1. ‘Nobody cares see? Nobody gives a toss’
(p.45, Ginger). What are the varying
attitudes to homelessness, both in the
novel and in real life?
•Disgust
•Embarrassed when homeless people try to
make conversation or ask for money
•Self inflicted – Link chose to leave home
•Dossers who don’t want work - Vince tells
Link to find a job
•Addicts who have no one else to blame but
themselves for the situation that they are in
•They are comfortable with the way that
they live and wouldn’t accept a house if they
were offered one anyway
•Understanding that some of these people
are left with little alternative but to live on
the streets
•Admiration for those who sell the Big Issue
– they are trying to earn a wage and better
themselves
3. By the end of the lesson...
ALL of you will be able to identify and comment on
writers' purposes and viewpoints and the overall effect
of the text on the reader RAF 6
MOST of you will be able to relate texts to their social
and cultural contexts RAF 7
SOME of you will be able to sequence and structure
information to produce a text which is appropriate to
the reader and purpose WAF 2&3
4. Starter
Read Daily Routine Orders 7 (pages 27-29)
This is the second time Shelter kills.
Compare it to the first killing – (pages 17-18)
How are these two murders the same and how are they
different?
5. Read on to p38
You have now reached an important moment in the
novel.
Make notes about what you know about the two
narrators at this point and how this sets up the reader’s
expectations for the rest of the novel. Use the
headings on the next slide to help you organise your
notes.
6. What do you know about Link?
What do you know about Shelter?
Why do you think Swindells has introduced
Ginger into the story at this point?
What do you, the reader know that Link
does not know?
What do you expect to happen in the next
part of the story?
What questions would you like to have
answered at this point in the story?
7. In lesson 4, you wrote a brief third person
description of Link. Your next task is to create a
charity poster that may be used for display in
school.
You can use work from previous lessons to get you
started and you can use the Shelter website to get
information about the charity.
Reasons why people become homeless;
Problems at home - alcoholic parents, abuse, neglect,
parents who can’t cope any longer, unhappy in local
authority care, thieving from family to feed addiction etc
Problems at school – causing disruption, being
suspended or expelled, drug and alcohol abuse, etc
8. Are you able to...
...identify and comment on writers' purposes
and viewpoints and the overall effect of the text
on the reader? RAF 6
...relate texts to their social and cultural
contexts? RAF 7
...sequence and structure information to
produce a text which is appropriate to the
reader and purpose? WAF 2&3
