This Power Point lesson introduces students to setting. Each lesson contains a combination of activities, reflection and or short films to analyze. It can be used as a standalone lesson or together with the unit plan “Short Stories” which will be sold as a bundle covering a 6 week unit together with assessment.

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This PPT Short Stories introduction introduces students to what a short story is and the elements each short story has. It can be used as a stand alone lesson or used as a themed unit over a 6 week plan. The complete series will be available as a bundle in the upcoming weeks.

This Power Point lesson introduces students to plot. Each lesson contains a combination of activities, reflection and or short films to analyze. It can be used as a standalone lesson or together with the unit plan “Short Stories” which will be sold as a bundle covering a 6 week unit together with assessment.

This Power Point lesson introduces students to conflict and theme. Each lesson contains a combination of activities, reflection and or short films to analyze. It can be used as a standalone lesson or together with the unit plan “Short Stories” which will be sold as a bundle covering a 6 week unit together with assessment.

Outline: • Introduction of history and use of jewellery in ancient times • Description of symbolic meaning of BULLA. Material and production. Female jewellery, description and use. History and change of female ornaments. Precise examples of Roman famous women and their jewellers. Male ornaments, description and use of rings. Images used. Activities: • Images used. Material and production. Tale of Pompei. Short video on how to reproduce Roman coins.

This resource is a 7 week unit plan, two mid-unit assessments and a final writing assessment. Students develop a critical understanding of a contemporary novel -Chinese Cinderella. They will analyse how complex characters develop over the course of a text, and how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise. Finally they will analyse a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in the text and learn to understand the use of intertextuality

Outline: Children in ancient Rome. Differences between modern ways of dressing. Symbolic meaning of male clothing. Social values of clothing. Description of materials and production Activities: Images used. Animation on young boy life in Ancient Rome.

This worksheet lesson introduces students to characters and characterization. To be used alongside the PPT lesson Short Stories Lesson: Characters. It can be used as a standalone lesson or together with the unit plan “Short Stories” which will be sold as a bundle covering a 6 week unit together with assessment.

Outline: English Complete Lesson with Video “Chocolate Cake” to be used in conjunction with Oxford International English Book 5 Chapter 2 History, Consumption, Monetary: excellent material also for cross curricular History Activities: Discussion and Video

Ten Reading and Comprehension activities for Arab Students: Elementary Level. Written for Arab Foundation Students.

Outline: • Courage and Self-Control. Given examples of concrete and realistic situations where the choice between being courageous or self-controlled is ambiguous. Activities: • Students are stimulated to put themself in critical hypothetical situations and to take decisions.

Discover inventions : Complete lesson presentation with discussion and videos. To use as a stand alone lesson or with my other inventions slides as a Design Driven Syllabi covering six weeks. At the end pupils will have been introduced to society changing inventions then move on to researching their own inventor and elaborating an invention of their own.

Outline: • Difference and Tolerance. Different Behaviours as a possible way to do things. Given examples of multiple ways of eating and consuming food. Activities: • Discussion about when a behaviour must be considered unacceptable and when it could be accepted as just another way of living. • Video link “American children try breakfasts from around the world”

Outline: Justice, origin and meaning Is justice always just? Activities: Videos and discussion

Outline: • What was a Roman Legion? Logistics and structure. Given examples of military life in a Legion. • Stories of Caius Mucius Scaevola and Titus Manlius Torquatus to illustrate the value of discipline for a Roman soldier. Activities: • Images used. Animation on Scaevola story. Legionary equipment and weapons. Material, production and use. Short video on life of a legionary. Images used. Legionary clothing. Description and use. Story of Emperor Caligula (little shoe).

Outline: Meaning, discussion with videos

This workshop introduces students to writing short stories. It can be used as a standalone lesson or together with the unit plan “Short Stories” which will be sold as a bundle covering a 6 week unit together with assessment.