Year 7 History of English: entire 6-lesson Scheme of Work plus assessment

This is a complete, 6-lesson Scheme of Work designed for a Year 7 class. It introduces them to the basic concept of language change and covers, in a fun way, the development of English over the last thousand years. The lessons cover: 1) historical overview, 2) Adverts ancient and modern, 3) how words have changed meaning, 4) Beowulf and Old English, 5) Kennings, 6) Shakespeare and finally an Assessment lesson.

Each lesson pack includes a lesson plan, all resources and a powerpoint. There are notes on differentiation, learning objectives and suggested homework projects for every lesson.

Some of the elements have been gleaned and altered from resources originally devised by brilliant teachers I have come across either in real life or online; others have been created from scratch by myself. All have been moulded into a coherent course that I delivered with great success in 2017.