KS3 Genre Study - Fantasy - The Forest of Doom

A fully resourced unit of work based on the ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ fantasy story ‘The Forest of Doom’ by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone.

This was originally taught to Year 7s, but could be pitched upwards to any KS3 class. It includes activites on descriptive writing, the fantasy genre, verb tense, narrative point of view, etc, etc.

The resource contains a 112 slide PowerPoint presentation, and complete additional readings, worksheets, planning sheets, etc in both .doc and .pdf formats.

Some things to bear in mind:

• The assessment slides of this unit of work are based on a particular assessment policy. You may need to make alterations in order for it to fit in with your own school’s policies.
• Part of the unit of work is working in groups to create their own ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ fantasy story. This section is both very time-consuming and quite difficult for both teacher and student to get right. If you want to challenge yourself and your students, and you have the time, go ahead and try it. Otherwise, you may want to cut that section.
• YouTube links are current at the time of writing (early 2019).