This week year 6 have been bringing together all of their learning about Greek storytelling to plan and write their own Greek Tragedies .
We thought carefully about the Greek stories and what they had in common, then we created our own Tragic story structures based on the events that happened in these stories.
- Beginning: the main character and setting is introduced.
- The ‘good deeds’ : the reader is shown the ‘goodness’ of the main character through their deeds.
- Pride grows: The main character begins to feel prideful about a skill or quality that they have. Here we see events that show the character is changing.
- The warning : Here the main character receives a warning about their pride, vanity or stubbornness. Sometimes there is no explicit warning, but an opportunity to change
- The final act of hubris: Here we see the character ignore the warning that has been given to them and their fate is sealed.
- Punishment: the main character is punished for their pride, vanity or stubbornness.
Our own stories feature vain playwrights, arrogant warriors, stubborn hunters and greedy fishermen.
We have also been considering tragedies written after the Ancient Greek era. Macbeth is a truly tragic tale of the rise and demise of a Scottish thane. During our reading of this story, there has been much debate about the role of fate, hubris and greed.