6 lessons (broken up into 3 sections) of non-fiction and language work to supplement teaching of The Hobbit. Just print and go! Ideal for cover lessons, shared teachers, introductory, homework, or post-assessment work. Sections include: Section 1- Biography: The Life of J.R.R. Tolkien After looking at a biography of J R R Tolkien, thinking about the context of The Hobbit, students are given a fact file to complete improving their comprehension, skimming and scanning skills. Then, students will complete research on an author of their choice and create their own biography. Section 2: Travel Brochure Writing Firstly, students will look at the features of a travel brochure for real life Hobbiton in New Zealand. They will look more closely at persuasive devices, before imagining a literary themed tourist attraction of their own, and create a leaflet advertising it. Section 3: Banned Books Article / Letter Students will complete some investigation into reasons why books (including The Hobbit) have been banned historically by watching a video and reading an article. After comprehension questions, there are speaking and listening and debate tasks, before students write a formal letter in response to an imagined scenario. Note- Resource contains PDF and word versions, so that formatting is preserved but you can edit as well if needed!

A lesson on reported speech and direct quotations in newspapers. The starter asks pupils to consider the difference between a sentence with reported speech, and a sentence with direct quotation. After a few simple translations from direct speech to reported (and vice versa), pupils can watch a youtube video of a news story. Their speech has been transcribed, and pupils can then use this to create their own newspaper article on the incident, using a direct quotation and a piece of reported speech for each of the three witnesses.

A SOW on PowerPoint that goes through 15 lessons on the first half of The Hobbit. Particular focus includes clauses and sentence types, and analysing the language and structure of an extract. I have taken lots of ideas from different SOW already on the internet, including CPtucker and MissIredale on TES. I will also upload the second terms lessons (16-30) when I have completed them.

This follows on from my previous SOW for The Hobbit, looking at chapters 9-19. It focuses on reading and writing skills such as comma splices, speech punctuation, foreshadowing, pathetic fallacy, and language analysis.

LESSON 1 - Pupils watch monologues on youtube and decide what makes a good monologue. LESSON 2 - Using this knowledge they then create a monologue based on a nursery rhyme. Using the Guardian three pigs advertisement, they then consider alternative viewpoints to create an original voice. They should then peer assess based on the success criteria. Some can be performed whilst the rest of the class guess who it is.

Print off pages one and three on card. Page 3 needs to be cut where marked. These can be joined in the middle with a split pin to create a connective wheel that pupils can use in English, or for whole school literacy. Page 2 is optional- you can print this on paper and stick it on the back of the wheel to remind pupils of the connective categories.

A help sheet and video for students on How to take Cornell Notes. https://youtu.be/eKhn7UXFCpg