This was produced for a 6-8 period rotation of English classes.
This includes researching facts about Paris, reading an article and starting to pick out good descriptive phrases. The final outcome is a travel brochure. You would need some research time either at home or on computers in school.
This also involves an episode of Travel Man on Prime but this is optional.
This is based on Alfred Noyes’ poem ‘The Highwayman’.
This can be used for online lessons or in class. This is a 8 lesson unit which has some Close Reading, discussion of techniques used in the poem and some fun tasks of Wanted Posters and Leaflet creation.
This unit introduces the WW1 background and focuses on the poem “Dulce et decourum est”. Tasks include:
Basic poetic technique revision
Basic war background
A propaganda poster tasks
Analysis of symbolism used in Kasabian’s music video “Empire”
Introduction to the poem (analysis not included)
Critical essay on theme of war
This is a film creation task based on the short story Voodoo (included). It is a one off lesson (more than likely 2-3 periods of work) in which pupils read the story and create a filmed retelling of the story. I suggest several different ways of doing this: Tiktok, Instagram reels, photo montage, Google photos, or even simply just a series of photos on the phone/ ipads.
Group tasks will include storyboarding the lesson and planning it out, then filming.
Could be English work/ Drama/ Media.
This is a media unit for Spiderman 2. It takes your through a couple of techniques, getting the class to analyse the film as they go. There’s a Create your own Superhero task, and a critical essay at the end. Suitable for S1-S3
This powerpoint includes lots of different ideas for your bookclub. I ran this for several years and although we had the usual bookclub tasks- discussion of favourite books, author visits, staff members visiting to discuss books etc, I also needed a couple of filler ideas for when we didn’t have something going on.
We never had the money to purchase groups sets for the club, and if I’m honest, a lot of the children who came voluntarily to the lunchtime club tended to really just want a safe space, so tasks had to be inclusive and non threatening.
These are ideas I have used throughout the year - some word games, some imaginative writing, some discussions. Hopefully it’ll help your bookclub get started too!
This is a critical essay using the PEAR structure (easily adapted) to answer on how Felix changes as a character.
It includes page suggestions for quotes and takes pupils through each step of writing an essay.
I’ve also included a differentiated worksheet for anyone struggling.
This is my lower school unit of work for the play Frankenstein, using guided reading of the play with the end result being a critical essay.
The Gothic writing takes you through the elements of the Gothic genre and the final outcome is an imaginative spooky story.
These pair nicely together.
This is a small unit on preparing pupils for their National 5 Set Text exam on Sailmaker. It includes several practice papers and a powerpoint on how to do the 8 marker, plus Key Quotes and analysis. This also includes a revision powerpoint on key images and quotes. There is also a dual coding powerpoint.
UPDATED- I have added a Kahoot quiz for revision of the 2022 Nat 5 Exam Extract.