A complete 19 lesson scheme of work with a GCSE style assessment at the end of the unit. Designed with a Year 9 group in mind. Each lesson is an hour long, with guided reading, tasks and assessed written work throughout with clear success criterias.

A lesson planned for an observation, focusing on Question 2 of the English IGCSE. LO – to apply our understanding of question two and create a response to an exam question. There are a range of resources provided as well as a lesson plan which will just need details and differentiation filled in.

This lesson looks at different versions of the Hansel and Gretel tale.

Two year 8 lessons designed for an Ofsted visit. The first lesson concerns understanding the importance of Remembrance and understanding the poem. The second lesson is focused around analysing the language. Group work. Peer assessment. Success criteria. Independent research. SMSC and British Values included.

A lesson focusing around the context of vampires in literature in preparation for studying Calcutt's play of Dracula. It is a group research based lesson, where students will work in groups to work through the various research pods. They will then write a paragraph about context which will be peer assessed. Delivered to a high ability year 7 group.

This is entire scheme of work with 14 fully resourced hour lessons, 5 half hour lessons, which include dedicated improvement time, an assessment as well as homework to set weekly. There is also an overview of the scheme with specified tasks to mark, as well as peer assess and self assess. Each lesson includes self starters, a main task or three and a plenary. SMSC is also referred to. This is pretty much a download and deliver scheme. It was written for a high ability year 7 but could easily be used for year 8 too. I have included a brief overview on the first 6 lessons below. 1 - To understand the unit of work and the context. Students will create targets for the next scheme of work based on AO2 and AO4 of the GCSE language assessment objectives. They will also work in groups to answer questions about the context of the play. Resources - PowerPoint. Target sheets. Research pack. 2 - To analyse language. Students will examine an extract from the original Dracula text and write a PEEE paragraph about the way that Stoker has presented the character. PEEE paragraph to be marked. Resources - PowerPoint. Dracula extract. 3 - To analyse language and make predictions based on the text. Students will examine the prologue of the text and draw conclusions about Dracula. There is also a discussion about the importance of perspectives as they will compare this presentation of Dracula to that of Stoker. Resources - PowerPoint. Dracula texts. 4 - To understand and analyse Scene 1. Students will read the first scene of the play as a group. There is quite a lot of discussion in this lesson about drawing conclusions from the text. Resources - PowerPoint. 5 - To understand the scene and the feelings of the characters Students will read the second scene in the play. They will then need to write a letter from Mina to Jonathon for which there is a success criteria. Letter to be marked. Resources - PowerPoint. 6 - To understand and summarise Act 1. Students will read scenes 3 and 4 of Act 1. They will be introduced to foreshadowing. They will summarise the act and discuss the effect of having two stories running parallel. Resources - PowerPoint.

A fourteen lesson long scheme of work focusing thematically on the idea of Ireland. Students will examine fiction, nonfiction texts and poetry whilst carrying out language analysis tasks, transactional writing and collaborative work. Clear focus on the Edexcel assessment objectives. A menu of homeworks is also included. SMSC in all lesson. All lessons have a self starter, main tasks and plenaries.

A 17 lesson long scheme of work linked to the idea of road trips. Topics covered include poetry, nonfiction and imaginative writing. SMSC in every lesson. Differentiated learning objectives in every lesson. Clear links to the Edexcel English Language and Literature assessment objectives. There is also a homework menu.

6 half hour lessons on developing skills for writing an article for AQA section B.

This is a scheme of work based around the theme of the sea. Texts examined include poetry, non-fiction text, 20th century texts and Shakespeare. There are also creative writing tasks, as well as analysis, and the opportunity for a speaking and listening assessment. Each lesson, of which there are 16 hour long ones, is fully resourced with a PowerPoint and various extracts. There are also 4 half hour long lessons which are also resourced in this way. There are 6 dedicated improvement time lessons. There are 2 easy to follow, fully resourced cover lessons. The final assessment, which is included, is linked to the Edexcel 9-1 style and includes an appropriately adapted mark scheme. This was delivered to a middle ability year 8 group but would also be suitable for year 9. The overall scheme of work is included with the pieces of work suitable for assessment clearly indicated. An example from the SoW 1 - To understand the importance of assessment objectives. - Students are to try to draw a sea monster. It’ll then be peer assessed against a criteria that they haven’t seen prior to drawing. Students will need to translate AO2 and AO5 which are the focuses of this SOW. Resources - Table of assessment objectives. PowerPoint. 2 - To identify the use of literary devices. Students will watch a video which shows a range of devices in popular Disney songs. They will then complete a card sort which also allows them to fill in the blanks, the number of blanks being dependent on their ability. Students will then have to annotate an extract from The Little Mermaid, identifying various devices. Students will then discuss with the person next door to them why the writer might have chosen to do certain things. This allows for differentiation as you can clear the contents of the appropriate boxes to provide more challenge for more able students, who will have to fill in the boxes themselves. Resources - The Little Mermaid extract. PowerPoint. Card sort. 3 - To understand a 19th Century text. Students will watch a visual film of the beginning of The Fisherman and his Soul. They will have to try and interpret the narrative. Then read the first part of the story together. Students will then have to look up the words that they don’t understand, which they should have made a note of whilst reading. Students then have three questions to answers about a short extract from the text. Resources - Copies of The Fisherman and his Soul (not the whole story, just the first bit). Dictionaries (or their phones). PowerPoint.

Complete scheme of work for Romeo and Juliet, fully resourced with 27 lessons. Includes assessments - a baseline, a mid cycle and a final assessment.

Resources appropriate for online learning. There are 12 lessons. There is a home learning booklet for those who do not have access to technology at home. With printing costs in mind, each of the lessons in the home learning booklet take up half an A4 sheet. The lessons were designed with online learning in mind and I have delivered them via Google Meet and had students respond to questions in the chat box. Students focus on a different skill each lesson which is linked to a short extract from a text which they will examine before their writing task. The work covered independently and in the online lessons matches up so no student, no matter how they engage in the learning, misses out.