Lesson Planning
SPaG: Persuasion and Balanced Argument
English Year 6
This unit is part of
Year 6 English Percy Jackson and Greek Myths
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
Grammar Presentation: Adverbs of Possibility
Revise how adverbs of possibility can modify verbs and clauses, how they are punctuated and the impact they have. Explore how they can be used for prediction and persuasion.
Grammar Presentation: Active and Passive Voice
Revise subject, verb and object and explore how these can be manipulated to create active and passive voice. Identify the voice of sentences and explore the impact when the agent (doer) is removed from a passive sentence.
Grammar Presentation: Subordinate Clauses
Revise how subordinate clauses can add different types of information to main clauses, explaining, elaborating or adding a shade of meaning. Recap punctuation.
Grammar Presentation: 5-Minute Revision, Unit 7
Deliver quick, focused revision (adverbs of possibility, active and passive voice, subordinate clauses) which requires children only to have whiteboards. Questions are intentionally similar in content and style to the formal KS2 tests.
You Will Need
Texts
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Greek Myths by Ann Turnbull
Optional texts
Greek Myths by Marcia Williams
The Lightning Thief: Audiobook – (Unabridged) Narrated by Jesse Bernstein
Falling Out of the Sky: Poems about Myths and Monsters by Emma Wright
Websites
Dramatised BBC School Radio retellings of Greek myths, including ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’ from bbc.co.uk
Conscience Alley explanation (for Day 6) from dramaresource.com