A revision lesson on ‘An Inspector Calls’ characters.

A lesson exploring how Jane Eyre is a feminist figure within literature. Involves a knowledge organiser recap starter and the handout is provided. This lesson is focused on the rejection of St John’s proposal. There is a recap and a movie clip to situate students within the novel. Tasks revolve around prompting students to make links between Jane’s rejection of the proposal with her values and ideas of breaking out of traditional stereotypes. This all encourages students to make contextual links with what life was like in Victorian times. Tasks include formal writing, creating time lines of events and character profiles. There are opportunities for open discussion and the development of students own opinions.

A lesson on gender and power in regards to Mr. Rochester and Jane’s relationship. Involves looking closely at their relationship by looking at the language of how Mr. Rochester speaks to Jane and what he calls her etc. Involves a clip to show students an example from the film to help understanding. Contextual links to feminism to deepen student’s understanding.

Lesson on ‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Bronte. The lesson begins with a clip of the wedding and a recap task. Then the lesson focuses on Jane’s reaction to Mr. Rochester already having a wife; Bertha Mason. Reading the passage in the text would be useful here, however I’ve provided extracts so the text isn’t necessary for this lesson. The lesson focuses on closely analysing the extracts with the help of a handout sheet that breaks everything down, prompting with questions.

A lesson on persuasive writing that can stand alone or follow on from the previous lesson. Involves reading two different articles and understanding the concept of for and against. Encourages them to identify what the article is arguing. The articles focus on the homework debate of whether or not it is needed. I’ve provided links to the articles online as well as handouts. The lesson finishes with a chance for the students to argue persuasively about the topic of social media and teenagers.

Persuasive writing lesson which allows students the opportunity to identify persuasive techniques in different pieces of writing. The lesson is scaffolded to support the student, firstly through looking at a small paragraph of persuasive writing to progressing to looking in great detail at Emma Watson’s UN speech on gender equality. The lesson then finishes with them having the opportunity to have a go at their own piece of persuasive writing. This task is focused around them persuading their headteacher to allow them to go on a school trip.

Descriptive writing lesson involving tasks that scaffold the student to be able to write descriptively independently. Follows the ‘I do, we do, you do’ model leading on from the previous lesson or works as a stand alone lesson. Involves improving a piece of writing as a class, then independently improving some writing. This helps encourage them to be able to spot the qualities of good descriptive writing which they can apply in their own. They have the opportunity to get creative and there are prompts provided. The lesson finishes with them evaluating one another’s creative pieces.

A lesson on descriptive writing aimed at key stage three. Includes a task on identifying literary techniques in a model answer as well as prompts for a descriptive writing task.