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This lesson introduces students to the sights, sounds and structure of Elizabethan England – the world Shakespeare lived and wrote in. Designed for Year 7, the lesson blends accessible historical context with rich sensory writing tasks to help students step into the shoes of different Elizabethan characters, from nobles to market traders.

Includes:

Clear key questions to guide learning

A scaffolded vocabulary slide on “Hierarchy”

A choice-based sensory writing task with detailed examples

A creative diary entry activity with social roles to choose from

A final reflection using emoji responses and sentence starters

Suitable for lower ability and SEN learners with visual and sentence-level scaffolding throughout

Perfect for building historical understanding ahead of any Shakespeare unit.