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.
Comprehensive complete scheme of work for Lord of the flies.
Targeted for use with KS4 pupils, but can also be used with a top set KS3 class.
Set of 32 lessons- everything you will ever need to teach Lord of the Flies!
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 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.
Series of four lessons to celebrate Roald Dahl day on 13th September.
Lesson 1- To use descriptive and persuasive language to create and design your own chocolate bar.
Lesson 2-To develop imaginative writing skills to create a new horrid winner of a golden ticket.
Lesson 3-To become a witchophile and create a poster to warn people about witches.
Lesson 4- To prepare an interview for the BBC between a news reporter and a witchophile.
Whole school quiz and whole school competition activities also included.
2 excellent workbooks addressing Literacy. Can be used as homework over a term, or as class starters. Total of 88 pages!
Includes activities on:
Vocabulary
Spellings
Synonyms and antonyms
Reading comprehension activities
Nouns/Pronouns
Verbs
Commas and subordinate clauses
Sentences types
Apostrophes
Homophones
Dictionary work
Past, present, future tense
Full Scheme of work for Unseen poetry- targeted towards the new AQA specification.
Includes lessons on:
Introduction to poetic terms with snowball starter.
The moment annotation and analysis
3 What lips annotation and analysis
4 Ninetieth birthday compared to My Grandmother annotation and analysis
Home compared to *Emigree
Nettles compared to Poison Tree annotation and analysis
7 Still I Rise compared to The Rose that Grew from Concrete*
7 lessons which can be taught over 11/12 lessons.
Each lesson has the poem with questions to encourage analysis and annotations. Model answers using the SMILE technique and opportunities for peer and self assessment are included. Resources allow students to achieve higher grade 8/9, and differentiated writing frames allow lower ability pupils to access the poems effectively.
Two transition activity lessons for year 5 and 6 pupils coming to secondary school.
Lesson 1- Roald Dahl design a chocolate bar and present back to the class.
Lesson 2- Dragons den design a robot and present back to the class.
Both lessons encourage fun, interactive group work and have been tried and tested to create great results!
Full moving image scheme of work. Includes 8 lessons which can easily run over 12 if you include making their own film poster and film storyboard.
Includes:
Lesson 1- Genre
Lesson 2-Signifiers and connotations
Lesson 3-Analysing film posters
Lesson 4-Camera shots and storyboard
Lesson 5-Mise-en-scene
Lesson 6-Props, sound and lighting
Lesson 7- Antagonists vs. protagonists
Lesson 8-Screenwriting.
Lessons 1-3 are based on a wide selection of films to introduce students to different genres. Lesson 4 onwards has a focus on Slumdog Millionaire, using camera shots from the film.
I have used this SOW with both a lower year 8 class and higher year 9 class, as resources can be easily accessed and differentiated.
Exciting scheme of work for KS3 classes on Moving Image.
Takes pupils through media terminology in the first section and then allows them to apply what they have learnt to Casino Royale.
Lesson 1- Introduction to the Media.
Lesson 2- Audience.
Lesson 3- Genre.
Lesson 4- Signifiers and connotations. Pupils analyse a Casino Royale film poster and then create their own.
Lesson 5- Connotation and denotation.
Lesson 6- Stereotypes.
Lesson 7- Soundtracks. Diegetic and non-diegetic sound.
Lesson 8- Camera angles.
Lesson 9- Writing up an essay.
Lesson 10- Stereotypes in Casino Royale.
Lesson 11- Camera angles in Casino Royale.
Lesson 12- Writing up stereotypes and signs in Casino Royale.
Lesson 13- Writing up camera angles and sound in Casino Royale.
Lesson 14- Extension lesson for top-sets on Representation in the Media.
Includes writing frames, model answers and builds up to an end of term assessment on Moving Image in Casino Royale.
A 218 slide PowerPoint covering the Macbeth section on Literature Paper 1. New specification.
This SOW includes annotated scenes, exam questions, homework opportunities, extension activities, comprehension questions, group work and differentiated activities. I have used this resource with my top and bottom set year 10 and both classes could access the work and make progress.
Lesson 1- The plot. Comprehension questions to consolidate understanding.
Lesson 2- The social and historical context- a carousel lesson.
Lesson 3- Consolidation of the SHC.
Lesson 4- Act 1 Scene 1. Annotated analysis of the witches.
Lesson 5- Act 1 Scene 2. Character analysis of Macbeth- includes annotations, exam question, mark scheme and a modelled answer.
Lesson 6- Act 1 Scene 3. Macbeth and Banquo meet the witches- includes annotations and exam question.
Lesson 7- Act 1 Scene 4. Looking at Macbeth’s soliloquy.
Lesson 8- Act 1 Scene 5. First impressions of Lady Macbeth- includes annotated scene and exam question. Homework opportunity discussing how Lady Macbeth compares to a typical 16th century woman.
Lesson 9- Act 1 Scene 6. Exploring dramatic irony.
Lesson 10- Act 1 Scene 7. Annotated scene and comprehension questions.
Lesson 11- Act 2 Scene 1. Dagger scene- quotation match up and questions for discussion.
Lesson 12- Act 2 Scene 2. The murder- annotated scene and exam question focusing on the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Includes a success criteria and differentiated quotation grids with model answers.
Lesson 13- Act 3 Scene 1. Activity which includes highlighting and annotating the text. Exam question with AQA mark scheme.
Lesson 14- Act 3 Scene 4. Banquo’s ghost- annotated scene and exam question with differentiated modelled answers. Also includes comprehension questions which can be set for homework.
Lesson 15- Act 4 Scene 1. Activity and comprehension questions.
Lesson 16- Act 5 Scene 1. Sleepwalking scene- annotated scene with exam question. Differentiated homework activities.
Lesson 17- Act 5 Scene 3. Match up quotation activity. Comprehension questions.
Lesson 18- Act 5 Scene 5. Cloze activity on plot.
Lesson 19- Act 5 Scene 5. Annotated scene- An idiot’s tale. Comprehension questions to provoke discussion.
Lesson 20- The rise and fall of Macbeth- tracking his character through the play.
Lesson 21- Key themes in Macbeth.
Excellent resource which covers the all the main themes in the Power and Conflict cluster of poems. Can be used as a lesson or as revision homework. Compares poems alongside each other.
Analysis includes:
Power of Humans: Ozymandias and Duchess.
Power of Nature: Storm on the Island and Exposure.
Reality of Conflict: War Photographer and Poppies.
Effects of Conflict: Bayonet Charge and Charge of the Light Brigade.
Conflict of identity: Kamikaze and Émigrée.
At the end of the Powerpoint, there is the start of a comparison essay for Kamikaze and Émigrée- I modelled meaning, structure and imagery/language and then included 4 comparison quotes that pupils can finish off in class. I have also included a comparative essay on COTLB and Bayonet Charge. My current year 10 and 11s found this extremely useful as a way of revising.
43 pages of spelling practice.
Can be given as a homework project, or printed as individual pages for starter activities in class.
Index:
1. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD TO FILL IN THE SPACE: Here, Hear, There, Their
2. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD TO FILL IN THE SPACE: Our, Are, Your, You’re
3. Confusable words There / Their
4. Confusable words Know / Now / No
5. Confusable words Where / Were / We’re
6. Confusable words Where / Wear
7. Key spellings – week one
8. Key spellings – week two
9. Key spellings – week three
10. Key spellings – week four
11. Key spellings – week five
12. Key spellings – week six
13. Key spellings – week seven
14. Of or Off? Which do you use?
15. Our or Are? Which do you use?
16. Plurals practice – Plurals ending in y
17. Word games for spelling skills (3 pages)
18. Using ‘Who’ and ‘Which’
19. Identifying and using synonyms and antonyms
20. Proofreading
21. Common Errors
22. Crossword
23. This is the personal Word Wall of
24. Subject specific spelling collection (8 pages)
25. Correction exercise
26. Correct the mistakes in this passage
27. Allowed / aloud
28. Handy hints for improving your spelling – tricky words
29. Adding
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!
11 lessons covering The Lady of Shallott.
Lesson 1- Discussion of the Legend of King Arthur.
Lesson 2- Predictions and setting.
Lesson 3-Lady of Shallott character analysis. Includes pictures and word grids for lower ability pupils.
Lesson 4- Sir Lancelot character analysis.Includes pictures and word grids for lower ability pupils.
Lesson 5- Lady of Shallott part 4. Includes cloze activity, sequencing and comprehension questions.
Lesson 6- Metaphors and imagery.
Lesson 7- A closer look at techniques.
Lesson 8- PEE analysis.
Extra lessons:
Lesson 9- Draw the setting and label with quotes.
Lesson 10-Sir Lancelot autobiography.
Lesson 11-Newspaper article.
All builds up to an assessment on character- looking at the Lady of Shallott and Sir Lancelot. The final resource is a cloze worksheet that builds pupils up to analysing the characters on their own.
I created this SOW for my bottom set year 8, but it can be differentiated up quite easily.
Series of 26 extensive lessons covering A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Includes worksheets, hand-outs, quotes sheets, reading and writing tasks, PEEDL tasks, S&L drama activities, and a homework project that covers the whole term. Can be used for a top or bottom set (I have both and planned it as such) as there are lots of differentiated resources. Can also be used as an access into the text at GCSE as addresses the new grades system. Comes with an end of term assessment on ‘Moral significance’, but this SOW can also be used to explore Scrooge’s characterisation.
Lesson 1- A very Victorian Christmas.
Lesson 2- Context and Dickens’ life.
Lesson 3- What Christmas means to me.
Lesson 4- Analysing Scrooge Stave 1.
Lesson 5- Higher level reading targets.
Lesson 6- Scrooge characterisation.
Lesson 7- Scrooge Stave 1.
Lesson 8- Extra lesson- Scrooge’s character.
Lesson 9-Writing to persuade (Stave 1)
Lesson 10- Marley’s ghost techniques.
Lesson 11- Marley’s ghost pathetic fallacy.
Lesson 12- Marley’s ghost drama.
Lesson 13- Scrooge in Stave 2.
Lesson 14- Tension graph Marley’s ghost.
Lesson 15- End Stave 1 recap.
Lesson 16- Stave 2.
Lesson 17- Stave 2 continued.
Lesson 18- PEEDL Crachit Stave 3.
Lesson 19-Stave 3- the ghosts.
Lesson 20-Stave 3- Ignorance Vs. Want.
Lesson 21- Servants.
Lesson 22- Servants/ Scrooge characterisation.
Lesson 23- Assessment- Moral significance in A Christmas Carol.
Extra lessons x 3- Hot seating, character names and setting.
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: