<p>Poem analysis lesson on Langston Hughes’ poem ‘Mother to Son’ focused on language analysis and reading comprehension.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Differentiated for EAL learners, SEND, and includes a challenge prompt.</p> <p>This lesson successfully secured me my first teaching job during the interview day for the English teacher position.</p>

<p>Creatively designed Scheme of Work containing context, themes, mid-point assessment, reading &amp; writing lessons, character analysis, and GCSE Lit Paper 2 Thematic Response-based final lesson.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>This scheme is geared toward a top set/high-performing Year 9 class, but can be taught at varying levels and easily altered.</p>

<p><strong>Novel opening</strong> lesson containing a language analysis focus, using the opening to Suzanne Collins’ ‘Hunger Games’.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>This lesson is particularly successful with Key Stage 3/early Key Stage 4.</p> <p>Lesson is differentiated through scaffolding, multimodal stimulus, and can be taught up or down the skill set of your class.</p> <p>This lesson is also fantastic to use as an interview lesson, as I was given a successful job offer from teaching this lesson.</p>