<p>Y7 to Y11 - creative writing. I enjoy teaching this lesson across all year groups and have a massive pile of paint colour charts that ‘stole’ from the wallpaper shop to help create new and interesting colours. I really spend time with them during this lesson by slowing the pace down and zooming in on the image to ignite their imagination again … I don’t let them move through the creation of their description quickly, always upleveling their ideas. Getting them to write extended sentences about the simplest of things, like a pebble, in new and interesting ways, ways that they haven’t before is the aim.</p>

<p>This is an Unseen Poetry Anthology - poets are ranging from William Blake to Wilfred Owen, and Dorothy Parker to Jo Shapcott. Poems are from the cannon and heritage and modern. All will help to provide your GCSE class with a range of peoms to analyse as practise for the unseen section. All you need to do is create the question.</p>

<p>This structure, for approaching the whole text, has worked really well for me from Y9 upwards into Y12.<br /> It really helps pupils with approaching whole text ideas and thinking about how to tackle themes/characters across a text, not just isolated in one place. It is a simple structure that can be tackled in sections and developed in depth as the pupil’s confidence grows and their links become stronger. It has never failed me.</p>

<p>A great active revision lesson. I print the mat on A3 and guide the pupils through as they fill in the images. Some use colour and draw, while most tend to just write and be neat with lots of annotations - it’s good to see busy mats! The lesson covers the locations Shakespeare uses in the play and a discussion about the recap of the play time frame… it is a good prompt lesson as you approach mocks or are close to GCSE. Also, for pushing up (MA pupils) there is a slide at the end about how Aristole uses time and this prompts a discussion with how Shakespeare as applied this. Easy lesson, great lesson - definitely a top up to what is learnt with a new approach with the ‘learning mat’ - never too old for filling in pictures!</p>

<p>I use this lesson to teach the semi colon in impact writing. It is a step by step lesson with a focus on writing with impact (an emotional monologue). Pupils think about crafting their language and selecting sentences for the right intentions. Y9 to Y11. This lesson can take a couple of lessons as they build work banks and ensure they have met their success criteria. Some of my pupils have performed their monologues too. I have also bounced this off the back of R&amp;J in the past too.</p>

<p>I created this for my GCSE class as they prepared for their mocks - sometimes it is good to just get everything in one place. It aims to fill in the gaps as they plan their revision / tick box once done (understood/complete): content, context and some method. On the second side their is an exam question and some links to YT and extra revision sites. Word doc attached for your edit as appropriate.<br /> AQA PAPER 1 LITERATURE</p>

<p>Pupils can build their own glossary as they learn keywords linked to Orwell’s ANIMAL FARM.</p>

<p>A basic resource for recapping the basic devices. Find example. Learn …<br /> LA…<br /> Lower school…</p>