The Once and Future King Novel Unit

Long before Harry Potter, readers have been enchanted by King Arthur legends in T.H. White’s modern retelling, The Once and Future King. Yes, it's a long novel, but this resource is guaranteed to keep your students engaged!

Are you ready to guide students' reading for maximum enjoyment and textual analysis, research and writing skill development? In this 4-6 week unit, students will read closely, discuss, conduct online research, perform, reflect, and write analytically and creatively as they accompany the characters' quests for love, friendship, spirituality, power and/or justice.

The Once and Future King unit resources and activities includes:

1. research projects

2. discussion topics

3. close reading/ writing questions

4. creative writing prompts

5. performance options

6. tests and quizzes

7. vocabulary lists

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What other teachers are saying:

***** A very thorough and organized unit that includes research topics with resources, discussion topics with focused scenes, and many more. Excellent resource, especially for my first time teaching this novel! (Erica S.)

***** Excellent package, with great ideas for each of the four books. The grade level of 9th-10th grade looks accurate—I have to adapt some of this for my 5th and 7th grade boys, but it provides a great starting point for them to learn how to do research and tie in with comparable literary works. (Buyer)

***** Very good!!! I use this as a resource every time I teach it. (Adrienne C.)

***** Made my job easier - thank you (Tamara B.)

***** Thank you! Perfect for my class. (Elizabeth Y.)

About your resource:

This download is a PDF that is print and go. The documents may be uploaded to your school server for students to view on their devices. The questions and directions require students to use their own paper or device for their note-taking and responses. This is NOT a "fill in the blank" kind of resource. All links have been checked and updated and were working as of November 2023.