Background and initial introduction to the play for new A Level, geared towards OCR but can be used for anyone wanting to study the play. 18 slides with information on social and historical context, themes, Well Made Play, features of Naturalistic Drama, focus on initial scene and stage directions. Some tasks including homework for students.

Poetry of WW1 wordsearch with authors and many famous ideas and poems

Suitable for Year 7 or 8. RSPCA leaflet about Billy is included with the ppt Introduction to some persuasive techniques such as emotive language. Match up the persuasive techniques with the definition and find examples in the text. Questions on the text Design your own leaflet for an animal shelter in your own town.

15 slides whole lesson and HW Mind-maps on quotes Questions on Utterson and Hyde Discussion of fog/setting/pathetic fallacy Example paragraph on setting with sentence starters Creative writing HW Colourful and attractive slides suitable for all teachers, but designed with ECT or cover teacher in mind so can go in and have lesson ready for students to go with little planning to do. Easy to adapt. See my other J&H lessons which I am uploading chapter by chapter Bargain price to help ECTs

21 words to find in wordsearch Starter or fun activity

Questions on the poem by writer Wilfred Owen. From my KS3 unit on war poetry

Creative writing - plannng and imagining what it is like to become homeless and where someone might end up and what they might experience. Example paragraph and ideas used Can be used with schemes of work for Stone Cold, Buddy etc, or any other story where a character has to run away. Or as a one off piece of writing.

2 x A4 question sheets on Charles Dickens' classic short story 'The Signalman'. Questions are based on the first section of the story, encouraging students to think about initial impressions of the setting and the character of the Signalman Plus wordsearch

Make our non fiction writing more interesting using adverbs. Students can pick from the list or choose one adverb per sentence of their own.

Questions on the poem Article on the effects of shellshock Poem is on a word document as well

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Starter for KS2/3 Lower level learners or entry level students. Common nouns My low ability students did these on a B&W copy first, then copied onto a colour copy and made a poster with autumn leaves with similes on each leaf, looked lovely

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Lessons 1 and 2 in a half term unit on non fiction writing. Enough for two hours, maybe more. Was made for a Year 8 class at KS3, but can be used for KS4 as well. 16 slides with nice presentation Revision on audience and purpose and different examples of how to write formally, with some examples which the students can critique and make suggestions. Two main writing tasks included. Improve the letter from the student who wants a place at the school. Names and ideas can be tweaked to suit your class. Main writing task - write a formal letter to Boris Johnson about improving a social issue in your local community. Examples of how to write the letter.

True story where the crewmates kill the cabin boy

Shakespeare’s play

Two one hour lessons on the ice-skating extract from The Prelude by Wordsworth Focusing in on quotations, techniques used. Fill in grid with quote explanation Beautiful presentation in winter colours Mind map the picture of the frozen lake and write creatively

Lovely lesson looking at how three writers describe fog in their poetry and prose Bleak House Oscar Wilde T.S. Eliot Whole lesson with questions on the extracts and a picture of smog in London as inspiration for own descriptive writing Example of how to start description Colourful and attractive slide show 9 pages Easily adapted, can be used as one off lesson or cover work as well

A beautiful copy of the poem, plus questions on a powerpoint. Was designed as an independent task for low ability Year 10. Can be used for KS3 as well.

wordsearch on Terror Kid the novel