Michael Morpurgo War Horse Scheme of Work WW1 - KS2 OR KS3 Year 7 - 8 SOW - 14 Lessons

This SOW was created for Year 7 students of varying abilities. It contains 14 lessons with accompanying resources.

The SOW has the following reading, writing and speaking & listening assessments:

READING - Explore the relationship between one of the characters and the horse Joey.

WRITING - Students are to describe a picture using the senses and one simile or metaphor.

SPEAKING & LISTENING - Dramatic performance of a scene from War Horse.

The SOW takes students through these learning objectives:

LESSON 1
To be able to engage with the key theme of war in the novel
To understand the main points about the historical context of the novel
LESSON 2
To understand life on a farm in the early 1900s
To develop inference skills
LESSON 3
To be able to describe character
To be able to make comparison
To revise the use of connectives to compare
LESSON 4
To understand the term ‘points of view’
To be able to compare points of view
To be able to rewrite from an alternative point of view
LESSON 5
To be able to analyse and describe a setting
To develop descriptive writing skills
LESSON 6
To develop inference skills
LESSON 7
To be able to take different roles in speaking and listening tasks
To develop drama skills
LESSON 7.5
To be able to take different roles in speaking and listening tasks
To develop drama skills
LESSON 8
To be able to make links between objects, events and characters
To be able to track themes and make logical links
LESSON 9
To develop analysis skills
To develop the ability to write about language
To develop the ability to write about the words chosen by the writer
LESSON 10
To be able to explain the relationships between characters
LESSON 11
To be able to read independently
To develop analysis skills
LESSON 12
To assess students’ ability to make inferences about characters
LESSON 13-14