This is a lesson aimed at MPA - HPA students focusing on improving their descriptive writing technique. The topic is the contemporary video game ‘CyberPunk 2077’ which aids engagement with boys particulary. The theme of the imagery is futuristic and dystopian. Each task has an extension / stretch challenge for HPA’s. There is an intial focus on the writing technique of ‘show not tell’ with examples / models. There are optional YouTube links included to provoke creativity, thought and immersiveness in the dystopian world. Ways to approach extended descriptive writing is included with a model plan. Furthermore there is examples of low band responses identifying language devices as well as a top band response. Finally their is oppurtunity to to demonstrate their knowledge of skills learnt through an’exam style’ question. A support sheet is included for those students who would beenfit from further ideas to include.

A complete lesson resource that draws upon social media personality ‘Rupi Kaur’ who writes relatively short and accesible poems based on world culture, topical events and issues. This lesson looks to break down the barriers to poetry that some students may have and explore the zeitgeist issue of immigration. Authorial context is explored as well as annotation prompts for the poem. Reflection / plenary considers more of Rupi Kaur’s fantastic poetry to promote cultural capital.

A useful resource to demonstrate to students how they can use the source / extract for AQA Paper and use this to continue the narrative forward. Question 5’s narrative prompt will be in someway thematically linked to the provided source material and so being able to continue the story (as the model shows) can help break writer’s block in a pressured exam situation. Student’s could annotate the response using the mark scheme (A05&A06) for success and potential improvements. Source is from 2019 Exam Series. Glossary is extended and provided and foot of model response.

Based on the recently released HBO dystopian show (inspired by the video game franchise) this lesson aimed at KS4 MPA-HPA seeks to further demonstrate through a sytopian theme how to incorporate effective linguisitc devices, push past the limitations of an internal image, provide exam advice, support technical accuracy (with a focus on comma- splicing) whilst the plenary pushes the importance of sophisticted vocabulary on crafting student’s content and organising their ideas.

A complete lesson resource that provides exam advice on A05 and A06 reiterating the timings and the need to proof read work. It is themed around the ‘Jurrasic World’ trilogy of films with a starter asking students to develop their ideas from an image as a starting point for their creative writing. There is a cautionary slide there makes students aware of veering to far off the image or including ‘ridiculous’ ideas. The main activity focuses on the structure of writing ‘exposition’ ‘zooming in’ etc and explores how to approach images through a suggested ‘quadrant’ technique. The plenary looks at Michael Critchon’s original novel Jurrasic Park and how students can develop this further.

This resource is designed to be printed as an A3 resource to be used in classrooms and common areas to expose and remind students to some of the key quotations for the English Literature text ‘A Christmas Carol’. There are 10 quotations for the text, each dual-coded with interesting and relevant imagery to spark memorisation of key words / phrases. For each quote there is an accompanying slide which contextualises (places) the quote in the story and then offers some further explanation or language anaylsis.

A complete lesson that can be used to drive engagement across KS3-Ks4 and support students in understanding how they can develop their writing using images as a ‘springboard’ for their ideas. The lesson question focuses on being able to effectively establish mood and atmosphere by using assessment for learning and extended writing to consolidate skills learnt with an included colour thesaurus.

A complete lesson resource initially exploring authorial / historical context before using question prompts to analyse and annotate the poem in detail. Aimed at HPA students the 2nd lesson focuses on providing more complex ideas around structure and patriarchy before showing how the poem could be compared to Ozymandias.