Teaching concept using Conversations Across Time

Age: 15 – 17 years Form Five Concept: Theme Strategy: Conversations Across Time After students have finished reading the novels ‘Harriet’s Daughter,’ ‘Annie John,’ and ‘Green Days by the River’ students will be given the question ‘Is friendship important?’ Students will be asked the question in light of how of how the character would answer in ‘Annie John,’ Margret would answer in ‘Harriet’s Daughter’ and how Shell would answer in ‘Green Days the River.’ Students would also include their own views outlining whether the value that they place on friendships. This reading strategy is geared towards preparing students for a small group discussion based the different ways that friendship is presented in the various novels. Students will critically examine the various ways that is friendship are presented and treated in the novels and the value that the characters place on it for example Margret and Zulma, Annie and Gwen and Shell and Lenard. In doing this activity students will also examine their own relationships that they have with their friends.