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

This lesson is an introduction to poetry for KS3 class. 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.

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. Including lessons on the following poems: Sonnet 18 Valentine Havisham Advice to a Discarded Lover 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. My class really enjoyed looking at these poems!

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

This is a rainbow analysis worksheet I have made to aid pupils with analysising quotations in detail. (I did not make this concept up, just made my own resource) This contains: Instructions for using the worksheet on a slide. Two examples from GCSE poetry. A blank woksheet. 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.

AQA English Language Paper 2 June 2022 (Camping) In Class Moderation. 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. This contains four model answers for each question (2-4) with a mark scheme for pupils to use and annotation tasks to follow.

I created this scheme of work for Cell 7 by Kerry Drewery. This is a full sow on one Powerpoint. It focuses on the genre of dystopia and how similar this reality is to our own with contextual lesson before studying the text.

This is a context lesson focusing on gender in Elizabethan England. This is two lessons in one. 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. The next lesson focuses on the specifics for gender in Elizabethan times focusing on what it was like to be a woman. 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. There is also a task to focus on the differences between lower and upper class woman at the time. 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.

This is a letter writing lesson based on Noughts and Crosses. It contains analysis of a letter, a planning sheet and a lesson for writing a letter based on events in noughts and Crosses. The task is to write a letter to the judge that sentences Callum’s dad to plead his innocence.

This is two lessons I have done with KS3 to introduce them to comparing poetry. One lesson on Not my Business and the other on First they came - this lesson focuses on how to compare the two poems.

This is a create your own timeline for Romeo and Juliet using stills from Baz Luhrmann’s film. There is a slide with the pictures in the correct order and instructions. A slide with the pictures to print and a word document with a summary of the play that can be used to add information.

This is a very short introduction lesson to the Baz Luhrmann film and discussion on how/why adaptations of the film are so popular. This goes over the images of the film - how/why it has been set this way. This works as a short introduction before watching the film (as some students are put off by this adaptation).

This is a lesson to introduce KS3 students to the language of Shakespeare. It covers the prologue and has tasks that include: Identifying rhyme scheme Understanding iambic pentameter Translating into modern english

This is a simple worksheet for pupils to fill in and decorate with a small story or poetry. I used this with a year seven class to write up a potion poem.

This is an assessment preparation and assessment I used with my year seven class. It leads to a descriptive writing task based on a picture stimulus.

This is a creative writing unit leading to a writing assessment inspired by Greek Myths. This covers myths such as: The creation story (all three) Pandora and Prometheus Lycaon, Deucalion and Pyrrha King Midas Echo and Narcissus Medusa Theseus and the Minotaur This also covers topics such as: Creative writing techniques Heroes Villains Setting a story Writing a myth Planning Assessment 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.

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

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 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. This contains: An Introduction lesson - this covers: what children’s Gothic is and why it’s a popular genre with some trailers to watch. The witches by Roald Dhal The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Goosebumps by R. L. Stine Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

This unit is aimed at KS3 (I use this with my year sevens to introuduce them to non-fiction writing. 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?) The major topics are: Introduction to non-fiction writing Bristol Bus Boycott - Letter Writing Speeches Travel Writing

This SOW if designed for year sevens but could be adapted for KS2 or even used with year eight lower ability groups. 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.

This is a collection of rainbow book covers to be used for display purposes. They can be used in a variety of ways to liven up the classroom. 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.