Noughts and Crosses knowledge organiser BLM Black Narratives

Celebrating Individuality through English - Poetry, Non-Fiction, Song Lyrics, Creativity Mini SOW. 4-7 lessons/hours worth. Highly engaging and relatable for students.

Creative vs Descriptive Writing GCSE

Porphyria's Lover AND general band 5 (being thoughtful) in AQA poetry responses. MEGA lesson or 3! (observation lesson for boy-heavy class). Including excellent stand-up game, Porphyria's lover analysis and how to be THOUGHTFUL rather than just clear when analysing poetry.

Manhunt by Simon Armitage - Mega Poetry lesson on metaphors

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.

Power and Conflict Anthology Recap and revise grid creation tasks. Provides step by step instruction for teacher to model too - 15 boxes in the grid, in each grid, opportunity to fill in context, key quotes, symbols, poem summary. Perfect for going through 1 poem per lesson. Visualiser task for 30 mins, fill in the summary and box for 15 and exploding 3 chosen quotes from beg/mid/end of each poem for 15 mins x15 poems. Summary and 3 quotes provided for each poem.

Our Day Out - Peer assess check box

Approximately 4 week SOW for Great Expectations (could last 6 if needed and stretched!). Range of tasks designed for year 9 predominantly but could suit any of KS3. Focus on Havisham, Magwitch and pathetic fallacy. Complete with booklet and knowledge organiser resource. Looks at all AO skills from AQA ready for year 10.

Miss Havisham Analysis and Creative Writing task Great Expectations. 4+ hours of tasks and lessons with resource booklet.

3 hours minimum (up to 9 hours of lessons) Great Expectations Magwitch Analysis with booklet resource

Structure through Great Expectations Chapter 1. Q3 langugage paper 1 AQA or just intro to structure soft skills.

Private Peaceful Lesson/Worksheet - Choice of tasks

Lots of images, step by step guide of elements to include in a piece of descriptive writing

Raising boys achievement in literacy. Ideas, techniques and quick wins. Clear and concise presentation with action research and thorough pedagogy. Presented to Head Teacher and ex-ofsted.

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

Find all the poetic techniques activity!

l.o: To understand how tension is created in a scene

The step-by-step process of the point, evidence, effect and developing with subject terminology and the EFFECT which students usually miss out. Clear step by step explanation with examples from Love and Relationships poems from the anthology.