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Myths, legends and stories that inspire

Practise the unit “Myths, legends and stories that inspire” (Year 8 English) by Oak National Academy, with a topic for each of its 28 lessons.

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28 topics

  1. Bruegel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus: how the myth inspired the painting
  2. Exploring William Carlos Williams’s poem ‘Landscape with the fall of Icarus’
  3. Exploring W.H. Auden's poem 'Musée des Beaux Arts'
  4. Exploring William Carlos Williams's poem 'The Hunters in the Snow'
  5. Exploring Walter de la Mare's poem 'Brueghel's Winter'
  6. Comparing poems: 'Brueghel's Winter' and 'The Hunters in the Snow'
  7. Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 'The Lady of Shalott': understanding the ballad
  8. Symbolism in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's ‘The Lady of Shalott’
  9. Exploring enjambment in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's ‘The Lady of Shalott’
  10. Descriptive writing using Lord Tennyson's 'The Lady of Shalott' as stimulus
  11. Effective sensory language using ‘The Execution of Lady Jane Grey’ as stimulus
  12. Third person omniscient writing: ‘The Execution of Lady Jane Grey’ as stimulus
  13. Writing a full descriptive piece: ‘The Execution of Lady Jane Grey' as stimulus
  14. Reviewing and refining descriptive writing: alliteration, plosives and sibilance
  15. Natasha Bowen's ‘Skin of the Sea’: understanding the extract
  16. Writing inspired by ‘Skin of the Sea’: varying sentence types to create rhythm
  17. Use of flashback in Natasha Bowen's 'Skin of the Sea'
  18. Geoffrey Chaucer's ‘The Canterbury Tales’: compelling characterisation
  19. Creating convincing characters using ‘The Canterbury Tales’ as stimulus
  20. Pat Barker's 'The Silence of the Girls': understanding the extract
  21. Madeline Miller's 'The Song of Achilles': understanding the extract
  22. Comparative paragraphs: 'The Silence of the Girls' and 'The Song of Achilles'
  23. Hanan Al-Shaykh's ‘The Fisherman and the Jinni’: understanding the story
  24. Exploring the theme of power in Hanan Al-Shaykh's ‘One Thousand and One Nights’
  25. The five part narrative structure
  26. Planning a narrative using the five part narrative structure
  27. Writing a full narrative piece using the five part narrative structure
  28. Improving and proofreading a piece of narrative writing

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