This is a scheme of work that I have revisited and updated for 2012, to include all APP frameworks, persuasive techniques and analysis of the Death Penalty. The scheme looks at murderers and results in a question about whether or not we should bring back the death penalty. Pupils end by writing a discursive essay, as if they are under controlled assessment conditions, as I am trying to prepare year 9 for their GCSE years. If you want every lesson, type in '2012 Death Penalty Lesson Miss R' and they should come up in a list. This one covers the case of James Bulger.

OfSted Outstanding Literacy All lessons Starter: With a new shift in focus for the 2012 framework that means that teaching and learning can only be judged outstanding if literacy and numeracy are encorporated across the curriculum, I am making a daily starter / settler activity that can be incorporated into all lessons. These mini activities are examples of a literacy activity & there is a tutorial before each. These are going to be made daily, so I'll upload them é I hope they will help other schools to boost literacy teaching. This one is about extending vocabulary.

Presents From My Aunts – Identity This is a full lesson PowerPoint that helps pupils to analyse the poem in relation to the poet’s identity.

These, when all combined have a hidden message - suggesting that you're the best teacher - just change my name for your own!

This worksheet supports pupils in exploring the use of personification in the novel.

QQT Cards for Persuasive Techniques These are a series of cards that can be used for teaching – it can even be used as a worksheet. Designed to teach / revise / recap persuasive techniques. Cut them up, hand them to pupils and get them to teach themselves.

This is a full powerpoint lessons, ready to teach with any resources that are applicable attached for ease of finding. This lesson covers writing about images of the science fiction genre.

This is one of several lessons that I created when teaching unqualified, so it's not great - but it's certainly a starting point for someone.

This is one of several powerpoint lessons that I have uploaded for KS3 pupils that gets them to investigate the use of persuasive technuiques. The lesson is ready to teach with it's resources (if aplicable). Although, you will wish to adapt and differentiate for your own class. They can be taught together to reach an assessment outcome, but all are suitable as standalone exploratory lessons. This lesson covers the writing of a counterargument.

A full lesson pp that breaks down the reading of a specific section of the novel by analysing key quotes in the section.

This is one of many lessons and resources that I have uploaded on Russel's Blood Brothers for the AQA Lit specification. These are 2 lessons that can be amalgamated and adapted to show the links between Mrs Johnston and the character of Marilyn Monroe.

This is a PP presentation with different types of question stems and what they are asking for - great tool in the classroom - print on bright coloured paper.

This is one of several powerpoint lessons that I have uploaded on the novel Holes by Louis Sacher, ready to teach with it's resources (if aplicable). Although, you will wish to adapt and differentiate for your own class. They can be taught together to reach an assessment outcome but all are suitable as standalone exploratory lessons. This lesson covers comparing the film to the novel.

This is a worksheet to support pupils in analysing the text.

For teaching of non-fiction texts, this is a full lesson plan to teach pupils the terminology of magazines.

Reality TV – Characteristics of Reality TV Programmes This is a full PowerPoint lesson, ready to teach, but you will want to adapt it / update it for your own context and any resources are also uploaded with it. This lesson explores the different characteristics of the shows

This is a full lesson PP ready to teach, although you will want to adopt it for your own context. LOs: To understand how vocabulary choices create a particular effect. Writing AF7 – To select appropriate and effective vocabulary

This is a full lesson using a Functional Text as a stimulus and it encourages pupils to use the Reading Afs to design questions. Designed to enable pupils to work with the reading AFs and familiarise themselves with them.

Interactive Powerpoint resource lesson with a complete quiz activity revising students' knowledge of the key quotations from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.

This is a full lesson pp that goes over how to tackle the first two questions on the above titled paper.