Back to School Autumn Planning Year 5 Literacy Myths

Loads of great planning :

Genre: Traditional stories, fables, myths, legends.
Focus Texts: Robin Hood (Legend), Hercules (Myth) and Pandora’s Box (Myth).

Objectives
Primary Framework 7. Understanding and interpreting texts
 Compare different types of narrative and information texts and identify how they are structured
 Explore how writers use language for comic & dramatic effects
8. Engaging with and responding to texts
 Compare the usefulness of techniques such as visualisation, prediction and empathy in exploring the meaning of texts
11. Sentence structure and punctuation
 Punctuate sentences accurately, including using speech marks and apostrophe
Learning/Writing outcome for unit: Children can write a new version of a legend, identifying their audience and adapting their writing to suit this audience.
Children can reflect on their own performances.
Children can reflect critically on their own writing and edit and improve it.

Introduce the new unit and look at the writing outcome displayed on the working wall – explain that we have three weeks to achieve this.
Allow children two minutes to TTYP and talk about the new unit – do they have any ideas about myth, legends or fables?
Introduce the LO for today.

Work through the PowerPoint on the features of a myth.
Activity One
Come back together and create a ‘post it’ note checklist for the working wall, to include:
A myth is about gods and goddesses
It is set in ancient times
It features danger/revenge
It includes use of magical powers
It uses powerful imagery
Characters are heroes
Explains a strange/important happening
It features strange, frightening creatures
Read the following version of ‘Pandora’s Box’ and compare & contrast:
http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/story562-pandoras-box.html

Activity Two
Recap on what we learned yesterday. What did you think of the texts we looked at?
Remind the children of ‘Pandora’s Box’.
Who is it aimed at? Why? What is the story about? Children to summarise the main points in pairs.
Discuss the features of a myth.
Activity One
Come back together and discuss the activity.
Explain that we are now going to identify the features of a fable:
http://www.aesops-fables.org.uk/aesop-fable-the-hare-and-the-tortoise.htm
Introduce and discuss ‘Aesop’s fables’
A fable is a complete story
Clever/amusing
Quite short
Uses animals as main characters
Treats animals as people
Includes a moral at the end
Create a checklist for the working wall.