Complete scheme of work for Coraline, Neil Gaiman.
Contains 32 resources:
Lesson 1-Predictions, blurb and chapter 1
Lesson 2-Foreboding
Lesson 3-Chapters 2 and 3
Lesson 4-Chapter 4 S&L
Lesson 5-Chapters 5 and 6
Lesson 6-Chapters 6 and 7
Lesson 7-Chapters 8 and 9
Lesson 8-Chapters 11,12 and 13
Lesson 9-Subversion
Assessment- lower and higher ability.
Includes differentiated resources for both a higher and lower ability class.
This resource was designed to support form time reading.
It contains:
Pre reading activity
Lesson on context
Comprehension questions for each chapter
Final activity- ‘To what extent do you agree?’
This resource was designed to support form time reading.
It contains:
Pre reading activity
Lesson on context and author
Comprehension questions on each chapter
Final activity- What can the Government do to help child refugees?
This resource was designed to support form time reading.
It contains:
Pre reading activity
Lesson on context and author
Comprehension questions on each chapter- 41 slides long
Final activity- The protagonist of the novel, the woman in black, refuses to submit to Victorian patriarchal values by attempting to reclaim her illegitimate child. Even though she repeatedly inflicts suffering on families by causing the death of their children, we still feel some sympathy towards her.
I agree/ disagree with this statement because……
Complete scheme of work which includes a lesson for each chapter.
Contains 46 resources- lessons, activities, revision guides, homework activities. Also includes a wall display to assist your GCSE pupils with their revision.
Everything you need to teach Heroes at GCSE
Two fully annotated lessons on My Last Duchess. I currently use this with my top set year 10/11, but I have also attached a differentiated version which I have used with a bottom set year 9/10.
Includes: starter activities, information on the poet/context, fully annotated, to grade 9, poem, SMILE analysis comparison sheet, AQA grade descriptors, writing frame and self or peer assessment plenary.
Everything you need to teach My Last Duchess, AQA Literature Paper 2- Power and conflict.
Two fully annotated lessons on Remains. I currently use this with my top set year 10/11, but I have also attached a differentiated version which I have used with a bottom set year 9/10.
Includes: starter activities, information on the poet/context, fully annotated, to grade 9, poem, SMILE analysis comparison sheet, AQA grade descriptors, writing frame and self or peer assessment plenary.
Everything you need to teach Remains, AQA Literature Paper 2- Power and conflict.
Full and extensive SOW for Poetry from other cultures. Includes introduction to each poem, annotated poems, analysis, comprehension questions, homework activities and diamond ranking activities. Can be taught across KS3 as builds up to an assessment on Island Man or Nothing’s changed, or can be used as unseen poetry practice in KS4. There is an alternative assessment comparing 2 poems which can be used for very high ability pupils. The full SOW is aimed at middle ability pupils, but I have taught to both lower and higher and there are resources included for both.
Lessons include:
Lesson 1,2,3-Introduction to culture- What is culture? Analysis of Melting Pot by Benjamin Zephaniah.
Lesson 4-Poetic techniques.
Lesson 5-Island Man- introduction.
Lesson 6- Island Man- analysis.
Lesson 7- Island Man- diamond ranking- identity.
Lesson 8- Island Man- diamond ranking- protest. Includes comprehension worksheet for homework.
Lesson 9- Limbo introduction, analysis.
Lesson 10-Limbo comprehension questions.
Lesson 11-Nothing’s changed annotations, analysis and PEEDL.
Lesson 12-Presents from my Aunt in Pakistan- introduction, annotation and analysis.
Lesson 13-Presents from my Aunt in Pakistan- outstanding observation lesson.
Lesson 14-Scavengers. Intro and analysis.
Lesson 15-Search for my tongue. Intro and analysis.
Lesson 16, 17, 18- Lessons on Vultures- intro, analysis and PEEDL.
Lesson 19-Night of the scorpion. Introduction.
Lesson 20, 21- Mind-mapping Night of the scorpion.
Lesson 22- Planning an essay.
Lesson 23-25- Comparative poetry essay.
Lesson 26- Final comparative essay.
Everything you need to teach Poetry from Other Cultures!
Complete scheme of work for Stone Cold. Aimed at middle ability KS3 classes.
Series of 14 lessons.
Includes tasks on: discursive writing tasks, PEED paragraphs, narrative style and voice, dual narrative, dramatic irony, speaking and listening, persuasive writing, creating a leaflet, empathetic writing, non fiction, creating and predicting tension, foreshadowing and prediction, character analysis, newspaper writing, and debates.
Includes models and writing frames for differentiation. Two lessons have also been fully differentiated for lower ability classes.
Two fully annotated lessons on Kamikaze by Beatrice Garland. I currently use this with my top set year 10/11, but I have also attached a differentiated version which I have used with a bottom set year 9/10.
Includes: starter activities, information on the poet/context, fully annotated, to grade 9, poem, SMILE analysis comparison sheet, AQA grade descriptors, writing frame and self or peer assessment plenary.
Everything you need to teach Kamikaze , AQA Literature Paper 2- Power and conflict
Complete Scheme of Work/ Learning- War and Conflict. Aimed at KS3 year 8/9. Higher and lower ability- fully differentiated with separate lessons, models, sentence starters, success criteria and activities.
Includes 18 lessons on:
Images of war and key vocabulary.
2 and 3- Propaganda posters. Writing PEEDL.
4- Jessie Pope ‘Who’s for the Game?’ poetry analysis. Includes structure strips for pupils to structure their PEEDLs effectively.
5 and 6- 2 lessons on Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est.’ Introductory lesson to the SHC, PEEDL lesson includes full higher ability PEEDL model, success criteria and sentence starters.
7- Using Owen’s poem as a springboard for pupils to create their own war poem.
8- Comparison lesson- comparing and contrasting Owen and Pope’s poems. Designed to prepare pupils for the Power and Conflict AQA poetry analysis in KS4.
9- Hardy ‘The Man he Killed’ poetry analysis lesson.
10- Saving Private Ryan cinematography lesson: How does Steven Spielberg convey war in the opening twenty minutes of ‘Saving Private Ryan’? Analysing camera angles and shots. Pupils storyboard their own war film opening.
11- Descriptive writing.
12- Zulu War- analysing ‘Rourke’s Drift’.
13 and 14- End of term assessment- Nothing’s Changed (higher ability) Nettles (Lower ability).
Extra lessons:
15- Vietnam blog lesson.
16- S&L lesson.
17- Letters from the front lesson.
18- WW2 Non-Fiction lesson.
All lessons are fully differentiated for both higher and lower ability. Lessons include: Try this activity, starter, main, plenary, teacher models, structure strips, sentence starters and success criteria. Each lesson is to observation standard.
Also includes a higher and lower ability homework project.
Two fully annotated lessons on The Prelude. I currently use this with my top set year 10/11, but I have also attached a differentiated version which I have used with a bottom set year 9/10.
Includes: starter activities, information on the poet/context, fully annotated, to grade 9, poem, SMILE analysis comparison sheet, AQA grade descriptors, writing frame and self or peer assessment plenary.
Everything you need to teach The Prelude, AQA Literature Paper 2- Power and conflict.
This resource was designed to support form time reading.
It contains:
Pre reading activity
Lesson on context
Comprehension questions and answers for each chapter
Final activity- ‘To what extent do you agree?’
Complete scheme of work covering the entire play of Macbeth. I use this with my KS3 class, but can also be used with KS4 as it builds up to an AQA GCSE style assessment question on Lady Macbeth.
Lesson 1- Context carousel.
Lesson 2- Act 1 Scene 1 Witches.
Lesson 3- Act 1 Scene 2 The character of Macbeth.
Lesson 4- Act 1 Scene 3 Macbeth meets the witches.
Lesson 5- Act 1 Scene 4/4 Lady Macbeth.
Lesson 6- Act 1 Scene 6 Dramatic irony.
Lesson 7- Act 1 Scene 1 Dagger of the mind.
Lesson 8- Act 2 Scene 2 The murder.
Lesson 9-Act 3 Scene 4 The banquet.
Lesson 10- Act 5 Scene 1 Lady Macbeth.
Lesson 11- Act 5 Scene 5. Macbeth’s final soliloquy.
Extra lessons- Plot, Act 2 Scene 2, Act 3 Scene 1.
Includes a takeaway homework.
Full scheme of work on persuasive speeches. Designed for a middle ability KS3 class, but has differentiated slides so can be used with a lower ability class.
Contains lessons on:
Lesson 1- Representations of America- American History.
Lesson 2-Go down Moses- slavery roots.
Lesson 3- Martin Luther King speech- persuasive devices.
Lesson 4-Martin Luther King- PEED paragraphs.
Lesson 5-Comparing Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela speeches.
Lesson 6-Sojourner Truth speech- 'Aint I a woman? Persuasive devices and PEED paragraphs.
Lesson 7-Obama Speech- PEED paragraphs.
Lesson 8- Planning and writing your own persuasive speech.
Lesson 9-11- Presenting your own persuasive speech- a Presedential campaign.
Includes teacher models, writing frames and homework opportunities.
Complete scheme of work focusing on crime fiction. 14 lessons in total. Includes: reading and writing assessment, homework tasks, stretch and challenge and differentiation.
Takes pupils through:
Poetry analysis of Simon Armitage’s poem, about his person- inference and deduction skills.
The Speckled Band, Sherlock Holmes- pathetic fallacy, character analysis of Helen Stoner, Dr. Roylott and Sherlock Holmes- PEEDL analysis skills (reading assessment), how to write an effective description (writing assessment), tracking tension graphs, features of Victorian writing lesson and a comparison between 2 Sherlock Holmes texts.
Also includes 3 lessons on Hound of the Baskervilles and a study booklet on The Silver Blaze.
Everything you need for a complete half term of crime fiction!
Extensive SOW that covers A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Includes 46 resources over 14 lessons, leading up to a character assessment. Each lesson includes a PowerPoint, differentiated worksheets and activities, model answers and fun, interactive activities. Everything you need to teach AMSND at KS3!
Lesson 1: Context
Lesson 2: Themes: Love
Lesson 3: Characters
Lesson 4: Plot
Lesson 5: Exploring status
Lesson 6: Act 1 Scene 1
Lesson 7: Act 1 Scene 2. The Mechanicals
Lesson 8: Act 1 Scene 2. Bottom
Lesson 9: Act 2 Scene 1. Puck
Lesson 10: Act 2 Scene 1. Titania and Oberon
Lesson 11: Act 2 Scene 1. Demetrius and Helena
Lesson 12: Act 2 Scene 2. The Lovers
Lesson 13: Bottom becomes an ass!
Lesson 14: Interpretations of Puck
Lesson 12: The Lover’s quarrel
Lesson 13:
Lesson 14:
Two fully annotated lessons on Tissue. I currently use this with my top set year 10/11, but I have also attached a differentiated version which I have used with a bottom set year 9/10.
Includes: starter activities, information on the poet/context, fully annotated, to grade 9, poem, SMILE analysis comparison sheet, AQA grade descriptors, writing frame and self or peer assessment plenary.
Everything you need to teach Tissue, AQA Literature Paper 2- Power and conflict.