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Year 6

The Empire Windrush: diary writing

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In this unit, pupils use research around the Empire Windrush and an account of a fictional passenger to write a diary entry from a Windrush passenger's perspective. They use a conversational tone and informal devices, including exclamatives and verbless sentences, to meet the writing purpose.

This unit uses and builds on pupils' understanding of diary writing from the Year 6 unit, 'Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet': diary and narrative writing'. This time, pupils write the diary entry based on a real-life historical stimulus - the Empire Windrush. In so doing, pupils research the historical event, building empathy for the passengers on board. Pupils practise using informal devices, like exclamatives, first person, verbless sentences and conversational tone. This unit prepares pupils for essay writing on the same stimulus in the Year 6 unit, 'The Empire Windrush: essay writing'.

  1. Exploring the Empire Windrush and the experiences of its passengers
  2. Retelling a Windrush story
  3. Generating ideas for the diary entries of a Windrush passenger
  4. Planning the diary entries of an imagined Windrush passenger
  5. Writing the diary entry of a Windrush passenger before their arrival in the UK
  6. Writing the diary entry of a Windrush passenger after their arrival in the UK
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