Poem by Michael Rosen. This pack includes: Poem Illustrated landscape poem for annotation opportunties Rhyming word cards for stimulation Video link to poem Hot Task table for writing a poem based on the themes of ‘Don’t’ Power Point exploring themes, techniques and further explanation of rhyme in poetry.

Dennis Kelly’s - DNA 7 Slide introduction Power Point presentation to DNA. This lesson explores the topics of: Gangs Bullying Links between the two Streetwear / Street art This lesson is a great intro to the themes covered in DNA. This lesson allows pupils to explore the themes with personal knowledge and relatable imagery.

Presentation with an image stimulus for Smaug the Dragon in Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’. This presentation is to prompt students into thinking about their: Adjectives Verbs Adverbs Senses & write a descriptive paragraph as if THEY are Bilbo Baggins. This lesson is aimed as an ‘assumptive’ piece for students who have not read chapters containing Smaug’s character. The aim is to see how they compare the dragon vs how Tolkien uses vocabulary to describe. Pushing for an overall development in their writing abilities and vocabulary range.

This pack includes: 6 slide Power Point presentation Storyboard template Script example Mini Task: Sell an ugly Christmas jumper to someone with the use of persuasive language, adjectives and tone of voice. Main Task: Write a script or design a storyboard detailing the scene of someone trying to sell either an unwanted present, jumper or cardboard box. This lesson also encourages pupils to extend their script / storyboard for performance purposes. This includes a success criteria which looks for face and body language, purposeful movement, still images, mime, etc.

This slide presentation consists of four slides and a starter task. Students are to focus on… Nancy’s significance to Bill Sikes, Fagin, and their ‘gang’ Bill Sikes’ relationship with his dog in Chapter 15 and the animalistic imagery Dickens portrays. Nancy and Bill’s relationship status and how the reader may feel about it / Nancy’s rights as a women in Victorian London Bill’s relationship with beer and Dickens’ continuous description/mentioning of Sikes’ dependency. Students will be expected to answer What,How,Why styled questions during this lesson and produce quotes from Chapter 15 for evidence.

Slides produce questions and sentence prompts for the following topics: Unity / meaning of the word How this is represented in Animal Farm Characters that support this idea Characters that challenge this idea Final slide also provides an assessment-style question with What, How, Why prompts on how to answer.

Google slide document covering chapter five of Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’. Slide and lesson covers: Riddle starter tasks (3 slides worth with answers on following slides) Youtube link to scene of The Hobbit covering chapter five’s plot Practice / short writing opportunity for students to focus on the characterisation of Bilbo Baggins from Chapter one-five and the significance of ‘The Ring’ Final ‘hot writing’ task with What, How, Why breakdown question stems on BB’s character growth throughout this chapter.

8 slide Power Point advertisement. Lesson Objective: To prepare and rehearse a radio advertisement. This lesson encourages pupils to create a radio advertisement for a new cereal product. Their success criteria is to focus on their tone of voice and the importance it plays in persuasion. (Pupils are encouraged to keep this advertisement as a radio broadcast as this will allow more focus on their voice work). Before sharing their work with the class, a prompt board has been provided for 20 minutes of work where pupils are encouraged to make a mind map, mini-script, editing and rehearsing and pair and share opportunities. Slides of this presentation also present a variety of techniques used in both advertising and radio advertising and a checklist of what must be included.

Dennis Kelly’s - DNA. 3 slide Power Point Presentation 4 pages of DNA script to accompany (print out opportunity) This lesson focuses on the craft of line delivery and it’s importance on stage and to an audience. Pupils are to explore an example script and how many different ways it can be performed. Pupils are to consider how emotions can change the voice, body language, tone, pitch and pace. Pupils are then provided with script extracts from DNA to explore how this scene can change when experimenting with these different skills.

Simple A4 sheet with 3 tasks (including peer-assessment) for cover requirements. Tasks include: Writing a short story Purple pen/self-assess by adding in deeper technical skills peer-assess work and provide feedback.

9 slide presenation featuring quotes from Stave Four of Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’. All quotes focus on ‘The Spirit of Christmas Yet To Come’ and Scrooge’s relationship/fear with the last Spirit. Each quote includes 2-4 questions for students to focus on (ranging from language analysis, character development, language significance, and theme connections) Colour-coding is evident on every slide to help link keywords and terminology.

29 slide PP with contents page which focuses on vocabulary explored within Charles Dickens’ ‘Oliver Twist’. Most of the vocabulary can be linked to the characterisation of Bill Sikes but vocabulary is apparent throughout the novel. Each slide is colour coded with the word class (noun,adjective,adverb,verb) accompained by the word meaning and an example sentence of where this word is used in ‘Oliver Twist’. Pictures are on some slides to help with visual learning and expand understanding on certain vocabulary.

This Power Point includes: 12 slides Focus on Nouns, Proper Nouns, Concrete Nouns, Collective Nouns, Expanded Noun Phrases, Similes, Metaphors, Adjectives, Quantitative Adjectives, Comparative Adjectives, Superlative Adjectives and Verbs. Each slide includes definitions and examples for each. Each slide includes colour coding for links in information.

This pack includes: 12 slide Power Point presentation. Newspaper article stencil for printout. Newspaper example with labels This lesson focuses on the difference in persuasive and manipulative language. Including different emotions that both techniques prompt in their target audiences to help sell their product. Main Task: Using the magazine template, create a magazine article based on a product you are trying to sell. (Success criteria encourages pupils to focus either on persuasive or manipulative language and different prompts for emotional connections to the product). Questions are also included to help pupils focus on all areas in which they will need to consider.

6 Slide Power Point presentation. 2 page lesson plan to accompany. ‘What does it mean to ‘present a speech’?’ This lesson focuses on the skills required to brainstorm, dot point and present a speech. This lesson also tackles the obstacles of nerves, body language and eye contact. Pupils will be challenged to pick a topic of their interest and form an interesting and confident speech to share their knowledge to the class. This lesson also includes a BBC News backdrop and accompanying music for atmosphere. Lesson plan includes tasks for both lower/higher ability pupils. As well as bonus tasks if the lesson is completed earlier than expected. This lesson can be taught in 1 or 3 parts, depending on ability and interest in topic.

This printout contains 2 pages of script from Dennis Kelly’s DNA. This allows pupils to annotate key themes, punctuation and script-tools used. This printout also prompts pupils with the task of annotating the script for their own future use. Prompting pupils to think about how they would: direct design the set design costumes use appropriate lighting sound for this scene.

PRINTOUT DOCUMENT. This assessment document allows teachers the chance to see how well pupils understand and identify the techniques used in advertising. This paper asks pupils to think back to an advert they have seen (or have studied as a class) and how it meets certain criterias, what it was spreading awareness about / trying to sell, themes, mood, stereotypes and styles. It asks pupils to identify what the best and worst aspects of the advert and what they would do differently and how. Finally, it prompts and requires pupils to write a full advert review on what they have seen, using all that they have covered in the previous questions. This review must cover the introduction, plot, acting and conclusion.

A3 printout for GCSE revision/classwork task. Clock includes key themes covered in Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’

Double sided A4 printout or online document for students to complete. Answering multiple questions/filling out categories to understand Orwell’s character/purpose for the character of Snowball.

Double sided A4 printout or online document for students to complete. Answering multiple questions/filling out categories to understand Orwell’s character/purpose for the character of Squealer.