The Mummy's Curse - Session 8 - Worksheet

Session 8 of "The Mummy's Curse" worksheet, published by KS2Gems in 2022, is set on the 3rd of November 1922 and provides an engaging mix of activities for Key Stage 2 students. The session includes discussion questions that probe into Arthur Conan Doyle's plan and the reasons behind Luna's anxiety about her role, encouraging students to delve deeper into the narrative and character motivations. Reading activities are designed to enhance comprehension skills, with tasks such as continuing a timeline to track key events, analysing characters like Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter, making predictions about an upcoming séance, and a grammar hunt focusing on adverbs, expanded noun phrases, hyphens, prefixes, and a range of descriptive vocabulary words to workshop.

In addition to reading and grammar, the worksheet provides creative writing opportunities, inviting students to write instructions on how to hold a séance and to compose diaries from the perspectives of Howard Carter or Abdel. The session also integrates cross-curricular links, connecting the content to subjects such as Science, Computing, History, Geography, Art, Music, Religious Education, and Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education. These links cover a wide range of topics from rock types and light in Science to creating 3D models of Hatshepsut's tomb in Computing, and from learning about Ancient Egypt and Tutankhamun in History to exploring 1920s Jazz music. The unit promotes values such as respect, tolerance, honesty, and co-operation, which can be continued throughout the unit of work.