English Career Resources

Key Stage 3: The Changing World of Work

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Having identified contemporary 'slice of life' occupations, the next task is for students to write their own pilgrim portrait e.g. a coffee barista, or a chugger, or whatever is familiar from their landscape.

You could develop the technical finesse with which this could be tackled by first exploring Chaucer's use of rhyme and metre, as illustrated here.