Text: Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare

Ash Green Primary School Medium Term Planning: Core English Curriculum. Year: 5 Teacher: Miss Griffiths Term: Spring 2020

Book talk: ideas about text, opinions, retelling, missing chapter, point of view, character maps, Vocabulary Extension: VCOP/Phonics/wordgames/language

Whole Drama scheme of work based around discussion and experience of the play:

Range of opportunities for speaking and listen-ing: articulate and justify answers (arguments/opinions), maintain attention & participate ac-tively in collaborative conversations, use spoken language to develop spoken language through imagining and exploring ideas, takes an active role in a range of drama techniques (role play, mantle of the expert, conscience alley).

‘Magpie words’ on learning wall - found during reading/discussion of the text

N.B. Also see whole-class reading lessons

Chn to be given guide to R&J names and words to keep in their books

SPAG Opportunities in text:

Setting descriptions: expanded noun phrases, prepositional phrases, POSAM, de:de

Non-chronological reports: colons and commas for lists, paragraphing, organisational and presentational devices to struc-ture the text and guide the reader , some; others

Narratives: link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials, relative clauses, direct and indirect speech, POSAM, de:de, speech

Script: brackets, adverbs, commas, question marks and exclamation marks, organisational and presentational devices to structure the text and guide the reader

Narrative poem: expanded noun phrases, POSAM, the more. the more, 3bad-

(Auto)biography: relative clauses, de:de, link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials

Writing Genres: (no page numbers due to work being based on drama sessions)

Script— writing scripts of scenes in Beowulf (before R&J scheme of work is launched), creating sections of class performance for the New Vic festival (Write narrative genres: playscripts)

Performance poem to describe Verona (part of Drama scheme of work)

Diary entries—part of Drama scheme of work, linked to reading grid (Write narrative genres: stories told from a different point of view or with different ‘voices’)

Narrative (using boxing clever—linked to Drama scheme of work)—writing the missing flashback to explain the family’s feud (describe settings and characters in narrative)

Letter of advice (linked to Drama scheme of work—Juliet’s secre-taries) (Link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials, Effective use of commas for lists, question marks and exclamation marks.)

Narrative poem—retelling the story of R&J (Write poetry based on a model e.g. The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes)

Non-chronological comparative report comparing different char-acters— e.g. the two houses (Write non-narrative non-chronological comparative report, Use further organisational and presentational devices to structure the text and guide the read-er )

Auto/biography of one of the main characters (Write non-narrative biography and autobiography)

Book/play review of R&J and the New Vic festival With all appropriate genres:

Can redraft a section, making changes to vocabulary or grammar, to improve

consistency.

Select the appropriate form and use other similar writing as models for their own.

Identify the audience for and purpose of the writing.

Use the first three / four letters of a word to check the spelling and meaning in

a dictionary.

Use a thesaurus to improve word choices.

Organise paragraphs around a theme

Use adverbs (e.g. perhaps, surely)

Use the apostrophe for a range of purposes correctly (e.g. contractions).

Environment: role-play area (stage curtains, vocabulary, learning walls, artwork, Shakespeare quotes and texts) Key words: script, stage direction, empathy, sympathy, death, grief, decisions, indecision, conflict, family, feud, rivalry, romance, loyalty, acting, drama, ensemble, choral speech, in the round, performance, audience, Sheskeapearean, acting, expression, role

Drama and role play:

See Northwest Drama scheme of work for R&J (working towards a performance at the New Vic theatre)

Multi-media links: Images of characters and Verona (setting) Watch sections of performance sof R&J online Use of stage lighting. music and SFX for New Vic performance Animated version of story (for comparison to text)

Cross curricular writing opportunities (genre and subject)

History— report based on research

Science—a persuasive pitch/speech to sell a new kitchen they’ve designed, writing a conclusion, report/presentation on a scientist who created anew material