This project allows students to work independently, and is split into instructions for 6 lessons. Lesson one and two will be a planning stage, in which the students will find their topic and research. Lesson three and four will be the writing stage, and a clear success criteria and newspaper template is provided for this. Lesson five and six will be the presentation stage, students are given instructions as to how to offer feedback verbally to each group.

This lesson explores all of the historical events that inspired and shaped dystopian fiction. The students will conclude the lesson by completing a creative task titled ‘walking around a dystopia’, in which they will include all of the elements of dystopian fiction that they learned about in the lesson.

This lesson focuses on tracking events in a text (excerpt from The White Tiger) in order to prepare students for answering language paper 1 question 3.

This lesson is on Paper 1 Question 2 - it introduces students to the question, and includes a fun extract from Stephen King’s IT for analysis.

Students will watch a video and read an article on crocodiles, and then answer comprehension questions. Students will also build better vocabulary in order to be able to complete a more creative newspaper writing task at the end of the lesson.

8 Lesson SPAG scheme plus end of scheme quiz, SOW breakdown and resources included. I used these for a year intervention group, but I 've concluded that this scheme would work anywhere from years 6-9.

This lesson was originally made for a bottom set year 7 class, and therefore can easily be used with an intervention Y8 or Y6 group.

Includes a student example, and labels with the techniques they’ve used, and why they’re effective

This lesson is part of a nature poetry scheme of work for my intervention year 7 group. Very accessible and very scaffolded.

This display includes 8 different poetic techniques, a visual for each, and the definition. It also includes two key terms for structure. The cover sheet is there to help guide you to make the display.

In this lesson, students will learn how to utilize the 5 senses, and also how to use a range of language devices in a creative piece about the sinking of the Titanic.

This lesson focuses on the character of Aunt Lydia, and the concepts of internalized misogyny, and indoctrination. This is the ninth lesson in Dystopia SOW, though it can easily be a standalone lesson. The rest of the scheme is available in my shop for a discounted rate.

This lesson introduces students to speaking and listening as a topic, and asks them to consider what makes an effective speaker, and listener. By the end, students will write their own mini-speech on a topic of their choice.

This lesson focuses on the key concepts in 1984: The War, Doublethink/speak, and Hate Week. By the end the students will be writing their own polemical pamphlet using doublespeak, promoting hate towards the new enemy (Eastasia) and promoting Eurasia as an ally.

This lesson explores the concept of totalitarianism, and has the students analyse the opening scene of 1984 in order to detect evidence of totalitarianism in the environment.

This lesson introduces students to the dystopian genre, explores key dystopian concepts and addresses common misconceptions (the difference between science fiction and dystopian fiction).

This lesson focuses on tracking events in a text and analysing structural features such as juxtaposition and analepsis (excerpt from A Christmas Carol).This is one of 6 lessons uploaded with the aim of preparing students for answering Language Paper 1 Question 3.

This lesson continues from the creative writing: narrative hook lesson that I have posted previously. Please find a bundle deal for both lessons for a reduced price. However, this lesson can easily also work as a stand alone lesson on sentence types and evaluating their effectiveness in a written piece. Links to other cultures are also present in the excerpt of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid’s memoir.