‘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

Lesson 8 – No-one cares?

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 6MOST 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

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?

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.

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?

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 etcProblems at school – causing disruption, being suspended or expelled, drug and alcohol abuse, etc

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

‘Nobody cares see? Nobody gives a toss’ (p.45, Ginger). Has Stone Cold changed your mind about homeless people?