Planning the second entry of Florence Nightingale's diary

English

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

Which is the past tense verb in this sentence: Last week, I visited the zoo. 

What is the past tense version of the word 'add'?

True or false? When we write a plan, we use notes. 

When writing a diary pretending to be another person, you are writing from that person's ...

True or false? Past tense tells the reader that something happened before now.

Which of these words would you find in a piece of writing written in the 'first person'? 

Read our sentences out loud to check they make sense and edit to improve

When we write, which of these do we always try and do?

Content guidance

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Adult supervision recommended

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

Planning the second entry of Florence Nightingale's diary

Lesson outcome

Content guidance

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