Romans English Unit 4 weeks

Created 4 weeks of resources based on Julia Edwards’ ‘Leopard in the Golden Cage’ for Year 3 Romans topic. Could be adapted for other year groups to fit different levels and objectives. Includes various writing activities as well as grammar, spelling and punctuation practice.

I have uploaded all files for 4 weeks so there are 20 lessons here. I also have cross curricular art & DT, history & historical geography to go along with this English unit. I could upload these separately. They were planned alongside this unit. For example, while the children wrote applications for a job as a slave, they were doing a lesson on the spread of the Roman Empire in geography and had mapped and learned that the slaves may have come from Gaul, Hispania and Macedonia and the modern names for those countries.

This is a lesson sequence that I created and used for The Romans topic in Yr 3. I have created, adapted, borrowed and modified resources from many different sources to bring them together in this unit to create progression and engagement. I have included examples of the children’s work that they completed as it was all submitted during the first schools closure/lockdown. I have kept these examples although I don’t think they are necessarily what a good one looks like but I saved them because I think I’d like to use them for some anonymous editing practice with the next class and take some as examples to use to improve writing.

For the English I used the Roman adventure story ‘The Leopard in the Golden Cage’ by Julia Edwards. My class loved it. I filmed a video of me reading each chapter (about 20 or 25 mins each) and then there was an English task linked to the chapter. The children produced some lovely writing because they were so enthusiastic about the topic and were really enjoying following the story. There are 16 chapters so I created about 4 weeks worth of lessons but am planning to extend it further when I teach it again next year. The story is set at Fishbourne Roman Palace and am hoping to bring my class on a trip there first and have also arranged for the author to visit our school. It is well researched and exciting historical fiction.

There are 6 - 7 lessons each for History and Art which would usually link in with what had been happening in the chapter of the story that week too so that it helped the children in their cross curricular learning.