a dramatic work originally intended for the stage

a type of play in which terrible or sorrowful things happen to the main character(s)

a central idea that the writer intends the audience to engage deeply with

Understanding themes, characters and plot in 'Romeo and Juliet'

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Exploring Juliet's emotions after meeting Romeo

Generating vocabulary for Juliet's diary entry

Planning Juliet's diary entries

Writing the first half of Juliet's diary entry

Writing the second half of Juliet's diary entry

Exploring Act III Scene 1 in ‘Romeo and Juliet’

Exploring vocabulary relating to the duel scene

Planning the duel scene

Writing the first half of the duel scene

Writing the second half of the duel scene

Debating a question raised by Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'

In this unit, pupils learn how Shakespeare explores multiple key themes throughout a single play. In 'The Windrush: Diary Writing', pupils will learn to develop their skills of writing a diary with emotion based on a significant historical event.

In 'Shakespeare's Macbeth’: Narrative and Soliloquy Writing', pupils learnt about character, plot and theme in a Shakespearean play for the first time. In this unit, pupils will learn how Shakespeare explores multiple key themes throughout a single play.’

In this unit, pupils learn to empathise with and understand different characters in one of Shakespeare's iconic plays. They write a diary entry from Juliet's perspective, a climactic narrative scene based on the duel scene and begin to debate around a key question raised from the play.

Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet': diary and narrative writing

a sequence of continuous action in a play, film, opera or book

the stage of English language used from approximately the late 15th century to the late 17th century

a book in which a person keeps a daily record of events, experiences and emotions

strong feelings that result from a person's circumstances, mood or relationships with others

a writing technique for showing a character’s feelings with description of their actions, body language and facial expressions

used to tell the reader that action happened before now

tells the reader that action is happening now

things that happen to a person or a character

strong feelings experienced by a character in response to their experiences

language structures that are specific to a type of text

language structures that develop text cohesion

strong feelings experienced by a character in response to a their experiences

a serious disagreement over a period of time

a contest with deadly weapons between two people, used to settle an argument

words and phrases we choose to communicate details to the reader

the feeling or mood created in a section or whole of a text

events or things that are done by characters in a narrative

where we use words to help someone imagine what something is like

a conversation between two or more people, written in a text or story

the content of a narrative, often including action, description, dialogue and emotions

language features that contribute to text cohesion

a sentence starter that tells the reader when something happens

a word that describes or gives more information about a verb, often showing the manner in which it happens

a formal discussion about a question or subject held in public

a central idea of a text that the writer intends the audience to engage deeply with

a question about a text that can be discussed

a question that is raised by a text that can be discussed without referring to it

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