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 includes: Word of the week (tragedy) Intro to tragic heroes and hamartia Study of Oedipus and his hamartia Study of tragic soliloquies (using ‘Out out brief candle’ soliloquy).

This lesson follows a context lesson (also available in my shop), and helps the students to analyze key techniques and ideas through specific questioning.

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.

As Head of Year, you have probably notice that two things are often lacking in the cohort: punctuality and good manners! This assembly offers some key reminders and acts as a sort-of behaviour reset.

This lesson covers: The Viking invasion (from 793) King Cnut and his reign Edward the Confessor’s acension to the throne Students will complete a ‘succession timeline’, ordering the potential heirs to the throne over 4 time periods from 1016.

If you are currently teaching in the UAE, you might benefit from these 3 lessons on the upcoming National Day. Keep the students busy with fun activities, and a mini history lesson on the UAE, and National Day!

This lesson is the first in a 3 lesson SOW that introduces the students to the origins of the tragic genre. In this lesson, students become familiar with vocabulary associated with the tragic genre, with a particular focus on Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex.

This lesson is part of a three lesson scheme in which students analyse the origins of the tragic genre. In this lesson, students will become familiar with the themes and characters of the play ‘Medea’.

Includes a differentiated verbal and spatial learner planning sheet, stretch and challenge opportunities and self-reflection task.

5 lesson SOW on satire and modern-world issues. Can fit with Unseen prose or a Non-fiction SOW. Complete with word of the week, resources to print, and a 12 question end-of-week quiz. Lesson one: Word of the week (satire) and satire to caricature. Lesson two: Satire to criticise (focus on privilege and power inbalance) Lesson three: Satire to ridicule (focus on conspiracy) Lesson four: Satire for humour (focus on controversy, scandal and mockumentary) Lesson five: Low stakes quiz, recap of key concepts and creative tasks

This sheet includes everything students will need in revising the character of Eric in AIC Side one: Quote analysis Side two: contextual and thematic analysis, as well as space to find key vocabulary and write essay-openers using frames provided.

This lesson will teach students: What a ‘TED Talk’ is. How to differentiate between good and bad public speaking How to review a TED Talk for persuasive devices How to plan their own TED Talk

Very low-level differentiated lesson. Students will recap simple word types (adjective, verb, etc.), and simple language techniques. They will then try to find these techniques in the poem ‘Daffodils’. This is very scaffolded and should be quite straightforward.

This teacher feedback sheet is separated into 2 sections for physicality and vocality- WWW and EBI. All you as a teacher have to do is highlight the correct sections - and the student work is marked!

This teacher feedback sheet is separated into 3 sections - WWW, EBI, and a task. All you as a teacher have to do is highlight the correct sections - and the student work is marked! There are also marking codes and their meaning at the top of the sheet, to help the students to understand your marking. The numbers at the bottom reflect the student grade.

This welcome back lesson has everything you will need - a template for an ‘about the teacher’ slide, an expectations quiz, a ‘which book character are you’ quiz, and many activities for students to complete. The activities include a top-trumps making session (with a resource), a ‘story of my life’ activity, and a joint-story making partner session.