An introduction to poetic form, used for extra intervention with year 11 students.
Contains a voiced over Powerpoint with key knowledge and questions.
Perfect for online learning.
Voiced over Powerpoint of a lesson that explores structure in Pixar animation ‘Piper’.
Perfect for online learning as it talks students through everything.
Ends with some creative writing and gives students chance to apply their learning.
A crossover lesson for both GCSE Language and GCSE Literature: an analysis of Squealer in Animal Farm.
Powerpoint: Supports lesson, with objectives.
Structure Worksheet: Crossword to reveal structural features used, then space to apply this knowledge.
Language Worksheet: Crossword to reveal language features used, then space to apply this knowledge.
Extract: Taken from Animal Farm.
A lesson looking at the damage done by writers’ viewpoints. The lesson uses an essay about Caroline Flack as a base for discussion, linking it to how media target audiences to achieve certain effects.
A lesson analysing how the creators of Christmas adverts meet the form, audience and purpose of their adverts.
Includes task on entry, main worksheet, Powerpoint with embedded videos.
A booklet that prepares students to explore metaphorical meanings in poems. Scaffolded for low ability students. Uses the poem ‘Wires’ by Larkin. Great for intervention.
A lesson to introduce the idea of objectivity and subjectivity in non-fiction.
Booklet and PowerPoint with chunked tasks including true/false.
Short extracts, unlike my other resource, so good for low ability, intervention or resit.
Perfect for KS3 or 4.
Good for boys, uses the Hillsborough disaster to engage in topic of football.
A perfect lesson to assess levels of writing in a class for the first time. In the style of AQA Paper 2 Question 5 and centred around the topic :
‘School should be about more than just good exam results: there should be space for hobbies, friends and your own interests.’
A whole lesson and resources practicing the AO3 comparison skill through Banksy’s ‘Dismaland’ attraction.
I have created this lesson for a high set of year 11 students, however this could be adapted for any KS across school.
The lesson focuses around comparison, firstly with photos, then videos, then texts- all surrounding Banksy’s Dismaland.
Resources:
Powerpoint: lesson with differentiated learning objectives and mark scheme for peer assessment.
Worksheets: two newspaper articles for comparison, a sheet to compare two adverts of the attraction, a grid to record language choices in the articles.
A lesson in which students consider the importance of sentence structures within their writing using video clips from Planet Earth II.
Complete with full lesson Powerpoint with differentiated learning objectives (3 levels).
Worksheet with the speech David Attenborough says, without any punctuation in. Students to punctuate as they listen to and watch the show, considering the intended effect.
This worked so well for my set 2 year 11 class and they thoroughly enjoyed the task!