<p>This SOW is a new one I have been using with Year 11s. We read the book last year and went over characters. This year we have been focusing on etxracts. We read through an extract every lesson, spend a lesson going over context, analysis and starting to explore the essay. The next lesson we continue with the analysis as a class and they start putting answers together.</p> <p>Covers a range of extracts and questions</p>

<p>These are the resources I used to create diverse display in my classroom.</p> <p>This display is catered to all the different minorities within our school community with books that reflect issues such as:</p> <ul> <li>LGBTQ+</li> <li>Mental Health</li> <li>Racism</li> <li>Disabilities</li> <li>Gender Inequality</li> <li>Suicide</li> </ul> <p>I wanted students to have a display that reflected them as both individuals and a collective.</p> <p>They key phrases are: see yourself in books and diversity is the only thing we have in common.</p>

<p>This lesson is an introduction to poetry for KS3 class.</p> <p>It focues on the meaning of poetry and poetic devices with a small practice poem at the end of the powerpoint to get them used to annotating and analysing poems.</p>

<p>This worksheet is perfect for planning out a description of a Gothic setting - can be used alone or in conjunction with multiple Gothic lessons.</p>

<p>A unit of work designed for KS3 on love poetry - this unit it designed to explore the darker aspects of love and other emotions we associate with love and not just joy.</p> <p>Including lessons on the following poems:</p> <ul> <li>Sonnet 18</li> <li>Valentine</li> <li>Havisham</li> <li>Advice to a Discarded Lover</li> </ul> <p>These are designed to have two lessons per poem with a mini-assessment on Sonnet 18 and a main assessmrnt on Advice to a Discarded Lover.</p> <p>My class really enjoyed looking at these poems!</p>

<p>This is a creative writing unit leading to a writing assessment inspired by Greek Myths.</p> <p>This covers myths such as:</p> <ul> <li>The creation story (all three)</li> <li>Pandora and Prometheus</li> <li>Lycaon, Deucalion and Pyrrha</li> <li>King Midas</li> <li>Echo and Narcissus</li> <li>Medusa</li> <li>Theseus and the Minotaur</li> </ul> <p>This also covers topics such as:</p> <ul> <li>Creative writing techniques</li> <li>Heroes</li> <li>Villains</li> <li>Setting a story</li> <li>Writing a myth</li> <li>Planning</li> <li>Assessment</li> </ul> <p>A comprehensive unit of work that was enjoyed by a year eight group last year. Any of the writing tasks can be used as a formative or mini-assessment should it be required.</p>

<p>This is a double lesson analysing Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare.</p> <p>This introduced pupils to the theme of love poetry through the traditional form of a sonnet.</p> <p>There are multiple tasks leading into a paragraph writing task at the end intended to be used for a mini-assessment.</p>

<p>AQA English Language Paper 2 June 2022 (Camping) In Class Moderation.</p> <p>In this resource, I have put together some moderation for classwork to be done as an DIRT lesson after a mock/assessment on the June 2022 Language Paper 2 Section A.</p> <p>This contains four model answers for each question (2-4) with a mark scheme for pupils to use and annotation tasks to follow.</p>

<p>I created this short sequence of lessons to go alongside the Gothic unit for KS3 (we study in year eight). A lot of the stories we were studying were traditional Gothic: Frankenstein, Dracula, The Monkey’s Paw e.c.t</p> <p>I had a lower ability set and wanted to make some lessons that appealed to their interests and the books we could provide in the library.</p> <p>This contains:</p> <ul> <li>An Introduction lesson - this covers: what children’s Gothic is and why it’s a popular genre with some trailers to watch.</li> <li>The witches by Roald Dhal</li> <li>The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman</li> <li>Goosebumps by R. L. Stine</li> <li>Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy</li> </ul>

<p>This SOW if designed for year sevens but could be adapted for KS2 or even used with year eight lower ability groups.</p> <p>This is a SOW designed to last over a term with both a reading and writing assessment. This is all about teaching key skills and vocabulary and setting pupils up for the year.</p>

<p>This is a knowledge organiser for the novel Noughts and Crosses.</p> <p>It contains information on the plot, chracters, context and key words that link to the novel. There is also subject terminology and an example paragraph written in the style of a GCSE answer.</p> <p>This would be appropriate for either KS3 or KS4.</p>

<p>This is a context lesson focusing on gender in Elizabethan England.</p> <p>This is two lessons in one.</p> <p>The first focuses on gender and stereotypes. It covers qualities expected in men and women in contemporary times and then what would be expected in Elizabethan times.</p> <p>The next lesson focuses on the specifics for gender in Elizabethan times focusing on what it was like to be a woman.</p> <p>There is an information and worksheet attached at the end of the powerpoint - this has information to highlight and questions to answer based on the information.</p> <p>There is also a task to focus on the differences between lower and upper class woman at the time.</p> <p>There are two youtube links - one to traditional elizabethan music for entry to the classroom and the other to a video that tells us what life was like for an Elizabethan woman.</p>

<p>This descriptive writing strip is useful to help guide students in their planning and writing of descriptions.</p> <p>On one side, there are prompts for what each paragraph should be about. e.g. the mood/atmosphere or zoom in on a specific detail.</p> <p>On the other side, there is specific success criteria to ensure that their descriptions are engaging. It pinpoints sentence starters to use and language techniques.</p>

<p>This unit is aimed at KS3 (I use this with my year sevens to introuduce them to non-fiction writing.</p> <p>Each topic has multiple lessons with a mini-assessment on letter writing and a assessment on speeches. (I gave my pupils a choice of speech topics, we created five as a class that they could chose from with topics such as: should woman footballs be paid the same as men? Are school uniforms a positive influence on students?)</p> <p>The major topics are:</p> <ul> <li>Introduction to non-fiction writing</li> <li>Bristol Bus Boycott - Letter Writing</li> <li>Speeches</li> <li>Travel Writing</li> </ul>

<p>This is a collection of rainbow book covers to be used for display purposes.</p> <p>They can be used in a variety of ways to liven up the classroom.</p> <p>This can be used in multiple ways: I currently have this as bunting in my classroom and it’s being used as a frame for the window of our office. It can be used as a single display also.</p>

<p>This is a rainbow analysis worksheet I have made to aid pupils with analysising quotations in detail.</p> <p>(I did not make this concept up, just made my own resource)</p> <p>This contains:</p> <ul> <li>Instructions for using the worksheet on a slide.</li> <li>Two examples from GCSE poetry.</li> <li>A blank woksheet.</li> </ul> <p>This challenges pupils to think about how to analyse effectively - they have to pull apart the quotation to analyse as much as they possibly can in the seven different sections. An effective aid for GCSE students in preparation for exams.</p>

<p>My first scheme of work on Macbeth - this focuses on key extracts from Lady Macbeth and is adaptable for a higher or lower set.</p>

<p>Here are some posters perfect for the classroom to display the different English exams and specification.</p> <p>There are posters for</p> <ul> <li>English Literature Paper 1</li> <li>English Literature Paper 2</li> <li>English Language PAper 1</li> <li>English Language Paper 2</li> </ul> <p>Each poster contains the questions, texts, time recommended to spend and marks available. A great teaching aid.</p> <p>I have also used these in books during introduction to topic lessons for pupils to tick off when we have completed part of a paper.</p>

<p>A scavenger hunt activity to revise the DAFOREST techniques.</p> <p>This would work well with KS3 or low ability KS4.</p> <p>All examples, rules and timers are already on the slides.</p>

<p>This is a new approach I am taking with homework this year to encourage pupils to be more independent with their learning.</p> <p>These task are about building a knowledge in a specific genre of text.</p> <p>Pupils pick a task in week one and follow the grid across week by week . Te end result will be the creation of a short story in a specific genre across a seven week half term.</p> <p>It covers:</p> <ul> <li>Horror</li> <li>Gothic</li> <li>Dystopian</li> <li>Crime</li> </ul> <p>I have created this for a low ability year ten class but this would work with any KS3 class.</p>

<p>A lesson about intersectionality taught on a drop down diversity day.</p> <p>This could be taught as part of RSHE curriculum.</p> <p>This focuses on builds our identity and the different parts of our identity that can lead o discrimination. There are examples provided.</p> <p>The main task is for students to build there own identity during the lesson.</p>