Romeo and Juliet KS3/GCSE carousel activity for pupils. This resource doesn't include the full lesson. Available altogether in my shop in another resource. Includes all 8 posters describing the roles in the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, and A3 sheet for pupils to write reasons and give a rating out of 10. Both PDF and original publisher files included for ease of use.

Carousel activity with A3 sheets, posters for around the room and PPT all included with PDF and publisher files for ease of use and so you can adapt these. Speaking and listening activity for Y8, can be differentiated up or down. Objective: To explain who is to blame for the tragic events of Romeo and Juliet. Outcomes: To present my reasons to the class for a speaking and listening activity. Literacy objective: Doubling the consonant shortens the vowel sound. E.g. Bate – batting, Ripe - ripping Starter: Pupils write down phrases to do with Romeo and Juliet in a Venn diagram, this will help them with their speaking and listening paragraph later on in the lesson. At least 5 phrases for both Romeo and Juliet. Then pupils use their A3 sheets to go in pairs around the room and take notes and give a rating out of 10 to how much they feel the character is to blame for the death of Romeo and Juliet. 1) Romeo, 2) Juliet, 3) The Montagues, 4) The Capulets, 5) Friar Lawrence, 6) The Nurse, 7) Mercutio, 8) Tybalt. A3 sheet is included in PDF and publisher file. 4 minutes on each station. Pupils then write a paragraph (sentence starters included and challenge activity - ambitious vocabulary) explaining their reasons why they feel one character is the most to blame. Using A3 sheet to help. Carousel posters around the room give reasons and questions afterward to encourage pupils to think for themselves. Then pupils, in register order, must read out their paragraphs one by on for the speaking and listening activity. (Challenge - adopt a serious tone, like you are trying to convince a jury). Then class together says who they think is to blame, and two pupils help to create a tally chart on the board to present our final verdict on who is the most to blame. Plenary to put a post it describing their view of the play on the board, 1-10, 1 being 'tragic', 10 being 'exciting'. Then they can explain their verdict. This can be stretched over two lessons or one, depending on length of time pupils have in class and ability.

Objective: To investigate how Shakespeare builds tension using dramatic techniques. Outcomes: To evaluate the effect of the dramatic techniques in Act 3, Scene 1. Literacy objective: Doubling the consonant shortens the vowel sound. E.g. Bate – batting, Ripe - ripping This lesson included some PRT (pupil response time) at the start aka purple pen, so they could make some corrections - took 5/10 minutes off the lesson. Starter - pathetic fallacy key terminology - what kind of a mood do these images create. 6 images on the board. Challenge - what kind of a mood was Act 2, Scene 6 (marriage). Recap of the scene before watching the clip from the Baz Luhrmann DVD. After watching the clip (DVD - not included) then discussion to talk about the tension created within the scene and linking to pathetic fallacy. How, when Mercutio falls, the storm comes. Then pupils in groups or pairs, use a card sort activity (included) going through the quotes and plotting when the dialogue was said, and whether or not it increased or decreased tension. Time/Tension graph - linking to numeracy within the curriculum. Discussion when finished, plotting the time over tension graph on the board with key quotes. Then pupils for their independent 10 time choose a quote from the graph that is of high or low tension and they then explode this quote in their books. AO3 context challenge. Model explode-a-quote is included. Plenary for pupils to create a series of text messages between Benvolio, Mercutio, Tybalt and Romeo about the happenings of Act 3, Scene 1. For A3 tension over time graph, there is one illustrated on the PPT and I just drew this out onto A3 paper.

Objective: To analyse how Shakespeare uses imagery to convey Romeo and Juliet’s relationship. Outcomes: To explain how Shakespeare uses language to create visual effects for the reader. Literacy objective: When a word ends in ‘e’, you must always remove it when adding ‘-ing’. Lesson starts with a literacy starter, using the -ing variation of a word. Hate and Love - bringing in the themes of the play. Starter: Label the images on the board from 1-6 with images you most associate with love at the top, least associated at the bottom. Extension to stretch and challenge. Pupils then watch Romeo's Soliloquy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3MiaSG1SMQ (BBC version) and record on their post it any words Romeo uses to describe Juliet. AO3 context challenge. Then go through Romeo's soliloquy and key words: Soliloquy and Imagery. Can anyone add to the post it as I read through - how does he describe Juliet - what does he compare her to? Then group work to analyse the imagery and language used by Shakespeare - soliloquy split into large A3 sheets for the pupils to annotate. Can use coloured pens to check progress of each pupil. AO3 context challenge. Completely annotated soliloquy for the pupils to add to their notes with class discussion to go through step-by-step. Then two model responses and pupils pick three differences - modelling. AO reminders before their response for the day. Response - How does Shakespeare use imagery to convey Romeo's love for Juliet? Success criteria AO1 and AO2 - with AO3 context challenge. Sentence starters for support. Self-assessment for the pupils to identify their own strengths and weaknesses. Plenary to pick an appropriate emoji to illustrate - pick top three.

Objective: To investigate evidence which explores the characters of the Nurse and Friar Lawrence. Outcomes: To compare and contrast the attitudes of the Nurse and Friar Lawrence in Act 2. Literacy objective: When a word ends in ‘e’, you must always remove it when adding ‘-ing’. Starter: Task: Write a sentence to compare these two pictures using a comparative or contrasting conjunction. Use the word bank below to help you. Elephant and a mouse with comparative connectives to help. Comparing and orange and an apple. Going over the main plot of Friar Lawrence and the Nurse within Romeo and Juliet. Key terminology: Foreshadowing. Think pair share activity on an A3 sheet to help compare and contrast the attitudes of Friar Lawrence and the Nurse. Using comparative connectives. Venn diagram to compare and contrast different adjectives which might apply to FL or N. Main task: To compare and contrast the attitudes on an A3 sheet. Models with analysis for a response for Friar Lawrence and the Nurse. Evidence and then exploding the quote. Then comparing whether it is similar or different. AO3 context challenge. Assessment objectives to go over how they should respond. Task to compare and contrast by writing a paragraph - success criteria with AO1, AO2 and AO3 context challenge. Half way through their independent 10 - stop - and read the model response from the teacher to see if they can improve their answer. Post it plenary to put their post it on the 1-10 scale either 1 its tragic or 10 its exciting. Then discuss how they feel about the play so far.

Group work sheets in original publisher and PDF files. Used to analyse and explode quotes within Romeo's Soliloquy in Act 1, Scene 5.

Objective: To investigate the language used by Romeo in Act I, Scene 5. Outcomes: To respond to a question about the language used which reveals his feelings for Juliet. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet lesson - Act 1, Scene 5. This lesson explores Romeo's soliloquy in detail to explore the language Shakespeare uses, group work and assessment writing included with model response and key terminology (Eduqas WJEC exam board). All group work is included in the original publisher format and PDF format for ease of use. This was taught to very top set Year 8 - GCSE standard lesson and writing. Easily differentiated up and down with support and challenge cards included. Group work for support within the class. Literacy starter: Adding an ‘e’ to the end of a word changes the sound of the first vowel Starter: Images on the board of earrings, hands, dove, torches, stars. Key terminology introduced: Connotation. Pupils exploring what the images connote. Clip embedded of Romeo first spotting Juliet in the Baz Luhrmann version. Pupils to write down on post-it three adjectives to describe how Romeo reacts. Then showing the class the full soliloquy and reading through, asking if they can add anything to their post it. Key terminology: Soliloquy. Ten minute timer embedded for pupils to explore the language used in the soliloquy in groups. Challenge: Include AO3 context. I used different coloured pens to see which pupils have wrote what, to check progress. Example model of exploding a quote from Romeo and Juliet's exchange - discussing AO2 structure - sentence moods - exclamative, interrogative, imperative etc. AO1 feelings and AO3 context challenge. Simplifying the exam board marking scheme - pupils aiming for 3-4 grade band. Then pupils shown a model response with the different AO's highlighted in three different colours for clarification. Ten minute timer on the board for writing time, with success criteria and sentence starter. With AO3 challenge included too. Support station - Sentence support and challenge cards at the back of the classroom (included). (This next section can be adapted if the pupils are of a lower ability or lack of time) Then pupils swapped their sheets by sticking their annotated sheet on the board with blue tac and taking another partner's. Then pupils analyse and write a response with another groups annotations. Then self assessment to identify the different AO points they have used within their responses. They can add their EBI if they haven't included something e.g. embedded quotes for AO1, or AO3 context challenge. Plenary: To tweet Romeo's reaction to seeing Juliet. Pupils can use an emoji to illustrate his reaction. This lesson worked very well with top set year 8, currently on level 3/4 grade boundaries for GCSE level, so this would work well with any GCSE class.

GCSE Unseen Poetry comparison A3 scaffolded sheet, both original publisher file and PDF file for ease of printing. Poems: Geriatric Ward and Warning. I don't own these poems. Sheets scaffold the pupils to bullet pointing the meaning, mood of the poem. Then discussing the language/spotting devices, identifying structure and seeing if there is a deeper meaning, and the effect the poems have on the reader. Lovely resource and well scaffolded for the ability of my classes. Easily differentiated up or down, this worked with low set year 9 as well as GCSE.

GCSE Unseen Poetry comparison A3 scaffolded sheet, both original publisher file and PDF file for ease of printing. Poem: Autumn by Alan Bold (I don't own this poem). Very useful for the section A analysis of unseen poetry for Eduqas WJEC. Sheets scaffold the pupils to bullet pointing the meaning, mood of the poem. Then discussing the language/spotting devices, identifying structure and seeing if there is a deeper meaning, and the effect the poem has on the reader. Lovely resource and well scaffolded for the ability of my classes. Easily differentiated up or down, this worked with low set year 9 as well as GCSE.

GCSE Unseen Poetry comparison A3 scaffolded sheet, both original publisher file and PDF file for ease of printing. Poems: The Tiger in the Zoo and The Jaguar. I don't own these poems. Sheets scaffold the pupils to bullet pointing the meaning, mood of the poem. Then discussing the language/spotting devices, identifying structure and seeing if there is a deeper meaning, and the effect the poems have on the reader. Lovely resource and well scaffolded for the ability of my classes. Easily differentiated up or down, this worked with low set year 9 as well as GCSE.

GCSE AO2 lesson for the Eduqas WJEC exam board. Scaffolded lesson which builds up to an exam-style question 'How does the writer create tension in the extract?' A3 sheet has a support scaffolding task for finding devices e.g. metaphor, for pupils to write and example and the effect is has on the reader. Full PowerPoint, A3 extract sheet with a support scaffolding task and literary device bingo. A3 sheet comes with Microsoft Publisher file and PDF version. Lesson starts with literary device bingo, all bingo cards are different. Then YouTube video is embedded for ease of use, horror film clip which builds tension. Pupils create a mind map describing how the director builds tension, then read the extract and add to the mind map the techniques the writer has used to build tension e.g. powerful verbs, ambitious punctuation, cliffhanger etc. Then pupils go through the extract on the A3 sheet with the scaffolded literary device activity - find an example, write the effect on the reader. Pupils are to answer an exam question. Success criteria, connective bank and emotion word bank also included. Peer assessment with success criteria for WWW/EBI. Plenary to finish. This lesson worked well with lower ability year 10 group, but was challenging and would work well with any set.

Poetic device posters for around the classroom or to use within poetry classes for KS3/KS4.

Lesson on analysing unseen poetry using SMILE technique, focusing on the 'L' - language. A3 worksheet to help pupils analyse the language of the poem Autumn by Alan Bold (I don't own this poem). Objective: To investigate poetic devices in unseen poetry and explore the effects on the reader. Outcomes: To respond to a question about the language used within an unseen poem. Literacy objective: An apostrophe must be used to show who or what owns the object or idea (possession). Literacy objective starter task, and (this can be included if used with my previous GCSE Eduqas WJEC Intro to Poetry lesson) any extra time to complete the poetic device hunt. This slide can be removed, however. Starter: What could 'SMILE' be? Structure, meaning, images, language, effect on reader. Handout to support and stick in books to refer back to. Then pupils to read blind through the poem and think what is the poem about, share with partner and write their response around the poem. Repeated for the mood of the poem. Pupils to then match-up poetic devices within the poem (some are underlined for differentiation support). Then pupils must find more content points. Repeating think, partner, share to gather what might the effect be on the reader and if there is deeper meaning in any of the lines. Model response to an analysis of two lines of the poem with a model paragraph. Pupils are to then follow by example and pick any two lines and write about the language to answer the question 'How is nature presented in Autumn?' for independent 10/15 time. Plenary (post-its or in books): What have we learnt today/What would you like to improve on.

Focus on introduction to poetry, with a poetry device hunt around the classroom or a carousel activity for pupils to revise poetic terminology. Poetic device sheets could also be used as a classroom display once printed. Support sheets included for differentiation. Objective: To identify different poetic devices and explore their effects. Outcomes: To present these devices in table. Literacy objective: An apostrophe must be used to show who or what owns the object or idea (possession). Lesson is an introduction to poetry, unit focus on unseen poetry. I have used this with year 9 in preparation for their GCSE poetry exams. Lesson runs through literacy objective with tasks and a challenge task on apostrophes. It then goes through the exam board specification and what the examiner is looking for, and the different assessment objectives (AO1/AO2) for unseen poetry. Starter: As many poetic devices as the pupils can think of. Challenge task to include a definition and an example. 5 minute timer included. Introduction: What is poetry? Spot the devices within poetry. Using examples from modern songs - Pocahontas/Justin Bieber. Main task: Poetry device hunt. Pupils to fill in A3 sheet (included publisher file and PDF) two minutes for each device. I used my phone as a timer. This kept pace high. Pupils to write definition and effect in their own words. This can take longer depending on the ability of the class/time for each lesson. Assessment: Whiteboard questioning to gauge progress with plenary for pupils to write on a post-it or in their book. These resources took me over 8 hours to prepare! Can be used again and again for GCSE/KS3 classes.

Tabloid Article (Transactional writing GCSE for KS3 Y9) assessment lesson. Pupils are to write a lively and engaging tabloid article (full of puns, alliteration etc) for their assessed piece of work. Objective: To identify the features of a tabloid news article. Outcomes: To apply our understanding to plan a lively and engaging tabloid article, and write this for our assessment. Literacy objective: An apostrophe must be used to show you have missed out letters in contracted words. Lesson uses whiteboards to help pupils plan their tabloid written assessed piece (30 minutes), going over varied sentence starters, ambitious punctuation and vocabulary etc. Pupils can also use the planning sheet with quotes on to help with their assessed piece of writing (Attached). Pupils have a list of success criteria to allow them to write freely for 30 minutes. Plenary to assess what features we have practiced today in our assessment.

Full lesson on GCSE transactional writing (reports). Objective: To identify the features of a report. Outcomes: To produce a plan for a report using detailed content and the required structure. Literacy objective: An apostrophe must be used to show you have missed out letters in a contracted word. E.g. Should'nt - should not. Literacy starter is a contraction wheel. Lesson goes through what a report is, the purposes of a report, the audience and possible content. Starter allows the pupils to think for themselves what might be in a report (content), and a vocab-builder allows them to engage with formal vocabulary A06. The lesson then picks apart a report question, and allows pupils to investigate the purpose/audience/tone and format of the transactional writing question. Pupils then complete a table of positives/negatives to do with a school facility, read through a model report (either alone or with classroom teacher) and then complete their aims/questions in their introductory paragraph and their data collection paragraph in independent 10 task time with success criteria and a grammar challenge. Plenary to assess their knowledge of the features of a report.

Objective: To identify the features of a tabloid news article. Outcomes: To apply our understanding to write a lively and engaging tabloid article. Homework: Read your tabloid article and analyse the features, purpose and tone, using the table on the right. Literacy starter: Effect/Affect Starter activity is a card sort between the features of a broadsheet newspaper and a tabloid newspaper. Then a spot the features article to find the AFORREST features and how the writer has engaged the audience. Slides then move on to the main task, but first they go through example headlines to guess what the tabloid news article might be which we're writing about for an independent 10 task. Pupils then plan their tabloid article with a list of success criteria e.g. a shocking headline. Independent 10 task: Write an engaging article for a tabloid newspaper.

Starter activity for pupils to learn how to calculate the headline count of different articles. Handouts for the headline counts can be created, but this is also on the PowerPoint. Pupils are then given scenarios and they should create the best headline they can within their count e.g. full of alliteration, puns, shocking vocabulary etc.