Topic 4 Year 7 english
| English | |||
| Topic | Roaming and Roving | ||
| No of lessons | 10 | ||
| When is it happening | Half Term 4 Year 7 | ||
| What will students learn | Students will learn about different aspects of travel writing including the different modes in which it can be conveyed to the reader. Students will explore a variety of extracts from non-fiction travel through the ages to facilitate this learning. Students will learn how to write a travelogue. | ||
| Key Knowledge that students should know at the end of 'Topic' | This is the knowledge that students will meet for the first time in this topic | Definition of travel writing; timeline of travel writing including Pausanias, Chinese travel record literature, Gilles le Bouvier, the Grand Tour, and Paul Theroux; purpose of travel writing; modern mediums of travel writing including newspaper supplements, blogs, Instagram, and TV; travel writing conventions; travel writing extracts from Robert Louis Stevenson, Paul Theroux, George Orwell, Bill Bryson, Karl Pilkington, Michael Palin | |
| This is knowledge that students may have met before but will need to deepen their understanding |
Regular retrieval of the knowledge described above will be retrieved as well as: Greek History Dr Johnson The influence of travel |
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| Key Skills that students should be able to demonstrate at the end of 'Topic' | This is the skills that students will meet for the first time in this topic | Students will focus on acquiring the following skills: Write like a journalist | |
| This is skills that students may have met before but will need to develop |
Students will concentrate on developing these core Year 7 skills: Making inferences; referring to evidence; purpose; vocabulary choice; characterisation; expressing own ideas. |
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| Key vocabulary that students should know and understand |
Reliable, Valid, Ritual, Exotic, Major, Minor Environment |
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| The Big Question | Why is it important to study travel writing? | ||
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Key questions that students should be able to answer at the end of the 'Topic' |
What is travel writing? | ||
| How has travel writing changed? | |||
| What is the purpose of travel writing? | |||
| What does modern travel writing look like? | |||
| What does my travel writing look like? | |||
| How do I write a travelogue? | |||