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Year 6

Early Islamic civilisation: essay writing

7 lessons

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  • Developing essay writing
  • Reading and writing texts that inform

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In this unit, pupils research the Abbasid dynasty of early Islamic civilisation and why it is referred to by historians as a 'Golden Age'. They organise their knowledge into a clear essay structure with an introduction, paragraphs and a conclusion. They then write an essay that aims to inform.

This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of writing a single line of argument essay from the previous Year 6 unit, 'Polar regions: essay writing'. The question for this essay requires pupils to express and explain an array of researched information about an early civilisation. Pupils practise writing with credibility, using facts derived from research that are organised in a clear structure from introduction to themed paragraphs to conclusion, presented using the full range of sentence structures and cohesive devices. This unit prepares pupils for further analytical writing at KS3 level.

  1. Identifying features of an essay for writing about early Islamic civilisation
  2. Researching early Islamic civilisation
  3. Plan and write the introduction of an essay about early Islamic civilisation
  4. Planning and writing section one of an essay about early Islamic civilisation
  5. Planning and writing section two of an essay about early Islamic civilisation
  6. Planning and writing the conclusion of an essay about early Islamic civilisation
  7. Presenting our knowledge related to early Islamic civilisation

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