This is a ready-to-go lesson on the theme of gender in Boys Don’t Cry by Malorie Blackman. No preparation needed - you don’t even need print anything out! This lesson features lots of discussion, including opportunities to explicitly teach the skills required to organise a group productively and listen effectively to others’ ideas. Differentiated to include support for less able students, extension tasks for early finishers, and challenge tasks for more able students. Includes suggested homework tasks. Fully editable. Suitable for GCSE English Literature (EDUQAS or EDEXCEL). You will receive: a full lesson plan, including teacher’s notes and answers (both Word and PDF) accompanying PowerPoint (both PPT and PDF) Learning objectives: • To understand the terms ‘gender stereotype’ and ‘masculinity’. • To apply these terms to characters in ‘Boys Don’t Cry’. National Curriculum Links: Understand and critically evaluate texts through • identifying and interpreting themes, ideas and information. Speak confidently, audibly and effectively including through • working effectively in groups of different sizes and taking on required roles, including leading and managing discussions, involving others productively, reviewing and summarising, and contributing to meeting goals/deadlines • listening to and building on the contributions of others, asking questions to clarify and inform, and challenging courteously when necessary Resources needed: • Essential: copies of ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ by Malorie Blackman • Recommended: the PowerPoint accompanying this lesson plan • If available: ipads/tablets/laptops, whiteboards, large sheets of paper, felt pens If you found this resource useful, please leave me a review.

Card sort game: Match the quotation from Romeo and Juliet to the character who said it Revision activity Features 44 quotations Includes answers Attractively presented using a dyslexia-friendly font Editable resource (you get both PDF and editable PowerPoint versions of the cards) Please check out my TES shop for more English teaching resources.

Blended learning worksheets to support the study of ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ at GCSE. These worksheets are for chapters 20 and 21. Suitbable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content includes: antonyms, allusion, character of Josh. Part of my ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ complete scheme of work and resource bundle, which may be found on my TES shop.

Three blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapter 25. Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content includes: vocabulary building: emotions identifying character emotions in an extract from chapter 25 Dante and Emma’s relationship structuring an exam response summarising Part of my ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ complete GCSE sheme of work, which is all available on my TES shop.

Three blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapters 23 and 24. Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content includes: parenthesis parenthetic commas brackets dashes an author’s style writing about Malorie Blackman’s style of writing Part of my ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ complete GCSE sheme of work, which is all available on my TES shop.

Three blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapter 26. Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content includes: metaphors extended metaphors readers’ responses to Aunt Jackie character roles Part of my ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ complete GCSE sheme of work, which is all available on my TES shop.

Blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapters Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content of these worksheets includes: Adam, before and after the attack Skimming Scanning Part of a complete scheme of work for teaching ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ for GCSE English Literature, all of which is available in my TES shop.

Blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapter 37. Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content of these worksheets includes: homophobia short tasks about chapter 37 testing: locating information; inference; language and structure; writing an IEEL paragraph teacher feedback sheet Part of a complete scheme of work for teaching ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ for GCSE English Literature, all of which is available in my TES shop.

Two blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, Chapters 27 and 28. Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content of these worksheets includes: Structural features Malorie Blackman video Writing interview responses as Malorie Blackman Part of a complete scheme of work for teaching ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ for GCSE English Literature, all of which is available in my TES shop.

Four blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapter 31 Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content of these worksheets includes: research task: careers working with children apostrophes for possession features of a report writing a report answer sheet for all tasks Part of a complete scheme of work for teaching ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ for GCSE English Literature, all of which is available in my TES shop.

Three blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapters 32, 33, 34 and 35. Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content of these worksheets includes: addresses form filling (registering Emma at a GP’s surgery) vocbulary-building (childcare) Part of a complete scheme of work for teaching ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ for GCSE English Literature, all of which is available in my TES shop.

Two blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapters 29 and 30. Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content of these worksheets includes: apostrophes for omission contractions synonyms Part of a complete scheme of work for teaching ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ for GCSE English Literature, all of which is available in my TES shop.

Two blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapter 36 Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content of these worksheets includes: literary theory diversity depiction of the LGBTQ+ community in literature applying LGBTQ+ theory (queer theory) to a reading of chapter 36 Part of a complete scheme of work for teaching ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ for GCSE English Literature, all of which is available in my TES shop.

Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Fully differentiated task for grades 9-1. Students explore the meaning of the novel’s title. Contains links to online articles. Part of a complete scheme of work for teaching ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ for GCSE English Literature, all of which is available in my TES shop.

Five blended learning worksheets for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapters 45 to 50 Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content of these worksheets includes: Questions Writing multiple-choice questions Types of narrative ending Predictions Features of a book review (inc. an example review) Writing a review of ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ Part of a complete scheme of work for teaching ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ for GCSE English Literature, all of which is available in my TES shop.

Four blended learning worksheets, plus a teacher feedback sheet, for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, chapters 39 and 40. Suitable to be used in a teacher-led lesson, homework, cover lesson or independent learning. Content of these worksheets includes: Malorie Blackman’s Style Characters’ thoughts Characters’ feelings Planning to write a chapter from Josh’s point of view Self-assessment task Teacher feedback sheet Part of a complete scheme of work for teaching ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ for GCSE English Literature, all of which is available in my TES shop.

Six GCSE ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ practice papers for EDQUAS, each with a table to scaffold response writing and an indicative content list for marking. Questions in this set explore the themes of parenting, friendship and family, and the characters of Adam, Tyler and Dante. Some extra resources are also included: One practice paper also includes examples of how to annotate the exam paper, and an example IEEL paragraph. Two practice papers also include a teacher feedback sheet. One practice paper also includes an annotated ‘what a good one looks like’ response (WAGOLL) For marking, use the EDUQAS GCSE English Literature post-1914 literature mark scheme. Please have a look at my TES shop for other Boys Don’t Cry and English resources, including a complete unit of work.

A 34-lesson scheme of work for teaching ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ by Malorie Blackman at GCSE. This scheme of work uses a ‘blended learning’ approach, covering skills for both GCSE English Language and GCSE English Literature. It incorporates whole-class reading of the novel, activities on each chapter, non-fiction writing, narrative writing, literary and linguistic devices, punctuation and grammar. It also incorporates interactive and kinaesthetic revision activities. All accompanying resources are available in my TES shop: Wordy Witterings.