Exploring transition points and endings through ‘Spies’ English Language GCSE

Exploring Language and Structure through Bring up the Bodies GCSE

Analysing language through The Reluctant Fundamentalist GCSE LANGUAGE

Analysing language through ‘39 Steps’ GCSE LANGUAGE

Presenting Places People and Action GCSE LANGUAGE

Introduction to Language GCSE through expositions using literature texts. Makes reference to AIC, ACC and Macbeth for interleaving.

Teaching story openings in language GCSE through I’m the King of the Castle.

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

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).

Comparing Poetry Demogorgon vs Pig Song, character, voice. 2-3 hours lessons. Unseen poetry, analysing, exploring, quote exploding.

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.

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

Introduction to poetry of Character and Voice KS3. Over 2-3 hours of writing own poetry and analysing some small poems of character and voice. Very engaging, relatable and fun!

Miss Havisham Analysis and Creative Writing task Great Expectations. 4+ hours of tasks and lessons with resource booklet.

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.

Structure through Great Expectations Chapter 1. Q3 langugage paper 1 AQA or just intro to structure soft skills.

1-2 hours of lessons on There Will Come Soft Rains - analsying and echoing the themes and style of writing to create their own writing skills.

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

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.

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.