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KS3 Creative Writing SOW
A two week SOW for KS3 (used with middle ability Year 8 classes). Tasks mainly focussed on developing descriptive writing skills.
Includes challenge tasks throughout.
Includes story creator where students lucky dip a story title, setting etc to stimulate writing. Ended unit with the challenges lesson, allowing students to play with creative writing techniques and styles, choosing which activities to complete during the lesson.
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Imaginative Creative Writing Unit 9-1
A short 5 lesson unit on Imaginative/Creative writing, created for the new GCSE English Language 9-1 spec. Contains lessons on describing setting and character, effective story openings, narrative structure (using The Simpsons) and the importance of planning.
Clear assessment and success criteria checklists, which could be used for self/peer assessment.
Some differentiation/challenge activities, but may need more to adapt to your group.
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End of Term Summer Quiz 2016
This is an end of term quiz for lessons in the run-down to the summer holidays. Includes 2016-related picture rounds, film round, music round and English round (which can be removed if not relevant!). Some rounds have been adapted from other shared resources.
Music round links to a Spotify playlist, or you can simply Youtube the tracks/tracks of your choice.
Please use, adapt and review!
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The Hunger Games SoW
Series of lessons on The Hunger Games, taught to high ability Year 9 students. Includes some edited parts of resources found on TES. Covers key themes as well as reading and writing skills.
Please leave a comment if you download, use and like!
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Outstanding Sophisticated Punctuation Lesson
A recently observed lesson which was graded 'Outstanding'. Taught to high ability Year 9 group. Would also work as exam skills refresher for KS4 pupils.
Powerpoint goes through a range of sophisticated punctuation devices, explaining how and when they should be used.
There is also an opportunity for students to have a go at using each device, with unpunctuated sentences for students to complete (students can come up to the board to show where they would put the punctuation too).
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The Red Room, H. G. Wells unit (Year 9)
A short three/four lesson unit on The Red Room by H.G.Wells, exploring the ghost story/mystery genre, how an author builds suspense and tension, building towards an essay question response or creative writing task.
Used with top set Year 9, and a middle ability set.
Split the story into 3 sections. Three PowerPoints. Quote analysis activities on worksheets for group work.
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An Inspector Calls Takeaway Homework
A takeaway homework menu, created for high ability Year 10 students. 3 options for each level of challenge, covering tasks from tweets, summaries, context research, character essays etc...
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Inference and Reading for Meaning
A series of lessons focussing on developing inference skills. Allows students to think creatively to infer meaning from pictures and film stills. Links into topics on presentational devices thinking about the genre and audience of different books based on the covers.
(Adapted into lesson powerpoints from ideas by johncallaghan)
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Face - Benjamin Zephaniah SoW Part 1
Part 1 of 2. Series of lessons to follow with class reading of Face by Benjamin Zephaniah.
Lessons may last more than one lesson, but follow in order of the chapters in the book. Includes opportunity for writing assessment (newspaper article or persuasive speech writing). Extension/challenge tasks included.
Taught to high and middle ability Year 8 students.
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'Quickdraw' by Carol Ann Duffy - Lesson
An effective lesson on AQA Moon on the Tides, Relationship cluster poem 'Quickdraw&'. Year 10, A*-C. I taught this lesson for a job interview, in which I was successful. It allows students to demonstrate very quick progress whilst looking closely at Duffy&';s meaning and language choices. Ends with students writing a paragraph response.
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T. S. Eliot Macavity The Mystery Cat lesson
A series of activities to explore the poem Macavity (poetic devices, creating a 'Wanted&' poster for Macavity).
Used with a mixed ability Year 7 class.
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Hitcher - Simon Armitage (2 lessons, PEE)
Two lessons looking at the poem 'Hitcher&'. Exploring the poem, justifying opinions and building to PEE paragraphs.
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Science Fiction genre lesson - I. Robot
A lesson exploring the genre of science fiction through clips from the film I, Robot. Includes a number of activities and discussion points.
Used with a mixed ability Year 8 class.
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Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol' research lesson
A worksheet to structure student research on Charles Dickens and 'A Christmas Carol'. I have slightly adapted the worksheet for different year groups: Year 7, Year 8 and Year 10 (just titled Charles Dickens research). A range of multiple choice and written answer sections. Great for lower ability but also a success with high ability pupils!
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Adventure story structure
Outlining the structure of adventure stories. Students then match this structure to plots of books/films they already know. Literacy.
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The Highwayman SoW Year 7
Lesson powerpoints and storyboarding homework activity for Year 7, on The Highwayman (Noyes).
Includes activities exploring the language of the poem, understanding the story, exploring rhyme and rhythm and writing their own ballads.
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Julius Caesar - Shakespeare Context Lesson
Introduction to the context of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Includes key words card sort, and video with questions worksheet activity (worksheet is a cloze activity but this can be removed for higher ability pupils). Taught to mixed ability Year 7s.
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'Give' by Simon Armitage - Lesson
A lesson and activity on 'Give' from the AQA Moon on the Tides, Character and Voice cluster. Starter activities for students to think about the big themes of the poem. Set of group work activities to allow students to do some close reading of the poem.
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Romeo and Juliet revision pack Edexcel English F
A revision booklet pack for Edexcel English - The Writer's Craft Foundation Paper.
This is based on extracts taken from Act 3 of the play (the chosen focus act for June 2016 exams). Includes brief summary of how to answer parts a, b and c with sentence starters to support low-ability students, then a selection of extracts from Act 3, with example exam questions. Could be used in revision or intervention sessions, or set for homework.
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Literacy lesson: Tension, suspense
A literacy lesson based around an extract from Robinson Crusoe. Analyse how tension is built in the extract then continue the story, applying techniques.