British Poetry KS3 Unit (19 Lessons) - SOW, PPT, Homework, Resources, Exam!

A fun, diverse and detailed unit focused upon British Poetry! This unit has been created specifically to intigrate KS4 skills into the KS3 curriculum to prepare students for the rigors of the new 100% exam GCSE specification. The unit focuses upon exploration and analysis of the poems 'Jabberwocky' and 'Timothy Winters', and works best as a Year 7 scheme as its end-of-unit exam is tailored as a hybrid of KS2 SATs and GCSE. However, it could also be used with lower ability Year 8 or 9.

This detailed and high quality unit includes:
* 19 lesson plans (with 13 differentiation strategies)
* 96 slide PowerPoint presentation (divided into lessons)
* All resources and worksheets (17 sheets)
* Homework project (6 tasks) that includes both reading and writing skills
* End-of-unit reading/writing exam
* End-of-unit exam mark scheme (suitable for KS3 Levels 3-6, with GCSE 1-9 conversion)

Unit's lessons include:
* Exploring 'personal identity'
* Mapping and exploration of British culture
* Writing poems about British culture
* Poetic terms 'speed dating' to introduce key vocabulary
* Analysing and storyboarding 'Jabberwocky' by Lewis Carroll
* Developing vocabulary through the use of nonsense poems
* Poetry SLAM competition - performing Lewis Carroll poems
* Close reading and analysis of 'Timothy Winters' by Charles Causley
* Activities focused upon improving sentence structures
* Spelling tests on key vocabulary (differentiated by writing level)
* SPaG starter activities
* Crosswords
* Quizzes
* End-of-unit reading exam (KS2 SAT/GCSE hybrid)
* End-of-unit writing exam (GCSE style)
* Teacher/peer/self assessment opportunities