Introduction
AIM: To help the class think about “truths” that made-up stories can contain.
Process
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What’s the scariest thing they can imagine? Think, pair, share.
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“When you’re scared, does it help when someone tells you not to be silly - there’s nothing to be scared of?” (Justify your response with real examples you experienced).
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, “If I told you your fear was just a boggart, how many of you would know what I was talking about?”
- Can you share with the class what a boggart is.
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If no-one knows, explain. In “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” a Boggart is something which takes the form of whatever you are most scared of. The way to get rid of a boggart is to laugh at it, so the spell you use is “Riddikulus”. (Make sure they understand the pun!).
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The boggart scene, after explaining that Neville Longbottom is one of the characters in the series, and he’s always messing things up and appears to be a coward. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doxxfXqpKYA
True stories about real people
Made up stories about real people (many movies ‘based on a true story’ will fit into this category)
Made up stories about made up people (most novels).
True stories about made up people ( fables, parables, historical fiction, eg The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Once (by Morris Gleitzman) etc
There four categories
Two don’t (really) claim to be true.
Two are written to communicate a truth.
The students will all be familiar with the first three, so make more of a thing of (d). You may want to pause after (c) and see if any of them can think of a fourth type themselves. Relate (d) back to the Boggart exercise they’ve just done: a story about made-up people that still told some truth.