This lesson focuses on the events and key themes in Act 4 of the play Dara. After reading the act in it’s entirety, students will have the chance to answer some comprehension questions, and reflect on the way they would stage the execution scene.

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 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.

This lesson focuses on having the students utilize the 5 senses in order to construct a solid piece of descriptive writing. Whereas this is in preparation for the Cambridge IGCSE Language Paper 1, it can be used for any exam board. E.g AQA Language Paper 1 Question 5 prep

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.

This lesson focuses on tracking events in a text and analysing structural features , using an excerpt from Voices from Chernobyl. This is one of 6 lessons uploaded with the aim of preparing students for answering Language Paper 1 Question 3.

Lesson complete with a word of the week focus (adversity), a real Titanic diary entry, and guided annotation practice. Great for An Inspector Calls context, Non-Fiction analysis or Unseen Prose practice.

This worksheet can be used during/after showing the film ‘Elf’, and having students look out for themes of cultural identity. The sheet includes: A poetry activity A movie review activity A reflection activity

This lesson explores Blake’s poem ‘London’ and the key techniques and ideas present in the poem. This is a bit of a fun take on annotation - it allows the students to, using a ‘case file’, match the techniques and key concepts to specific lines in the poem.

This lesson is half-punctuation and half-comprehension. This allows students to ‘solve the punctuation crimes’ by detecting the ‘stolen punctuation’ in a sentence. After answering some 11+ style comprehension questions, students will test their punctuation skills by writing a crime fiction piece. The lesson finalises with a peer-review.

Topic: Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’, cultural anxieties and how they affect literature, transgressive science. Lesson including resource, word of the week (transgression), key concepts and structured analysis.

Topic: Debates in Science - how far is too far? Resource: A conversation between two female scientists about the ethics of ‘designer babies’ Task: Construct a conversational piece, using the resource as inspiration. Resources included

This lesson focuses on the idea of fate, foreboding and inevitability in Romeo and Juliet. By the end of the lesson, the students will have written a critical paragraph.

This lesson focuses on tracking events in a text and analysing the change in voice/themes as the text progresses, using the lyrics from Frozen.This is one of 6 lessons uploaded with the aim of preparing students for answering Language Paper 1 Question 3.

Though this is the second lesson in my Tess scheme, it is also a stand alone lesson. The lesson focus is the pastoral and anti-pastoral, Hardy’s life, and the context of the novel. More info and tips in the preview!

This lesson is the first in a 3 lesson SOW that introduces the students to the origins of the tragic genre. In this lesson, students become familiar with vocabulary associated with the tragic genre, with a particular focus on Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex.

This lesson is part of a three lesson scheme in which students analyse the origins of the tragic genre. In this lesson, students will become familiar with the themes and characters of the play ‘Medea’.

This lesson is the third in a three lesson SOW that introduces the students to the origins of the tragic genre. In this lesson, students will become familiar with different tragic solilquies throughout history: from Antigone, to Othello, to Death of a Salesman. The students will choose to analyse one of six soliloquies, and then get into pairs so that they can present a comparative analysis.

Originally planned for intervention Y7 set, therefore would also work with Y5/6 class or LA Y7/8. This lesson introduces students to the poem ‘The Moon’ by Robert Louis Stevenson, and allows them to explore what the moon has symbolised throughout literature. Students will then find connotations of words & phrases in the poem during a guided activity. Worksheets/resources are included at the end of the slides.

This lesson was for my intervention year 7 group, and therefore is very scaffolded. This would easily work for a year 5 or 6 class. This lesson includes: Introduction to connotations Finding connotations of the word ‘romanticism’ Finding inferences in images of the Industrial Revolution, and the natural world A fact-file activity with matching resources