2-4 hours worth of lessons on ‘We Ate the Children Last’ short story. Contains the usual recall and retrieval goodness but includes a non-fiction article and the short story attached too (plus link to the engaging short film). Literacy skills of predicting, comprehension, creating a news article, homework task, mini quiz and digging into language methods and effects.
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.
This is a complete lesson of 1-3 hours worth exploring Mrs Midas and introducing the comparing summary skill from lang paper 2 q2, getting ready for q4.
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.
Complete lesson 1-3 hours on Duffy’s Mrs Icarus.
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.
Very engaging and fun lesson - visual and kinesthetic.
Using the ‘chocolate bar’ method to share linguistic devices and create a written piece. Includes peer assessing and instant live marking.
Black narratives: exploring THUG (including black narrative multiple extract booklet resource consistenting of extracts from: Ghost Boys, Emmett Till article, THUG - The Hate U Give, Noughts and Crosses). Black narrative lessons, BLM.
1-3 hours worth of Salome Poem World’s Wife Duffy and Method Zoom Skill - working on the lang paper 2 q4 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.
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. Knowledge organiser is available for this mini SOW too.
Dragon Shield - Introduction and prediction lesson - Interactive and very engaging!
Rare that a school studies this so if you need all the lessons; let me know, I made all my own from scratch. Based on a low ability year 7 but applies to all abilities.
A View from the Bridge Opening Context Lessons and Knowledge Organiser. 3 hours minimum lessons of 1. Context, 2. Characters and 3. Arthur Miller study with heavy focus on knowledge organiser and retrieval.