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!

Inspirational videos for Year 11 assemblies

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!

Planner can be laminated and re-used over and over. Option for personalisation at the top for their name.

Students can use this to identify their emotion at the time and become self aware.

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.

Up to chapter 50 of Noughts and Crosses - Exploring the bombing scene, linking to non-fiction Manchester bombing article and linking to resilience. Writing a poem about resilience after.

After chapter 53, this lesson explores the negative effects of alcohol and explores healthy alternatives and a wellbeing activity to complete on Sephy’s behalf but also for students to do too.

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

A perfect lesson for when you’re reading the history lesson moments in Noughts and Crosses (up to chapter 35). Explores white vs black coverage of history in schools and challenges thinking.

2-4 hours worth of lessons on ‘We Ate the Children Last’ short story. Contains the usual recall and retrieval goodness but includes a non-fiction article and the short story attached too (plus link to the engaging short film). Literacy skills of predicting, comprehension, creating a news article, homework task, mini quiz and digging into language methods and effects.

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.

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.