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.
This work was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council Grant Number AH/V011111/1.
It is part of The Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott's Poetry: Engaging New Audiences. It was developed by Dr Anna Fancett as part of the Walter Scott Research Centre at the University of Aberdeen with the support of Abbotsford, Scott's home in the Scottish Borders and The Association for Scottish Literature.
