Worksheets for each chapter of Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds Includes comprehension questions

This pack contains all the lessons for the speaking and listening GCSE English endorsement. Students are advised on what the GCSE consists of, shown some examples and they learn about paralinguistic features. Then they get to writing their speech and presenting.

This is a fun lesson for the younger years, my year 7s loved it. It’s fun because you can cut up the strike cards and put them onto glue sticks and make it seem like they are on strike for the way they have been treated by the classes e.g. thrown on the floor etc. Then the students write a persuasive letter to the stationary strikers to ask them to come back to work!

An activity to write a letter to an inspiring woman for International Women’s Day

Group task for the opening passage of Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

Wuthering Heights Bookmark

A court case lesson which involves extract analysis, group work and acting out the court case with your classes - they will absolutely LOVE this! Mine enjoyed it so much!