Harriet Tubman: biographical writing
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Why this why now
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'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Non fiction writing is writing that is informative or factual rather than fictional.
- A paragraph is a section of a piece of writing that is indicated by a new line and an indentation
- A main clause is a group of words that contains a verb and makes complete sense
- A subordinate clause is a group of words that contains a verb and does not make complete sense
- A complex sentence is a sentence formed of at least one main clause and a subordinate clause
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Why this why now
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'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Non fiction writing is writing that is informative or factual rather than fictional.
- A paragraph is a section of a piece of writing that is indicated by a new line and an indentation
- A main clause is a group of words that contains a verb and makes complete sense
- A subordinate clause is a group of words that contains a verb and does not make complete sense
- A complex sentence is a sentence formed of at least one main clause and a subordinate clause
Reading, writing & oracy
Harriet Tubman: biographical writing
In this unit, pupils write a biography based on Harriet Tubman, centred around her significance as a historical figure, her early life and her civil rights activism. Pupils conduct research about the subject and organise their research into clear paragraphs, using a range of cohesive devices.
8 lessons in unit
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