* students absolutely loved these lessons! If you're looking for something to engage students - this is the download for you! * A great, ready to go resource! No planning required. This resource was fantastic with both my year 9 and GCSE classes (differentiated for each). It outlines the conventions of writing/speaking to argue/persuade, then goes onto discuss some higher order rhetorical devices that Trump employs. There is plenty of differentiated work in the 9-slide PowerPoint, including Argue/Persuade features, as well as flaws in logic. The lesson includes: - An explanation and example of many persuasive/argumentative features such as direct address/hyperbole/triadic structure - An example of four annotated paragraphs from the speech - A student model of a comprehensive paragraph response - Several printable resources from the PowerPoint including a reminder of common techniques and features to argue/persuade - A success criteria for the written response. * New - annotation of the whole speech as a PDF file. There is enough work here for at least two hours; I broke the lessons down into one lesson looking at features and annotating and then the second writing an essay and reviewing the success criteria. All in all, the lesson could probably fill a week's worth of lessons if you do the following: Lesson 1 - annotate the speech Lesson 2 - consider the effect and plan the included essay Lesson 3 - write the essay. You could then follow it up by asking students to write a speech using the conventions they've covered. If you did this, there would be several weeks' work here. There are printable sheets that make up the slides, such as a model annotation and a model paragraph for students. This is a fab resource and I hope you find it as useful as I did!

Two hours’ work here at the very least. An analysis of Trump’s language (with teacher annotation for ease). Guide your students through this analysis with clear examples (included) of language analysis, lots of techniques for writing to argue/persuade, a model paragraph and a framework for a final essay. A clear and easy-to-follow lesson with everything required to download and go! My GCSE/Higher ability KS3 students love doing this kind of analysis and it’s a fab way to get into political rhetoric analysis.

* This is a wonderful little resource if you are trying to encourage your students to become more independent; the poem just goes in the middle and you're set for just about any poem - just slot it in there and there's a lesson! * I crated this resource in order to support my year 11 students analysing poetry - both unseen and otherwise. Usually, I cut out the white section so students can simply put the poem in the middle. If you really want to go to town, you can laminate them once you've chopped the middle out. Simply print it on A3 and you're ready to go. I've also included the original file so it's fully adaptable should you need to change anything at any point. Like I said though, it's ready to print and go! I've also included a non-fiction text analysis grid as a bonus! I hope you find it as useful as I have.

I made this resource to decorate my classroom with. They are posters that can be displayed around the room to help students remember to use a variety of punctuation in their work. Each poster is themed in the same way so students know where to look for the information and they are not too heavy with information so are suited to a range of students. 1. Apostrophe 2. Colon 3. Semi-Colon 4. Commas 5. Full Stops I have included sentence types posters too: 1. Simple Sentences 2. Compound Sentences 3. Complex Sentences I have included several posters which help students to vary their sentences: 1. Adverb start 2. 'ing' start 3. 'ed' start 4. Relative clause 5. One word sentence start I have also included commonly-made errors to remind my students to be mindful of ensuring they are proof reading their work for literacy errors. 1. Comma splicing 2. Fused Sentences I have also attached the template if you want to adapt them or make additional ones suited to your class.