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.

Using a semantic field of ‘religion’ in order to display a love of a tv show…

Animal Farm Lesson - Exploring Dystopia with KS3. Reading a short extract (included) with opportunity to analyse, stretch and challenge - allegory, explore metaphor use (animal comparisons), videos, and a transactional task to write a poem/song/rap/description/speech to the title of ‘beasts of england’ - then watch it to see if they were close. Also contains a talking framework for controlled discussion. Fantastic dystopic knowledge organiser included too!

Introduction lesson to Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman BLM Black Narratives. Explores the front cover, blurb, foreword and preamble.

Using speech marks - Low ability. Nice video included, plenty of examples and cartoon drawing task at the end.

Valentine - Carol Ann Duffy: Lesson

A Christmas Carol Quiz - Recap of Stave 1

James and the Giant Peach - Connotations of the Aunt Names

GCSE Creative Writing Describe or Narrate Question Example - NYC Scene. No model answer - just the practice question.

Compare Storm on the Island to The Prelude - Poetry Activity

Engaging PEE worksheet

Will easily last a week (5 lessons, if not more!) Very engaging and interesting Powerpoint to cover the full context of Jekyll and Hyde - Victorian Britain, Freud, Jung, Darwin and Stevenson. 35 slides including videos, quizzes, creating mindmaps, tasks and a song.

Lesson on John Cooper Clarke's "I Wanna Be Yours" - analysing language and poetry. Including questions 1-10 (activity) and 1-2 lessons. ENGAGING!

Introduction lesson to dystopia and utopia. Engaging tasks and creative, imaginative dystopia introduction. Explicit definitions, persuasive techniques, method recall, etc.

Engaging sentence type images for display - interrogative, imperative, declarative and exclamatory. Four images only for display.

Macbeth Act 2 Scene 3 - Donalbain, Daggers and Smiles. Quote analysis and high ability model answer with AQA AO guidance.

Interrupt the forgetting and interleave topics - ask students to fill in each shape with a word associated with the topic of your choice… AND/OR Establish knowledge - at the start of a new subject, ask the pupils to fill in what they know already using words beginning with each letter of the alphabet; any gaps can be filled in at a later date in a different colour pen to show progress! Use the blank shapes at the bottom for whatever you choose - something that’s funny in the topic, something that’s blue, something that’s confusing…etc! 1 x colour 1 x black and white Looks great as an A5 (made as an a4).

The solid basics of Context for A Christmas Carol

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.

Comparing Exposure to Bayonet Charge - Power and Conflict comparison skills.