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Writing like Shakespeare and J. K. Rowling

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Famous for more than Five Minutes - NEW LOOK Authors

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Objectives

History

  • Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections and draw contrasts.
  • Understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.

Design and Technology

  • Select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks.

Lesson Planning

Learn more about how Shakespeare wrote his plays and J. K. Rowling wrote her books. Make a simple quill pen and experiment with writing with it.

Teaching Outcomes
 To understand how people wrote in Shakespeare’s time.
To make a straw quill pen and experiment with straw widths and angle of nib.

Children will:

  • Learn new vocabulary related to writing in Tudor times.
  • Make and experiment with a quill pen, and evaluate it verbally.

Provided Resources

  • Examples of Shakespeare’s writing
  • Examples of Tudor writing
  • Example quill pen
  • Paper feather templates
  • Example of J. K. Rowling’s writing

You Will Need

  • A large feather
  • Straws
  • Watery brown paint

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