Year 6 - English
Writing the first half of Juliet's diary entry
Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet': diary and narrative writing
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils learn to empathise with and understand different characters in one of Shakespeare's iconic plays. They write a diary entry from Juliet's perspective, a climactic narrative scene based on the duel scene and begin to debate around a key question raised from the play.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to write the first half of Juliet's imagined diary entry after meeting Romeo, using a range of linguistic features and cohesive devices.
Key Notes
- A diary entry combines details about events with details about emotions.
- We can use certain linguistic features to create an appropriate tone for a diary.
- Hyperbole, internal thoughts, rhetorical questions and exclamation sentences make diary writing more personal.
- We connect ideas together in writing with cohesive devices like fronted adverbials and different sentence types.
- We may change tense between past and present during a diary entry.
Vocabulary To Learn
- emotions: strong feelings experienced by a character in response to their experiences
- events: things that happen to a person or a character
- linguistic features: language structures that are specific to a type of text
- cohesive devices: language structures that develop text cohesion
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils may struggle to connect ideas using a range of cohesive devices.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this English learning goal in two key points.
A diary entry combines details about events with details about emotions. We can use certain linguistic features to create an appropriate tone for a diary.
2. Define this language term and use it in a sentence. 'emotions'
strong feelings experienced by a character in response to their experiences.
3. Correct this common English misunderstanding.
Mistake: Pupils may struggle to connect ideas using a range of cohesive devices. Correction: Lessons about all the relevant cohesive devices can be found in our KS2 Grammar curriculum; you could select slides to pre-teach particular concepts if needed.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Debating a question raised by Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' Study Guide
- Exploring Act III Scene 1 in 'Romeo and Juliet' Study Guide
- Exploring Juliet's emotions after meeting Romeo Study Guide
- Exploring vocabulary relating to the duel scene Study Guide
- Generating vocabulary for Juliet's diary entry Study Guide
- Planning Juliet's diary entries Study Guide
- Planning the duel scene Study Guide
- Understanding themes, characters and plot in 'Romeo and Juliet' Study Guide
- Writing the first half of the duel scene Study Guide
- Writing the second half of Juliet's diary entry Study Guide
- Writing the second half of the duel scene Study Guide
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