Lesson One (1984 Lesson): This lesson explores the concept of totalitarianism, and has the students analyze the opening scene of 1984 in order to detect evidence of totalitarianism in the environment. Lesson Two (O’Brien and the rats): This lesson focuses on the idea of false consciousness, and the character of O’Brien. The students will explore how O’Brien uses torture and fear to brainwash and control Winston, and in the end, students will write a paragraph analyzing O’Brien’s character. Lesson Three (Key Concepts): This lesson focuses on understanding the key concepts in 1984: The War, Doublethink/speak, and Hate Week. By the end the students will be writing their own polemical pamphlet using doublespeak, promoting hate towards the new enemy (Eastasia) and promoting Eurasia as an ally.

Lesson 1: Intro to Dystopian Environments Lesson 2: Dystopian Character Archetypes Lesson 3: The Context Behind Dystopia Lesson 4: Analysing the Setting of 1984 Lesson 5: Analysing the Character of O’Brien in 1984 Lesson 6: The Key Dystopian Concepts of 1984 Homework Sheet 1: Creating a Dystopia Worksheet Homework Sheet 2: Dystopian Verbs

Lesson 1: This lesson is essentially a context lesson. To prepare Year 10 students for a mock paper (past paper 12, IGCSE 2020 June), this lesson will introduce students to the background of the play, the key events and characters, and give them the opportunity to predict and analyze some themes of the play. Lesson 2: In this lesson, students will perform the whole of Act 1 (timed at around 33 minutes if the reading is slow), and have some time left for a starter, and a main character analysis task. Lesson 3: This lesson gives students the chance to act out Act 2 of Dara, and answer some component 1, section A style questions in preparation for their mock exam (the June 2020 Paper 12). Lesson 4: In this lesson, students will act out Act 3 of ‘Dara’, and answer IGCSE Section A style questions at the end. They will contemplate the staging of certain scenes, and the changing relationships between characters - in particular, the relationship between Dara and Aurangzeb. Lesson 5: This lesson focuses on the events and key themes in Act 4 of the play Dara. After reading the act in its entirety, students will have the chance to answer some comprehension questions, and reflect on the way they would stage the execution scene. Lesson 6: This lesson focuses on the final act of the play Dara. The students will read the play, and then answer a series of comprehension questions, and one IGCSE style long answer question. The final slide will have students reflecting on their own feelings about the ending, and the change in Aurangzeb’s character between scenes 1 and 2. Lesson 7: This assessment prep lesson includes a link to the IGCSE past paper that the assessment will be based on, (only section A) and a preparation lesson explaining to students how to best tackle Section A questions. I’ve chosen to only test my students on Section A, but this preparation lesson could help with Section B as well. This also includes a student assessment reflection sheet for when you give back their marked work. Lesson 8: Assessment lesson (no lesson for this, but the assessment paper is linked in the assessment prep lesson Lesson 9: Students will receive back their graded papers, and complete the reflection sheet in purple pen (attached in assessment prep lesson)

The first lesson focuses on Robert Louis Stevenson’s background, and the cultural anxieties that inspired Jekyll and Hyde. The second lesson focuses on linking psychoanalytical theory to Jekyll and Hyde (mostly an exploration of the ego, superego and id/conscious and unconscious mind).

This is a fun lesson and worksheet that can come directly after watching the film ‘Elf’ and looking out for themes of identity/cultural identity. This lesson/sheet includes: An analysis task A poetry task A film review task A fun ‘elf-on-the-shelf’ creative task

These lessons were originally planned for my bottom set intervention Y7 group, and therefore would work for a Y5/6 group, or any bottom set Y7 or perhaps Y8. Lesson 1: Intro to Romanticism Lesson 2: Intro to I wandered Lonely as a Cloud Lesson 3: Finding techniques in IWLAAC Lesson 4: Writing a paragraph on IWLAAC Lesson 5: Intro to ‘Wind’ by Ted Hughes, and finding connotations Lesson 6: Finding violent verbs and onomatopeia in ‘Wind’ by Ted Hughes Lesson 7: Planning and Writing a paragraph for ‘Wind’ by Ted Hughes Lesson 8: Introduction to ‘The Moon’ by Robert Louis Stevenson Lesson 9: Planning an assessment response on ‘The Moon’. Lesson 10: Writing an analytical paragraph on ‘The Moon’ Lesson 11: Paragraph Improvement Lesson (with teacher feedback sheet)