Up to chapter 50 of Noughts and Crosses - Exploring the bombing scene, linking to non-fiction Manchester bombing article and linking to resilience. Writing a poem about resilience after.

Key vocab, themes, key texts, writing tips

Retrieval and recall activity grid for practical idea to close the gaps. (9 instant ideas for recall and retrieval and links to the slides. Can copy and paste the slides to the start of your lessons and fill in the gaps. Good for use with KOs (knowledge organisers).

Couldn’t find anything like this online so made my own! Some realistic tips for highly motivated students to independenly revise english literature at GCSE.

Anaphora, Hypophora and Epiphora definition and tasks with music examples. High ability subject terminology.

Speaking and Listening Feedback Sheet Informal Language Oracy

Exploring Language and Structure through Bring up the Bodies GCSE

Engaging glossary task for the ambitious vocabulary in the short dystopian story ‘The Lottery’. Intro lesson, introducing utopia and dystopia and deep thinking about the notion of a lottery. Complete with full short story attached.

Introduction to Diverse Voices - 2 lessons on diversity for English lit - ks3. Walks through definitions, why we need diversity, videos from speakers of the BLM movement and the white privilege video.

This is part of a two-week introductory SOW for introducing female voices and female representation in literature to year 9 though it is suitable for all ks3 and possibly ks4. Starting with Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife - other lessons available for more World’s Wife poems, Duffy’s Havisham and Rupi Kaur’s Progress. All lessons link with retrieval, recall, specific method and vocab explicit teaching and a variety of engaging tasks and thought-provoking feminist notions.

A Christmas Carol Key Quotes Cards with gaps for recall. Has a page of blank cards too if you want to make your own or add extra quotes to it

Pre-assessment prep, assessment and mark scheme and post-assessment feedback ‘make a difference’ time. 3-5 hours worth. Using extracts from Noughts and Crosses. Heavy focus on WHAT/HOW/WHY approach to analysing language with scaffolding, model answers, checklists, self-assess, peer-assess.

The Highwayman: Tim the Ostler and IMAGERY, Peer Assess and Diary Entry. MEGA few lessons! ENGAGING! Group work, peer work, etc.

Reading chapter 1 of Noughts and Crosses: structure, dual narrative, knowledge organiser included.

Thirteen by Tom Hoyle - Mega introduction lesson!

Private Peaceful End of Chapter 5 questions and tasks

Scannell - Nettles: Poetry response model answers.

Exploring racism in the media. Chapter 16/17 of Noughts and Crosses.

1-2 hours of lessons on There Will Come Soft Rains - analsying and echoing the themes and style of writing to create their own writing skills.

Effects of language, methods, techniques - reader’s response - AO2 AQA.