Mametz Wood, Owen Sheers GCSE English Literature: Poetry Analysis Includes: context, language analysis, comprehension tasks

GCSE LITERATURE: POETRY ANALYSIS context of Rupert Brooke’s The Soldier key vocabulary Annotation prompt Comprehension questions Comparative Discussion task Analytical writing task (scaffolded)

Cozy Apologia by Rita Dove Includes: context, analysis, writing task Scaffolded for mixed ability & dual-coded for EAL learners

Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen Includes: context, analysis, comprehension & writing task Scaffolded & dual coded

The Manhunt, Simon Armitage GCSE English Literature - Poetry Analysis Includes: context, language analysis, video interview, comprehension questions, writing task

GCSE Literature: Poetry Includes: silent recall starter; context of poem & poet; full text of the poem with annotation prompt; comprehension/analytical questions; analytical writing prompt (scaffolded & dual coded)

GCSE Literature - Poetry She Walks in Beauty, Lord Byron Includes: silent recall starter; context; poem annotation task; analysis questions dual coded and scaffolded resource

GCSE LITERATURE: Poetry Includes: context of poet/poem; key information; poem annotation; full text of the poem; writing prompt for analysis scaffolded & dual coded

GCSE Poetry Analysis Models I DO, WE DO, YOU DO 4 stage strategy to writing about a poem

GCSE Poetry Comparison lesson: Comparison strategy Comparative language resource Scaffolded model answer Assessment question Feedback Models

Poem analysis lesson on Langston Hughes’ poem ‘Mother to Son’ focused on language analysis and reading comprehension. Lesson includes: silent starter/Do Now activity, visual stimulus, learning objectives, the full text of the poem, full language analysis of the poem, creative writing mini activity to serve as plenary. Differentiated for EAL learners, SEND, and includes a challenge prompt. This lesson successfully secured me my first teaching job during the interview day for the English teacher position.

Creatively designed Scheme of Work containing context, themes, mid-point assessment, reading & writing lessons, character analysis, and GCSE Lit Paper 2 Thematic Response-based final lesson. This scheme contains roughly 14 lessons, beginning with Chapter 3 of Animal Farm. These lessons serve both the reading and writing National Curriculum links for Key Stage 3. This scheme is geared toward a top set/high-performing Year 9 class, but can be taught at varying levels and easily altered.

Novel opening: lesson containing a language analysis focus, using the opening to Suzanne Collins’ ‘Hunger Games’. Contains: silent starter/Do Now activity, visual stimulus, extract from the novel’s opening, instructions for annotation exercise, and a creative activity in which students create a graphic novel spread of the opening lines, and a plenary discussion. This lesson is particularly successful with Key Stage 3/early Key Stage 4. Lesson is differentiated through scaffolding, multimodal stimulus, and can be taught up or down the skill set of your class. This lesson is also fantastic to use as an interview lesson, as I was given a successful job offer from teaching this lesson.