Well-scaffolded and planned Scheme of Work for Romeo and Juliet, exploring essay writing skills and the ultimate question: ‘Who is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet?’ With lesson-by-lesson overview, homework tasks, booklet with all resources, assessment and mark scheme with model answers, and feedback lesson.
16 lessons for a full scheme of work on essay writing about Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
fully planned lessons with worksheets or extracts, as needed, compiled in a booklet
feedback lesson and tasks for checkpoint task and end of unit assessment
mark scheme tailored to the task and embedded in relevant lessons
homework tasks included
SOW overview with lesson-by-lesson breakdown and detailed notes
Fully planned scheme of work for Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus, with lesson-by-lesson overview, homework tasks assessment and mark scheme with model answers, and feedback lessons.
18 lessons for a full scheme of work on narrative methods in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus
fully planned lessons with worksheets or extracts, as needed
feedback lessons and tasks for checkpoint task and end of unit assessment
mark scheme tailored to the task and embedded in relevant lessons
homework tasks included and incorporated
SOW overview with lesson-by-lesson breakdown and detailed notes
Two Year 11 lessons revisiting the witches’ role in Macbeth, revising all three AOs for the AQA exam board for GCSE English Literature. Model answers embedded throughout.
Lesson 1: The Supernatural
Recap starter
AO1 skills through text-dependent questions to check understanding
AO1 skills of clear inferences and understanding through justifying an argument
AO1 skills of finding relevant and accurate quotes
AO1 skills of linking quotes
Green pen self-reflection tasks embedded throughout
Final written task
Lesson 2: Language Analysis and Contextual Links
Recap starter
AO2 skills of relevant and accurate language analysis
AO3 skills of applying and linking to relevant context
Model paragraph for students to self-assess
Fully planned scheme of work for Phillip Pullman’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, with lesson-by-lesson overview, assessment and mark scheme with model answers, and feedback lessons.
13 lessons for a full scheme of work on narrative creative writing in Pullman’s adaptation of Frankenstein
fully planned lessons with worksheets or extracts, as needed
feedback lessons and tasks for checkpoint task and end of unit assessment
mark scheme tailored to the task
SOW overview with lesson-by-lesson breakdown and detailed notes
Fully planned scheme of work for an extract-based unit on rhetorical techniques in Shakespeare, with lesson-by-lesson overview, assessment and mark scheme with model answers, and feedback lessons.
12 lessons for a full scheme of work on analytical writing in a variety of extracts, including MLK Jr’s ‘I Have a Dream’, Lady Macbeth, and Shylock.
fully planned lessons with worksheets or extracts, as needed
feedback lessons and tasks for checkpoint task and end of unit assessment
mark scheme tailored to the task
SOW overview with lesson-by-lesson breakdown and detailed notes
Fully planned scheme of work for extract-based Gothic creative writing unit, with lesson-by-lesson overview, assessment and mark scheme with model answers, and feedback lessons.
18 lessons for a full scheme of work on Gothic creative writing.
fully planned lessons with worksheets or extracts, as needed, compiled in a booklet
feedback lessons and tasks for checkpoint task and end of unit assessment
mark scheme tailored to the task in relevant lessons
SOW overview with lesson-by-lesson breakdown
green pen self- and peer-assessment embedded throughout the scheme
Lesson to prompt students to think about real-world issues, which can be used as part of the Spoken Langauge component for brainstorming ideas for a speech or building ideas for a debate.
Lesson 1: Abuse of Power in Leaders, Part 1 (government, politics)
Lesson 2: Abuse of Power in Leaders, Part 2 (leaders’ use of social media)
Lesson 3: Celebrity Platforms (celebrity activism)
Lesson 4: Literature as Protest
Green-pen opportunities throughout to self-assess use of complex sentence structures, centered around building an argument.
Fully planned scheme of work for unseen poetry, with lesson-by-lesson overview for a range of poems on the theme of ‘uncomfortable emotions’.
15 lessons for a full scheme of work on unseen poetry, including writing poetry and analytical writing skills (e.g. thesis statements and paragraphs).
fully planned lessons with poems added as worksheets
SOW overview with lesson-by-lesson breakdown
green pen self-assessment embedded throughout the scheme
Well-scaffolded and planned scheme of work on Animal Farm by George Orwell, focused on persuasive writing skills, culminating in speeches (like Spoken Language component at GCSE).
With lesson-by-lesson overview, homework suggestions, fully resourced, assessment and mark scheme, model answers, and feedback lessons for checkpoint and end of unit assessment.
18 lessons for a full scheme of work on persuasive speech writing skills
fully planned lessons with worksheets, model answers, extracts, etc.
feedback lessons and tasks for checkpoint task and end of unit assessment
printable mark scheme included
SOW overview with lesson-by-lesson breakdown and detailed notes
Well-scaffolded and planned scheme of work for the war poems of the Power and Conflict GCSE anthology, with lesson-by-lesson overview, homework tasks, booklet with all resources, assessment and mark scheme, model answers, and feedback lessons for checkpoint and end of unit assessment.
20 lessons for a full scheme of work on poetry comparison in the Power and Conflict anthology.
fully planned lessons with worksheets, impressive vocabulary, or model answers, as needed, compiled in a booklet
feedback lesson and tasks for checkpoint task and end of unit assessment
printable mark scheme included
homework tasks included
SOW overview with lesson-by-lesson breakdown and detailed notes
KS3 lesson on Saint George and the Dragon legend, with scaffolded tasks leading to opinion paragraph about preconceptions about what makes a villain.
Includes: PowerPoint slides, story, and model opinion paragraph embedded in PowerPoint
KS3 lesson on Medusa myth/legend, with scaffolded tasks leading to opinion paragraph about preconceptions about what makes a villain.
Includes: PowerPoint slides, story, and model opinion paragraph embedded in PowerPoint
Two Key Stage 3 lessons on language and structure in an extract from Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca.
Lesson 1: focused on analytical writing skills
differences between language and structure
worksheet, model answer, and extract
guided annotation
model answer
Lesson 2: focused on creative writing, inspired by the extract
These lessons can also be used and adapted as revision lessons for KS4, as needed!
(Full Gothic SOW can be purchased from my shop!)
Lesson to prompt students to think about how literature can act as a form of protest, which can be used as part of the Spoken Langauge component for brainstorming ideas for a speech or building ideas for a debate.