The 1002nd Arabian Night - storyboard

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Early Islamic Civilisation - NEW LOOK Scheherazade

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Objectives

History

Create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses.

English

Note and develop initial ideas, drawing on reading and research where necessary.
In writing narratives, considering how authors have developed characters and settings in what they have read, listened to or seen performed.

Art

Create sketches to record observations and use them to review and revisit ideas.

Lesson Planning

Can you write a ‘1001 Arabian Nights’ story with convincing early Islamic civilisation elements?

Teaching Outcomes:

To plan a story board incorporating factual aspects of life in the early Islamic civilization.
To plan to write an ‘Arabian Nights’ story using a story board.
To draw a storyboard.

Children will:

Plan a story using a storyboard
Apply knowledge of Baghdad/ Early Islamic civilisation to aspects of the story
Make sketches in a sketchbook based on other artists' work

Planning

Provided Resources

Examples of simple drawing styles
Storyboarding template

You Will Need

You do not need any particular resources for this session.

Weblinks

Pobble An on-line writing website which showcases over 100,000 pieces of writing, including examples based on Hamilton plans, where you could upload examples of your children’s writing.