2x lesson series on ‘Farenheit 451’ by Ray Bradbury, fiction reading and analysis Learning objectives: * to be able to understand the opening of ‘Farenheit 451’ * to analyse how Bradbury presents the character Montag Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced and with a video embedded. Total of 5 and 4 slides Designed for G7/ KS3 students Engaging, fun, and interesting!

2x lesson series on ‘The Hunger Games’ by Suzanne Collins, fiction reading and analysis Learning objectives: * To understand the opening to ‘The Hunger Games’ * To be able to explain how the writer crates a dystopian world * To be able to analyse how the writer creates tension Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced and with a video embedded. Total of 8 and 5 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!

2x lesson series on ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood, fiction reading and analysis Learning objectives: To understand the opening of the novel To explain how Atwood uses language to create a dystopian world To be able to explain the key characteristics of the society of Gilead Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced and with an explanatory video. Total of 7 and 8 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!

PDF resource for supporting a G8/Y9/KS3 unit on Gothic literature - can be bought together with a series of corresponding lessons as a bundle for a good price Extracts from ‘The Woman in Black’, ‘The Raven’, ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ 20 pages so can be printed easily as a booklet

Thoroughly planned 3x lesson series on ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, fiction reading and analysis Learning objectives: to understand the context of the ‘Yellow Wallpaper’ and how that relates to the narrator to analyse how the relationship between the narrator and her husband is presented to discuss the significance of the ending of the short story and link to Gothic conventions Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced and with contextual information. Total of 7, 7 and 6 slides Designed for G8 / KS3 students Engaging, fun, and interesting!

3x lesson series on ‘The Woman in Black’ by Susan Hill, fiction reading and analysis Learning objectives: To be able to explain how description of a setting can create tension To be able to explain why ‘The Woman in Black’ is an example of Gothic literature To be able to analyse how a writer creates tension Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced. Total of 7, 8 and 8 slides Designed for G8 / KS3 students Engaging, fun, and interesting!

A lesson reading and understanding Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘The Raven’ Learning objectives: to read and understand the events of the poem and to explain how Poe presents the Raven as a symbol Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Also has a fun exit ticket challenge question. Some slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced and supported with key vocabulary. 6 slides Designed for G8 / KS3 students Engaging, fun, and interesting!

PDF resource for supporting a G6/Y7/KS3 unit on Magical Beasts - can be bought together with a series of corresponding lessons as a bundle for a good price Mix of fiction and non-fiction extracts on real-life zombies, the history of zombies, famous monsters, the opening of ‘A Monster Calls’ by Patrick Ness, witches in Britain, extract from ‘The Witches’ by Roald Dahl, ‘The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe’ by Lewis Carrol and real life vampires. 16 pages so can be printed easily as a booklet

2x lesson series on ‘A Monster Calls’ by Patrick Ness, fiction reading and analysis Learning objectives: To understand the extract To be able to explain the effect on the reader To be able to use a range of vocabulary to describe the tone of the extract To analyse how tension is created 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 and 5 slides Designed for G6 / KS3 students Engaging, fun, and interesting!

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!

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 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!

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!

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 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!