These 5 lessons are based on 'The Sword in the Stone'
The Sword in the Stone
This legend starts with Uther Pendragon, king of Southern
Britain. At that time there was a lot of fighting. In Uther’s kingdom there was
peace.
Merlin was a magician who could change himself into an animal
or bird. One day he went to the king and told him he would have a son. His son
would be a great man.
“In two years you will be dead. If anyone knows about your
son the child will be killed in the struggle for the throne. When he is born
you must give him to me to hide,” said Merlin.
When Arthur was born, Merlin took the child and gave him to
Sir Ector and his son Kay to look after. He did not tell them who Arthur really
was.
Everything happened as Merlin said. Soon the knights were
fighting about who would become king. When Arthur was about 16 years old,
Merlin went to see the Archbishop of London and told him the true born king of
England would soon be found. While some knights were in the cathedral a crash
was heard. When they went outside they saw a stone. In the stone was a sword
and on the stone it said,
WHOEVER PULLS THE SWORD FROM THE
STONE
WILL BE THE RIGHTFUL KING OF ALL
BRITAIN
Each knight tried to pull the sword from the stone. It was
stuck. The archbishop called all the knights in Britain to a tournament on New
Year’s Day. They were going to show how well they could fight. They were going
to try and pull the sword from the stone.
Sir Ector and Kay were on the way to the tournament when Kay
remembered he had left his sword at the inn. He spoke to Arthur, who was now
his squire.
“Go and get my sword,” he said.
The inn was locked but Arthur saw the sword in the stone.
“I’ll take that sword,” he said and pulled it out and then
gave it to Kay.
“Where did that sword come from?” said Sir Ector and Arthur
explained what had happened.
“You are my king,” said Sir Ector to Arthur. Arthur did not
understand so Sir Ector told him all about Merlin.
The other knights did not believe that Arthur was king.
Merlin put the sword back in the stone. All the knights tried again but were
still unable to move the sword. Once again, Arthur pulled it out easily. Everybody knew that Arthur was the rightful
king, son of Uther Pendragon.
In the lesson today you will need to firstly start by reading "The Sword in the Stone" story.
What do you like about the story? What do you dislike about the story?
Are there any words that you are not sure of? Pick out a word from the text and complete the word aware sheet below:
Lesson 2: LO to answer questions about a story
Answer the following questions and send your answers to year3.cabot@bristol-schools.uk
Questions: Sword in the Stone
1. Where is the legend about King Arthur
set?
2. What was England like during King Uther’s
reign?
3. Who was Merlin?
4. Why did Merlin take Arthur from Uther
as soon as he was born?
5. How do you think Arthur’s mother
(Queen Igraine) and Uther felt about this?
6. Why did Arthur first try to pull the
sword from the stone?
7. How did Merlin convince the other
knights that Arthur was the rightful king of England?
8. How do you think Arthur felt when all
the knights agreed that Arthur was the true king?
Lesson 3 LO to make a character map.
Today you will need to use the description in your story to draw the 5 characters in the story. Begin by writing notes about what you know about the characters. You could also use lines and arrows to show how the characters are connected (E.g Kay is Ector's son). You can use the character pictures examples below to help you.
Lesson 4: LO to use speech punctuation
Today we are going to focus on use speech punctuation to show what different character's could have said in the story. There are some parts in the story that already have speech and we know this because the author has used " " inverted commas to show what each character says.
Can you draw a picture of Arthur lifting the sword from the stone in front of Merlin, Ector, Kay and the other knights? Use inverted commas to show what each of the characters are saying.
Challenge: You could as thinking bubbles to show what the characters could have been thinking.
Lesson 5 - LO to write a story ending
At the end of the story, Arthur is able to pull the sword out of the stone and is rightfully pronounced King. Can you have a go at writing a different ending to the story. Maybe one of the other nights become King or they need to do another. It would be a good idea to include speech using inverted commas.
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Practise the Year 3/4 for Common Exception words.
● Practise your spelling on Spelling Shed
● Practise your spelling on Spelling Frame
● Choose 5 Common Exception words. Write a synonym, antonyms, the meaning and an example of how to use the word in a sentence. Can the word be modified?
● Choose 5 Common Exception words and practise spelling them using across and down. Write the word across the page then down the page, e.g
s p e l l i n g
p
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