Lighthouse Lesson 1

LO: To show our comprehension of the film clip ‘The Lighthouse’.

Pause the film after 40 seconds when we first see the lighthouse keeper at his desk.

• Why is this scene included in the film?

• Can we describe the setting in 3 sentences?

• When do you think the story is set?

Pause the film after the candle blows out.

• Does the lighthouse keeper like his neighbours?

• How does the director build the tension in this scene?

• What words do you think the lighthouse keeper would use to describe

the people of the village?

• What do you think the lighthouse keeper would be saying to himself when the lantern at

the top of the lighthouse goes out?

Pause the film after the lighthouse keeper sees the ship.

• How do you think he feels when he sees the ship?

• The lighthouse keeper begins to panic – how can we show through his actions or feelings

this sense of panic?

Pause the film when the lighthouse keeper gets to the bottom of the steps.

• Where do you think he is going?

• Do you think the villagers will help him?

• Predict what you think will happen in the rest of the film.

Watch the film until the end.

• How does the lighthouse keeper feel at the end?

• Do you think he feels differently about his neighbours now?

• What do you think will happen next time there is a party in the village?

Lighthouse Lesson 2

LO: To recognise the features of a diary.

Grammar Time!

Identify and correct the mistakes in the sentences below:

1) They was all shouting and laughing down there at the tavern.

2) I were so worried, didn’t know what to do.

3) The lamp were broken and them ships wouldn’t see us.

4) I done my best to fix it but it slipped right out of me hands.

5) Then they shown up, God bless em. We done it.

Today we are going to explore the features of a diary. Start by

reading about some of the features of a diary entry.

Date

Often, diary entries will begin with the date on which they were written.

First Person

When you write in the first person, you put yourself inside the writing by describing how you

felt and what you were doing. Use ‘I’, ‘me’ and ‘my’.

Past tense

Diary entries are based on events that have already happened, so we write them in past

tense.

Records events in chronological order

We write the events in the order that they happened. We use time conjunctions, which tell us

when something happened.

Organised into paragraphs

Each new idea or event requires a new paragraph.

Describes feelings

You will write how you feel about what has happened. In a diary, you would expect that

the feelings described are honest ones.

Describes inner thoughts

You might write the thoughts you had at the tome something happened. You might include

in a diary thoughts that you would not say out loid.

Subjective perspective

In a diary entry, everything that is written is the opinion of the author. This might mean it

includes information that is based only on one point of view.

Informal language and colloquialism

You might find that the language in a diary entry is informal or casual.

Rhetorical questions

The author of a diary might ask questions that they do not expect anyone to answer.

Read the following three diary entries. As you read, look for the features and tick when you

have found them.

Lighthouse Lesson 3

LO: To write a diary entry (1).

Today, we are going to begin writing diary entries. We will write the diary of the lighthouse

keeper on the day shown in the film clip. First, make sure you are familiar with the events of

the story.

One of the features of a diary entry is that it is written in chronological order. To help with

that, start by reading each of the sentences on the following page and putting all nine events

into chronological order, from start to finish. You could just list the letters in order or you

could cut out the sentences and then sequence them.

Add a time adverbial, change the verbs to past tense and ensure it is in first person.

Last night, through the darkness, the beaming light rotated inside the lamp room of my lighthouse, illuminating the cliffside and jagged rocks.

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The next part of our diaries will focus on the

problem in the story.

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Lighthouse Lesson 4

LO: To write a diary entry (2).

Today, we are going to complete our diary entries. Building upon

yesterday’s writing about the problem, we will write about the climax

and the resolution.

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