that is being described in a book, or shown in a film.

setting atmosphere character genre

Read this description of Snape from the Harry Potter books. How has JK Rowling used language to present Snape as villainous?

Step one: Select the three/four quotes that best answer the question and highlight them.

Step two: try to identify what they are (simile, metaphor, adjective, noun etc..)

Step three: use the structure strip on the next page to analyse how he is presented as villainous here.

Professor Quirrell, in his absurd turban, was talking to a teacher with greasy black hair, a hooked nose, and sallow skin. It happened very suddenly. The hook-nosed teacher looked past Quirrell's turban straight into Harry's eyes -- and a sharp, hot pain shot across the scar on Harry's forehead.

"Ouch!" Harry clapped a hand to his head.

"N-nothing." The pain had gone as quickly as it had come. Harder to shake off was the feeling Harry had gotten from the teacher's look -- a feeling that he didn't like Harry at all.

"Who's that teacher talking to Professor Quirrell?" he asked Percy. "Oh, you know Quirrell already, do you? No wonder he's looking so nervous, that's Professor Snape. He teaches Potions, but he doesn't want to -- everyone knows he's after Quirrell's job. Knows an awful lot about the Dark Arts, Snape."

Harry watched Snape for a while, but Snape didn't look at him again

Model paragraph In this extract, Rowling successfully makes Snape sound villainous by making him seem dirty. For example, she describes his hair as “greasy”. The adjective greasy makes the reader imagine he doesn’t wash his hair and so we associate poor hygiene with villainous characters; we think Snape is dirty and bad.

How else does JK. Rowing make Snape seem?

Include an example.

What had JK Rowling used?

How does it make him seem villainous? How else does JK. Rowing make Snape seem?

Include an example.

What had JK Rowling used?

How does it make him seem villainous?How else does JK. Rowing make Snape seem?

Include an example.

What had JK Rowling used?

How does it make him seem villainous?

Lesson Three: Organising events into chronological Order

Fill in the gaps using the words below.

The Harry Potter books are full of heroes and villains and belong to a fantasy ……………………. Most of the books take place at Hogwarts’ School; this is the …………………….. The ……………………….of the books is usually fun and light, but they become darker and darker. Harry Potter himself if the main ……………………….

character genre setting atmosphere.

A spell has gone wrong and all the punctuation has been magicked out of this extract.

Try and put in all the correct punctuation. There is a handy help below.

harrys mouth fell open the dishes in front of him were now piled with food he had never seen so many things he liked to eat on one table roast beef, roast chicken, pork chops and lamb chops sausages bacon and steak boiled potatoes roast potatoes fries yorkshire pudding peas carrots gravy ketchup and for some strange reason peppermint humbugs the dursleys had never exactly starved harry, but hed never been allowed to eat as much as he liked dudley had always taken anything that harry really wanted even if It made him sick harry piled his plate with a bit of everything except the peppermints and began to eat it was all delicious

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On Youtube, type in: Snape Chronological Order Harry Potter.

Watch the Snape video.

Try to put these events from the books into chronological order (this is the order in which they happen.)

Then put them onto the timeline, highlighting these important moments.

Snape meets Lilly Potter

Snape dies.

Snape gives Harry his memories.

Snape tries to rescue Lilly

Snape meets Harry Potter

Snape kills Dumbledore

Snape and Lilly go to Hogwarts

Snape asks Dumbledore to save Lilly’s life

Dumbledore asks Snape to kill him when the time comes

Snape sends Harry Gryffindor’s sword

Harry enters Snape’s mind and sees him being bullied by his father.

TIMELINE

Can you plot these events on the time-line.

Highlight Snape’s villainous moments in red.

Highlight Snape’s heroic moments in blue.

Highlight the point at which he changes from villain to hero in green.

Birth

Death

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