Week 1:

• In the beginning'

• Meet the Author: Edith Nesbit

• Context and Background

• Chapters 1-3

Week 2:

• Brief Bio E Nesbit review

• Show Don't Tell

• Story Mountain/ Freytag's Pyramid (applied to Railway Children)

• Extension: Write about your favourite character

Week 3:

• Trivia

• Characters

• Types of characters: dynamic, static, flat, round

• Setting
  

Week 4:

• Review of Setting

• Themes

• What is a Theme, understanding themes

• Themes in The Railway Children

• How to make a Themes Collage

Week 5:

• What are Values

• Values in context

• Values examples in TRC

• How to write a newspaper article

• (article on the father's court case and arrest/imprisonment).