This lesson explores Lord of the Flies context and introduces students to the underlying themes of the novel. The lesson looks at a Banksy image an refers this back to the novel, it asks students to look at various book covers and infer what the novel might be about, it also explores context of William Golding and looks at the Coral Island as his inspiration. Students are also asked to consider the nature vs nurture approach. In the second lesson students read the first chapter of the book and consider what makes a good leader and do a brief character analysis. These are two full lessons that can be used with students or as a revision lesson.

This online virtual library contains over 250 books for students to read. By clicking on a book cover students will be directed to a pdf version of the text. This is a great way to encourage reading within school, providing students with a wide range of reading material and promoting reading for pleasure.

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.