Lesson Planning
Non-fiction
English Year 4/5 Autumn Reports
You Are History
Capture your class’s imagination with the entertaining and fascinating You Are History: From the Alarm Clock to the Toilet, the Amazing History of the Things You Use Every Day by Greg Jenner. Investigate expanded noun phrases and fronted adverbials. Write reports for a new book, We are History.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
Unit 1 Core: Exploring reports about the history of everyday objects.
(suggested as 5 days)
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Text
You Are History: From the Alarm Clock to the Toilet, the Amazing History of the Things You Use Every Day by Greg Jenner
Weblinks
Word Hippo online dictionary and thesaurus from wordhippo.com
Audiobook introduction to You are History! from gregjenner.com
Optional: Horrible Histories clip (from 2:10 mins to 3:40) from youtube.com
Unit 2 SPAG: Expanded Noun Phrases: Describing Fashion from History
(suggested as 5 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Essential Text
You Are History: From the Alarm Clock to the Toilet, the Amazing History of the Things You Use Every Day by Greg Jenner
Weblinks
BBC Class Clip Viking Clothing
Horrible Histories Historical Fashion Fix: Medieval Peasant from youtube.com
Horrible Histories: Victorian Fashion from youtube.com
Unit 3 SPAG: Fronted Adverbials: Presenting as Misguided ‘Experts’
(suggested as 5 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Essential Text
You Are History: From the Alarm Clock to the Toilet, the Amazing History of the Things You Use Every Day by Greg Jenner
Weblinks
Horrible Histories Football from youtube.com
Unit 4 Composition: Writing a report about a personal object: We are History!
(suggested as 5 days)
