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Year 7 · English

Set Plot And Character Awareness

Year 7 learners practise analysing character and plot in shakespeare.

The activities include Explore the Use of Dialogue by Shakespeare, Analyse How Dickens Presents the Character of Scrooge, Explore the Creation of Atmosphere by Shakespeare, and related practice. The checked support below includes teach, video, teaching, lesson. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Explore the Use of Dialogue by Shakespeare
  • Analyse How Dickens Presents the Character of Scrooge
  • Explore the Creation of Atmosphere by Shakespeare
  • Explore the Importance of Audience, Purpose and Context when Studying a Text
  • Explore the Meaning of Audience, Purpose and Context
  • Explore the Use of Language to Show Audience, Context and Purpose
  • Identify the Audience, Purpose and Context of a Text
  • Understand the Meaning of Audience, Purpose and Context
  • Understand the Use of Language to Show Audience, Purpose and Context

Checked learning resources

  • An Introduction to Shakespeare’s Verse Lesson Pack

    Twinkl · Teach · Account may be required

    This KS3 introduction demystifies Shakespeare’s dialogue and writing styles through prose, blank verse, rhyming verse and clear examples of each form.

  • Recognising Purpose and Audience

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    Year 7 transition video identifying audience and purpose, then linking vocabulary, tone and language devices to the intended reader. It explicitly supports writing purpose and audience and age-appropriate vocabulary choi

  • How to think about your purpose for writing

    BBC Bitesize · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    Identification teaching focused on recognising the reason a text was written before distinguishing its audience and production context.

  • 'The Tempest'

    Oak National Academy · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

    Year 7 English resource matched to analysing character and plot in shakespeare.

  • The Tempest

    BBC Bitesize · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

    Year 7 English resource matched to analysing character and plot in shakespeare.

  • Oak lesson video: Analysing Pucks Epilogue

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Year 7 KS3 English video lesson used as video. I can explore the language of Puck’s epilogue, linking it to other moments in the play. ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ ends with an epilogue given by the character of Puck. Puc

  • Oak lesson video: A Written Analysis Of Frankenstein

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Year 7 KS3 English video lesson used as video. I can confidently explain Shelley's intentions with the character of Frankenstein. It is important to understand a text's context, as this enhances our understanding of why

  • Oak lesson video: The Magical Forest

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Year 7 KS3 English video lesson used as video. I can explain why some of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' takes place in a magical forest. Elizabethans believed that everyone had their place in society, a hierarchy they calle