A lesson and resources to revise the key imagery and context of the poem ‘Storm on the Island’ by Seamus Heaney, in preparation for AQA Lit Paper 2, Section B - Power and Conflict anthology.
Ppt is designed for LA and post-study of the poem.
Very simply, yet clear. Have used before as basis for a display. Have also used in class, as basis for revision, for pupil’s to add everything they know or can remember about them and their role in the story.
A post-study lesson exploring the idea of censorship.
LO: To reflect on the writer’s intentions and the context of the book’s publication
The lesson explores both how censorship is presented IN Animal Farm as well as issues relating to censorship OF Animal Farm, recognising Orwell’s difficulty in getting the novella published.
A series of four lessons exploring the context, key themes and plot summary of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol for a ‘eyes wide open’ approach to teaching the novella.
3 lessons aimed at LA pupils to explore the presentation of characters.
Included are:
Birling
Sheila
Gerald
Watch this space for resources on the other characters.
Each ‘lesson’ consists of:
true/false starter activity
vocab match up task (adjectives used to describe the respective characters, to ensure understanding e.g: words like, ‘insightful’; ‘assertive’; 'responsible; ‘arrogant’ etc.)
quotation wheel activity: a blank wheel with just the adjectives on (to print A3), with a list of quotations for pupils to cut up and stick in the correct segment of the wheel. Then to add notes to the quotations.
What/How/Why template to put info from the wheel into paragraphs.
A lesson introducing the device of ‘pathos’, with suitable tasks scaffolded for pupils to go from ‘understand’ -> ‘identify’ -> ‘apply’.
This lesson has been personally used for KS3, and lower ability KS4.
Article writing task on the topic of Boxing. Perfect for AQA Language Paper 2, Q5 practice.
This ppt includes lots of ideas and information for pupils to read and make notes on before formulating a viewpoint for themselves and presenting in the form of a broadsheet newspaper.
This ppt does NOT overly go over article features. This lesson is best suited as a lesson to apply and demonstrate what they have learned about article features. Alternately, this could be used as baseline assessment, prior to teaching article features.