A lesson designed for older students, discussing the impact and effect of pornography.
Includes thought-provoking questions, group activities and plenty of opportunity for a frank and honest discussion of a complex topic.
A series of lessons following the novel Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick. Includes 9 ppt lessons focused on different sections of the novel, as well as activities for each.
A lesson on various interpretations and reviews of A Streetcar Named Desire. Created to teach the AQA Dramatic Encounters Unit on Power and Conflict.
7 reviews and interpretations of A Streetcar Named Desire, some contemporary, some from time of release.
Grid sheet for analysis
PowerPoint with entry task, example paragraph and plenary
A set of three lessons covering Paper 2 of Cambridge AS English Language 9093.
Includes activities, information and practice questions for both parts of Paper 2.
A lesson focusing on the character of Eddie in Blood Brothers and contextual information around social class.
Activities included:
Hierarchy grid
Match up activity
’Point, Evidence, Analysis’ planning grid
This lesson tasks students with writing a description of a beach scene. They must find appropriate adjectives to describe objects typically found there, before writing their descriptive piece.
Includes:
- Lesson plan with ideas for questioning, differentiation, AFL and challenge/extension tasks
- Adjective worksheets differentiated for higher, middle and lower ability students
- Writing frame worksheet to guide students in using adjectives correctly
This lesson was used in a year 7 class, but could also be applied to years 3-6.
A fun and exciting team exercise for any size classroom.
In groups, your students will find themselves stranded in a survival situation. Through good decision making (and lucky dice rolls) they must strive to survive!
This is designed as something of a role-playing and critical thinking challenge. Students will need to assess the situation each day and act accordingly in order to survive until they are rescued. The teacher can be an active participant, or simply manage as students work individually. Each group, and the teacher, will need either a physical six-sided die, or a digital die can be used.
This can be run as an entire class, or students can be split into groups of around 5.
If you use this, please let us know how it goes! We are open to tweaking the rules depending on feedback.
A lesson focusing on kingship and tyranny within Macbeth.
Includes:
Information
Comprehension questions
Extract annotation
Essay question with sample paragraph and success criteria
Extract for use with this question
A worksheet that guides students through the stanzas of the poem Poppies by Jane Weir.
Includes structural and language analysis, as well as a section for students to link quotes to key ideas and themes.
A lesson looking at the use of prose, iambic pentameter and trochaic tetrameter in Macbeth.
Includes:
Glossary
Description of each type of meter with examples
Four essay-style questions, with a writing frame and example paragraph
Worksheet to help students demonstrate understanding
This lesson was aimed at a mixed ability Year 10 class, but could be adapted for other purposes
A revision lesson, planned for a mixed ability year 11 class.
Includes:
- Starter activity
- Quote analysis sheet
- Paragraph writing task with success criteria and sample paragraph
Whole lesson introducing Jekyll and Hyde assuming no prior knowledge from students. Focuses on Victorian context and reasons for writing of the novel. Covers Darwinism and science, crime and science & technology.
A lesson focusing on persuasive writing. Students must decide whether they feel tattoos are suitable for the workplace and write a persuasive article about this.
Contents:
Entry Task
Video
Activities designed to lead students to form an opinion
Success criteria and self assessment
Plenary on real world applications
This lesson looks at the scene involving Hecate. It looks at language techniques, as well as some background contextual information and extract analysis.
The lesson also includes a planning phase for an essay question, which could be extended into a full essay response if required.
A lesson focusing on the concept of masculinity within Macbeth, particularly through the characters of Macbeth and Macduff
Includes:
Information on masculinity in the text
Questions to check understanding
Exam style question with sample paragraph
Extract on which the question is based
A lesson focusing on the analysis and writing of a persuasive leaflet. Includes a full modelled example, with the opportunity for self assessment following the writing activity.
They will learn to:
identify text type audience and purpose
use the acronym QTFORPRAISE which relates to persuasive techniques
develop ideas through scaffolded content
write their own response using the success criteria
This lesson applies to Language Paper 2, Section B
A full scheme of work, including 15 lessons that cover every chapter of Adeline Yen Mah’s Chinese Cinderella. The scheme comes with a post-reading vocabulary game.
Lesson 1 is available as a free download.