Poetry Cultural Capital and Individuality - celebrating being you! A mix of poetry and creative tasks.

Using ‘The Happy Newspaper’ to inspire happy pupils and celebrate happy news, positive ideologies and celebrating individuals in society. Creative tasks at the end. 1-2 hours worth.

Celebrating Individuality through Non-Fiction article “Living dolls: inside the world of child beauty pageants”. Full engaging lesson.

Analysing Lady Gaga song lyrics of HAIR and celebrating individuality! Focus on word type and effect of sentence types too.

Revision lesson (about 3 lessons minimum) covering main supernatural events in Macbeth - mindmaps, videos, links, varied recall tasks.

Exploring all female characters with summaries, mind maps, links to further reading and videos.

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

Online Learning - Power and Conflict Poetry Bundle (Kamikaze, COMH, The Emigree, Tissue, Prelude) Lessons specifically for pupils online learning or independent home learning. Includes links, key quotes, clear analysis, quote explosion opportunities and context for each of the following: The Prelude Tissue The Emigree Checking out Me History Kamikaze

Higher Questioning via Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘Tell Tale Heart’. Watch the 26 min film and use the questioning matrix resource to ask questions throughout. Students can ask them and swap and answer them. Helpful to teach inference and structure in AQA. Higher Questioning via Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘Tell Tale Heart’. Good for q3 structure and inference AO2.

Tell Tale Heart intro and plot check

Effects of language, methods, techniques - reader’s response - AO2 AQA.

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!

What/How/Why Display Resource - clear visual prompts

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.

Animal Farm Lesson - Exploring Dystopia with KS3. Reading a short extract (included) with opportunity to analyse, stretch and challenge - allegory, explore metaphor use (animal comparisons), videos, and a transactional task to write a poem/song/rap/description/speech to the title of ‘beasts of england’ - then watch it to see if they were close. Also contains a talking framework for controlled discussion. Fantastic dystopic knowledge organiser included too!

The solid basics of Context for A Christmas Carol