2-4 hours of lessons on effective hooks using a dystopic extract from The Hunger Games. Aiming to write a baseline description. Mini quizzes, retrieval and recall, explicit definitions, engaging youtube task, digging in deeper, method spotting and analysing effective hooks and openers. Improving crafting opening of sentences with ISPACE.

1-3 hours of lessons on The Pedestrian. Analysing and then echoing the writing skills - transactional.

Introduction to dystopia for KS3 using Maze Runner, with extract and video links. Focus on using a flashback and its effectiveness. Focus on using extract to inspire your own writing.

Diverse Voices through short stories: including Caleb Femi, My POlish teacher’s tie, Colours of Humanity, Tender Earth, May Malone. Under-represented voices in English. A mix of language, structure, holistic approaches in English. VERY engaging. Black voice, minority voices, polish voices. Includes KO, assessment, full SOW and lessons.

ambitious vocabulary wheel - resource

Speaking and Listening Feedback Sheet Informal Language Oracy

No Problem poetry lesson Benjamin Zephaniah analysing SMILE poetic methods. Writing your own poem to echo the style. 2-4 hours worth.

Great as a stand-alone feminist task/lesson. This is part of a two-week introductory SOW for introducing female voices and female representation in literature to year 9 though it is suitable for all ks3 and possibly ks4. Starting with Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife - other lessons available for more World’s Wife poems, Duffy’s Havisham and Rupi Kaur’s Progress. All lessons link with retrieval, recall, specific method and vocab explicit teaching and a variety of engaging tasks and thought-provoking feminist notions. Knowledge organiser is available for this mini SOW too.

Jekyll and Hyde Retrieval tasks for Each Chapter. Includes a basic knowledge test for every chapter complete with answers. Various videos and retrieval tasks to aid memory and spark schema. Great for remembering key quotes but zooming into quote explosions too.

A Christmas Carol Quiz for stave one

Jekyll and Hyde knowledge checker quiz - Chapters 1-4. Full lesson/ homework/revision. Thorough questions for chapters 1-4.

Key vocab, themes, key texts, writing tips

Analysing language through The Reluctant Fundamentalist GCSE LANGUAGE

Model answer Shakespeare Macbeth - Lady Macbeth and ‘look like the innocent flower’. A large, secure paragraph that hits A01,2,3 ready to be metacognitively torn apart for student benefit.

Introduction to Diverse Voices - 2 lessons on diversity for English lit - ks3. Walks through definitions, why we need diversity, videos from speakers of the BLM movement and the white privilege video.

HER-STORY: Her voice from History! This is a mega introductory lesson to feminism, gender roles and gender stereotypes - encouring generation Z to be even more woke about how gender stereotypes are all around from birth! Explores Duffy’s Mrs Darwin too. This is part of a two-week introductory SOW for introducing female voices and female representation in literature to year 9 though it is suitable for all ks3 and possibly ks4. Starting with Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife - other lessons available for more World’s Wife poems, Duffy’s Havisham and Rupi Kaur’s Progress. All lessons link with retrieval, recall, specific method and vocab explicit teaching and a variety of engaging tasks and thought-provoking feminist notions. Knowledge organiser is available for this mini SOW too.

Full lesson 1-3 hours of Anne Hathaway Poem Duffy World’s Wife and Summary Skills. This is part of a two-week introductory SOW for introducing female voices and female representation in literature to year 9 though it is suitable for all ks3 and possibly ks4. Starting with Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife - other lessons available for more World’s Wife poems, Duffy’s Havisham and Rupi Kaur’s Progress. All lessons link with retrieval, recall, specific method and vocab explicit teaching and a variety of engaging tasks and thought-provoking feminist notions. Knowledge organiser is available for this mini SOW too.

This is part of a two-week introductory SOW for introducing female voices and female representation in literature to year 9 though it is suitable for all ks3 and possibly ks4. Starting with Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife - other lessons available for more World’s Wife poems, Duffy’s Havisham and Rupi Kaur’s Progress. All lessons link with retrieval, recall, specific method and vocab explicit teaching and a variety of engaging tasks and thought-provoking feminist notions.

A Christmas Carol Key Quotes Cards with gaps for recall. Has a page of blank cards too if you want to make your own or add extra quotes to it

Pre-assessment prep, assessment and mark scheme and post-assessment feedback ‘make a difference’ time. 3-5 hours worth. Using extracts from Noughts and Crosses. Heavy focus on WHAT/HOW/WHY approach to analysing language with scaffolding, model answers, checklists, self-assess, peer-assess.