Pip is the story of a small dog with a big dream—to become a Southeastern Guide Dog. Does she have what it takes?
Teaching Ideas and Resources:
English
Make a list of the human behaviours that Pip shows. What effect does this have?
Listen to audio description version and then write your own. What do you need to include to make the story come alive?
Write a character description of Pip, or the trainer.
What does Pip’s behaviour tell you about her? Make a table showing the things that she does in one column and what that tells you about her personality in the other.
Stop the film at 0:54. How is Pip feeling? How do you know? Compare to 2:24. Write a description of Pip’s body language at both points.
Make a storyboard of the video.
Write the story from the point of view of the trainer.
Stop the film at 0:13. The construction equipment in the background will become very important later on. This technique is known as foreshadowing. Look at a range of fiction books and collect other examples of this technique.
Write up Pip’s experience as a newspaper report to be put on the entrance hall wall.
Discuss how the newspaper stories on the wall (for example at 0:33) are used to tell the story. Why have they been included? What do they add?
This a wall display in a P2 classroom. The children were learning about Venn diagrams and sorting for two criteria and the class topic was pets! These two are combined in this wall display.'
Comments
soni
2nd March 2019
I really appreciate the work you have done, you explained everything in such an amazing and simple way.