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A range of engaging lessons across KS3 and KS4 created by a current practicing English Teacher.
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A range of engaging lessons across KS3 and KS4 created by a current practicing English Teacher.
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Dystopian Fiction - Creative Writing Booklet
This is a guide through a Dystopian story.
The guide will begin in the initial planning phase and foster the thinking of the students.
It will guide them through different perspectives on dystopian fiction and give direction to an informative video.
The booklet will then get the student’s looking at how society is developed and how in a dystopian world this construct falls apart.
Ultimatley this all comes together to give the students enough knowledge to produce an excellent, well informed piece of creative writing.
Curley's Wife - Mice and Men
Did George have a choice? Was what he did meaningful? How do we now see Curley’s wife?
These are all the questions this lesson will take you through. With a series of engaging activites including hot seating tasks, extract analysis and class discussions.
This lesson is engaging and exciting with a bid to allow students to connect to the characters on an emotional level and understand what they might really be feeing.
I have also including an element of contextual analysis - students can see how expectations on a characters response might have differed.
This is one/two lessons depending on class ability.
Prospero - The Tempest - Act 4
The Tempest - Act 4 (Prospero Focus)
When I taught this I split it over 3 lessons due to the ability of my group.
The lesson covers a summary of the act, offers the opportunity to act it then focuses on very specific language choices made by Shakespeare.
The final lesson focuses on an evaluative question.
Macbeth Acts 1 - 5 EDEXCEL/AQA Revision
A set of slides designed to guide the students through the acts.
Each slide includes a key quote and 4 prompts to foster thinking and aid memory recall.
The slides are also designing to help students think about the narrative from alternate perspectives.
Finally - the resource includes an aid to assist with the development of an analytical paragraph giving opportunity for self reflection and peer marking.
To Kill A Mockingbird - Scheme Booklet (Chp 1-9)
To Kill A Mockingbird - Chapter 1 - 9.
This booklet is designed to support a scheme as either a complementary homework booklet or for use in the classroom to aid with resourcing alongside the text.
It contains tasks for each chapter, links to resources and audio files.
It is fully interactive and can be given to a student to keep as a digital homework file.
Dystopian Fiction - Creation of a new world
Creative lesson taking the students through a dynamic view on how to structure and recreate a new society after a significant change in power.
The lesson takes the students through fundatmental elements in structuring society including power hierachies. It allows the students to challenge their on beleifs on who they think is truly in control and test what happens if this were to come true.
Includes activities:
Class discussions
Videos
Mind Maps
Source Analysis
The students will then be able to test all their new knowledge in a piece of creative writing. This is based around a diary entry of someone living in their dystopian world!
Bundle
Dystopian Fiction including Work Book
FULL DYSTOPIAN FICTION WORK BUNDLE
This bundle includes:
1 Lessons
**1 x Creating a Dystopian Society
**1 x Creating and Building Tension
**1 x A fully comprehsive work booklet **
This is a guide through a Dystopian story.
The guide will begin in the initial planning phase and foster the thinking of the students.
It will guide them through different perspectives on dystopian fiction and give direction to an informative video.
The booklet will then get the student’s looking at how society is developed and how in a dystopian world this construct falls apart.
Ultimatley this all comes together to give the students enough knowledge to produce an excellent, well informed piece of creative writing.
Bundle
To Kill A Mockingbird - Complete Scheme Booklets
Full Text Coverage
Included 2 x Work Booklets
Bonus - ADDED 2 MORE RESOURCE BOOKLETS!
1/2
To Kill A Mockingbird - Chapter 1 - 9.
This booklet is designed to support a scheme as either a complementary homework booklet or for use in the classroom to aid with resourcing alongside the text.
It contains tasks for each chapter, links to resources and audio files.
It is fully interactive and can be given to a student to keep as a digital homework file.
2/2
A work booklet that focuses on Atticus Finch pre and post trial. (Chapter 10 onwards)
What kind of person is Atticus Finch?
How is Atticus presented in To Kill a Mockingbird so far? (Part 1)
How is Atticus presented in To Kill a Mockingbird so far? (Part 2)
How does our need to belong affect our identities?
How is the black community presented?
What is included:
A series of activities covering:
Analytical Writing
Recap Quiz
Sources and Resources
Interactive Activities
Dystopian - Building Tension
Set in a Dystopian World - Students are taken through a journey in a apartment complex. They are encouraged to describe the mystery faced behind each door, build suspense and anticipation. Build the world and experience in a way that they see fit.
A short but encapusalting lesson to encourage students to slow down and really consider the impact of words and sentences. Looking at the effects they can create on the reader.
During this lesson students are encouraged to:
-Control the pace of their writing through sentence length
-Look closely at the adjectives and adverbs they are using.
-Think about the information they withold in the narrative to create the suspense.
Vocabularly - Gothic Horror
A creative writing lesson focused on the use of vocabularly to build suspense and engage the reader.
The lesson takes the students through several tasks to help develop vocabularly use in creative writing.
Activities include
Close analysis of a source to help generate creative ideas
Scaffolded questions to help students develop a creative mind
Challenge tasks to help push high ability students
A planning task to aid the final piece of writing.
Creative Writing - Non-Linear Writing
Learning Question:
Can you rewrite a famous linear narrative adding depth to characters using non-linear structure.
This booklet has been desgined as a stand alone lesson to be delivered in the classroom or something that can be given to a student as homework.
It will take them through all the key elements of non-linear narratives and guide them into creating their own.
Key Aims
To recall key non linear texts and films
To understand elements of a non-linear narrative
To apply non-linear writing techniques to add depth to characters.