A series of three lessons requiring students to use their skills in collaboration, critical thinking, communication and creativity. Using the idea of Dragons’ Den, students will work together to create their own theme park. As the teacher, you will only act as a facilitator. They will have to assign roles within their group, work out costings (budget sheets included), write a pitch (questions included to help) and pitch their idea to the ‘dragons’.
Lesson teaching students how to write a review. Students will look at features of a review and examples in order to help them write their own successfully.
Lesson for the Power and Conflict poem ‘Kamikaze’.
Big Questions:
What was Garland’s intention for writing the poem ‘Kamikaze?
2.How does Garland present her ideas about the effects conflict can have on an individual?
What historical events inspired Garland’s poem?
Lesson includes:
-Starter activity exploring analytical verbs
-Fact sheet exploring the contextual factors that influenced the poem
Analysis worksheet with a series of questions to help students analyse the poem
Homework task
Updated (January 2024)
Lesson exploring Mr. Fezziwig.
Lesson includes:
1.Do Now retrieval activity
2. Questions to help students analyse Dickens’ characterisation of Mr Fezziwig
3. Non-fiction article ('3 Reasons Fezziwig is the Best Boss at Christmas and Always’) and discussion questions
4. Comparison activity (Scrooge and Fezziwig)
FIVE writing activities for AQA English Language Paper 2 Question 5. I’ve used the thought provoking work of artist Al Margen to act as a visual aid and help students write more creatively. I have also included questions for classroom discussions.
Detailed lesson for Q3 (structure). The lesson:
- looks at the differences between language and structural techniques
-gives students opportunities to identify structural techniques within a text
- includes a detailed flashcard with sentence stems and terminology for revision
-includes mark scheme
An introduction lesson into dystopian literature. Students will look at the similarities, differences and features of utopian and dystopian literature. The lesson includes discussion based activities to develop students’ critical thinking and analysis of the short story, ‘The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas’.
A series of detailed lessons focused on students creating their own theme park. Each lesson requires students to write for a different purpose or form (writing a review, pitch, leaflet). SPaG tasks are also included.
Lesson teaching students how to write a film review.
Lesson includes:
-homophone literacy task
-review activity for 'Black Panther'
- structure of a film review
-sentence starters/structure to help students write their review
Activity getting students to identify the persuasive techniques Martin Luther King Jr. uses in his 'I Have a Dream' speech. Two example PEE paragraphs are also included for students to compare.
An English Language Mat that students can use each time they want to tackle section A of the English Language Paper 2 paper. It breaks down each question into steps to help answer the questions successfully. It also lists techniques and connectives they can use to help with question 2-4.
Detailed lesson considering the role Mr Birling plays in the death of Eva Smith, making links with the context (working women in Edwardian Britain).
Lesson includes:
- AQA Question 1 (starter) and Question 4 (extension) revision tasks
- 'Explode' the quote activity
Five detailed starter activities that get students to blow up the language used in key quotations from 'Macbeth' and the 'Love and Relationship' poems.
Questions are given to aid analysis and interpretation of language. Extension tasks for each starter has also been provided. This requires students to write an essay response using the quotation, however only focusing on their weakest Assessment Objective (questions are also provided for this).
These activities can be completed individually, in pairs or in small groups.
Lesson looking at how Priestley introduces the Inspector to the play. Students will unpick key quotations and analyse the methods Priestley uses to present Inspector Goole. Questions are given to help students ‘Explode the Quote’ and an exam style question is provided.
An AQA Q5 writing task starter has also been included for revision.
Lesson looking at Atwood’s use of religious allusions in The Handmaid’s Tale. Lesson includes:
-series of questions for Chapter Four and Five
-group task involving students researching into the biblical references used in the novel
essay question
Detailed lesson for IGCSE looking at how to write a review. The lesson includes:
-spelling test
-compound adjectives activities
summary and true and false exam style questions
written task (review)
English Language Paper 2 exam, using the thought-provoking theme of valuing our time over factors such as social media and money.
FOUR detailed lessons are included that tackles each question individually. Example paragraphs, peer/self-assessment and success criteria are given to help break down the skills needed into manageable chunks.
Students will look at the main features of a news report. They will then use what they have learnt to create and perform their own.
The lesson includes:
-literacy tasks: spelling test, sentence structures and discourse markers
-5Ws questions
-stimulus (article) for their news report
-peer assessment worksheet
Detailed lesson looking at AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 3. The lesson includes:
-class structure game
-revision flashcard
-2 Jekyll and Hyde extracts (class work and homework) with guided questions