A full lesson designed for a mixed ability Year 9 group (which could also be used with a Year 10 group), focused on the historical context of ‘Animal Farm’ The lesson is focus on skills such as making links between the text and historical events as well as practising PEEL paragraphs. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson designed for a mixed ability Year 9 group (which could also be used with a Year 10 group), focused on analysing chapter 1 of ‘Animal Farm’ The lesson is focus on skills such as character analysis, identifying useful quotations as well as creative writing and sophisticated vocabulary. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson designed for a mixed ability Year 9 group (which could also be used with a Year 10 group), focused on analysing chapter 3 of ‘Animal Farm’ The lesson is designed to teach skills such as creative writing, comprehension skills as well as helping students develop their ability to compare characters. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson designed for a mixed ability Year 9 group (which could also be used with a Year 10 group), focused on analysing chapter 4 of ‘Animal Farm’ The lesson is designed to teach skills such as creative writing, including formal reports, as well as skills including how to analyse a writer’s use of characterisation. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson designed for a mixed ability Year 9 group (which could also be used with a Year 10 group), focused on analysing chapter 5 of ‘Animal Farm’ The lesson is designed to teach skills such as comprehension, writing PEEL paragraphs and understanding events within the chapter. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson designed for a mixed ability Year 9 group (which could also be used with a Year 10 group), focused on analysing chapter 6 of ‘Animal Farm’ The lesson is designed to teach skills such as comprehension, writing PEEL paragraphs and understanding narrative perspectives as well as ideas such as patriotism and jingoism. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson designed for a mixed ability Year 9 group (which could also be used with a Year 10 group), focused on analysing chapter 7 of ‘Animal Farm’ The lesson is designed to teach skills such as close language analysis, writing PEEL paragraphs and how to identify persuasive language. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson designed for a mixed ability Year 9 group (which could also be used with a Year 10 group), focused on analysing chapter 2 of ‘Animal Farm’ The lesson is focus on skills such as discussion and debate, literary techniques like foreboding as well as introducing a homework to set students up to work on the historical context of the novella. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson designed for a mixed ability Year 9 group (which could also be used with a Year 10 group), focused on analysing chapter 8 of ‘Animal Farm’ The lesson is designed to teach skills such as close language analysis, writing PEEL paragraph and checking comprehension. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson designed for a mixed ability Year 9 group (which could also be used with a Year 10 group), focused on analysing chapter 10 of ‘Animal Farm’ The lesson is designed to teach skills such as close language analysis, symbolism and how to structure PEEL paragraphs too. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson designed for a mixed ability Year 9 group (which could also be used with a Year 10 group), focused on analysing chapter 9 of ‘Animal Farm’ The lesson is designed to teach skills such as close language analysis, emotive language and creative writing skills. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson designed to support students in writing creatively, using the gothic genre as a basis for inspiration. Aimed at a high-ability Year 7 group, the PowerPoint could be easily adapted for other levels. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson designed to support students in analysing Conan Doyle’s use of clues towards the start of the story. Aimed at a high-ability Year 8 group, the PowerPoint could easily work with a Year 9 class too. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson designed to support students in analysing Conan Doyle’s use of settings and suspense in ‘The Adventure of the Speckled Band’. Aimed at a high-ability Year 8 group, the PowerPoint could easily work with a Year 9 class too. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson designed to support students in analysing Conan Doyle’s characterisation of Dr Roylott in ‘The Adventure of the Speckled Band’, which focuses particularly on his meeting with Holmes and Watson. Aimed at a high-ability Year 8 group, the PowerPoint could easily work with a Year 9 class too. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson designed to support students in understanding Conan Doyle’s use of structure in ‘The Adventure of the Speckled Band’, designed to be used once reading and initial analysis of the short story has been completed. Aimed at a high-ability Year 8 group, the PowerPoint could easily work with a Year 9 class too. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson to introduce students to ideas and features of detective fiction. Aimed at a high-ability Year 8 group, the PowerPoint could easily work with a Year 9 class too. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson designed to support students in writing creatively, using the gothic genre as a basis for inspiration. Aimed at a high-ability Year 7 group, the PowerPoint could be easily adapted for other levels. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson designed to support students in improving their narrative writing skills, using the gothic genre as a basis for inspiration. Aimed at a high-ability Year 7 group, the PowerPoint could be easily adapted for other levels. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!

A full lesson designed for a mixed ability Year 9 group (which could also be used with a Year 10 group), combining both analysis and creative writing on Marley’s Ghost in ‘A Christmas Carol’ This lesson is part of a full scheme of work on ‘A Christmas Carol’ (15 lessons - 56 slides), available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12664140 All page number references use the ISBN edition: 979-8358775039, although other editions may be used with the lesson, as there are also quotations to indicate where it may be useful to pause reading the narrative with the class. Please leave a rating and comment for this resource after purchase - it really helps teachers connect with great classroom materials!