Thirteen by Tom Hoyle - Mega introduction lesson!

Poetry Devices Bingo

A Christmas Carol Quiz - Recap of Stave 1

James and the Giant Peach - Connotations of the Aunt Names

Marcus Rashford Letter to Government 2-3 hour lesson with explicit reference to AFOREST Ethos, Pathos, Logos

Seven Deadly Sins introduction - Good Context for Jekyll and Hyde, Macbeth, An Inspector Calls - AQA English GCSE. Includes videos, songs and drama activities.

Private Peaceful End of Chapter 5 questions and tasks

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.

Language Paper 1 - Hartops - Walk Through with AQA models and class models. Feedback from AQA and top tips to approach questions 1-4 with clear meta-cognitive ideas. A great q3 structure print out too!

A Christmas Carol - Write a letter to Scrooge!

Using Black Eyes Peas "Where is the Love?" to analyse poetry/lyrics/language - full lesson (1-2 lessons) and model answer.

Scannell - Nettles: Poetry response model answers.

Stormzy- Protest Poetry, Brit Awards rap, Grenfell, Black Lives Matter Analysing his adlib verse at The Brit Awards - context about BLM and Grenfell. At least 3 hours of lessons and links to Dave the rapper lesson also available to compare. Uses WHAT/HOW/WHY and clear context understanding of Grenfell and BLM.

A Complaint - William Wordsworth: Mega lesson! Poetry GCSE. With model answer too!

Clear explanation of writer’s effect on the reader. Detailed PEE. Analysing poetry and/or literature. Clear step-by-step process of how to go from a quote>to subject terminology> to effect> to reader. Using poetry AQA anthology Love and Relationships as an example.

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

Great as a stand-alone lesson. Looking at Rupi’s poems and trying to recreate own. 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.

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