I Am David intro lesson - create a missing report

Victorian Britain mind map - Jekyll and Hyde Revision: Context. A great visual aid.

A nice hour (minimum) lesson on hands in Macbeth.

There’s not much out there for solid, simple english language revision tips - so I made my own!

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…

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.

LESSON OBJECTIVE: To deepen our questioning so we can challenge everything and L.O: To be able to write effectively for specific purpose/style/tone Multiple lessons on the ballad of Frankie and Johnny

Valentine - Carol Ann Duffy: Lesson

A Christmas Carol Quiz - Recap of Stave 1

Compare Storm on the Island to The Prelude - Poetry Activity

Engaging PEE worksheet

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

Up to chapter 50 of Noughts and Crosses - Exploring the bombing scene, linking to non-fiction Manchester bombing article and linking to resilience. Writing a poem about resilience after.

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).

Sonnet 29 - I think of thee. Love and relationships poetry - engaging whole lesson. AQA poetry. Double page spread in student books - emojis and quote explosions to secure understanding of innuendos and frustration.

The solid basics of Context for A Christmas Carol