Writing a setting and character description based on 'The Highwayman'

English

Understanding the context of 'The Highwayman'

Analysing stanzas one and two of 'The Highwayman'

Planning a setting and character description based on 'The Highwayman'

Analysing stanzas three and four of 'The Highwayman'

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

Writing the first part of the build-up of 'The Highwayman'

Planning and writing the second part of the build-up of 'The Highwayman'

Editing the build-up of 'The Highwayman'

Analysing stanzas five and six of 'The Highwayman'

Using drama to analyse the next section of 'The Highwayman'

Reviewing speech punctuation to write the next section of 'The Highwayman'

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

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

Editing the speech section of ‘The Highwayman’

Learning and reciting stanzas one to three of 'The Highwayman'

Learning and reciting stanzas four to six of 'The Highwayman'

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

simile, metaphor and personification to create imagery

how a writer constructs writing to convey emotions and mood

Match the key words to their definitions:

Select the correct use of apostrophes for singular possession:

the moon was a pearl shining in the black sky

the moon was like a ghostly disc hanging in the midnight sky

Match the types of figurative language to their examples:

which howled and whistled across the moor

Match the types of subordinate clause to their examples:

a sentence with two main clauses joined by a co-ordinating conjunction

a sentence with a main clause and any type of subordinate clause

Match the sentence types to their definitions:

a group of words containing a verb that make complete sense

a group of words containing a verb that does not make sense

a mysterious horseman rode across the desolate moor

Match the adverbial types to their examples:

Select the examples of figurative language.

'The stars were diamonds scattered across the jewelled sky' is an example of which type of figurative language?

Writing a setting and character description based on 'The Highwayman'

Lesson outcome