A lesson for Key Stage 3 which guides them through analysis of the poem Hunger and then encourages them to write their own using metaphors. The poem is about starving people/children living in far off countries.

A lesson that guides students through analysis of Mary Jean Chan’s poem The Window (LGBTQI+ poetry). It deals with coming out, and gender identity. Suitable for Year 9 upwards.

A lesson that guides students through analysis of The Prelude from the Power and Conflict cluster of the anthology for AQA Lit Paper 2.

A lesson that guides students through setting description inspired by Elizabeth Gaskell.

A resource that guides students through analysis and evaluation of Marcus Rashford’s persuasive writing.

Analysis of Act 3 to the end of the play of An Inspector Calls. Includes analysis of the generation gap with a model paragraph. GCSE focused.

Analysis of the opening of Curious Incident.

2/3 lessons that guide students through analysis of Oryx and Crake (Atwood) and Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro), and then creating their own Sci-Fi short story.

A lesson that guides students through descriptive writing ideas for setting. Includes a transformation task where students adapt a positive description into a negative one.

A lesson that guides students through analysis and evaluation of the description of the island at the beginning of the novel, leading to students writing creatively.

A creative writing lesson that guides students through evaluation of character description examples and then encourages them to plan and write their own.

A lesson that guides students through the conventions of dystopia and utopia with extracts, analysis and creative writing tasks.

A series of tasks linked to the theme/topic of dystopia. Some tasks are creative writing focused, others are analytical, others are evaluative.

A lesson that guides students to analyse both Churchill and Obama’s persuasive language.

A lesson that guides students to evaluate the structure of a short story and inspires them to write their own.

A worksheet that provides a creative writing task for students linked to the theme of dystopia and gives them instructions to follow for each sentence to aid their ability to vary punctuation and sentence structures.

A worksheet that provides a creative writing task for students and gives them instructions to follow for each sentence to aid their ability to vary punctuation and sentence structures.

A creative writing focused lesson that guides students through evaluation of character descriptions and then creating their own.

A lesson that guides students through descriptive writing of setting, using an extract from Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as inspiration.

A lesson that guides students to analyse the anthology extract Young and Dyslexic by Zephaniah. Concludes in Q4 IGCSE Edexcel Language Exam planning and practice.