Designed to teach Wilfred Owen's Anthem For Doomed Youth and Seigfried Sassoon's Attack, this bundle is full of structured 4 or 5 part lessons with differentiated outcomes and activities, varied to keep every student engaged and challenged, making excellent progress. Whether analysing these poems for CIE iGCSE Songs of Ourselves, Unseen Poetry or WW1 Poetry, they are accessible for KS3 and KS4 and lead to structured and scaffolded essay responses suitable for exam preparation or coursework. It includes a whole lesson contextualising WW1 and analysing the language of recruitment posters persuading soldiers to enlist. This is a great way to have students thinking critically and engaged from the first moment! The following lesson goes on to challenge students to compete to read and answer questions on the two poets through their biographies. This is a really fun strategy to get them reading and can get really competitive! Students have never failed to empathise with these two soldier-poets who wrote about their experiences on the front line and the reflection afterwards has created some very rewarding responses. The next lesson is a full lesson of analysis in the form of a snooker game. Students will be active, working independently and pushing themselves, but won't even notice how much hard work they're doing! All you have to do is sit back and check their answers as they bring them up! This lesson has always gone down so well with the students and I achieved an Outstanding in a lesson observation with it too: I'm really excited to pass it on to you! Finally, I have included an example of a student's war poetry essay for iGCSE (on two different poems) so students can see a modelled example of how to structure their responses and get to act as the teacher and mark an anonymous piece of coursework. Everything you need to study these poets and poems is here in one place. Enjoy!

A range of questions including ideas about content, structure, language, vocabulary, quotations, creating similes, sentence types, punctuation and more, all related to creative writing and fiction. There are 2 questions regarding the Paper 2 of the Cambridge English Checkpoint, but these can be changed to suit your exam board/curriculum. After students complete this activity, I chose 10 questions to quiz the students on to check they were paying attention! Enjoy!

A complete set of resources and a carousel lesson to accompany the poem which is featured in the iGCSE Songs of Ourselves Poetry Anthology. Starters, plenaries, background information, language analysis, imagery, outcomes, essay question, peer-analysis and essay structuring: everything you could need.

I had a whole stack of newspapers in my classroom which the cleaners were threatening to throw away and an end of term lesson with my year 7 students. I put together this selection of the games we played to get students engaged with this text type (which lots of them said they rarely, if ever, saw at home). Most are set up as team building challenges, but there are several which would make great independent activities as a starter for a lesson involving or analysing newspapers. There are artistic, kinesthetic and, of course, literacy- based challenges suitable for a variety of ages and abilities. Nothing that isn't fun! Very few materials are required for these activities apart from the newspapers: sticky tape, any scrap materials, marker pens, A3 paper and glue would cover every challenge and most can be done with nothing more than a pen. Enjoy!

15 different resources to teach the events, structure, imagery and characterisation in chapters 4, 5 and 6 of Mildred D Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry including a mid-point assessment in the form of an essay on the character of Cassie Logan. The assessment includes a blank essay template with prompts as well as a completed one and an essay built from that template as a model for your students. My students loved Roll of Thunder and enjoyed Cassie as a character. I hope yours do to.

Tonnes of activities, games, quizzes, a worksheet on themes, a Poem in a Box revision resource making activity and flashcards to be completed by students, a PowerPoint on structuring essay responses and closely analysing language, essay sentences to scaffold responses, vocabulary for playing games like Go Fish or Give Me A Clue or Pictionary. This should keep exam revision interesting and help students stay engaged and focused in these last few weeks.

Hi! I know how much hard work it is teaching a novel. I’m here to do it all for you. Just download this and teach. Everything you need is provided. It has been sdesigned to support GCSE students, though it could easily be adapted for A level. Three complete lessons with foolproof PowerPoints for lesson including titles, dates, objectives, starters, mark scheme analysis, paragraph structure support, character analysis, language analsysis sheets, comprehension and analysis questions for every paragraph of the story which is displayed alongside the questions. Where answers are provided, they aim to stretch and challenge the answers given by students. Two or more plenaries are provided for each lesson. Links to useful online videos, articles, historical background and more are linked within the lessons for students, but I have also provided you with a “cheat sheet” of all the useful links in one document. This could also become a webquest for students or a revision document. I have also provided revision documents in the form of quotations for the first chapter’s themes. If you like this resource, please save some cash and buy the bundle! There’ll be a lot of resources for all 19 chapters!

This is everything you need to start teaching immediately! No books yet? No problem. It’s all on the slides! These resources are designed to guide students through their first reading of Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease (1960). Each PowerPoint has a complete lesson, from starter to plenary including every word from the chapter displayed, key vocabulary and definitions displayed and questions on langugae, character, relationships, context and theme asked and answers animated to pop up after each slide. The useful links provided will help you as a teacher and they make excellent G&T or flipped learning webquests to give to students for homework. Useful quotes on our main character, Obi, have been provided, ready for students to add to them as they read the further chapters. I have also included two games/activities to build students’ vocabulary and language analysis skills. Wherever an activity has more than one method of facilitation, I have added notes to the PowerPoint suggesting how it could be completed for different groups. After the comprehension questions, each lesson has 10 slides of structured essay writing guidance designed to support students tackle the question, plan their response, and structure analytical paragraphs. The student-friendly iGCSE mark scheme comes last along with peer/self-marking instructions. COMPETITION TIME!* I haven’t yet decided on my next SOW to make. If you have a request, please send me a brief message explaining what you would want. If I choose yours, I’ll pass the resources on to the first person who suggested it for FREEEEEEEE!!! No purchase necessary :)

A complete lesson on chapter 6 of No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe. This lesson has sentence level analysis for students to complete as well as starter, timeline, questions on each passage from chapter 6, practice for essay writing with mark scheme and plenary. Just project and go!

The fourth part of the complete SOW for No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe. These are the resources for at least two complete lessons including homework/revision, starters, context, a major focus on vocabulary with several fun and engaging activities to let students practice using them, sentence level analysis games and activities, every word of the novel with questions and answers for each paragraph, a focus on Obi as a tragic hero, essay writing scaffolding which breaks down how to analyse the question, plan a response and structure a paragraph with sentence starters and a student-friendly mark scheme. Nothing YOU have to do except print the worksheets to support weaker students if applicable, and then project the presentations. Next lesson is an assessment essay on Obi!

A full lesson on chapter 7 of No Longer at Ease. The lesson objective is about themes in the novel as a whole and the starter, questions for each passage and main lesson activity all relate back to the themes. Don’t worry! Lots of my students need a little reminder of what themes actually are too, so there’s an interactive game to play at the beginning as well. Enjoy!

Lucky for some! Part 13 focuses on structural and language features as well as analysing the two poems included in this chapter. I have included these two poems on a separate worksheet. This could be blown up to A3 for group work or each student could write their own notes on this A4 version. The lesson begins with a game of structural/language features. The questions relate the language and structure to the themes of the novel and the development activity asks students to find quotations to find support for the points being made abut language and structure in chapter 10. The students could then pick one or two P+E to turn into full paragraphs. Enjoy!

This complete lesson is focused on Achebe’s use of intertextuality in No Longer at Ease. The usual guided reading questions are provided after a starter on different text types and then the development activity is to finish writing a paragraph about Obi’s references to other literature or sayings which I have started for them. Enjoy!

This lesson is a revision focused lesson apart from a guided reading of chapter 11 of No Longer at Ease. The starter is a game of Taboo to help students revise key character names. After the usual guided reading with questions, students are asked to come up with their own questions on NLAE. These progress in difficulty, At the end of the lesson, swap each team’s questions (make sure you’ve kept a strict eye on the questions they come up with so they are easy enough to answer in a couple of sentences) and then each group will compete to answer all the questions and get to the finish first. This puts all of the effort on to the students and you will be able to just stamp their answers as you check them. Enjoy!

This complete lesson on chapter 14 of No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe focuses on closely analysing quotations from the text. There is a modeled example of close language analysis.I have also included links to the TED talk and an accompanying pdf transcript by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on The Danger of a Single Story of Africa. Her talk closely mirrors some of Achebe’s themes and an interesting “conversation” between the tauthors wo could be imagined and/or hotseated if you have time.

This lesson focuses on the changing relationship between Clara and Obi. There is a highly scaffolded diary entry to be completed by students if necessary as well as group work with roles provided in addition to the usual complete lesson from starter, guided reading of chapter 9, development activity and plenary. Enjoy!

A complete lesson on chapter 9 of Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease. There is a wordsearch with suggested differentiated options of how to offer it to students. The words should be challenging to every student. The next lesson will include a spelling test on some of these words - so there’s the students’ homework :).

A complete lesson on chapter 13 of Achebe’s No Longer at Ease with focus on language analysis and a passage question on duality in Obi represented through his mother and father. I have included the language devices match starter on a worksheet (2 per A4 page) so you can easily print it and get the lesson off to a focused start. Enjoy!

This lesson asks students to reflect on their knowledge of the book so far through a quick game of Blockbusters in the starter, then by returning to their chapter charts (a printable version is included here) to reflect on the points in the novel where they felt sympathy for Obi and some other parts where they lost sympathy. Students will need some understanding of abortion laws in Nigeria, so I’ve included a link to wikipedia. Obviously this is a sensitive subject and you may want to spend more time on the feelings behind this decision and the students’ sympathies . Students are asked to recall the parts of a literature paragraph to prepare themselves for the end of lesson assessment. The guided reading for chapter 16 comes next with the usual questions. Before students start writing their paragraphs, they can read the example paragraph based on chapter 16 and give it a PIT stop. There is a mark scheme and colour-coding self-reflection plenary at the end. Enjoy!