Private Peaceful - teaching resource

Private Peaceful – English Novel Study 

Includes: 99-slide editable PowerPoint & 15 printable worksheets

Introduce your pupils to the powerful storytelling of Michael Morpurgo with this comprehensive Private Peaceful teaching resource. Created for Year 6/7 learners, this 13-lesson unit helps children explore plot, character, language, and historical context through a variety of engaging activities.

Key learning opportunities include:

• Prediction tasks using the title, blurb, and cover

• Research activities linked to World War One, trench life, weapons, uniforms, and propaganda

• Plot-based activities such as cloze tasks and timeline building

• In-depth character studies and theme exploration (war, family, love, bravery, friendship)

• Activities to support literary analysis and novel structure

• Creative writing tasks including letters and reports in role

• Character-based tasks such as acrostics and a CD design activity

• Mind maps to summarise key themes and issues

• Comparative analysis of Private Peaceful and Wilfred Owen’s Dulce Et Decorum Est

• Peer and self-assessment opportunities

The resource is designed to be flexible and accessible, with independent, paired, and group tasks suitable for a range of abilities. Like all our resources, everything is fully editable so it can be customised to suit your class.

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