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

things that happen to a person or a character

language structures that are specific to a type of text

language structures that develop text cohesion

Writing the second half of Juliet's diary entry

English

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

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

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

True or false? The tense of a diary entry should always stay the same throughout.

Which features of a diary entry are shown in the following example? 'I'm completely ecstatic!'

Which features of a diary entry are shown in the following example? 'Immediately, I sent my nurse to chase him down.'

Which of the following is **not** a linguistic feature of a diary?

Which linguistic features of a diary entry are shown in the following example? 'What a thrill it was to see him there! Instantly, I realised that he felt just as I did.'

Which of these words best describe the style of a diary entry?

I am pacing the room, wondering what to do.

Match each key element of a diary to the correct example.

Which linguistic feature is shown in the following example? 'How glorious it is to be in love!'

Which linguistic feature is shown in the following example? 'Why did Mother have to call me away then?'

Which cohesive device is used in the following example? 'At that moment, my mother came bustling over.'

Which cohesive device is used in the following example? 'When I saw his mesmerising eyes, I fell instantly in love.'

I feel so melancholy I can hardly bear it.

I watched a handsome man approach across the ballroom.

As he kissed me softly, I was mesmerised.

Which of these examples are in the present tense?

This lesson was made for home learning during the pandemic.

Writing the second half of Juliet's diary entry

Lesson outcome

This lesson was made for home learning during the pandemic.