This unit of work is designed as a pathway through the text Wild Boy at KS3. The unit contains 21 lessons and looks at areas such as plot structure, character relationships, aspects of a detective novel, the author’s use of pathetic fallacy and more. It is fully resourced with an extract assessment, descriptive language worksheets, plot quizzes, contextual information and assessment writing frames. Page numbers refer to the Walker Books edition. Lesson 1: The Prologue Lesson 2: The Circus: setting the scene Lesson 3: Fairground characters Lesson 4: Clarissa Everett Lesson 5: The author’s use of animal imagery Lesson 6: Creating mystery Lesson 7: Character foils: Clarissa and Wild Boy Lesson 8: Escape through the sewers Lesson 9: Designing a WANTED poster Lesson 10: Use of pathetic fallacy Lesson 11: Analysing the murder scene Lesson 12: Discovering the hidden room Lesson 13: A Victorian Workhouse Lesson 14: The Church Lesson 15: How the writer builds tension Lesson 16: The Machine Lesson 17: Circular Structure Lesson 18: The Suspects Lesson 19: The Finale Lesson 20: Planning your assessment Lesson 21: Writing your assessment

This Unit of Work has been designed as a way through the novel ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar. It contains 19 lessons and is designed to exploit areas like descriptive writing, writing a summary, analyzing characters, constructing the plot, the format of a letter, how writers build tension and designing a film storyboard. It also contains two assessment opportunities on Stanley Yelnats and the significance of the title. The page numbers refer to the Bloomsbury edition. Lesson 1: An introduction to Holes Lesson 2: Chapters 1-3: Camp Green Lake Lesson 3: Chapters 4-6: Impressions of Stanley Yelnats Lesson 4: Chapters 7-9: Use of flashback in literature Lesson 5: Creating a factfile Lesson 6: Survival guide poster and plot quiz Lesson 7: Chapters 10-12: Writing a letter home Lesson 8: Chapters 13-15: The Warden Lesson 9: Chapters 16-18: Kate Barlow’s lipstick Lesson 10: Chapters 19-21: Building tension Lesson 11: Chapters 22-24: Using flashbacks Lesson 12: Chapters 25-28: Kissin’ Kate Barlow Lesson 13: Chapters 29-30: Using pathetic fallacy Lesson 14: Chapters 31-33: Zero’s escape Lesson 15: Chapters 34-36: Comparing Stanley and Zero Lesson 16: Chapters 37-39: Climbing Big Thumb Lesson 17: Chapters 40-43: Formulating an escape plan Lesson 18: Chapters 44- 47: Buried treasure Lesson 19: Chapters 48-50: The End

This scheme of work is designed as a pathway through the play and an introduction to drama at KS3. It includes 16 lessons that are easy to follow and focus on aspects like staging, character development, creative writing, autism research and more. Page numbers refer to the Metheun Drama edition. Lesson 1: Autism research Lesson 2: Creating Chris’ voice Lesson 3: Metaphorical and literal Lesson 4: Siobhan as the narrator Lesson 5: The detective genre Lesson 6: Perceptions of Chris’ mother Lesson 7: Perceptions of Chris’ father Lesson 8: Stephen’s use of staging Lesson 9: Research on why children run away from home Lesson 10: Eidetic memories Lesson 11: Staging Chris’ journey to London Lesson 12: Judy and Roger Lesson 13: Creating coping strategies Lesson 14: The crime genre Lesson 15: Assessment on Siobhan

This scheme of work is designed as a pathway through the play and an introduction to drama at KS3. It includes 12 lessons that are easy to follow and focus on aspects like staging, character development, creative writing, the history of the holocaust and more. Lesson 1: elements of a fable and context Lesson 2: narrative voice Lesson 3: descriptive techniques Lesson 4: vague language and inference Lesson 5: reading between the lines Lesson 6: character analysis of Pavel Lesson 7: comparing Bruno and Shmuel Lesson 8: writing analytical paragraphs Lesson 9: Comparing Lieutenant Kotler with Nazi Germany ideology Lesson 10: Discussing the message of the novel Lesson 11: Designing a book cover Lesson 12: Analysing Jackson’s use of staging

Are you teaching Myths, Legends, Fables and Fairy Tales? This unit will help you teach folktales and traditional tales, and it will save you hours of preparation! This unit of work includes 10 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar answers, quizzes and the classical stories. The unit includes: Lesson 1: The Norse World Lesson 2: Analysing settings Lesson 3: Asgard Lesson 4: Thor, Loki and Odin Lesson 5: Comparing Thors Lesson 6: Loki’s children Lesson 7: Hel Lesson 8: Thor and The Frost Giants Lesson 9: Ragnarok

This unit contains everything you need to revise unseen poetry for your A level exam. This unit of work includes 8 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information and exemplar material. It covers poetry eras such as: Metaphysicals, Cavaliers, Renaissance, Tudor and more modern poems. This unit of work has been designed for the AQA A-level course, but is adaptable to fit other exam board specifications. The scheme of work includes: Lesson 1: Metaphysical revision of Donne, Marvell, Herbert and Crashaw Lesson 2: Comparing Cavalier and Metaphysical attitudes to love Lesson 3: How to approach an unseen poem Lesson 4: Romantic love in Victorian and modern poetry Lesson 5: Motherhood in modern poetry and WW2 Lesson 6: Romantic love in 3 modern poems Lesson 7: Loss in Tudor and Renaissance poetry Lesson 8: Analysing poems for the influence of context using Kahoot

This scheme of work is 10 lessons designed to test your students’ ability to plan and write creatively using a picture as a springboard for their imagination. It is most effective when used a few weeks before their exam. The focus is: Lesson 1: structuring paragraphs in a WW1 trench scene Lesson 2: using varied sentence structures in a train scene Lesson 3: noun-verb collocation in a forest scene Lesson 4: the effect of adjectives in an alien planet scene Lesson 5: paragraph focus in a scene from Private Peaceful Lesson 6: descriptive techniques in a castle scene Lesson 7: using tense changes in a stormy sea scene Lesson 8: individual word choice in a transport image Lesson 9: creating backstories from AI images Lesson 10: using a learning mat for a mountain scene

Everything you need to teach this fantastic novel! Ideally for Years 7-9, this unit has 20 lessons covering the whole of the text, focusing on writer’s use of language, evaluating a character statement and creative writing. It comes fully resourced with PowerPoints, contextual information on Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome, chapter extracts and IWB activities. This is perfect for developing early English Literature essay skills. Page numbers are based on the 2004 Vintage edition. The lesson themes focus on: Lesson 1: Autism research Lesson 2: How to produce Chris’s style Lesson 3: Understanding emotions Lesson 4: Character profiles Lesson 5: Habits and rituals Lesson 6: The Monty Hall Problem Lesson 7: Splitting up Lesson 8: Chris’ mother Lesson 9: The letters Lesson 10: Running away research Lesson 11: Chris runs away Lesson 12: Eidetic memories Lesson 13: Interpreting dreams Lesson 14: Analysing Chris’ mother Lesson 15: Designing a front cover Lesson 16: Writing an extra chapter Lesson 17: Character profiles Lesson 18: Book reviews Lesson 19: Describing a train journey Lesson 20: Questions to the author There is also an opportunity for assessment on Chris’s dad with feedback and a marking sheet.

This unit contains everything you need to teach dystopian Fiction at KS3 in an engaging and dynamic way. It includes 9 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, extracts, short stories, quizzes and assessment opportunities. This unit works well with a boy heavy group interested in texts like Brave New World, Hunger Games and War of the Worlds. There is an assessment opportunity at the end of the unit for the students to analyse an extract from Children of Men. This is supported with essay frames and exemplar answers. Lesson 1: Dystopias in Literature Lesson 2: Comparing dystopian worlds Lesson 3: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Lesson 4: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Colins Lesson 5: The Red Weed from War of the Worlds Lesson 6: 1984 by George Orwell Lesson 7: Assessment: Children of Men by PD James Lesson 8:Writing your assessment Lesson 9: Assessment feedback Lesson 10: Dystopia quiz

This unit works really well with a Year 7 or Year 8 group. They get really excited about the characters, especially The Artful Dodger! The unit consists of 17 lessons covering the whole of the play. It is fully resourced with PowerPoints, newspaper articles, character descriptions, extracts and diary entries. The page numbers refer to the Heinemann Edition by Nigel Bryant. Lesson 1: Oliver’s feelings Lesson 2: The workhouse Lesson 3: Mr Bumble Lesson 4: Oliver’s diary Lesson 5: Apprenticeships Lesson 6: Crime and Punishment Lesson 7: Dodger and Fagin Lesson 8: Writing a newspaper article Lesson 9: Mr Brownlow Lesson 10: Creating settings Lesson 11: Designing Fagin’s hideout Lesson 12: Solving the mystery Lesson 13: Nancy Lesson 14: The End Lesson 15: Acting out the play Lesson 16: Writing your assessment Lesson 17: Assessment feedback

Ideally for Year 8 or low ability Year 9, this unit of work contains 25 lessons covering the whole of the text. It focuses on writer’s use of language, how the writer uses structure, evaluating a statement and creative writing. It comes fully resourced with contextual information, Auschwitz survivor stories, chapter extracts, freeze frame cards and IWB activities. This is perfect to embed the skills needed for GCSE Literature Paper 1 preparation at KS3. Lesson 1: Context Lesson 2: Boyne’s narrative style Lesson 3: Exploring sibling relationships Lesson 4: Descriptive writing Lesson 5: The importance of Bruno’s father Lesson 6: Good and evil Lesson 7: Pavel as a symbol of Jewish struggles Lesson 8: Uniforms Lesson 9: Exploring Lesson 10: Friendships Lesson 11: Bruno and Shmuel Lesson 12: Shmuel’s background Lesson 13: Using inference Lesson 14: Writing a TV script Lesson 15: Lieutenant Kotler Lesson 16: Radicalization and the Hitler Youth Lesson 17: Bruno’s mother Lesson 18: Bruno’s world Lesson 19: Writing the ending Lesson 20: Poetic justice Lesson 21: The end Lesson 22: Interview with John Boyne Lesson 23: Planning your assessment Lesson 24: Writing your assessment Lesson 25: Feedback and improve

Ideally for KS3 students, this unit of work has been designed to teach students the skills to analyse a variety of texts, and form an opinion on different topics that affect teenagers. There are 16 lessons which allow students to explore topics such as: perceptions of teenagers, graffiti, school shootings, anti social behaviour orders, gang violence, computer games and negative press coverage. It is fully resourced with ppts, articles, podcasts, storyboards and assessment opportunities. Lesson 1: Perceptions of youth culture Lesson 2: Is graffiti a form of art? Lesson 3: School shootings Lesson 4: anti social behaviour orders - do they work? Lesson 5: gang violence Lesson 6: the influence of computer games Lesson 7: fighting back through charity work Lesson 8: negative stereotypes in the press Lesson 9: YouTube challenge Lesson 10: writing a speech on knife or gun crime Lesson 11: Fallout Lesson 12: an open letter by Lennie James to stop the violence Lesson 13: Gang violence in The Outsiders Lesson 14: Designing an anti violence poster Lesson 15: Writing your commentary Lesson 16: Panorama video reward

Everything you need to teach Science Fiction at KS3. This unit of work includes 14 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, quizzes, stories and a descriptive assessment . It is geared towards boys, with extracts from Ray Bradbury, Mars missions and The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This is useful as an early introduction to the skills needed for English Language GCSE Paper 1. Lesson 1: Introduction to Science Fiction Lesson 2: The rise of Artificial Intelligence Lesson 3-4: A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury Lesson 5: Colonising Mars Lesson 6: Write a Mars Speech Lesson 7: All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury Lesson 8: Designing a Science Fiction Trailer Lesson 9: The Time Machine by HG Wells Lesson 10: Virus and future pandemics Lesson 11: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Lesson 12: The Veldt by Ray Bradbury Lesson 13: Writing a Doctor Who script for TV Lesson 14: Describing an alien planet from Star Wars

A unit of work dedicated to poetry that explores the natural world. It includes 19 lessons with activities to help students comment on the effect of language techniques, comparison and contextual research opportunities on the British poets. It is fully resourced with fun facts, quizzes, support notes, essay frames and creative writing opportunities. The lessons cover a range of subjects such as poetic techniques, rhythm and rhyme in conjunction with with poems by: Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Lord Tennyson, William Blake and many more. Lesson 1: Poetic techniques Lesson 2: Poetic techniques review Lesson 3: How poets use rhythm Lesson 4: The Eagle by Tennyson Lesson 5: The Jaguar by Ted Hughes Lesson 6: The Tyger by William Blake Lesson 7: The Hyena by Edwin Morgan Lesson 8: View of a Pig by Ted Hughes Lesson 9: Sonnet by John Clare Lesson 10: Spring by Hopkins Lesson 11: Daffodils by William Wordsworth Lesson 12: Inversnaid by Hopkins Lesson 13: Little Trotty Wagtail by John Clare Lesson 14: Seamus Heaney research Lesson 15: Death of a Naturalist by Heaney Lesson 16: Blackberry Picking by Heaney Lesson 17: Planning your assessment Lesson 18: Writing your assessment Lesson 19: Assessment feedback

A whole scheme of work dedicated to Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Excellent context work for supporting appreciation of Shakespeare using context. It includes an introduction to the Globe, life for men and women, Shakespeare’s family life, Machiavelli and a Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England. Fully resourced with fun facts, quizzes and creative writing opportunities. Lesson 1: Context Lesson 2: Library and online research Lesson 3:The Globe Lesson 4: The Plays Lesson 5: Shakespearean language Lesson 6: Mid term assessment Lesson 7: Designing a movie trailer Lesson 8: Tudor women Lesson 9: John Shakespeare Lesson 10: Designing a theatre Lesson 11: Staging A1S5 of Romeo and Juliet Lesson 12: Machiavelli Lesson 13: The Taming of the Shrew Lesson 14: The Witches in Macbeth Lesson 15: The Tempest Lesson 16: Love poems and sonnets Lesson 17: Origins of English Lesson 18: Elizabethan beliefs Lesson 19: Planning your assessment Lesson 20: Writing your assessment

Make public speaking fun and interactive! Help your students conquer their fear of standing up by getting them to explore subjects they love, and are desperate to tell the world about! This unit of work would suit Grade 7 or Grade 8. There are 10 lessons covering a variety of speeches and rhetorical devices, as well as a final activity for students to write their own inspirational speech. It is fully resourced with ppts, contextual information to illuminate understanding, extracts and activities to promote positive body language. This is perfect for early Speaking and Listening preparation. Lesson 1: persuasive devices Lesson 2: debating Lesson 3: Emma Watson’s speech at the UN Lesson 4: George Bush’s defense of America after 9/11 Lesson 5: using body language and voice Lesson 6: your future ambitions Lesson 7: how to spend money on your school Lesson 8: analyzing persuasive speeches in movies Lesson 9: planning a speech Lesson 10: writing and performing a speech to go to Mars

If your students find Shakespeare dull and inaccessible, this is the unit for you. The lessons are focused on staging a shipwreck, costume, props, bringing the play to life and contextually understanding Elizabethan views of slavery, love, revenge and violence. This scheme of work designed as a way into Shakespeare at KS3. It includes opportunities for online research and extract analysis from the most popular plays. It is fully resourced with fun facts, quizzes and creative writing lessons. It also works well with Roland Emmerich’s 2012 ‘Anonymous’ , as the plays studied match the plays performed in the film, allowing the students to see the words come to life on the stage. Lesson 1: Othello Lesson 2: Othello feedback Lesson 3: Romeo and Juliet Lesson 4: Agony Aunt writing for Juliet Lesson 5: Romeo and Juliet movie analysis Lesson 6: Anthony and Cleopatra Lesson 7: Sonnet 130 Lesson 8: Macbeth witches Lesson 9: Iago Lesson 10: Midsummer Night’s Dream Lesson 11: Midsummer Night’s Dream Lesson 12: Hamlet Lesson 13: Richard III Lesson 14: The Tempest Lesson 15: Caliban Lesson 16: Staging Lesson 17: Henry V Lesson 18: King Lear plot Lesson 19: King Lear A1S1 Lesson 20: Midsummer Night’s Epilogue

Do you find it difficult to engage teenagers, especially boys, with creative writing and story telling? This unit includes everything you need to teach Fantasy Writing at KS3 . It includes 10 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, exemplar paragraphs, IWB resources and extracts. This unit works well with boy heavy groups who are interested in fantasy worlds and science fiction such as Lord of the Rings and A Game of Thrones. Lesson 1: Verb-Noun collocations in Lord of the Rings Lesson 2: How fantasy writers create characters Lesson 3: Describing a market in Game of Thrones Lesson 4: Structuring a story in an enchanted forest Lesson 5: How George RR Martin uses language Lesson 6: How George RR Martin uses structure Lesson 7: Designing a presentation Lesson 8: Describing an alien planet in Star Wars Lesson 9: How to describe a castle Lesson 10: The Weird Sisters in Macbeth

This unit has everything you need to teach ‘The Woman in Black’ at KS3. It is a fantastic gothic horror novel, and the children are genuinely enthralled by this novel as the secrets are revealed, complimented by the movie with Daniel Radcliffe as an end of unit treat! This unit of work includes 18 lessons and comes with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar paragraphs, activities to exploit drama, extracts from the text and opportunities for creative writing. Page numbers refer to the 1998 Vintage edition. Lesson 1: The gothic genre Lesson 2: Creating a gothic atmosphere Lesson 3: How Susan Hill uses pathetic fallacy Lesson 4: Tracking Arthur’s progress north Lesson 5: Creating mystery and expectation Lesson 6: Character reactions Lesson 7: Leaving clues Lesson 8: Creative Writing Lesson 9: Writing a formal letter Lesson 10: Hiding secrets Lesson 11: How Susan Hill creates tension Lesson 12: Using rhetorical devices Lesson 13: Using clues to form predictions Lesson 14: The letters Lesson 15: The Ending Lesson 16: Prepare your assessment Lesson 17: Write your assessment Lesson 18: Feedback and improvement There is an opportunity to assess the students’ progress at the end of the novel in an essay on how Susan Hill creates a sense of mystery.

This 21 lesson unit of work for Wonder, by R.J. Palacio, contains comprehension by chapter, vocabulary challenges, creative writing opportunities, the trial of Jack Will, camp planning, friend dilemmas and much more! This literature unit is teacher and student friendly. It contains a wide variety of activities, along with open-ended questions and role plays that will enthrall your students, especially those who have just started at a new school, as Auggie overcomes the challenges students face on a daily basis. The unit ends with an assessment evaluating Jack Will’s role as a friend and his relationship with Auggie. It is supported by extracts and important pages in the novel, so the students don’t have to trawl through 400 pages looking for a quote! Lesson 1: First day at middle school Lesson 2: Treacher-Collins syndrome Lesson 3: Jack, Julian and Charlotte Lesson 4: bullying Lesson 5: write your own precept Lesson 6: Halloween Lesson 7: Via’s perspective Lesson 8: the trial of Jack Will Lesson 9: Summer Lesson 10: Jack Will Lesson 11: the parents Lesson 12: Justin Lesson 13: dealing with bereavement Lesson 14: losing friendships Lesson 15: the camping trip Lesson 16: the fight and social acceptance Lesson 17: the aftermath Lesson 18: graduation Lesson 19: prepare your assessment Lesson 20: write your assessment Lesson 21: assessment feedback