UKS2 English unit: Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare

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This fully resourced 13-lesson English unit is built around Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, adapted for Upper Key Stage 2. Designed for 1-hour lessons, this PowerPoint blends drama, grammar mastery, creative writing, and literary analysis into a structured, engaging sequence.

Perfect for teachers wanting to introduce Shakespeare in an accessible, active, and purposeful way.

Why Teachers Love This Resource:

Engaging crime-scene hook lesson to launch the unit

Clear progression from reading to performance to polished writing

Explicit SPaG teaching woven naturally into meaningful tasks

Strong focus on characterisation, theme and authorial intent

A balance of creative, analytical and formal writing outcomes

What’s Included:

13 fully planned lessons with clear learning objectives

Dramatic opening lesson using a staged “murder scene” to inspire prediction and questioning

Character mapping and relationship analysis

Dialogue writing to develop characterisation

Poetry writing inspired by the Queen Mab speech

Diary writing in role using present perfect tense

Scene description using prepositional phrases and varied sentence openings

Action scene writing using varied parenthesis

Subjunctive mood taught explicitly through persuasive letter writing

Thematic analysis using conjunctions to justify opinion

Full play script writing sequence with:

Stage directions

Adverbials

Relative clauses

Parenthesis for tone and characterisation

Opportunities to modernise scenes while retaining Shakespearean themes

Grammar Coverage (Taught in Context):

Modal verbs

Expanded noun phrases

Direct speech

Metaphors and figurative language

Present perfect tense

Prepositional phrases

Parenthesis (dashes, brackets, stage directions)

Abstract nouns

Subjunctive mood

Conjunctions for justification

Relative clauses and pronouns

Final Outcomes:

By the end of the unit, pupils will:

Demonstrate secure understanding of key themes: love, hatred, conflict, power and fate

Write confidently in role using a formal tone where required

Create a structured and character-driven play script

Justify opinions using textual evidence

Apply grammar accurately and purposefully

Perfect For:

Year 5 & Year 6 Shakespeare study

Transition projects

Drama-linked English units

Building writing stamina and Greater Depth sentence control

This resource is ready-to-teach, carefully sequenced, and designed to make Shakespeare accessible, active and academically rigorous.