October, October Full SOW KS3

This is a fully resourced 20 lesson SOW for a novel study of October, October by Katya Balen (Winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal 2022). Aimed at Year 7, but could easily be tweaked for a Year 6 or Year 8 class as well.

Includes: PowerPoint (210 slides), SOW document included National Curriculum justification and teacher notes.

Activities include writing from a analytic paragraphs, a range of close readings, character mapping, and creative writing and also activities based on language analysis. Scheme also includes references to a non-fiction Victorian source on Mudlarking and The Lost Words by Robert McFarlane.

Final assessment piece is for students to write a their own story using the skils demonstrated throughout SOW for effective creative writing.

Optional/additional six tasks at the end. Four of which can be applied at any point whilst reading the text. Including comparisons to Gone to The Woods by Gary Paulsen and Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty.

Vast opportunities for cross-curriculum learning:

• Geography: Environment, Urban/Nature landscapes, human geography, protecting wildlife
• PSHE: seperated parents, neurodivergence, emotional wellbeing, sick/injured parent, new school/starting school, empathy, identity, resilience
• Critical Thinking