Planning the third part of the build-up of 'The Highwayman'

English

In 'The Highwayman: Narrative Writing', pupils will develop their understanding of how to create atmosphere and engage the reader using figurative language. In 'Shakespeare's ’Macbeth’: Narrative and Soliloquy Writing', pupils will use figurative language to write a narrative based on Shakespearean tragedy and convey characters' thoughts and feelings through soliloquy writing.

In 'The Viewer', pupils developed their use of cohesive devices and show-not-tell to convey character. In 'The Highwayman: Narrative Writing', pupils will develop their understanding of how to create atmosphere and engage the reader using figurative language.

In this unit, pupils use 'The Highwayman' by Alfred Noyes as the stimulus from which to write a character and setting description, a narrative build-up in third person prose and a section incorporating varied speech sentences. Pupils complete the unit reciting and memorising parts of the poem.

'The Highwayman': narrative writing

includes direct speech before the reporting clause

includes direct speech after the reporting clause

Fill in the gap. Stanzas five and six form __________ of our narrative writing.

loops for a horse rider to put their feet in

Match some of the vocabulary from stanzas five and six to their definitions:

"I'll be back by tomorrow night," promised the Highwayman.

"I'll be back by tomorrow night" promised the Highwayman.

"I'll be back by tomorrow night, promised the Highwayman.

Select the correctly punctuated speech first sentence:

to introduce key characters and storyline

to give clues about what will happen later in the story

Fill in the gap. __________ is spoken words between two or more people in a text. 

Fill in the gap. __________ is the term used for a person speaking out loud in a text.

Match the punctuation symbols that can be used in speech to their names.

tells the reader who said the speech and how

Match the key words to their definitions:

Fill in the gap. __________ involves describing a character's gestures, body language and facial expressions to convey their emotions.

Tick the examples of show-not-tell from the list:

Match the type of show-not-tell to its example:

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Planning the third part of the build-up of 'The Highwayman'

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.