This PowerPoint is designed to introduce students to cultural poetry units. It goes through what culture is and what culture means to your students. It then gives a detailed unit overview as well as providing activities and homework tasks.

This is a straight forward creative writing task based around the BLM movement. This is a great activity for KS3 and KS4 classes and can also be a brilliant cover or filler lesson.

This PowerPoint goes through the poem discussing context and language techniques. This can be used as a full lesson. The PowerPoint uses the VIPERS method of analysing poetry and teaches students skills such as: Inference, explaining effects of language and thinking about writers intentions.

This is a bundle of PowerPoints that introduces students to cultural poetry. It includes the poems: Blessing, Island Man and Night of the Scorpion. The Powerpoints are designed to help students to gain skills such as: inference, thinking about the writers intentions, picking out key themes etc. All of the PowerPoints are designed as full lessons.

A lesson focused on improving students debating skills. Students look at images to improve inference skills, explore arguing both sides of an argument and what a good argument looks like.

A full lesson focusing on Romeo and Juliet Act 1 and Act 2 Romeo’s soliloquy. This is the next lesson following on from ‘Act 1’ and looks more closely at how Shakespeare presents different kinds of love. The lesson provides a dual coding activity, summaries of key parts of the play and a chance to explore Romeos soliloquy and comparing this to Juliet’s speech.

A full lesson exploring Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet. Explores the downfalls of both Romeo and Juliet, Includes a quick fire test and a chance to explode a quote that has been preselected to give learners the opportunity to explore and analyze Shakespeare’s language.

This resource contains seven weeks worth of home learning tasks aimed at KS3 students. The theme follows Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rodes with each week of home learning containing three unique tasks that include dual coding, essay style questions or language terminology focus. This is sure to save you time planning and this resource could also be used as a stretch and challenge or extension activity for learners.

This lesson focuses on chapter nine and ten in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. The resource contains multiple comprehension activities. Learners will look at Simon’s character, how leadership changes on the island and respond to an essay style question, explore metaphors in the novel and complete a dual coding/symbolism activity. With seventeen slides worth of activities, there is something for everyone to enjoy.

Three fully planned lessons that center on creative writing. A lovely introduction to ‘A Monster Calls’ scheme of work or as a fun creative writing project for your students. The first lesson looks at Monsters in Literature, the second lesson looks at creating a monster and the final lesson brings everything together when students compare their own creations to those in literature.

This resource contains two worksheets. One that students can use to practice their spellings either at home or in school with their teacher and another to complete a ten word spelling test. This resource can be used by any teacher in any grade to help students with their spellings.

A lesson covering The Lord of the Flies - Sound of the Shell. This lesson covers: An analysis on a description of the island. Language anlaysis of utopia and dystopia. Two essay style questions with guidance. Key quotation analysis.

A revision mat for the topic Lord of the Flies. This covers: Key quotes Key themes Characters Setting

A map of the island created by William Golding for The Lord of the Flies. The map depicts key areas in the island and can be used to plot key quotes onto as a revision activity.

Lord of the Flies pre reading discussion activity. Students are encouraged to think about rules and how they impact those around them. A great conversation starter or introduction to the book.

An article on the late Queen Elizabeth alongside comprehension questions. A great activity for tutor time or a quick reading session for students. This is also a lovely way to remember the Queen and can be used as a whole school literacy activity or home learning.

A worksheet focusing on how the character of Sheila is presented in an Inspector Calls.

A Long Way Down quotes to analyse and examine with students. Students have multiple prompts to help them with analysing the quotes given.

This is made as a PowerPoint to celebrate National Poetry Day but could also be used for tutor time literacy, intervention work or as a fun poetry club activity. Students are asked to look at circle poems with the theme of the environment in mind. This is a fun and versatile activity for all students.

A worksheet focusing on analysisng quotes which show Jack and Ralph’s relationship in chapter four of Lord of the Flies.