Level 3 Lessons

There is a range of activities suitable for level 3 (approximately lower secondary) pupils. Two of the reading comprehensions on the reading activities page are aimed at this level. They are:

• 'Towards an Overview of Scottish Literature.'
• 'The Bard's Incantation.'

The 'short poems' activity, which is available on the home page, is also suitable for third level pupils.

Two of the lessons in the level 2 section may also be appropriate for level 3 pupils. These are:

• The Lay of the Last Minstrel. This lessons involves a creative, drama-based response to a passage from Scott's poem, The Lay of the Last Minstrel.
• Writing about place. This lesson looks at a description of Melrose Abbey.

There are five additional resources for third level. They are:

• A four-unit resource on The Lord of the Isles that covers writing, reading, research, presentation, and critical thinking skills.
• A lesson on the ballad 'The Wife of Usher's Well.'
• A unit (about four lessons) that compares an extract from one of Walter Scott's poems to an extract from a twentieth-century Chinese short story.
• A unit (two lessons) on editing, in which pupils learn about the editing process behind Scott's poetry, and edit their own work.
• A unit (about two lessons) on writing about the environment using a passage from The Lay of the Last Minstrel.