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I am a Secondary English Teacher on a mission - to produce the highest quality lessons I possibly can with the intention of saving precious time for teachers!
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Lesson 20 Imaginative Writing: Supertoys Last All Summer Long by Brian Aldiss
This lesson is part of an Imaginative Writing Scheme of Work focused on Science-Fiction and Dystopian short stories.
This lesson guides students through a reading of Supertoys Last All Summer Long by Brian Aldiss. I usually complete this unit with a viewing of A.I. by Steven Spielberg.
PLEASE NOTE:
You will need to download my FREE short story anthology for use with this lesson.
Lesson 14 Imaginative Writing: Tension and Sentence Types
This lesson is part of an Imaginative Writing Scheme of Work focused on Science-Fiction and Dystopian short stories.
This lesson guides students through the seven types of tension with examples and video clips to spark their interest.
PLEASE NOTE:
You will need to download my FREE short story anthology for use with this lesson.
Science Fiction and Dystopia Homework Menu Writing Prompts and ResearchTasks
This resource is to support Science Fiction, Horror and Dystopian fiction lessons.
It is packed with writing prompts, research tasks and creative projects.
I ask students to gain 35 points across a half term, handing in one piece of homework per week.
These flexible choice homework menus allow students to take control of their own learning and pursue their own interests.
Lesson 2 Imaginative Writing : Introduction to Genre - Science Fiction, Dystopia, Horror and Fantasy
This is a lesson plan plus PowerPoint to guide students through an introduction to genre, focusing on sci-fi, dystopia, horror and fantasy.
The unit that this comes from focuses mostly on Sci-Fi and Dystopias so there is more content on this, including an interactive activity where students predict what the future will look like.
This is part of a scheme of work which you will find bundled in my store to save you both time and money!
Lesson 11 Imaginative Writing: The Veldt - Writing
This lesson is part of an Imaginative Writing Scheme of Work focused on Science-Fiction and Dystopian short stories.
This lesson follows on from the previous which introduces and guides students through a close reading of 'The Veldt' by Ray Bradbury. This time, students are given an extended writing task to complete based around their idea of a perfect house that goes wrong.
PLEASE NOTE:
You will need to download my FREE short story anthology for use with this lesson.
Lesson 9 Imaginative Writing: The Home of the Future
This lesson is part of an Imaginative Writing Scheme of Work focused on Science-Fiction and Dystopian short stories.
This lesson explores the notion of future technology and students design their own perfect home of the future to be used in future writing assignments. It looks at the idea of personification and how to apply it to their own work.
PLEASE NOTE:
You will need to download my FREE short story anthology for use with this lesson.
Lesson 12 Imaginative Writing: Tension and Conan Doyle's 'The Brazilian Cat'
This lesson is part of an Imaginative Writing Scheme of Work focused on Science-Fiction and Dystopian short stories.
This lesson explores tension and how it is created in Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant short story 'The Brazilian Cat'.
PLEASE NOTE:
You will need to download my FREE short story anthology for use with this lesson.
Room 101 Persuasive Speeches
This lesson is part of an Imaginative Writing Scheme of Work focused on Science-Fiction and Dystopian short stories.
This is an engaging lesson in which students present their own idea for Room 101. This is a lighthearted introduction before the very sinister truth next lesson when they read an extract from Orwell’s ‘1984’.
PLEASE NOTE:
You will need to download my FREE short story anthology for use with this lesson.
Imaginative Writing: Assessment
This lesson is part of an Imaginative Writing Scheme of Work focused on Science-Fiction and Dystopian short stories.
This is the assessment task for this unit. It includes a checklist to focus on that covers all of the learning from the SOW.
PLEASE NOTE:
You will need to download my FREE short story anthology for use with this lesson.
Lesson 15 Imaginative Writing: Marionettes Inc. - Ray Bradbury
This lesson is part of an Imaginative Writing Scheme of Work focused on Science-Fiction and Dystopian short stories.
This lesson guides students through a piece of imaginative writing based on their reading of Bradbury's 'Marionettes Inc.' There is an interactive element where students are presented with recent scientific discoveries and discuss the moral and ethical implications of them.
PLEASE NOTE:
You will need to download my FREE short story anthology for use with this lesson.
Holocaust Introduction Lesson - Night by Elie Wiesel
This is a lesson that I used to introduce the Holocaust to my Year 9 students. This was the first lesson in my scheme of work studying 'Night' by Elie Wiesel. It contains graphic organisers, a Pyramid of Hate and a short story by Ira Sher 'The Man in the Well'.
This lesson is likely to take approx. two hours to complete.
EDEXCEL Conflict Poetry Revision - Learn Key Quotations Fun Challenge!
This is a set of progressively more challenging gap-fill sheets to help students learn key quotations for the Edexcel Conflict poetry cluster.
Begin by giving students the completed quotations to learn. I then give them a week to practise them and give them the next sheet to complete either independently or in groups.
This has had tremendous results for my students, all of whom are now feeling much more confident about sitting the poetry exam!
Create Your Own Comic Strip Template
This is a fun and engaging blank comic strip proforma for students to create their own storyboards, scene interpretations or just design their own comics!
Great for use with chapter summaries, end of unit reflection, creative responses or just a bit of fun.
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Imaginative Writing SOW - The Supernatural, Sinister and the Downright Scary Unit - 20 Lessons!
This is a 20-lesson unit on imaginative writing, originally designed for Year 9 students.
It contains a full Scheme of Work, plus homework menu and accompanying anthology of short stories.
Each lesson is complete with PowerPoint and any necessary resources.
This is a highly differentiated and organised resource with focus on extending the links between reading and writing.
There are two assessment points (baseline and final) plus various extended writing opportunities throughout.
This has been incredibly successful at my school and has achieved fantastic results in improving students' writing.
I hope you enjoy teaching it as much as I enjoyed making it!
List of Edexcel Conflict Poems for RAG Rating
This is a simple excel list of the Edexcel Conflict Poems for the GCSE exam.
I use it for students to stick into their books, tick off each poem they have studied and then RAG rate their understanding/confidence of it.
Short Story Anthology - Supernatural, Sinister and the Downright Scary
This is an anthology of short stories for use with an imaginative writing or reading unit.
I don’t own the rights to any of the stories but have put them together for ease of printing and use, etc.
Animal Farm: Key Quotation Posters for Display
Create a visually appealing display while encouraging recall and quotation retention!
This set includes 30 key quotations from Orwell’s novella, taken from across the ten chapters.
Each is clearly labelled with the chapter it has come from, and, where relevant, the character that said it.
It is an excellent way to quiz students on their knowledge retention, and studies show that having these visuals displayed in classrooms helps students to remember the quotations in the exams!