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Soichiro Honda - A biography of a wise man KS2 KS3 +
The Honda story is the story of one man, Soichiro Honda, and his unparalleled achievement of bringing motor cycles to the masses. Soichiro Honda was a racer, a businessman, and a manufacturer. But most of all he was a dreamer. He dreamed of a better way of making piston rings, founded a small company, and began production. He dreamed of giving people everywhere an economical form of transportation, and began producing small motorcycles.
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Teaching Ideas
There are many links here - Design,History,Geography, PSHE and literacy.
I would use this animation for children to take notes in order to write their own biography of Soichiro.
It could also be the inspiration for writing an autobiography or biography of another famous person - in the same style.
Writing a biography
http://smokeriders.com/History/Honda_History/body_honda_history.html
There are many links here - Design,History,Geography, PSHE and literacy.
I would use this animation for children to take notes in order to write their own biography of Soichiro.
It could also be the inspiration for writing an autobiography or biography of another famous person - in the same style.
Writing a biography
- Can we start with an inspirational statement or question like this film uses?
- Collect and group related points - family, work, achievements etc.
- Children create a story board for their biography.
- Children carry out hot seating activities - interviewing people that know or knew the subject of their writing.
http://smokeriders.com/History/Honda_History/body_honda_history.html
The P4C booklist from Jo Bowers
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Mayfly Day by Jeanne Willis
Zoo by Anthony Browne How to live forever by Colin Thompson Falling Angels by Colin Thompson |
The Little White Owl by Tracey Corderoy
Ish by Peter Reynolds The Conquerors by David McKee Tusk Tusk by David McKee |
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When The Dragons Came by Naomi Kefford and Lynne Moore
When a family-load of boisterous, bumbling dragons burst into peaceful Poppledown Town, there's sure to be trouble! Before long, the whole town is thrown into chaos. The local market is turned upside down, the library is louder than ever and the local playgroup has never experienced such disruptive pupils! Will Poppledown Town EVER be the same again? |
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The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
The Giving Tree is a tale about a relationship between a young boy and a tree. The tree always provides the boy with what he wants: branches on which to swing, shade in which to sit and apples to eat. As the boy grows older, he requires more and more of the tree. The tree loves the boy very much and gives him anything he asks for. In an ultimate act of self-sacrifice, the tree lets the boy cut it down so the boy can build a boat in which he can sail. The boy leaves the tree, now a stump. Many years later, the boy, now an old man, returns, and the tree sadly says: "I'm sorry, boy... but I have nothing left to give you." But the boy replies: "I do not need much now, just a quiet place to sit and rest." The tree then says, "Well, an old tree stump is a good place for sitting and resting. Come, boy, sit down and rest." The boy obliges and the tree is very happy.
The Giving Tree is a tale about a relationship between a young boy and a tree. The tree always provides the boy with what he wants: branches on which to swing, shade in which to sit and apples to eat. As the boy grows older, he requires more and more of the tree. The tree loves the boy very much and gives him anything he asks for. In an ultimate act of self-sacrifice, the tree lets the boy cut it down so the boy can build a boat in which he can sail. The boy leaves the tree, now a stump. Many years later, the boy, now an old man, returns, and the tree sadly says: "I'm sorry, boy... but I have nothing left to give you." But the boy replies: "I do not need much now, just a quiet place to sit and rest." The tree then says, "Well, an old tree stump is a good place for sitting and resting. Come, boy, sit down and rest." The boy obliges and the tree is very happy.
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I am the King by Leo Timmers
One morning Tortoise is suddenly wearing a crown and he is very excited, thinking he is the king. His friends really have a laugh at that, but Billy Goat, Flamingo, Snake, Pig, Crocodile, Elephant, and Monkey all would like to be the king too. Who is the one and only king? Soon the answer is revealed 
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The Mountains of Tibet by Modecai Gerstein
This story of the death and reincarnation of a Tibetan woodcutter is a beautifully gentle look at one human being dealing with life's choices and possibilities. As a boy, he thought about other worlds that he would someday visit; as a man, he thought of other countries and people, yet ``he was always busy with his work and his wife and children.'' After his death, he is given the option of being part of ``the endless universe some call heaven'' or living another life, and he chooses another life. The choices which follow take him through all the galaxies, stars, planets, creatures, peoples, countries, and parents before arriving at the final twist in this journey back to where he had been almost. |
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Armin Greder
Illustration from 'The Island'
The City
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The Island
When the people of the Island discover a man and a tattered raft on their beach, they are reluctant to take him in. He doesn't look like them. But they cannot send him back to the sea where he will surely perish. Instead, they put him aside but even that doesn't solve their problem. The Island is an astonishing and powerful picture book about refugees, xenophobia, multiculturalism, social politics and human rights. It tackles big themes in subtle ways with a fable-like text and stunning artwork that will provoke discussion for upper primary and secondary school levels about issues that remain so much a part of our national discourse. |
The City
Following on from The Island, Armin Greder offers a contemporary mother-and-son fable that is powerful and compelling. Some time ago, in a big city in a distant country where winter would sometimes last three years, there lived a woman. She had a child. A son. And because she loved him very much she promised herself that he should be spared the terrible things that happen in life, and with him in her arms she left her house and the city and in a place where there were no roads and no bridges she built him a house and in it she cared for him and was happy. But one moonless night she died. A fable for children and for mothers, this courageous tale explores the effort and the suffering it takes to grow?and above all else, to let grow. |