Lesson Seven: Freytag’s Narrative Structure This lesson, students will develop their understanding of Freytag’s narrative structure by exploring ‘Aschenputtel’ by The Brothers Grimm. Developing on from last week’s study of famous subversions of fairy tales, students will now move onto the structure of these texts and how this will be utilised in their end of term assessment. Lesson Eight: Fairy Tale Settings Using Shrek as a stimulus and pastiche of the genre, students will explore typical settings in fairy tales. To assess progress, students will complete a short baseline writing task of a setting description, which can be used in their end of term writing during the exposition. Lesson Nine: Archetypal Characters Building on from settings, students will explore archetypal characters in fairy tales and how writers and pop-culture challenge these stereotypes. Students will debate why it is important that we have visible challenges to stereotypes in wider society. Following on from this, students will once again develop their writing by crafting a brief paragraph on a character. Weekly Overview: This week, students will begin to craft settings and character descriptions which can be incorporated into their own assessment response at the end of term. Furthermore, we continue to explore how and why writers subvert character, setting, and plot.

Lesson Ten: Allegories Students will explore allegories in fairy tales. For LA students, this can be supported with Aesop’s fables. Students will explore an article exploring why fairy tales are used to challenge issues in society. Lesson Eleven: Personification and Symbolism Continuing to unlock deeper meanings in fairy tales, students will explore the use of challenging devices. This lesson will explore ‘The Snow Queen’, where students will identify, analyse, and evaluate (HA) the use of personification and symbolism. Lesson Twelve: Subverting Fairy Tales For this lesson, students should compare an original fairy tale with The Brothers Grimm version (e.g., Cinderella and Aschenputtel). After comparing the two and identifying differences, students will practise how they can subvert a traditional fairy tale (Three Little Pigs) with class modelling. Weekly Overview: To develop their ability to craft allegorical and sophisticated subverted fairy tales, students will explore HA techniques to develop their understanding of deeper meaning in literature.

Lesson Thirteen: Vladimir Propp and Crafting Characters (Exposition) Students will be introduced to Propp characters and identifying these in fairy tales. Students will differentiate between heroes and villains. Lesson Fourteen: Linear/Circular Narratives and Crafting Settings (Exposition) This lesson, students will explore linear and circular narratives, including a close reading of ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’. Students will then begin to plan how they can subvert narrative structures in their assessment next week. Lesson Fifteen: Advanced Features Continuing to explore crafting of narrative, students will explore how they can build better sentences, utilise a range of punctuation, craft their vocabulary choices for effect, and incorporate high-level features in their writing.

A DURING-READING booklet (Academic Reading) for ‘A Christmas Carol’. Gaps to be filled by wonderful LitDrive resouce: ‘A Christmas Carol Reading Companions Stave 1-5’ by @MrsRBxx.

A chronological exploration of imperfect worlds in literature. Teachers create tasks based on the individual needs of the class.

A CPD session exploring the concept of disciplinary literacy and how to support reading in English lessons and across the curriculum. All research is in the notes section.

A six-week reading booklet with space for teacher differentiation.

An engaging lesson exploring Charles Dickens’ early life, attitudes towards society and other contextual factors.

A mini-sequence exploring the poem, ‘Poppies’, by Jane Weir through a mixture of reading and writing tasks.

A two-part lesson exploring Chapters 4/5 of ‘The Giver’ with students crafting their own letters from the perspective of The Giver to Jonas.

A mini-sequence exploring the poem ‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen through a mixture of reading and writing tasks.

A mini-sequence exploring the poem ‘Extract from the Prelude’ by William Wordsworth through a mixture of reading and writing tasks.

A mini-sequence exploring the poem, ‘My Last Duchess’, by Robert Browning, through a mixture of reading and writing tasks.

A mini-sequence exploring the poem ‘War Photographer’ by Carol Ann Duffy through a mixture of reading and writing skills.

A mini-sequence exploring the poem ‘Tissue’ by Imitiaz Dharker through a mixture of reading and writing tasks.

A mini-sequence exploring the poem, ‘The Emigree’ by Carol Rumens, through a mixture of reading and writing tasks.

A mini-sequence exploring the poem ‘London’ by William Blake through a mixture of reading and writing tasks.

A mini-sequence exploring the poem, ‘Checking Out Me History’ by John Agard through a mixture of reading and writing tasks.

A mini-sequence exploring the poem ‘Kamikaze’ by Beatrice Garland from the AQA Power and Conflict cluster through a mixture of reading and writing tasks.

A mini-sequence exploring the poem, ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’, by Alfred Lord Tennsyon through the use of reading and writing tasks.