4 PSHE lessons on wellbeing. The focus is mental health, becoming mindful, learning how to identify and control emotions, and learning how to deal with cyberbullying.

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: 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 Homework Sheet 1: Creating a Dystopia Worksheet Homework Sheet 2: Dystopian Verbs

These 3 lessons allow students to understand the context behind the play ‘Dara’, and act out the first two scenes of play. Students will also be trained to answer GCSE style questions/complete analysis tasks in order to prepare for a component 1 paper (the 2020 Cambridge IGCSE past paper).

Lesson one: Introduction to the dystopian genre, key concepts and terms Lesson two: Understanding Dystopian character archetypes Lesson three: Context behind dystopian fiction (understanding the link between history and literature)

This scheme of work focuses on the first two questions of the AQA Language Paper 1. In these lessons, students are given the necessary knowledge and resources to be able to answer both of these questions confidently. Texts included in these practice questions include: Stephen King’s ‘IT’ Peter Benchley’s ‘Jaws’ Khaled Hosseini’s ‘The Kite Runner’ Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’ Tolkein’s ‘Lord of The Rings’

11 SPAG lessons with a focus on: Introduction to using basic punctuation Using commas and how to ‘pause’ in sentences Using colons when listing Using discourse markers correctly Sentence and word types Hyphens, en and em dashes Advanced punctuation (using speech marks and semi-colons. There is an end of unit quiz attached for students to consolidate their learning at the end of the scheme. One lesson includes an easy ‘tick off’ teacher feedback sheet, all lessons include opportunity for purple pen reflection or peer reviews.

Lesson One: Introduction to the elements of Detective Fiction, research into Arthur Conan Doyle Lesson Two: Interactive lesson on Victorian true crime, and Victorian crime detection techniques Lesson Three: Introduction to the character of Sherlock Holmes with accompanying ‘casefile’ resource and quiz, creative main task and reflection opportunity.