8 slides full of activities for responding to text . For example:
Imagine that you are a pine tree. Write a first person account of the day that you are cut down and taken to someone’s home to be a Christmas tree.
Write a letter to yourself in the future.
Draw your future ambitions
Fill an entire page in your journal with small circles. Color them in and fill them with new words.
Recall your favorite childhood game
Research a celebration or ritual from another culture.
Write a list of all the things you do to escape.
Illustrate the concept of “simplicity”.
Find a newspaper article that is an opinion piece – how is this expressed?
Find a newspaper article that is an opinion piece that you disagree with – write your side of the argument.
Create a true/false quiz for an article
Draw your favourite place and describe it.
PowerPoint 1 - focus on reading strategies, and looking at answering: How does the description of the box create a ghostly atmosphere?
PowerPoint 2 - characters. Includes a card sort and answer sheet that can be stuck in books
PowerPoint 3 - Tension and monologue task
PowerPoint 4 - ending
Word Document of activity idea
Don’t Ask Jack - the story as a printable handout
PowerPoint of extended questions
Also includes links to sheets that could be used for homework
Works pupils through how to write a thesis statement for GCSE.
The purpose of this lesson is to build students’ confidence in thesis writing, linking the thesis statement to the body of the essay and encourages students to explore the thought process behind each step. The purpose of this lesson is to ‘demystify’ the writing process. This lesson seeks to explicitly teach one strategy to tackling essay writing.
The slides walk students through a heavily scaffolded, step-by-step process, which, by the end of the lesson students will have practiced the skill of essay/rhetorical writing and will have exercised the thought process that goes into each section.
In the ‘Resources’ section, there are a range of texts that you can choose from which can be used to explore the ‘question’ used to model the process. The questions is ‘How does the writer present attitudes towards love?’. The teacher has the freedom to choose from a range of texts (can be found at the end of this PPT under the ‘RESOURCES’ section). Teachers can choose from:
Shelley’s ‘Love’s Philosophy’
Barrett Browning’s ‘Sonnet 29’
Extract from a Guardian newspaper article on the science behind love
Extract from the novel ‘War Horse’