Inspirational videos for Year 11 assemblies

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

Diverse Voices through short stories: including Caleb Femi, My POlish teacher’s tie, Colours of Humanity, Tender Earth, May Malone. Under-represented voices in English. A mix of language, structure, holistic approaches in English. VERY engaging. Black voice, minority voices, polish voices. Includes KO, assessment, full SOW and lessons.

I am Poem model - Writing a poem - Identity, Voice, Character Poetry. Comparing Unseen Poetry Nobody vs The Richest Poor Man in the Valley AQA past paper, model answers. 3- 4 hours lessons.

Jekyll and Hyde Retrieval tasks for Each Chapter. Includes a basic knowledge test for every chapter complete with answers. Various videos and retrieval tasks to aid memory and spark schema. Great for remembering key quotes but zooming into quote explosions too.

Analysing 'THIS IS THE PLACE' and 'Up 'ere' by Tony Walsh to understand context in Literature (Manchester)& Poetry.

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.

2-4 hours of lessons on effective hooks using a dystopic extract from The Hunger Games. Aiming to write a baseline description. Mini quizzes, retrieval and recall, explicit definitions, engaging youtube task, digging in deeper, method spotting and analysing effective hooks and openers. Improving crafting opening of sentences with ISPACE.

1-3 hours of lessons on The Pedestrian. Analysing and then echoing the writing skills - transactional.

Introduction to dystopia for KS3 using Maze Runner, with extract and video links. Focus on using a flashback and its effectiveness. Focus on using extract to inspire your own writing.

Retrieval and recall activity grid for practical idea to close the gaps. (9 instant ideas for recall and retrieval and links to the slides. Can copy and paste the slides to the start of your lessons and fill in the gaps. Good for use with KOs (knowledge organisers).

ambitious vocabulary wheel - resource

Speaking and Listening Feedback Sheet Informal Language Oracy

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.

A Christmas Carol Quiz for stave one

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

Well Being Daily Check in Resource Mental Health. A printable resource to laminate and use over and over again. Positive mental health, pioneering emotional regulation for students.

Key vocab, themes, key texts, writing tips

Ouspensky/Dunne/Neitzche theories Higher order thinking and links to Priestley’s intention! Women’s rights/power/position Labour/Socialism vs. Capitalism Workers and employers (power and rights) Social class/status Key events with dates, e.g. strikes J.B. Priestley’s ideas and opinions

Attitude to learning poster for students and teachers to display. Student-friendly language for them to understand their attitude to learning and teachers may reference this consistently in raising behaviour and high expectations.