<p>This lesson takes students through how they can embed a quotation into a sentence when writing an essay paragraph. The lesson includes a Do Now activity, a link to a 5 min Embedding Quotes Youtube video to help students understand the importance of this skill, lesson activities, and more.</p>

<p>This lesson has been created to help English students of ages 11-16 to understand how to properly read an English literature passage in an exam in order to answer challenging, and tricky (often in terms of wording) questions.</p> <p>The text used for this lesson is ‘The Swiss Family Robinson’ – taken from a GL Assessment Paper.</p>

<p>This is a 6-page resource with lots of poetic terms, their meanings and clear examples aimed at supporting your students with poetry study.</p> <ol> <li>Form: Key Terms</li> <li>Structure: Key Terms</li> <li>Language: Key Terms</li> <li>Useful terms to use when analysing poetry</li> </ol>

<p>These <strong>2 lessons</strong> include a range of activities. It would be helpful for students to have completed the poems: <em>Kamikaze</em> by Beatrice Garland and <em>Not My Business</em> by Niyi Osundare. This is not essential.</p> <p><em><strong>Lesson 1</strong></em> is about students understanding the broad ideas in the poem Island Man in terms of imagery. Students will be introduced to the language device <em><strong>sibilance</strong></em> and the structural device <em><strong>volta</strong></em>. Students will be supported to write an essay paragraph before the end of the lesson.</p> <p><em><strong>Lesson 2</strong></em> Students will explore the idea of the poet’s* intention* behind writing the poem. This exposes them to one of the GCSE Assessment Objectives (AQA) - AO3: Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written.<br /> Again, students will be supported to analyse the poem in more detail and write an essay paragraph responding to the question</p> <p>Windrush Poems are important in the UK in 2023 and beyond to help students and people of all races and ethnicities on their journey to understand the ofiten harsh experiences, tiumph, and remarkable contributions arcoss British society.</p> <p>Hopefully, more teachers can incorporate these engaging &amp; educational lessons that focus on poetry analysis, literacy, history, empathy and more.</p>

<p>A contextual/background information lesson that focuses on helping students to understand Tragedy and Hamartia in Shakespeare’s <em>Othello.</em> Students are supported to write a short paragraph in the lesson about what the *Tragedy *genre is.</p> <p>TIP: Teachers should use the notes sections on slides to get more information.</p>

<p>These <strong>2 lessons</strong> include a range of activities.</p> <p><em><strong>Lesson 1</strong></em> is about students engaging with their ‘first impressions’ of the poem, and helping them gain a good understanding of what the Motherland was/is, and <em>how</em> West Indian people being asked to come to Britain would have had the Motherland presented to them.</p> <p><em><strong>Lesson 2</strong></em> supports students to analyse the poem in more detail and write an essay paragraph responding to the question: Q - How does the narrator feel in the poem ‘Call to the Motherland’?</p> <p>Windrush Poems are important in the UK in 2023 and beyond to help students and people of all races and ethnicities on their journey to understand the ofiten harsh experiences, tiumph, and remarkable contributions arcoss British society.</p> <p>Hopefully, more teachers can incorporate these engaging &amp; educational lessons that focus on poetry analysis, literacy, history, empathy and more.</p>

<p>This lesson was created to add some diversity to a scheme of work entitled ‘Myths &amp; Legends’ which mostly included Western Mythology.</p> <p>I wanted students to be exposed to ideas from other parts of the globe, so I created these fun, educational lesson. It has elements of Geography, History &amp; Literature.</p> <p>Please enjoy.</p>