This resource has been improved for teaching in the year 2018-19 This SOL was highly successful last year (2017-18); the feedback from my team was that it was easy to follow by all, useful for teaching trainees how to plan/structure their lessons and enjoyable for students. This resource contains 26 fully planned and differentiated lessons (in one continuous PPT format), designed to teach poetry analysis skills to top set year 8 and middle-top ability year 9 students. It incorporates the teaching both Literature reading skills (AO1, AO2 & AO3) and descriptive and narrative writing skills (AO5 and AO6); the writing tasks are thematically linked to poems studied in this unit. I have also snuck in some Language AO4 questions to further stretch students. In this SOL, monsters are explored as being mythical creatures, wild animals and human beings. Students are also encouraged to think critically about the subjects of these poems (are they truly monstrous or a product of their environment? Should we feel resentment and fear or sympathy in part?). A range of stimuli, including still and moving image (fiction and non-fiction), newspaper extracts, wordalls and audio clips have been used throughout this SOL to help students to engage creatively, personally and at times critically with the scheme’s topic. The SOL covers the teaching of the following poems: The Jabberwocky Medusa Education for Leisure Caliban’s Dream (The Tempest) Paradise Lost The Kraken The Villain Six homework tasks (which have been adapted from various online sources) can be found by following the link below: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/monsters-poetry-sol-homework-11697376 Enjoy and please do rate it/contact me with any feedback that I can use to benefit the rest of us relentlessly hard-working professionals. :)

This SOL includes 26 lessons, exploring Reading Paper 2: Section B Writing Skills through the Shakespeare text 'Much Ado About Noting' . Each lesson is detailed and fully differentiated using a 3 tier (challenge, stretch and super stretch) system for starter activities and main tasks. All accompanying resources, including relevant extracts from the play and thematic articles, are included in this SOL; they are all ready for printing. This SOL contains a range of writing tasks which are linked thematically to Much Ado About Nothing and stand-alone lessons which can be used to teach writing skills to meet AO5 and AO6 criteria. This was made with the purpose of supporting our department (of mainly new staff and trainee teachers) by having lessons that we only needed to tweak for the needs of our students, instead of spending hours struggling to invent the same wheel individually. This SOL can be used for higher ability students in years 9-11. The accompanying SOL, focusing on Section A, can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-2015-spec-aqa-sol-much-ado-about-nothing-with-reading-paper-2-section-a-skills-11468354 *NB: Slides 98-113 have been taken/adapted from a PPT from the following free resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/writing-to-explain-revision-map-and-powerpoint-6040531

This SOL includes 24 lessons in total (including a mid-assessment and an end of unit assessment). Each lesson is detailed and fully differentiated using a 3 tier (challenge, stretch and super stretch) system for starter activities and main tasks. All accompanying resources, including relevant extracts from the play, are included in this SOL; they are all ready for printing. It explores the Shakespeare text 'Much Ado About Nothing' using the skills required to succeed in Section A of Reading Paper 2 (AQA English Language). These skills are explored through the source text and through thematic non-fiction texts. It teaches context, summary skills, comparison skills and the all-important AO2 language skills. This was made with the purpose of supporting our department (of mainly new staff and trainee teachers) by having lessons that we only needed to tweak for the needs of our students, instead of spending hours struggling to invent the same wheel individually. This SOL can be used for higher ability students in years 9-11. The partnering SOL for Reading Paper 2 Section B can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-spec-2015-reading-paper-2-section-b-skills-with-much-ado-about-nothing-11488458