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.
Lesson 1: Intro to Dystopian Environments
Lesson 2: Dystopian Character Archetypes
Lesson 3: The Context behind Dystopia
Lesson 4: Analyzing the Setting of 1984
Lesson 5: Analyzing the Character of O’Brien in 1984
Lesson 6: The Key Dystopian Concepts of 1984
Lesson 7: Intro to A Handmaid’s Tale
Lesson 8: Horrors of Gilead – HMT
Lesson 9: Aunt Lydia Analysis - HMT
Lesson 10: Intro to the Hunger Games
Lesson 11: President Snow Analysis
Lesson 12: Revolution & Rebellion in The Hunger Games
This lesson covers:
The Viking invasion (from 793)
King Cnut and his reign
Edward the Confessor’s acension to the throne
Students will complete a ‘succession timeline’, ordering the potential heirs to the throne over 4 time periods from 1016.
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.
Lesson 1: King Cnut and Æthelred the Unready, the Viking presence in England, Edward the Confessor’s early years
Lesson 2: The reign of Edward the Confessor, his relationship with Godwine, the failures of his rule.
Lesson 3: The claimants to the throne after the death of Edward the Confessor, class research and presentation task.
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
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)
Lesson 1: Focuses on England pre-1066, the reign of Cnut, and the difficulties Edward faced in his early life
Lesson 2: Explores the reign of Edward, his relatioship with Godwine, and the failures of his rule.
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 the effects of the death of Edward the Confessor, and the claimants to the throne. Students will be put into groups for a research task, and have the chance to share at the end any information they have found out about their assigned claimant to the throne.
This lesson is lesson 2 in a SOW that focuses on Norman England.
This lesson covers:
An exploration of the historical image of Edward (a pious saint)
The reality of Edward (his difficulties during the reign of Cnut and Harold Harefoot)
Edward’s relationships with Lords (in particular, Godwin)
A debate about the core reason behind the failings of Edward’s reign.
To prepare Year 10 students for a mock paper (past paper 12, IGCSE 2020 June), this lesson will introduce students to the context of the play, the key events and characters, and give them the opportunity to predict and analyse some themes of the play.
First lesson: Word of the Week and Context
Second lesson: Guided structural and poetic analysis
Third lesson: Planning and writing a critical analysis, and a 10- question multiple choice low stakes quiz.
Lesson Includes:
Activities on the word of the Week (Cultural Identity)
Coverage of context (Grace Nichols background and UK post-war immigration)
Coverage of key concepts and techniques including reconcilliation and allusion
An initial reading of a poem
Partner work, individual work, presentation opportunities and peer review
If you are currently teaching in the UAE, you might benefit from these 3 lessons on the upcoming National Day. Keep the students busy with fun activities, and a mini history lesson on the UAE, and National Day!
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.
