Past simple verbs and capital letters
In this lesson, we will introduce past tense verbs and how to use capital letters. We will then apply that knowledge in a piece of creative writing.
Unit Overview: Recapping the basics: simple sentences, statements, paragraphs, capital letters and past simple verbs
For next step we recommend the unit: Complex sentences, avoiding fragments and run-ons, capital letters.
For next step we recommend the unit: Creative writing: short stories.
Lessons:
7 lessons
Subject verb agreement
In this lesson, we will introduce the verb 'to be' and the subject of a sentence. We will then apply that knowledge in a piece of creative writing.
Capital letters and irregular verbs
In this lesson, we will develop our capital letter use and introduce irregular verbs. We will then apply that knowledge in a piece of creative writing.
Singular and plural subjects
In this lesson, we will introduce the concept of singular and plural subjects. We will then apply that knowledge in a piece of creative writing.
Incomplete sentences and tense
In this lesson, we will introduce concept of complete sentences. We will then apply that knowledge in a piece of creative writing.
Fused sentences and capital letters
In this lesson, we will introduce the concept of fused sentences. We will then apply that knowledge in a piece of creative writing.
Incomplete sentences
In this lesson, we will develop comprehension of incomplete sentences. We will then apply that knowledge in a piece of creative writing.
Units in English
- The Oral Tradition
- Epic Poetry
- The Canterbury Tales: 'General Prologue'
- The Refugee Tales: 'Prologue', ed. Anna Pincus and David Herd
- The Canterbury Tales: 'The Knight's Tale', Chaucer
- Telling Tales, Patience Agbabi
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Introduction and Act 1)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Act 2)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Act 3)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare (Act 4&5)
- Contemporary Short Stories (1/2): The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
- Contemporary Short Stories (2/2): Sweetness by Toni Morrison
- Introduction to poetry
- The sonnet through time: Introduction to the sonnet
- The sonnet through time: 'Sonnet 18', Shakespeare
- The sonnet through time: 'Death, be not proud', Donne
- The sonnet through time: 'If thou must love me', Barrett-Browning
- The sonnet through time: 'If we must die', Claude McKay
- The sonnet through time: 'The sonnet-ballad', Gwendolyn Brooks
- Creative writing: short stories
- Creative writing: poetry
- Recapping the basics: simple sentences, statements, paragraphs, capital letters and past simple verbs
- Complex sentences, avoiding fragments and run-ons, capital letters
- Past simple tense, subordinate clauses, punctuating conjunctions and lists
- Writing accurate, correctly punctuated and paragraphed dialogue, using personal pronouns
- Avoiding fragments, fused sentences and comma splices. Using capital letters and writing in the past tense. Using multiple subordinate clauses, punctuating lists correctly when in a complex sentence.
- Paragraphing narratives for clarity, using possessive pronouns, using apostrophes accurately, structuring, writing and editing genre-specific narratives
- Introduction to Tragedy
- Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 1
- Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 2
- Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 3
- Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Act 4 and 5
- Romantic poetry and paired texts: Introduction to the Romantics
- Romantic poetry and paired texts: Romanticism and Nature
- Romantic poetry and paired texts: Nature poetry
- Romantic poetry and paired texts: Romanticism and Revolution
- Romantic poetry and paired texts: Revolutionary and Protest poetry
- Oliver Twist: Oliver and the Workhouse
- Oliver Twist: Oliver Heads to London
- Oliver Twist: Oliver is Caught
- Oliver Twist: Oliver, Bill & The Maylies
- Oliver Twist: Oliver and the Consequences
- Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
- Creative writing: memoir
- Rhetoric: Introduction to rhetoric
- Rhetoric: Injustice: Pankhurst & Sojourner Truth
- Rhetoric: Change: Michelle Obama & Lennie James
- Rhetoric: Motivate: Churchill & Gandhi
- Rhetoric: Writing rhetoric
- Shakespearean Comedy - The Tempest
- Language Skills - Fiction - Reading
- Language Skills - Fiction - Writing
- Language Skills - Non-Fiction - Reading
- Language Skills - Non-Fiction - Writing
- Grammar for Writing
- The Short Story
- Gothic Literature
- Fiction: Reading and descriptive writing
- Non-Fiction texts and view point writing
- Jane Eyre
- Animal Farm
- Paragraphing non-fiction writing, including presenting a balanced argument
- Complex sentences, avoiding fragments and run-ons, capital letters
- Paragraphing narratives for clarity, using possessive pronouns, using apostrophes accurately, structuring, writing and editing genre-specific narratives
- Avoiding fragments, fused sentences and comma splices. Using capital letters and writing in the past tense. Using multiple subordinate clauses, punctuating lists correctly when in a complex sentence.
- T2: Word level objectives
- T2: Word level objectives
- T3: Punctuation level objectives
- T1: Sentence level objectives
- Writing accurate, correctly punctuated and paragraphed dialogue, using personal pronouns
- T1: Sentence level objectives
- T2: Word level objectives
- T3: Punctuation level objectives
- Recapping the basics: simple sentences, statements, paragraphs, capital letters and past simple verbs
- T2: Word level objectives
- T1: Sentence level objectives
- T3: Punctuation level objectives
- T1: Sentence level objectives
- Past simple tense, subordinate clauses, punctuating conjunctions and lists
- T4: Grammar Practice
- T3: Punctuation level objectives