KS1 & KS2 English curriculum

This unit builds on pupils' understanding of how Shakespeare develops character, a concept introduced in the Year 5 unit, 'Shakespeare's 'Macbeth': narrative and soliloquy writing'. Pupils develop empathy skills to write a compelling diary entry from a character's perspective, varying tense and language structures to suit its purpose. Climactic writing devices are developed to build tension in the writing of a duel scene, including short sentence structures, dialogue to move action forward and precise verbs and adverbs. This unit prepares pupils for further Shakespeare study at KS3 level.

1. Understanding themes, characters and plot in 'Romeo and Juliet'
2. Exploring Juliet's emotions after meeting Romeo
3. Generating vocabulary for Juliet's diary entry
4. Planning Juliet's diary entries
5. Writing the first half of Juliet's diary entry
6. Writing the second half of Juliet's diary entry
7. Exploring Act III Scene 1 in ‘Romeo and Juliet’
8. Exploring vocabulary relating to the duel scene
9. Planning the duel scene
10. Writing the first half of the duel scene
11. Writing the second half of the duel scene
12. Debating a question raised by Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'