Great Expectations Knowledge Organiser

Non Fiction intro Letter Speech Article Explicit. Great for KS3 and KS4 intro to explicit teaching of non-fiction and letter/news article/speech writing.

Megan Rapinoe Female Footballer - Lesson on non-fiction Speech analysis

Queen Elizabeth I Speech allusion to Women’s England football team advert. teaching allusion through the Budweiser England footy advert which alludes to the “stomach of a king” speech.

Gareth Southgate Dear England Lesson Analysis Prompt

Couldn’t find anything like this online so made my own! Some realistic tips for highly motivated students to independenly revise english literature at GCSE.

Explicit context in A View from the Bridge

Noughts and Crosses knowledge organiser BLM Black Narratives

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.

Exploring racism in the media. Chapter 16/17 of Noughts and Crosses.

Planning for a Macbeth essay question: How to plan and what to plan! Includes model answer, practice question and AQA mark scheme.

Writing question 5 language paper 1. Quick wins via Remarkable Creatures.

No Problem poetry lesson Benjamin Zephaniah analysing SMILE poetic methods. Writing your own poem to echo the style. 2-4 hours worth.

Show Not Tell Descriptive Writing Task or Booklet or Intervention. Activity and task to encourage SHOW not TELL. Identifying verbs and adjectives. Creating a glossary/vocab word bank. Two model answers of show not tell and 3 engaging images for all abilities. Initially aimed at y8 intervention (KS3 LITERACY).

Linking Noughts and Crosses prologue to Romeo and Juliet’s prologue. Including free N+C knowledge organiser. Black narratives. BLM lessons.

Reading chapter 1 of Noughts and Crosses: structure, dual narrative, knowledge organiser included.

Creative Writing Descriptive Writing Process Lessons. Really engaging, simple to follow, easy to show progress.

Writing a what how why language paragraph analysis using Noughts and Crosses extract. Very detailed lesson with model answer, heavy scaffolding, check-list for self/peer assess.

Analysing story openings - english language intro using ‘I’m the King of the castle’

Analysing the lyrics of ‘Black’ by Dave the rapper - Protest poetry, Black Lives Matter. Contains differentiated resource of identified methods and not identified. Explores WHAT/HOW/WHY and context. At least 3 lessons (hours) worth. A follow up lesson by Stormzy which compares to this Dave lesson is also available.