Explicit context in A View from the Bridge

A View from the Bridge Scheme of Work unit KS3. Planned for over a half-term of 6 weeks. Includes lesson planning sequence, knowledge organiser, assessment and mark scheme and 13 lessons. Introduces/embeds soft LITERATURE AO1/2/3 skills but named WHAT/HOW/WHY. Focus on context and themes.

A View from the Bridge Opening Context Lessons and Knowledge Organiser. 3 hours minimum lessons of 1. Context, 2. Characters and 3. Arthur Miller study with heavy focus on knowledge organiser and retrieval.

I couldn’t find one so I made one! Knowledge organiser for a year 9 class studying A View From The Bridge. Absolute key characters, vocabulary, themes, context and a reminder of word types/sentence types that they should know off-by-heart before year 10.

Show Not Tell Descriptive Writing Task or Booklet or Intervention. Activity and task to encourage SHOW not TELL. Identifying verbs and adjectives. Creating a glossary/vocab word bank. Two model answers of show not tell and 3 engaging images for all abilities. Initially aimed at y8 intervention (KS3 LITERACY).

Writing with clear viewpoint perspective language paper 2 aqa q5. Quick wins with varied sentence openers and ISPACE and 11 divine sentence starters for crafted, clear viewpoint. Full lesson but easily 3 hours worth.

A Christmas Carol Key Quotes Cards with gaps for recall. Has a page of blank cards too if you want to make your own or add extra quotes to it

Introduction to Diverse Voices - 2 lessons on diversity for English lit - ks3. Walks through definitions, why we need diversity, videos from speakers of the BLM movement and the white privilege video.

23 big questions to guide a sequence for a Romeo and Juliet SOW. Also included is a semi-blank knowledge organiser and an independent self-KO and assessment mark scheme.

Couldn’t find anything like this online so made my own! Some realistic tips for highly motivated students to independenly revise english literature at GCSE.

There’s not much out there for solid, simple english language revision tips - so I made my own!

Queen Elizabeth I Speech allusion to Women’s England football team advert. teaching allusion through the Budweiser England footy advert which alludes to the “stomach of a king” speech.

Gareth Southgate Dear England Lesson Analysis Prompt

Megan Rapinoe Female Footballer - Lesson on non-fiction Speech analysis

Marcus Rashford Letter to Government 2-3 hour lesson with explicit reference to AFOREST Ethos, Pathos, Logos

Non Fiction intro Letter Speech Article Explicit. Great for KS3 and KS4 intro to explicit teaching of non-fiction and letter/news article/speech writing.

Pathetic Fallacy in Great Expectations Explicit Teaching and Effect with resource booklet.

Miss Havisham Analysis and Creative Writing task Great Expectations. 4+ hours of tasks and lessons with resource booklet.

3 hours minimum (up to 9 hours of lessons) Great Expectations Magwitch Analysis with booklet resource

Great Expectations Knowledge Organiser with 9 fun retrieval tasks