Lesson on John Cooper Clarke's "I Wanna Be Yours" - analysing language and poetry. Including questions 1-10 (activity) and 1-2 lessons. ENGAGING!

Engaging sentence type images for display - interrogative, imperative, declarative and exclamatory. Four images only for display.

Macbeth Act 2 Scene 3 - Donalbain, Daggers and Smiles. Quote analysis and high ability model answer with AQA AO guidance.

Interrupt the forgetting and interleave topics - ask students to fill in each shape with a word associated with the topic of your choice… AND/OR Establish knowledge - at the start of a new subject, ask the pupils to fill in what they know already using words beginning with each letter of the alphabet; any gaps can be filled in at a later date in a different colour pen to show progress! Use the blank shapes at the bottom for whatever you choose - something that’s funny in the topic, something that’s blue, something that’s confusing…etc! 1 x colour 1 x black and white Looks great as an A5 (made as an a4).

The solid basics of Context for A Christmas Carol

FIVE + Recall, retrieval tasks, starters and plenaries for all subjects

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.

Model answer Shakespeare Macbeth - Lady Macbeth and ‘look like the innocent flower’. A large, secure paragraph that hits A01,2,3 ready to be metacognitively torn apart for student benefit.

Comparing Exposure to Bayonet Charge - Power and Conflict comparison skills.

Engaging glossary task for the ambitious vocabulary in the short dystopian story ‘The Lottery’. Intro lesson, introducing utopia and dystopia and deep thinking about the notion of a lottery. Complete with full short story attached.

Explicit context in A View from the Bridge

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.

Language assessment using Noughts and Crosses extract including mark scheme. Ready made assessment and mark scheme ready to go.

Post-Assessment language analysis on Noughts and Crosses extract. Complete with mark scheme.

Power and Conflict quizzes for Teams 15 duplicate links. AQA literature power and conflict anthology - 15 mini quizzes, all 10 questions each. Duplicate links for use on Microsoft Teams Quiz/Forms - Assignment function. Perfect for recall and retrieval practice. Mix of quotes, context, method zooms.

We like to read big chunks of it and stop to check understanding every now and then so here’s a quick lesson to retrieve what they know so far and what they can remember about language zooms from last time… Includes free knowledge organiser

Noughts and Crosses language method zooms as you read through chapter 3-8. Black narratives BLM. Exploring language/word types/methods with scaffolds. Including free knowlegde organiser.

Chapter 2 of Noughts and Crosses -connotations and knowledge organiser

Noughts and Crosses knowledge organiser BLM Black Narratives

Creative vs Descriptive Writing GCSE