AQA A Level English Lit My Boy Jack full SOW

Full SOW to teach ‘My Boy Jack’ act 1. I use these sheets so that the lessons can be delivered in a seminar form - we sit around and discuss rather than delivering through a powerpoint. I also finds it helps support students with folder organisation and those who miss a lesson can simply take the print out. In general the lessons will last across 2-3 hours, depending on whether you have double lessons or not. There is a range of tasks to support reading, essay writing and analysis. Suitable for learning at home.

I delivered these lessons after teaching WW1 Unseen Prose (I have this SOW available here too) so the students had quite an assured contextual basis. I also asked them to read the text across a half term and watch the film version (available on Youtube). These lessons begin by looking in depth at the context (Kipling’s pro-war poetry and recruitment speeches; Jack Cornwall in the Battle of Jutland) and then work through the play. Relevant context is included in the sheets, with a range of activities to support analysis and essay writing.

All lessons contain home work tasks, both mandatory and optional extensions.