Topic 6 Year 7 english
| English | |||
| Topic | Shakespeare's Work | ||
| No of lessons | 21 | ||
| When is it happening | Half Term 6 Year 7 | ||
| What will students learn | Students will learn about Shakespeare, his life and times, and his canon. Students will then focus on a single play and learn about this in-depth, including aspects of performance. As part of this study, students will learn about script writing in order to write their own script and perform either this or an extract from the studied play | ||
| 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 | Shakespeare’s life; life in Elizabethan England; overview of Shakespeare’s canon; purpose and characters in The Twelfth Night; how The Twelfth Night is conveyed through performance; script-writing. | |
| 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: What speech looks like. |
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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 poet and a playwright; recognising poetic conventions; understanding performance. | |
| 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 |
History, Tragedy, Comedy, Canon, Olivia, Viola Sebastian |
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| The Big Question | Why is it important to study Shakespeare? | ||
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Key questions that students should be able to answer at the end of the 'Topic'
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Who is Shakespeare? | ||
| What is Shakespeare's canon? | |||
| What are Shakespeare's history plays like? | |||
| What are Shakespeare's tragedy plays like? | |||
| What happens in The Twelfth Night? | |||
| How is language used to create character and achieve purpose in Act 1 of The Twelfth Night? | |||
| How is Act 1 of The Twelfth Night performed? | |||
| How is language used to create character and achieve purpose in Act 2 of The Twelfth Night? | |||
| How is Act 2 of The Twelfth Night performed? | |||
| How is language used to create character and achieve purpose in Act 3 of The Twelfth Night? | |||
| How is Act 3 of The Twelfth Night performed? | |||
| How is language used to create character and achieve purpose in Act 4 of The Twelfth Night? | |||
| How is Act 4 of The Twelfth Night performed? | |||
| How is language used to create character and achieve purpose in Act 5 of The Twelfth Night? | |||
| How is Act 5 of The Twelfth Night performed? | |||
| How do I write a script? | |||
| What is Shakespeare's poetry like? | |||