KS3 English Language Paper 2 The Greatest Showman - Year 7

Quick seven lesson unit which covers the key ideas of Paper 2 English Language.

Factual based material on P T Barnum popularized by Hugh Jackman in ‘The Greatest Showman’. The source material needs to consider the following aspects and each of the seven hour long lessons consider what needs to be answered and how to answer questions one to four. The sources are taken from a biography and newspaper article.

Summarise what the text is about? Think about who has written it? What do we learn? Why have they written it? What would I tell someone else about it?

Barnum’s show and choices are presented differently in the sources. How is it presented and how do you know?

How do you refer to Source B only from lines 1 to 12.
How does the writer use language to describe ‘Tom Thumb’ and Barnum’s reaction to him?

How do you compare how the writers convey their different attitudes to Barnum’s circus and acts?

There are also some literacy resources and tasks included in the unit of work for punctuation and structuring texts.