‘Inside Out’- soft and hard skills.

Soft skills- students work through a slides to analyse the main character Riley and how her emotions affect her then apply the same process to themselves.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10CG8twJVKKxg8gMzj6gdnscQaSBbSfhihe_SFxWDLMA/edit?usp=sharing

Then, we watched Maximillian Park’s Ted talk and discussed it.

Then we prepared for writing a PERSUASIVE WRITING piece. The statement to agree/disagree with was ‘Emotional Intelligence should be taught in schools’.

Students researched some (given) sources , planned relevant quotes and summarised content. Then they planned their essay and drafted it. Once the draft was done, we looked at rhetoric. Once they had a grasp of that, they went back and tweaked their draft to be more formal and to add persuasive devices.