Activity 16:
Diary entry as Ms. Fred and/or the main character

Activity

Students will write a diary entry as Ms. Fred and/or the main character

Curriculum Expectation - Language

B2 Language Foundations for Reading and Writing

B2.2 Vocabulary

B3 Language Conventions for Reading and Writing

B3.2 Grammar

C1 Knowledge about Texts

C1.6 Point of View

C3 Critical Thinking in Literacy

C3.2 Making Inferences
C3.5 Perspectives within Texts

Possible Pre-Teaching Ideas

Understanding Point of View -creating a “voice” for the character.
Purpose of a diary.
- Personal reflections how the character is feeling, what they’re thinking, retell events, share responses to events/people.
Features of a diary.
- Date
- “Dear Diary…”
- First person
- Past Tense
Read an excerpt from “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” - discuss this fictitious diary and how the author Jeff Kinney is different from the character Greg Heffley.
Character sketch of the main character and or Ms. Fred (not how they look, what they might think and feel).
- Who are they? What do they look like? What do they like/dislike? Why they’re building “the bike that is a car”? What are their points of view?
Draw/sketch how each character might look.

Possible Website examples

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z2yycdm/articles/z4qtqfr -How to write a diary

Brief Explanation of Activity

Students will create a diary entry from one of the character’s points of view about building “the bike that is a car”. Their diary entry should show a clear point of view from the character whose perspective they are writing from.

Junior/intermediate classes may consider doing a double entry diary, where the page is split into two long columns and the student writes an entry for each character’s point of view (like a T chart).

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