A lesson aimed at teaching language paper 1, question 2 skills. Lesson was made as part of a module teaching the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas but can also be used for GCSE students teaching language paper 1. Lesson includes challenge questions and uses the GCSE mark scheme.

Lesson asks students to choose a door to another world (Hogwarts, Narnia, Neverland, Wonderland and Middle Earth.) They then plan the opening and eventually go on to produce a piece of creative writing describing their journey to this other world. Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge. Aimed at KS3 but can also be used with KS4 to practice language paper 1, question 5 skills. Please leave a review, i’d love your feedback :)

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 GCSE class and looks asks students to analyse how the writer uses language to highlight the social class and attitudes of the characters. 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.

A lesson based around body image and how expectations of body image have changed over the decades. This lesson looks at barbie dolls and at the representation of people on Love Island and asks students to consider if there is too much pressure on young people to look a certain way.

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 looks at what media bias is and gets students to analyse different articles about Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle.

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.

L.O: To analyse the importance and significance of Marley’s ghost.

A lesson which looks at life in the trenches for soldiers during WW1. Students are given information about trench life including a diary entry and a poem. Students will write a description based on trench life from the perspective of a soldier during WW1. Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge.