LO1 To reflect on Shakespeare’s presentation of Iago (AO1/AO2) LO2 To closely analyse Iago’s language when manipulating a range of characters across in Act 2 (AO1/AO2) LO3 To consider, plan and write a paragraph in response to an exam question. (AO1/AO2/AO3) Extension and stretch and challenge activities are embedded throughout; the lesson has an overarching question which encourages the development of higher order thinking. Opportunities for paragraph writing and peer assessment are also utilised. AS/A Level English Literature (2015+) Paper 1, Section A: Shakespeare

LO1 To explore the connotations of different settings used within Othello and the impact on the characters of this setting shift (AO1/AO2/AO3) LO2 To summarise Shakespeare’s presentation of characters and structure of the plot in this scene (AO1/AO2/AO3) LO3 To consider, plan and write a paragraph in response to an exam question, considering staging and proxemics. (AO1/AO2/AO3) Extension and stretch and challenge activities are embedded throughout; the lesson has an overarching question which encourages the development of higher order thinking. Opportunities for paragraph writing and peer assessment are also utilised. AS/A Level English Literature (2015+) Paper 1, Section A: Shakespeare

LO1 to compare and contrast the two main settings of Othello (AO1 and AO2) LO2 to consider the reasons Shakespeare may have chosen to set the play in Venice and Cyprus and how he uses those settings to explore key themes in the novel (AO2 and AO3) LO3 To write a paragraph which considers Shakeseare’s use of setting (AO1, AO2, AO3 and AO5) Extension and stretch and challenge activities are embedded throughout; the lesson has an overarching question which encourages the development of higher order thinking. Opportunities for paragraph writing and peer assessment are also utilised. AS/A Level English Literature (2015+) Paper 1, Section A: Shakespeare

This fully scaffolded lesson explores the connotations of different settings used within Othello and the presentations of characters through dialogue, considers relevant context and how this enhances our interpretation and culminates in learners writing a paragraph in response to an exam question with a guided peer-assessment component. Extension and stretch and challenge activities are embedded throughout; the lesson has an overarching question which encourages the development of higher order thinking. Opportunities for paragraph writing and peer assessment are also utilised. AS/A Level English Literature (2015+) Paper 1, Section A: Shakespeare

This fully scaffolded lesson encourages learners to reflect on and respond to alternative readings of the play’s opening, consider the significance of the political backdrop to Act 1 scene 3 and to explore how Shakespeare creates initial impressions of Desdemona’s character. Extension and stretch and challenge activities are embedded throughout; the lesson has an overarching question which encourages the development of higher order thinking. Opportunities for paragraph writing and peer assessment are also utilised. ** AS/A Level English Literature (2015+) Paper 1, Section A: Shakespeare**

This fully scaffolded lesson encourages learners to analyse how Shakespeare creates initial impressions of the characters in Act 1 Scene 2, discusses Shakespeare’s use of setting and context and culminates in learners crafting a paragraph which considers our initial impressions of Brabantio and conducting peer-asessment. Extension and stretch and challenge activities are embedded throughout; the lesson has an overarching question which encourages the development of higher order thinking. Opportunities for paragraph writing and peer assessment are also utilised. AS/A Level English Literature (2015+) Paper 1, Section A: Shakespeare

This fully scaffolded lesson explores the significance of the play’s opening and how Shakespeare creates initial impressions of Iago and Roderigo, considers the malcontent and the Machiavellian villain as character types which inform Shakespeare’s portrayal of Iago and encourages analysis into how Shakespeare portrays issues of race and gender in Act 1 scene 1. Extension and stretch and challenge activities are embedded throughout; the lesson has an overarching question which encourages the development of higher order thinking. Opportunities for paragraph writing and peer assessment are also utilised. AS/A Level English Literature (2015+) Paper 1, Section A: Shakespeare

This sensory introduction provides an overview of the plot, themes and language used by Shakespeare in his 1603/4 play, Othello. Key content: blank verse iambic pentameter symbols and motifs characterisation the hankerchief scene (3.3) freytag’s pyramid I use props with this lesson, although it is possible to deliver without if not able to source props. AS/A Level English Literature (2015+) Paper 1, Section A: Shakespeare

This lesson introduces Tenessee Williams’ 1947 play, A Streetcar Named Desire. The lesson encourages learners to predict probable complications which may develop in the play based on an introduction to the themes, and begins an analysis of the scene opening of Scene One.

A full lesson which guides student to closely consider Chapters 12 and 13 of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005). Students will also produce an essay plan for a comparative answer on ‘the presentation of desire’. **EdExcel AS/A Level English Literature 2015+. Paper 2: ‘Science and Society’. **

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A full lesson on the poem ‘Effects’ by Alan Jenkins. Poems of Decade, Forward Poetry (2011) Edexcel AS/A English Literature, 2015+

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