Lesson on real life monsters, non-fiction text practice
Learning objectives:
All: will identify and summarise key points in a text
Some: will synthesise information from two texts.
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced.
Total of 5 slides
Designed for G6 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
Lesson on creative writing using the witches from ‘Harry Potter’
Learning objective: To be able to be descriptive when writing thoughts and feelings using a wide range of vocabulary to describe feelings
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced.
Total of 5 slides
Designed for G6 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
Lesson evaluating the opening to the Dystopian novel ‘1984’ by George Orwell
Learning objective:
* to analyse how Orwell creates tension
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced, with extract at the end of the lesson slides.
Total of 11 slides
Designed for G7 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
Lesson evaluating the role of resistance in the Dystopian novel ‘1984’ by George Orwell
Learning objective:
To be able to evaluate how Orwell presents the idea of resistance
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced, studying the key word ‘resistance’
Total of 7 slides
Designed for G7 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
Lesson evaluating the role of memory in the Dystopian novel ‘1984’ by George Orwell
Learning objective:
* To understand the significance of memory holes and how they affect Winston’s complicity
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced looking at the key word ‘complicit’
Total of 7 slides
Designed for G7 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
Lesson on Dystopian fiction, introducing students to key conventions of the genre
Learning objective:
To understand the key terms of dystopia and utopia
To identify some of the key features of dystopia and utopia
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced with model pieces of writing.
Total of 12 slides
Designed for G7 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
Lesson on Gothic creative writing, exploring the key word ‘morbid’ and recapping ideas about the conventions of Gothic writing
Learning objective: to understand how writers can use language to create a morbid atmosphere
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced with model pieces of writing.
Total of 10 slides
Designed for G8 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
Lesson evaluating the opening to the Dystopian novel ‘1984’ by George Orwell
Learning objective:
To understand the opening of ‘1984’
To identify some of the Dystopian conventions of the novel
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced. Involves group work.
Total of 7 slides
Designed for G7 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
Lesson evaluating the opening to the Dystopian novel ‘Divergent’
Learning objective:
* To understand how writers create engaging openings
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced with embedded video. Involves group work.
Total of 7 slides
Designed for G7 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
Two paired lessons on an extract from ‘The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe’, focussing on the White Witch
Learning objective:
All will understand how the White Witch is presented in the extract
Some will be able to explain how Lewis’s presentation of the White Witch uses traditional stereotypes of witches
To analyse how Lewis presents the White Witch as powerful
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced.
Total of 6 and 5 slides
Designed for G6 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
Lesson on real life zombies, a non-fiction text
Learning objective: to practice the skills of extracting, summarizing and explaining
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced.
Designed for G6 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
Two connected lessons on the history of zombies, non-fiction text practice
Learning objectives: to read and understand a text about the history of zombies
to understand the differences between different text purposes
to be able to explain the purpose of a text
to be able to explain how the writer uses language to make a text engaging
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced.
Total of 6 and 4 slides
Designed for G6 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
Lesson on the history of witches in Britain, non-fiction text
Learning objective: be able to identify some facts about witchcraft in Britain and summarise them
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced.
Total of 4 slides
Designed for G6 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
Lesson on an extract from Roald Dahl’s ‘The Witches’
Learning objective: Understand how synonyms and intensifiers can be used for emphasis
Be able to explain how Roald Dahl uses them to present the witches
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced.
Total of 13 slides
Designed for G6 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
25% saving on the bundle
2x lesson series on ‘The Tell Tale Heart’ short story by Edgar Allen Poe
Learning objectives:
To explain how Poe creates tension in the story
To explain the tone of the story using a range of adjectives
To analyse how Poe uses language and structure to create tension
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity.
There are challenge activities and sentence starters for differentiation.
Some activities analyse a short extract, which is included, and some refer to the whole story, which is also included.
Designed for G7/ KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
Lesson analysing the theme of fear in ‘The Woman in Black’
Learning objective:
To be able to analyse how a writer creates tension
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity.
There are challenge activities and sentence starters for differentiation.
The main activity analyses a short extract, which is included.
Total of 8 slides
Designed for G7 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
CAN BE BOUGHT AS PART OF A 3 LESSON BUNDLE *
Lesson analysing the description of setting in ‘The Woman in Black’ and linking to features of the Gothic.
Learning objective:
To be able to explain how description of a setting can create tension
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. There are challenge activities, sentence starters, and a model answer. The analysis focuses on a short extract (provided) from ‘The Woman in Black’.
Total of 7 slides.
Designed for G7 / KS3 students.
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
CAN BE BOUGHT AS PART OF A 3 LESSON BUNDLE *
Lesson analysing the creation of tension in the short story ‘The Tell Tale Heart’.
Learning objective:
To be able to explain the tone of the story using a range of adjectives
To analyse how Poe uses language and structure to create tension
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity.
There are challenge activities, model answers and sentence starters for differentiation.
The main activity analyses a short extract, which is included.
Total of 5 slides
Designed for G7 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
CAN BE BOUGHT AS PART OF A 2 LESSON BUNDLE *
A mini scheme of work on Gothic literature
50% saving on the bundle!
SOW designed originally for G8 / Y9 / KS3
Contains a mix of creative writing and analysis, with a copy of the relevant extract booklet to support teachers
Lessons on the following texts: ‘The Raven’, ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’, ‘The Woman in Black’ and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’
All lessons have Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced with thoroughly planned lesson and resources.
Total of 10 fully planned lessons
Lesson studying the role of the Gothic literature in ‘The Woman in Black’
Learning objective:
To be able to explain why ‘The Woman in Black’ is an example of Gothic literature
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. There are challenge activities and sentence starters for differentiation. This lesson has a focus on oracy skills.
Total of 8 slides
Designed for G7 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
CAN BE BOUGHT AS PART OF A 3 LESSON BUNDLE *