The aim of this unit is for students to produce an original short video after first studying the construction of other selected television texts. This unit provides opportunities for students to develop their speaking and writing skills, by presenting research findings verbally and through writing in two different genre - a ship's log and a sea shanty. Students are encouraged to use a variety of web based resources for gathering their material. A unit designed to stimulate and encourage poetry writing and publishing in a mixed-ability class. A unit in which students choose either a fiction or non fiction book to read and use it to complete pre, during and after reading responses.
Assessment focuses on the close reading of a selected passage with a model provided.
Students complete the unit with a contribution to the What's Hot Web site. Risks and Challenges Using a variety of resources, students explore different situations that involve people overcoming personal fear, apprehension, facing a risk, meeting a challenge, making a crucial choice, etc. Their consideration of such situations through discussion and group work will lead to a crafted piece of poetic writing and a static image. Shakespeare's England Prior to the study of a Shakespearean play, students research an aspect of Shakespearean England and present their findings to classmates. A comparison of this profile is then made with that of a fictional character, studied in the context of a novel where survival is a theme.