Four lessons on writing a lockdown diary entry including use of present/past perfect
Part of a unit of work creating a lockdown scrap book.
Four lessons provided:
LO: To reflect on lockdown. Questionnaire to generate reflections and ideas for diary entry.
LO: To use the perfect tenses. PowerPoint explains how to form and when to use the present perfect and the past perfect tenses. Task to write own perfect tense sentences that can be used for a lockdown diary entry.
LO: To write a lockdown diary entry. Features of a diary entry checklist provided. PowerPoint provides structure for a long, detailed lockdown diary entry. First half written on one day…
Paragraph 1: set the scene
Paragraph 2: before school closure
Paragraph 3: when schools closed
LO: To write a lockdown diary entry. Second half of diary entry…
Paragraph 4: Lockdown reflections
Paragraph 5: Remote learning reflections
Paragraph 6: Easing of lockdown
PowerPoints include a modelled diary entry. Prior to these 4 lessons, I would advise spending a lesson reading different example diary entries and picking out the features from the checklist. Designed for a Year 3 class but suitable for all KS2.