Romeo and Juliet: exploring the role of love and fate
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupil's understanding of Shakespearean tragedy from 'Othello'. It also develops their understanding of a Shakespearean tragic hero, and enables them to see different conceptions of tragic heroes. This unit gives pupils a firm grounding in the play's key themes, characters and scenes, which sets them up for the deep dive units in year 11. In particular, this unit builds towards the first deep dive, which focuses on the relationship between masculinity and honour and violence.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can make clear inferences about texts
- Pupils can comment on the language choices of an author
- Pupils can comment on character development as part of structural analysis
- Pupils understand that the social and historical context of text impact on our interpretation of it
- Pupils can write clear topic sentences
- Pupils can select evidence from a text to support their analysis
- Pupils can structure their arguments, using single paragraph outlines
- Pupils have an understanding that power corrupts
- Pupils can use noun appositives to give greater detail about characters
- Pupils can use conjunctions to explain their inferences
Threads
Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupil's understanding of Shakespearean tragedy from 'Othello'. It also develops their understanding of a Shakespearean tragic hero, and enables them to see different conceptions of tragic heroes. This unit gives pupils a firm grounding in the play's key themes, characters and scenes, which sets them up for the deep dive units in year 11. In particular, this unit builds towards the first deep dive, which focuses on the relationship between masculinity and honour and violence.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can make clear inferences about texts
- Pupils can comment on the language choices of an author
- Pupils can comment on character development as part of structural analysis
- Pupils understand that the social and historical context of text impact on our interpretation of it
- Pupils can write clear topic sentences
- Pupils can select evidence from a text to support their analysis
- Pupils can structure their arguments, using single paragraph outlines
- Pupils have an understanding that power corrupts
- Pupils can use noun appositives to give greater detail about characters
- Pupils can use conjunctions to explain their inferences
Literature
Romeo and Juliet: exploring the role of love and fate
In this unit, pupils read and analyse 'Romeo and Juliet' by focusing on the role of fate. They start by understanding the play's tragedy and the concept of fate, before exploring key characters and themes in detail. They finally prepare and write an essay about the role of fate in the play.
16 lessons in unit
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