Twelve Angry Men: Scheme of Work

A full scheme of work for KS3 on Reginal Rose’s play Twelve Angry Men. This scheme focuses on the characters, and builds up analytical writing skills.
This fourteen-lesson SOW gradually builds up writing skills, helping pupils to structure analytical paragraphs and pick out high-value quotations about the characters. One activity to help this is ‘paragraph speed-dating’, in which pupils are given either a point or a quotation, and they need to find their partner: I’ve found this really helps with classes who pluck quotations from the text at random without considering whether they actually evidence the point they’ve made.
I’d suggest creating a ‘guilty/not guilty’ scale somewhere in the classroom, and then you can write each juror number on a post-it note and move them around as they change their minds about the boy on trial.
This scheme of work builds up to writing two complete essays: one comparing jurors 3 and 8, and another considering whether juror 8 can be considered a hero.