KS3 Heroes & Heroines: Writing & Analysis Booklet

This booklet contains numerous writing and analysis activities focusing on essential skills for KS3 and upper KS2 students, centred on the theme of heroes and heroines.

Containing newspaper articles, poems, speech excerpts and discussion questions, this booklet gets students thinking about what makes a hero. It is uploaded as an editable Word document, so sections can be separated to focus on particular activities, skills or class abilities.

Example content:

• “The Hero” by Siegfried Sassoon, plus comprehension questions
• “I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr, plus speech analysis task and associated writing task
• Primary sources from life in the trenches
• Sporting super heroes and associated research task
• And more!