KS1 & KS2 English curriculum

This unit uses and builds on pupils' skills of writing about historical figures from the Year 2 unit 'Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole: non-chronological report'. Here, pupils use a much wider range of sentence structures and cohesive devices, including parenthesis, to write a biographical text about a different important historical figure. New learning in this unit includes the terms 'biography' and 'biographical writing'. Pupils peer edit their written outcomes too. This unit prepares pupils for further biographical writing in the Year 6 unit 'Charles Darwin: biographical writing'.

1. Identifying the features of a biography
2. Researching Harriet Tubman in preparation for writing a biography
3. Planning and writing the introduction of a biography about Harriet Tubman
4. Planning and writing the section about Harriet Tubman's early life
5. Peer editing the early life section of a biography about Harriet Tubman
6. Planning the section about Harriet Tubman's activism
7. Writing the section about Harriet Tubman's activism
8. Planning and writing the conclusion of a biography about Harriet Tubman