A 3-week, fully resourced primary literacy unit based on The French Revolution and its Legacy by Mr Higgins’ Classroom. KS2 Non-fiction. National-Curriculum-aligned grammar, WT/ARE/GD differentiation, and ready to teach.

What’s inside

This complete English unit gives you everything for three weeks of high-quality teaching, designed to match the standard of leading primary schemes (Literacy Tree, Write Stuff, Power of Reading).

• 15 lesson PowerPoints — illustrated cover slides, success criteria, vocabulary previews, modelled writing, “big questions” (Bloom’s-laddered), differentiation tiers, plenary, and reflection.
• 15 differentiated resource sheets — Working Towards, Age-Related Expectations, and Greater Depth, with sentence frames, word banks, and writing frames.
• Complete teacher unit plan — unit overview, key themes, model texts, full session-by-session plans, key questions, assessment focus, and vocabulary focus.
• Child-friendly mark scheme — “I can…” success criteria for the final writing piece, ready for self- and peer-assessment.
• 3 weekly exit tickets — 5 multiple-choice questions per week, with teacher answer keys.

Final writing outcome

A paired non-fiction outcome: a formal information text explaining the French Revolution (causes, the Terror, the rise of Napoleon) and a balanced formal report assessing its legacy in modern democratic thought, written in formal register using passive voice, subjunctive mood, semicolons for parallel clauses, colons to introduce evidence, and headings and subheadings throughout.

Grammar features (Year 6 NC-aligned)

• The passive voice for formal, impersonal register.
• The subjunctive mood for hypothetical and conditional historical reasoning.

Themes explored

Causes of revolution: inequality, hunger and the cost of war, The Terror and the violence of ideology, The rise of Napoleon and the limits of revolution, Liberty, equality and fraternity in modern democratic thought.

Key vocabulary

Revolution, monarchy, aristocracy, Bastille, guillotine, republic, Terror, legacy.

Format & compatibility

• Editable PowerPoint (.pptx) and Word (.docx) files.
• UK English spelling.
• One printer-friendly A4 page per resource sheet.
• Compatible with Literacy Tree, Write Stuff, and Power of Reading planning approaches.

Year groups & key stage

• Year 6 (KS2).
• 15 sessions over 3 weeks (≈45–60 minutes per lesson).

Tags

KS2, Year 6, English, non-fiction, Mr Higgins’ Classroom, reading and writing, complete unit, differentiated, NC-aligned, lesson plans, resources, the french revolution and its legacy