I provide resources mainly for English (IGCSE and GCSE content), but also post useful Drama resources. There are also brand new English-with-Media resources to choose from, and many materials such as assemblies and certificates that could prove useful to Head of Years. All resources are differentiated appropriately and labelled with key year groups.
I provide resources mainly for English (IGCSE and GCSE content), but also post useful Drama resources. There are also brand new English-with-Media resources to choose from, and many materials such as assemblies and certificates that could prove useful to Head of Years. All resources are differentiated appropriately and labelled with key year groups.
This dystopian fiction lesson focuses on analysing the character of President Snow, and the contextual influences behind dystopian antagonists. The students will be introduced to the idea of a ‘facade’ and how dictators use facades of fairness and benevolence to maintain power. The students will read and analyse an extract from Catching Fire.
In this lesson, students will learn how to utilize the 5 senses, and also how to use a range of language devices in a creative piece about the sinking of the Titanic.
This lesson introduces students to the dystopian genre, explores key dystopian concepts and addresses common misconceptions (the difference between science fiction and dystopian fiction).
Lesson One (Opening): This is the first lesson on ‘A Handmaid’s Tale’ in a dystopian SOW. This lesson introduces the students to the concept of objectification, and the key themes and techniques present in the opening chapter (surveillance, biblical allusion, threat).
Lesson Two (Horrors of Gilead): This lesson has students analyze the use of power and indoctrination in chapter 2 of A Handmaid’s Tale. After a class annotation task, students will construct an analytical point independently.
**Lesson Three (Aunt Lydia Analysis): **This lesson focuses on the character of Aunt Lydia, and the concepts of internalized misogyny, and indoctrination. The students will complete a pair-analysis task, and then at the end, they will construct an analytical paragraph in response to a GCSE style question.
Lesson One: How to structure a persuasive piecce of writing (ethos, logos and pathos)
Lesson Two: Using AFOREST (persuasive) techniques
Lesson Three: Studying TED talks an planning a persuasive TED talk
The Hunger Games: Lesson Summaries
Lesson 1: This lesson will give students an understanding of subjugation as a concept, and will allow students to detect evidence of government subjugation in an extract of ‘The Hunger Games’. After they have completed some analysis questions, students will be writing their own ‘choosing ceremony’ scene, and peer-reviewing each others creative efforts at the end.
Lesson 2: This lesson focuses on analyzing the character of President Snow, and the contextual influences behind dystopian antagonists. The students will be introduced to the idea of a ‘facade’ and how dictators use facades of fairness and benevolence to maintain power. The students will read and analyze an extract from Catching Fire.
Lesson 3: This lesson focuses on acts of rebellion in Dystopian Fiction, in particular the ‘berries scene’ in The Hunger Games. The students will detect rebellious/revolutionary language in the extract, and then write their own revolutionary speech against the Capitol and President Snow.
This lesson includes:
Word of the week (tragedy)
Intro to tragic heroes and hamartia
Study of Oedipus and his hamartia
Study of tragic soliloquies (using ‘Out out brief candle’ soliloquy).
This project allows students to work independently, and is split into instructions for 6 lessons.
Lesson one and two will be a planning stage, in which the students will find their topic and research.
Lesson three and four will be the writing stage, and a clear success criteria and newspaper template is provided for this.
Lesson five and six will be the presentation stage, students are given instructions as to how to offer feedback verbally to each group.
This lesson explores all of the historical events that inspired and shaped dystopian fiction. The students will conclude the lesson by completing a creative task titled ‘walking around a dystopia’, in which they will include all of the elements of dystopian fiction that they learned about in the lesson.
This lesson focuses on tracking events in a text (excerpt from The White Tiger) in order to prepare students for answering language paper 1 question 3.
5 lesson SOW on satire and modern-world issues. Can fit with Unseen prose or a Non-fiction SOW. Complete with word of the week, resources to print, and a 12 question end-of-week quiz.
Lesson one: Word of the week (satire) and satire to caricature.
Lesson two: Satire to criticise (focus on privilege and power inbalance)
Lesson three: Satire to ridicule (focus on conspiracy)
Lesson four: Satire for humour (focus on controversy, scandal and mockumentary)
Lesson five: Low stakes quiz, recap of key concepts and creative tasks
This display is great for encouraging reading in your classroom. The butterflies are also resources that can be completed by students before being stuck on the wall.
This lesson will teach students:
Ethos, logos and pathos, and how to utilise all three in a persuasive piece
The AFOREST persuasive techniques, and how to write examples of each technique
How to combine AFOREST and ELP to write a persuasive piece about the banning of school uniforms
How to write an effective peer review
This lesson will have students explore various types of promotion and analyse purpose, form and audience. By the end, the students will be writing their own promotional pieces for a book of their choice.
Students can use this planning sheet and also the interview Q&A sheet to work towards writing an article. This could work in the context of any lesson.
Students will use this lesson to write a narrative opening to a story about skydiving. This includes a speedy starter, a matching up activity with accompanying worksheet, an extended writing task and a peer assessment opportunity at the end.
Lesson includes a word of the week (impregnable) with accompanying questions, context on Heaney, Stormont and The Troubles, a first reading of the poem and group/discussion work activities.
