A Christmas creative writing lesson based around describing a Christmas market. Lesson is scaffolded with a video, pictures and planning tasks for students to gather their ideas. WAGOLL answers are included for students to assess/discuss. Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme. This lesson is aimed at KS3 but can easily be adapted for older year groups.

A GCSE Christmas Carol lesson analysing the character of Scrooge. Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme. Lesson is based around AO1 and AO2. Lesson is created using the TEEP model.

A GCSE Christmas Carol lesson analysing the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come and how Dickens creates a sense of fear around this ghost. Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme. Lesson is based around AO1 and AO2. Lesson is created using the TEEP model.

A lesson for Halloween aimed at developing students creative writing skills. Aimed at KS3 but can easily be adapted. Differentiated using the GCSE mark scheme. Lesson is created using the TEEP model.

A lesson aimed at using AFOREST persuasive techniques using The Greatest Showman as a focus. Aimed at KS4 but can easily be adapted. Differentiated using the GCSE mark scheme. Lesson is created using the TEEP model.

A lesson aimed at teaching students the structure question (question 3) on language paper 1. Lesson is differentiated with challenge questions and using the GCSE mark scheme. Lesson is scaffolded to support all ability students in answering the question.

Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme. AImed at KS3 but can easily be adapted for KS4 students. Lesson asks students to think about what makes a typical gothic setting.Students watch clips and read through an extract from Dracula.

Lesson looks at the context of the poem, the language and structure and gets students to analyse key quotations. This lesson also includes annotations of the poem. Lesson is differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. Lesson is aimed at GCSE students as part of the Power and Conflict Poetry for GCSE English Literature.

Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. Lesson is aimed at a GCSE class and looks asks students to analyse how the writer has structured the text to interest the reader. Scaffolded and differentiated tasks throughout the lesson.

Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. Lesson is aimed at a KS3 class studying The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and gets students to look at how the relationship between Bruno and his father is presented in the chapter. Scaffolded and differentiated tasks throughout the lesson.

Lesson is part of a series of lessons teaching OMAM but could work as a stand alone lesson. Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. Lesson looks at setting in chapter 1 and links to chapter 6.

Aimed at KS4 GCSE students studying Macbeth as part of their English Literature exam. Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge.

Analysing the characters introduced in chapter 2 of Of Mice and Men and how they reflect the difficulties of living during the great depression. Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. Main task eventually asks students to write a diary entry from the perspective of one of the characters.

Lesson is aimed at developing students’ understanding of the General Election. Lesson looks at the history of voting, what happens in a General Election, who the main parties and leaders are & what the main pledges of each party are. Students have a choice of tasks based on speech writing. They can either write a speech arguing that the voting age should be 16 or write a speech arguing which political party should be in power.

-A lesson made as part of a KS3 unit of work about Chaucer. -Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. -Lesson focuses on AO4 and evaluating the text.

Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. Lesson focuses on descriptive writing skills. Main task asks students to create a piece of creative writing from the point of view of Buddy the Elf, experiencing New York City for the first time. Students watch a short clip to help with this and complete planning activities.

Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. Students look at structural features then use a series of pictures to structure and create their own stories.