As with the others the powerpoint is pretty self-explanatory, but the aim of this lesson is to help students understand how meaning is made and be able to write succesfully about it in exams. Overarching objective is to explore techniques used to analyse the way in which writers create particular effects. The extract used is a James Lee Burke one, so quite exciting :) in an englishy way!

<p>A lesson designed to help students write about character succesfully- either for an unseen text or for any text studied in class. . The powerpoint should be self explanatory but the starter activity is matching adjectives to definitions then there is a longer extract there to explore for main, The powerpoint should make what to do clear- for you and them.(ESPECIALLY GOOD FOR BOYS WHO CAN SOMETIMES STRUGGLE WITH EMPATHY BASED TASKS) :)</p>

<p>A self explanatory powerpoint and accompanying resources. Aim is to help students develop inference and empathy skills… good for students sitting an unseen text paper or just to help sharpen up reading skills in general..</p>

<p>A good way of practicing cloze reading skills. A selection of openings to novels can be used to develop cloze reading skills; discussion and when beginning a novel with a particular effect.

A glossary of poetic devices suitable for advanced study e.g. dactyl, pararhyme, diegesis etc. Can be simply given to students or used as a base for making a starter activity e.g. dominoes, bingo, match etc

I am doing Wilfred Owen with my English lit group and this is something I am going to use with them as an introduction to the topic in order to get them thinking about war. It contains two sets of extracts, war themed. The class will be split into two groups and each has to present what they have found out from the extracts ALONE. Almost as if they were an alien from another planet, what would these extracts tell them about the relation between humans and war- idea is to get them to start thinking critically about texts. Could also use extracts for lots of other purposes…