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.
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.
Lesson 1: Plot and Themes
Lesson 2: The pastoral and anti-pastoral
Lesson 3: Fate and Foreshadowing in the early chapters
Lesson 4: Fate and Foreshadowing – self assessed exam response
Lesson 5: Settings as a symbol of Tess’s tragic journey
Lesson 6: How to plan a section B (feedback from lesson 4)
Lesson 7: ‘The Nemesis within’ – to what extent is Tess to blame for her demise? Mapping external and internal influences.
Lesson 8: Critical reception and Victorian morality
Lesson 9: The assault of Tess and critical reviews
Lesson 9 (continued optional extra): The assault of Tess – the laws regarding women in Victorian England
Lesson 10: The Existentialist Lens
Lesson 11: Tess and Existential Crisis
Lesson 12: Comparative Analysis
Lesson One: Word of the Week (Monotony), context and key themes
Lesson Two: Guided analysis of techniques and deeper meanings
Lesson Three: Creation of revision table, and writing of critical analysis paragraphs
In this lesson (7th in a GCSE exam skills SOW) students will learn about the language paper 1 question 3 requirements, and test their understanding of tracking structure with an extract of Franz Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’. This lesson is also part of a question 3 bundle, and also a 24-lesson GCSE Language Paper 1 SOW. Check the shop for more!
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.
Students will watch a video and read an article on crocodiles, and then answer comprehension questions. Students will also build better vocabulary in order to be able to complete a more creative newspaper writing task at the end of the lesson.
This SOW contains 3 lessons each on the following poems: Storm on the Island, Wind, Hurricane Hits England, London, In a London Drawing Room, and Blessing.
Suggested Order:
Week One: Storm on the Island
Week Two : Wind
Week Three: Hurricane Hits England
Week Four: London
Week Five: In a London Drawing Room
Week Six: Blessing
This lesson includes:
Do Now activity with Challenging Vocab
Video task and questioning
Stretch and Challenge
Interactive Research Task with Resources
Discussion tasks and prompts
This lesson was originally created for my intervention year 7 class, however it would be appropriate for any year 5-6 class as well.
This lesson introduces the students to the Industrial Revolution and William Wordsworth, with the aim that students will finish the lesson understanding the intentions behind Romantic Poetry.
Students will also be introduced to 'I Wandered Lonely/Daffodils) in order to find positive connotations within the poem, associated with nature.
This display includes 8 different poetic techniques, a visual for each, and the definition. It also includes two key terms for structure. The cover sheet is there to help guide you to make the display.
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 speaking and listening as a topic, and asks them to consider what makes an effective speaker, and listener. By the end, students will write their own mini-speech on a topic of their choice.
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).
This lesson explores the concept of totalitarianism, and has the students analyse the opening scene of 1984 in order to detect evidence of totalitarianism in the environment.
This lesson includes a word of the week (emancipation), an exploration of the key context behind Blake’s poem ‘London’, and an exploration of key concepts related to the poem. By the end of the lesson, students will have conducted a first reading of the poem, and been able to connect key concepts and context to particular stanzas.
