HER-STORY: Her voice from History! This is a mega introductory lesson to feminism, gender roles and gender stereotypes - encouring generation Z to be even more woke about how gender stereotypes are all around from birth! Explores Duffy’s Mrs Darwin too.
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.
This is a complete lesson of 1-3 hours worth exploring Mrs Midas and introducing the comparing summary skill from lang paper 2 q2, getting ready for q4.
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.
The Lottery Lesson Dystopia Reading and Watching Literacy Short Story. Full lesson with glossary task with ambitious vocab from the text. Short story attached too. Plus link to watch it afterwards.
Very engaging and fun lesson - visual and kinesthetic.
Using the ‘chocolate bar’ method to share linguistic devices and create a written piece. Includes peer assessing and instant live marking.
Black narratives: exploring THUG (including black narrative multiple extract booklet resource consistenting of extracts from: Ghost Boys, Emmett Till article, THUG - The Hate U Give, Noughts and Crosses). Black narrative lessons, BLM.
Introduction to Diverse Voices - 2 lessons on diversity for English lit - ks3.
Walks through definitions, why we need diversity, videos from speakers of the BLM movement and the white privilege video.
1-3 hours worth of Salome Poem World’s Wife Duffy and Method Zoom Skill - working on the lang paper 2 q4 skills.
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.
Full lesson 1-3 hours of Anne Hathaway Poem Duffy World’s Wife and Summary Skills.
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.
Complete lesson 1-3 hours on Duffy’s Mrs Icarus.
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.
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.
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.