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Pride and Prejudice - Elizabeth Bennet
In this engaging and informative lesson, students are enabled to make clear and insightful interpretations of Elizabeth Bennet – the chief protagonist in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. In particular, students learn about her key characteristics- such as her strong ideas, wit, intelligence, grace, and good humour – and relate these to ideas of societal expectations of the time.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which students learn through:
- Playing a fun and interactive quiz to determine the key events and family life of Elizabeth Bennet;
- Establishing her characteristics and traits, utilising textual evidence;
- Analysing Elizabeth’s character in relation to the expectations of society in the Regency Era;
- Creating clear and creative diary entries, using an in-depth understanding of Elizabeth’s character;
- Peer assessing each other’s learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- ‘Character Traits of Elizabeth’ task resources - with teacher answer sheet;
- ‘Elizabeth in Context’ task resources - with teacher answer sheet;
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. These resources were originally taught to GCSE students, but with subtle adaptations they have also been used with both younger and older (up to A Level) students.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
A View from the Bridge: The Lifting of the Chair Scene! (Exploring Miller's dramatic devices)
This interesting and highly-stimulating lesson enables students to demonstrate a developed, sustained understanding of the dramatic devices utilised in the ‘lifting of the chair’ scene in Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge. In particular, students engage analytically with Miller’s use of atmosphere, dramatic tension, dramatic irony, and stage directions throughout the scene.
The lesson follows a clear, logical, bite-size learning journey, which guides students towards differentiated learning objectives. Over the course of this journey, they become able to:
- Understand the key term ‘masculinity’ and how it affects the behaviour of different characters;
- Read and understand the chair-lifting scene at the end of Act One, making key interpretations and inferences;
- Define and understand the dramatic devices: dramatic devices, dramatic irony, atmosphere, and stage directions.
- Critically engage with Miller’s use of dramatic devices at the end of the Act One, including the events leading up to the chair lifting section.
-Peer assess each other’s learning attempts.
This resource pack includes:
- A visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation;;
- Paper copies and online links to the extract needed for the lesson (end section of Act One);
- Dramatic Devices Cards;
- Dramatic Devices worksheet (including answer sheet for teachers);
- A logically scaffolded essay template;
- A detailed lesson plan, complete with what the teacher and students should aim to achieve at each stage of the lesson.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint.
Great Expectations: The Context of Victorian Britain!
This engaging and informative lesson enables students to make sustained and developed links between Dickens’ Great Expectations and its social and historical context. In particular, students learn about the contrasts between the lives of the rich and poor in Victorian society, crime and the justice system, and the implications of an underdeveloped healthcare system. They then link this understanding to what they read in the opening of the novel.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
- Understanding key information about Charles Dickens, his life, and influences;
- Researching and sharing key contextual understanding about the rich, poor, healthcare, crime and the justice system in the 19th Century;
- Reading extracts from the opening of ‘Great Expectations’ and identifying evidence of contextual influences;
- Analysing how Dickens presents his views about the cruelty of 19th Century life through the opening of the text;
- Peer assessing each other’s learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- Extract - Opening of Great Expectations;
- Template for researching 19th Century life (and completed answer sheet for teachers);
- Analysis template with success criteria for creating well-structured responses;
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
All documents are attached as Word and PDF in case formatting differs on your computer.
There are also opportunities for group learning, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. This was originally taught to mixed ability year 10 groups, but can easily be differentiated for groups of different ages and abilities.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
Northern Lights Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat!
This detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising Philip Pullman’s fantasy novel 'Northern Lights.’ It contains comprehensive sections on:
Context;
Chapter by Chapter Summary (with quotes);
Setting and Main Characters;
Themes;
Pullman’s Language Devices;
Structure of Fantasy Novels.
Sections are colour-coded for easy reference. The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
The Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare's Dramatic Devices!
This engaging and informative lesson enables students to make clear and precise interpretations regarding Shakespeare’s use of dramatic devices in The Merchant of Venice. In particular, students read and understand several extracts from the play, before identifying and then analysing the effect of the dramatic devices that Shakespeare employs throughout.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
Defining and exemplifying a variety of dramatic techniques;
Reading and comprehending a number of key events from the play, identifying the dramatic devices utilised;
Analysing Shakespeare’s use of dramatic devices through considering context and the effect on the audience;
Creating their own dramatic device-filled playscripts, and evaluating their partner’s attempts;
Self assessing their learning through the lesson;
Included is:
Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
Dramatic devices cards for the card-sorting activity;
Analysis worksheets - different degrees of difficulty (asides, dramatic irony, dramatic tension & soliloquy);
A model example of a completed analysis worksheet;
Comprehensive lesson plan.
Resources are provided in PDF (to maintain formatting), Word (so that they are easily editable) and also in zipfiles.
The lesson contains opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with year 10 and 11 classes, however colleagues have used them for between year 9 and year 13 with some adaptations.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
The Merchant of Venice - Antonio and Bassanio!
This engaging and informative lesson enables students to make clear and precise interpretations regarding the relationship between Antonio and Bassanio in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. In particular, students read and understand Act one scene one of the play, interpreting how Antonio and Bassanio’s relationship is introduced, before tracking how their friendship develops over the course of the play.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
Considering the key components of strong friendships;
Reading Act One Scene One and comprehending how Antonio and Bassanio’s friendship is introduced;
Tracking how their friendship develops over the play, using apt textual evidence;
Considering multiple interpretations of Antonio and Bassanio’s relationship;
Applying their understanding of Antonio and Bassanio’s relationship to create an original composition;
Self assessing their learning attempts;
Included is:
Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
Antonio and Bassanio development worksheet;
Extract - Act One Scene One
Character profile template
Comprehensive lesson plan.
Resources are provided in PDF (to maintain formatting), Word (so that they are easily editable) and also in zipfiles.
The lesson contains opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with year 10 and 11 classes, however colleagues have used them for between year 9 and year 13 with some adaptations.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
The Merchant of Venice - Shylock!
This engaging and informative lesson enables students to make clear, detailed and well-informed interpretations of Shylock from The Merchant of Venice. In particular, students develop their contextual understanding of how Jews were perceived in Shakespeare’s time, make precise interpretations about his character using evidence from the play and link their findings to their understanding of social and historical context.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
Knowledge harvesting their understanding of the Judaism and the treatment of Jews throughout history;
Researching and sharing how Jews were perceived in Shakespeare’s era;
Reading selected quotations from the play and interpreting what these reveal about Shylock’s character;
Plotting Shylock’s development over the course of the play;
Linking their knowledge of Shylock’s character to their understanding of historical context;
Understanding Shakespeare’s intentions/messages in presenting Shylock in the manner that he did;
Peer assessing each other’s learning attempts;
Included is:
Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
Shylock character development graph;
Jigsaw pieces for the group jigsaw activity;
Essay template
Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with year 10 and 11 classes, however colleagues have used them for between year 8 and year 13 with some adaptations.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
The Merchant of Venice - Portia!
This engaging and informative lesson enables students to make clear, detailed and well-informed interpretations of Portia in Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice.’ In particular, students develop their contextual understanding of the role of women in Shakespeare’s time, make precise interpretations about her character using evidence from the play, and link their understanding to their knowledge of social and historical context.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
Knowledge harvesting their understanding of the role of women in Shakespeare’s era;
Researching and sharing multiple aspects of life for women in Shakespeare’s era;
Reading selected quotations from the play and interpreting what these reveal about Portia’s character;
Linking their knowledge of Portia’s character to their understanding of historical context;
Peer assessing each others learning attempts;
Included is:
Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
Researching context worksheet;
Essay template
Comprehensive lesson plan.
Resources are provided in PDF (to maintain formatting), Word (so that they are easily editable) and also in zipfiles.
The lesson contains opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with year 10 and 11 classes, however colleagues have used them for between year 9 and year 13 with some adaptations.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
Kensuke's Kingdom - The Ending!
This engaging and informative lesson enables students to make precise interpretations regarding the ending in Michael Morpurgo’s ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom.’ In particular, children identify the features of successful endings, analyse these features in Chapter 10 of the story, and create their own logical, imaginative story endings.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
Storyboarding the key events of the text leading up to the ending;
Reading the ending of the story and answering comprehension questions to demonstrate their understanding;
Defining and identifying the key features of effective endings;
Analysing the effectiveness of the features that Morpurgo uses in his own ending;
Creating their own alternate ending, utilising the features that they have learnt over the course of the lesson;
Peer assessing each other’s learning attempts.
Included is:
Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
Storyboard Template;
Story Detectives Worksheet;
Comprehensive Lesson Plan
All resources are provided in Word (for easy editing) and PDF (to ensure formatting remains fixed between different computers).
There are also opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with year 4 and 5 classes, however colleagues have used them for between years 3 and 8 with some adaptations. The word documents are within the zip file.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
My Last Duchess Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat!
This detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising Robert Browning’s power and conflict poem 'My Last Duchess.’ It contains comprehensive sections on:
Context;
Line-by-Line Analysis;
Poetic Devices/ Language Devices;
Themes;
Form/Structure;
Poems for Comparison;
The Poet’s Influences.
Key words and ideas are underlined for easy reference. The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
Cirque Du Freak - The Introduction!
This engaging and informative lesson helps students to infer and deduce the hidden meanings in the introduction section of Darren Shan’s ‘Cirque Du Freak.’ Students act as ‘Text Detectives’ reading between the lines to find out deeper meanings in the introduction, using this information to make predictions about what may happen in the text.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
- Understanding why individual subject content was chosen for the introduction (e.g. the fear that spiders can arouse in many people);
- Reading the introduction, and answering comprehension questions to demonstrate their understanding;
- Functioning as ‘Text Detectives’, inferring and deducing the hidden meanings about narrator and plot that are provided within the introduction;
- Using inferences from textual evidence to make insightful and evidence-based predictions about the story;
- Peer assessing each other’s learning attempts;
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- Newspaper Article - ‘The shape of fear - why spiders scare us so much;’
- Extract from ‘Cirque Du Freak’ - The Introduction;
- Text Detectives worksheet (and teacher model answer sheet);
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, speaking and listening, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. I originally used these resources with year 7 and 8 classes, however colleagues have used them for between years 4 and 9 with minimal adaptations.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
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Fantastic Mr Fox Lesson Bundle!
These engaging, varied, and informative lessons have been designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the plot, characters, language, and key messages in Roald Dahl’s ‘Fantastic Mr Fox.’
All of the resources that you need to teach are included in the bundle: Whole lesson step-by-step PowerPoint presentations, informative and engaging , worksheets, activities, and lesson plans.
Contained in the bundle are lessons based on:
- 1. Boggis, Bunce and Bean;
- 2. The Very Clever Mr Fox;
- 3. The Structure of the Story;
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging.
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Poetry from World Cultures Comprehension Activity Booklets Bundle!
These 16-page resource booklets contain a wide range of challenging and engaging comprehension activities to aid the teaching of 9 different poems from other cultures. Teachers have found the activities particularly useful throughout practicing for unseen poems, for teaching as part of a poetry unit, or to support guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of students towards meeting the key English Literature assessment objectives - suitable for all examining bodies. Students have found these resources extremely engaging, and it is clearly highlighted within each task regarding which assessment strands the task is designed to demonstrate.
Each booklet is provided in both Word (to allow for easy editing) and PDF (to ensure for consistency of formatting between computers).
Activities across the booklets are as consistent, to provide an equal understanding of each poem, and include (amongst many others):
‘Analysing Context’ - helping students to ‘Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written.’
‘Analysing Subject Matter, Language and Structure’ - to help students to ‘Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate.’
‘Diary Entry’ - to help students to ‘Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation. Make an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these.’
‘The Speaker’ - to help students to ‘Read, understand and respond to texts. Students should be able to: maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations.’
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David Walliams Comprehension Activity Booklets Bundle!
These resource booklets based on David Walliams’ stories contain a wide range of purposeful, age-appropriate and engaging comprehension activities for use in guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the KS2 comprehension expectations within the National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate.
Included are activity booklets to accompany the following texts:
Bad Dad;
Gangsta Granny
Demon Dentist
The Boy in the Red Dress
Awful Auntie
Ratburger
Billionaire Boy
Mr Stink
Please note that each comprehension booklet contains the same tasks, but tailored to the characters, events and ideas in each book. Each booklet is around 20 pages in length!
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Edexcel Relationships Poetry Comprehension Booklets Bundle!
These 16-page resource booklets contain a wide range of challenging and engaging comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of all 15 of the Edexcel ‘Relationship’ poems in the newest exam board anthology. Teachers have found the activities particularly useful throughout teaching, or for exam revision or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of students towards meeting the key English Literature assessment objectives. Students have found these resources extremely engaging, and it is clearly highlighted within each task regarding which assessment strands the task is designed to demonstrate.
Each booklet is provided in both Word (to allow for easy editing) and PDF (to ensure for consistency of formatting between computers).
Activities across the booklets are as consistent, to provide an equal understanding of each poem, and include (amongst many others):
‘Analysing Context’ - helping students to ‘Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written.’
‘Analysing Subject Matter, Language and Structure’ - to help students to ‘Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate.’
‘Diary Entry’ - to help students to ‘Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation. Make an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these.’
‘The Speaker’ - to help students to ‘Read, understand and respond to texts. Students should be able to: maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations.’
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Of Mice and Men Lesson Bundle!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, and relating the text to its social and historical context.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows a logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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A Christmas Carol Huge Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE ‘A CHRISTMAS CAROL’ LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE 30-PAGE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER, AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Dickens’ language devices.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Out of the Blue - Simon Armitage - Bundle!
These resources are designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Simon Armitage's 9/11 vivid and harrowing contemporary conflict poem. Students will complete this learning having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the poem, understanding the poet's ideas within the poem, analysing the features of form and structure, considering settings and themes, and understanding Armitage's language devices.
The bundle contains:
- The comprehensive and engaging lesson,
- The visually-appealing and informative knowledge organiser/ revision mat,
- A range of resources to prepare your students for critically comparing poems.
The lessons included are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Power and Conflict Poetry Knowledge Organisers Big Bundle 1!
These clear, detailed and visually-appealing knowledge organisers offer complete reference points for students learning or revising the following poems from the ‘Power and Conflict’ anthology:
Exposure - Wilfred Owen;
Bayonet Charge - Ted Hughes;
The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson;
Poppies - Jane Weir
War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy
Kamikaze - Beatrice Garland
Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Each organiser contains a number of detailed, clear, and colourful sections explaining the key elements of the poem:
Context;
Line-by-Line Analysis;
Poetic Devices/ Language Devices;
Themes;
Form/Structure;
Poems for Comparison;
The Poet’s Influences.
The resources are designed to be printed onto A3, and are provided as both PDFs and Word documents (so that you can edit should you wish to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
For all 15 of the Power and Conflict poems knowledge organisers, please search for the ‘Huge Bundle.’
The remaining 8 poems are also available in their own bundle (‘Big Bundle 2’)
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To Kill a Mockingbird Lesson Bundle!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Lee’s language devices.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
Engaging
Defining/ Understanding
Identifying/Remembering
Analysing/ Creating
Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.