<p>Lesson PowerPoint exploring the theme of Kindness through the character of Summer in Part Three of R. J. Palacio’s novel ‘Wonder’. Resource also includes a scaffold for students to write an analytical paragraph and a peer assessment activity for evaluating their analytical responses. An extension or homework worksheet broadens students’ exploration of characters as representations of themes in ‘Wonder’. Suitable for Years 7-9 English.</p>

Some challenging imaginative writing tasks inspired by William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'. The focus of the initial writing tasks is on using colour, imagery and symbolism with a view to improving creative writing skills in subsequent extended, imaginative responses.

Whole lesson PowerPoint presentations with relevant worksheets focusing on Act 2 of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. Particular emphasis on themes and how they are represented through language and dramatic techniques, building towards PEEEL analytical paragraph writing.

This PowerPoint presentation and accompanying student worksheet offers a close analysis of language and poetic techniques in Wilfred Owen's 'The Next War'. We studied this poem after exploring five others, so the final activity encourages students to make links, utilising the higher order thinking skill of synthesis. Designed for students undertaking the HSC Standard English course.

This PowerPoint will guide students of Owen's poetry through the challenging poem, 'Insensibility'. The opening slides encourage discussion about the context and ideas behind the text. The latter half of the presentation offers some close deconstruction of language and techniques. A glossary of challenging language in the poem is also included.

A comparative unit exploring the concept of Masculinity in Arthur Miller's play 'A View from the Bridge' and Ron Howard's film 'Cinderella Man'. <br /> This upload contains a large PowerPoint presentation with chronological contextual and textual information, a variety of tasks and paragraph / essay writing practice and models. A viewing log for 'Cinderella Man', a table for comparing the texts' ideas and an essay scaffold are also included. <br /> I taught this to a low-ability Year 11 class (Australia) and they really enjoyed the unit. This would also be ideal for teaching in an all boys' school.

A sample essay in response to the question 'How does William Golding show evil at work in Lord of the Flies?'. Useful as a model and/or for critical deconstruction against specific assessment criteria in class.

Embed short imaginative writing activities into lessons using the PowerPoint attached. <br /> After a recap of some of the devices examiners are looking for in students' creative, descriptive or imaginative writing, the PowerPoint contains a number of short, timed activities for students to undertake. Some activities have examples of students' attempts for the class to deconstruct. <br /> PowerPoint also contains some examples from the master of description - Charles Dickens! <br /> I encourage students to handwrite the mini creatives and keep them in one place, so that they can be used as inspiration and developed into a full narrative later. <br /> Most suitable for students in Year 9 and above.

A presentation with activities and techniques table for junior high school students to review simple poetic techniques. Useful as an introductory lesson or two within a poetry unit of work. After students have revised and defined techniques, they have the opportunity to write their own similes, metaphors and personification to demonstrate understanding.