The document provides lesson material on a novel about a character named Link. It includes questions about Link's experiences trying to find employment and housing. It then prompts students to summarize Link's story in 300 words or less from the perspective of a charity wanting to increase awareness of youth homelessness. The summary should describe each step that led Link to becoming homeless in London in a way that generates sympathy from the reader.

1. Which
charity
advert
has the
most
effect
on you?

2. Lesson 4 – Missing Link

3. By the end of the lesson...
ALL of you will be able to select relevant
information from the novel RAF 2
MOST of you will be able to produce a text that
is appropriate to the reader and purpose WAF 2
SOME of you will be able to select appropriate
and effective vocabulary that can persuade your
audience WAF 7

4. Read on to the end of page 20
1) How many places does Link visit to try to gain employment?
2) Which places does Link visit?
3) Why do you think that he cannot find a job?
4) What does Link live on? Why do you think this is?
5) How much money does Link have left?
6) What is the problem that he faces?
7) How does Link respond to the landlord's demand?
8) Why do you think that he does this?
9) What situation did Link think that he was in last week? How is this
different from the situation that he finds himself in now?
10) What is there in this chapter to suggest that Link is both a reasonable and
a kind person?

5. Summarise the story of Link
• Imagine you work for the charity Shelter.
• You want to run a campaign to make people aware
of how easy it is for ordinary youngsters to end up
homeless.
• You decide that one of the things on the campaign
leaflet will be the story of one young person’s
experience.
• You have to tell Link’s story in no more than 300
words.

6. A successful summary will
• Tell Link’s story in THIRD PERSON NARRATIVE.
• Be no longer than 300 words.
• Include each important step that led him to
become homeless in London.
• Make the reader feel sympathy for Link.
• Be written in structured paragraphs.

7. You could begin like this….

8. Swap Books...
Check their writing. Does it:
Tell Link’s story in THIRD PERSON NARRATIVE?
Include each important step that led him to
become homeless in London?
Make the reader feel sympathy for Link?
Is it:
No longer than 300 words?
Written in structured paragraphs?

9. Are you able to...
...select relevant information from the novel?
RAF 2
...produce work that is appropriate to the reader
and purpose? WAF 2
...select appropriate and effective vocabulary
that can persuade your audience? WAF 7