Opening lesson for The Windsinger by William Nicolson. Focus on what a dystopian is and comparison to other YA texts students may have read. Links to history where students consider real life examples of dystopians.

This resource focuses on the first stanza of the Raven. It looks at the rhyming pattern as well as the use of punctuation in the stanza. This lesson is part of a personal SOW, which eventually works towards students comparing two poems: The presentation of the Raven and The Tiger in William Blakes Tyger Tyger.

This lesson looks at Boudicca’s speech to her army as reported by the Romans. It focuses on the use of emotional language and what the purpose of using this language is. Space is left for teachers to include their own starter. I have created this lesson as part of a wider scheme of work about the speeches of powerful women through history, but this could work as a stand alone lesson, although learning objectives would need to be altered.