a country or area under the control of another country

when you leave your own country to settle in another

someone who has come to a country different to their country of origin to live permanently

treating a person or group of people differently and unfairly because of a certain characteristic

harmful and unfair behaviours and attitudes that people can show if they hold the belief that their own race is superior to another

Exploring the Empire Windrush and the experiences of its passengers

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Retelling a Windrush story

Generating ideas for the diary entries of a Windrush passenger

Planning the diary entries of an imagined Windrush passenger

Writing the diary entry of a Windrush passenger before their arrival in the UK

Writing the diary entry of a Windrush passenger after their arrival in the UK

In this unit, pupils learn to develop their skills of writing a diary with emotion based on a significant historical event.

In 'Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet’: Diary and Narrative Writing', pupils learnt to write a diary entry from a character's perspective with heightened emotions from a fictional context. In this unit, pupils will learn to develop their skills of writing a diary with emotion based on a significant historical event.’

In this unit, pupils use research around the Empire Windrush and an account of a fictional passenger to write a diary entry from a Windrush passenger's perspective. They use a conversational tone and informal devices, including exclamatives and verbless sentences, to meet the writing purpose.

The Empire Windrush: diary writing

the name given to people who emigrated from the West Indies to the UK in the decades after World War II, starting with the arrival of the Empire Windrush in 1948

a visual representation of a series of events, where pictures represent events; it can be used to orally rehearse events to embed them in our memory

a book in which you keep a record of events, experiences and feelings

the ability to understand other people’s feelings and points of view

tells the reader that action happened before now

tells the reader that action is happening now

things that happen to a person or character

emotional reactions or ideas in response to events

the effect created by using language features such as conversational sentence openers that may break normal ‘rules’ of writing

a word, phrase or sentence that expresses strong emotion or surprise

a conversational or informal sentence that does not contain a verb, breaking the normal written convention

language structures that develop text cohesion

when we say aloud the sentences we want to write before we write them

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