Planning the first entry of Florence Nightingale's diary

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Identifying the features of a diary entry

Writing the first entry of Florence Nightingale's diary

Planning the second entry of Florence Nightingale's diary

Writing the second entry of Florence Nightingale's diary

In this unit, pupils learned to write diary entires from the perspective of a historical person they had researched extensively. In 'The Journey': Diary Writing', pupils will build on this by using a fictional story as inspiration and adding more creativity to their diary entry. 

In 'Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole: Non-Chronological Report', pupils learned about these two important historical figures and wrote about their lives. In this unit, pupils will use that knowledge to write from Florence Nightingale's perspective as they write a diary entry.

In this unit, pupils write two sections of a fictional diary entry based on the historical figure Florence Nightingale. Pupils use research around her life and career as a starting point for writing a diary entry, focusing on using the first person perspective consistently.

Florence Nightingale: diary writing

Depiction of war, threats of war, death or the aftermath of war.

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

What is the name for the way someone thinks, feels or sees something.

When we share our perspective, we are saying what we think about something, or giving our ...

A person may choose to share their perspective in a ...

What is it called each time a person writes in their diary?

True or false? The purpose of notes is to help the writer to organise information easily for future use.

A writer can take notes and turn them into ...

True or false? If something happens in the past, it has already happened.

When writing about the past, a writer should mostly write in which tense?

True or false? When we talk about something that has happened to us in the past, we are recounting.

True or false? A recount is written in non-chronological order. 

Planning the first entry of Florence Nightingale's diary

Lesson outcome

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