Not My Business - Niyi Osundare

Consolidation lesson - students to create their own revision sheet on their favourite poem. To extend, students could also learn one of the poems off by heart and perform it.

In which students prepare in groups to teach a whole lesson themselves on a poem from another culture. Excellent for G&T independent learning.

Introduces students to key passages and use of the framework in the opening section of the novel. The sessions may take a series of lessons.

Lesson plan and resources based on an extract from Maggie Gee's 'The Ice People'. Designed to help middle set students extend their writing. Lesson is differentiated and encourages peer assessment.

These can be used to save you time when researching the poems to teach or issued to students to help them whilst preparing for their controlled assessments or the literature exam.

Lessons encourage students to analyse a Shakespearean sonnet and apply a simple writing frame of analysis. Encourages them to think cratively about language and use of imagery.

Lesson designed for top set groups: differentiated for levels 5 to 6 or C to A students. Guides through inference and deduction as well as selection of relevant quotations.

Writing to persuade. Guides students through learning the necessary skills for GCSE as well as encouraging them to write a sales pitch. Could be assessed as an individual speaking and listening.

Lesson designed to guide students through the study of the poem - contains activities throughout.

Series of activities to guide students through the study of the elegy. Ideal for key stage 3 but can be used with Key stage 4 lower sets.

Guide for students to evaluate their own lesson.

Prep for independent learning\nstudents will teach the lesson.\n\nIdeal for speaking and listening assessment as \nwell as introducing poetry in preparation for key stage 4 examinations and coursework.

This is a proposed programme of study designed for the last half term in the year to prepare students for GCSE study of the novel. It includes an independent study for homework, a writing assessment, reading assessment, speaking and listening task and a bridging project for over the summer holiday.

Three detailed guidance sessions to help students prepare for a controlled assessment on the dramatic devices used by Priestley in Act 1 of the play.

This part of the scheme requires students to bring in a few empty bottles of hair or beauty products. This could also be done as part of their independent study. They need a list of ingredients from products they regularly use themselves ideally, or the teacher can just bring in some empty boxes/bottles for the students to investigate. Again, links in with the PSHE body image unit and helps students to write basic articles ready for GCSE.

Hope this is helpful - this was generally just a quick one lesson a week revision session with homework designed to help the middle sets revise the text. The revision sheets the students had were taken from a basic revision guide.

Explores Pinter's Theatre of the Absurd, his style and language.

Powerpoint on parts of speech, sentence types and punctuation. Can be downloaded for students to use themselves to remind them of the basics as part of their independent learning.

Weekly lessons including a market place activity for students to learn reading and writing skills for non-fiction texts. Links in with PSHE covering body image. Works really well with top set year 9 students or even year 10 students who need to learn non-fiction analysis ready for their language exam.