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Key Stage 3 · Year 7 - Foundations · Term 3
Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream - Acts 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1) in HT1 + extended narrative writing in HT2. Students study three forms (novel, poem/story, play) then USE the storytelling craft they have studied to make their own narrative.
Set text
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare) - key extracts; model narrative openings
Big skill jump
Students exit Year 7 reading Shakespearean English aloud with meaning AND producing a structured, redrafted extended narrative.
End-of-half-term assessment
Shakespeare performance + 30-minute analytical paragraph on a scene.
Week 2
Act 1.1 - Court of Theseus
Athens court. Egeus drags Hermia before Theseus because she refuses Demetrius. Athenian law gives the father power over his daughter's match.
courtdecreeforbidden
Week 3
Act 2.1 - Fairy realm
The wood: Puck boasts of mischief; Oberon and Titania quarrel over a changeling boy. The supernatural quarrel disorders nature itself.
enchantmentsupernaturalmischief
Week 4
Act 3.1 - Bottom's transformation
The Mechanicals rehearse "Pyramus and Thisbe". Puck conjures an ass's head onto Bottom; Titania (drugged) falls in love. Prose vs verse marks the comic gulf.
transformationabsurditydramatic-irony
Week 5
Act 5.1 - Play-within-a-play
Lovers reconciled and married. Mechanicals perform Pyramus and Thisbe at court. We watch them watching a play - meta-theatre. Puck closes by breaking the frame.
meta-theatreframingaudience
Week 6
Cross-act comparison: love and power
Court (1.1) imposes order through law; the wood (2.1, 3.1) suspends it; final court (5.1) re-imposes a transformed order. Love and power are the twin motifs.
parallelmotifcomic-resolution
Week 7
Assessment week - performance + analytical paragraph
Assessment week. Group Shakespeare performance + 30-minute analytical paragraph on a scene of choice.
rehearsalprojectionintonation
End-of-half-term assessment
Extended narrative writing (1,000-1,500 words) drafted, peer-reviewed, redrafted - final piece assessed.
Weekly lesson plans for this half-term are in production - the KS3 lesson-planner agent is drafting them now. Yearly expectations and rubrics still apply.