This lesson explores the language used to portray the moment of the shooting of Candy’s dog in OMAM. Easily adaptable to different year groups/abilities.

These couple of lessons explore how to analyse poetry and compare them together, paired with an A3 resourse for planning a comparison poetry response.

This lesson explores the topic of violence and male aggression through the conversation in Act 3, Scene 1 between Benvolio and Mercutio. The extract is from No Fear Shakespeare so can be easily adapted. Suitable for low to mid ability learners but, again, easily adaptable.

This lesson explores the language used in Macbeth’s monologue and exposes students to the techniques used by playwrights.

This unit comprises of four lessons, including resources, and a mini scheme of work. The lessons take students through the different elements of narrative writing, culminating in a mini assessment and reflection activity. This is aimed at high level KS3 students but can be easily adapted.

This lesson explores the language used to present Curley’s Wife. Easily adaptable for different abilities. Printouts included in the power point.

This resource explores the human condition and social commentary elements of both Romeo and Juliet and A Christmas Carol. One slide may need altering to fit the names of students in your class but overall this resource is highly adaptable and is perfect for mid to high level ability Year 10/11 students exploring these texts.

This unit of work is comprised of three lessons, exploring different elements to narrative writing. This could be adapted for any year group or key stage but was initially taught to Year 9 students. There is a small scheme of work attached that outlines the aims for each lesson.

This unit is comprised of a series of lessons that allow students to explore poetry and prose throughout the years, mainly focused around London. There is an option for students to complete a comparative poetry assessment, should you wish to use that as formative assessment, and also a piece of narrative writing. There is a variety of fun group/paired tasks as well as structured, independent learning. This can easily be adapted for various ages/key stages.

This scheme of work was designed to coincide with a topic that explored the development of technology and its impact on the subjects of English Literature and English Language. It is somewhat unfinished but there is a decent headway here and numerous useful resources, planned lessons and lesson planning documents that (for the most part) have been completed. This would work well as a remote learning scheme, as well as being taught in the classroom, and interweaves cultural capital in with content.

This resource is three lessons on three different topics of SMSC: LGBTQ+, Arranged Marriage and Radicalisation. These are one off lessons to be taught on those odd days of disruption e.g. Sports Day, etc but can definitely link to topics being studied e.g. Romeo and Juliet, narrative writing, Animal Farm, etc. Easily adaptable for any year group/key stage.

Each PowerPoint lesson contains 3 consecutive lessons so this unit of work could span across 4 weeks, on the basis that students have 3 English lessons per week. Each block of lessons explores different elements to the play ‘Blood Brothers’ including the relationships between the main characters, themes such as social class, fate and growing up and also some creative and external activities to support remote learning. This is not a fully complete unit of work as it does not span across the entirity of the play.

This unit of work explores other cultures through poetry. Students are encouraged to consider other ways of living, Religions, etc. Some of the lessons contain elements of my academy’s individual initiatives so may need adapting. Easily adapted into an SMSC unit for any year group or key stage.

This unit is comprised of four lessons, exploring different elements of narrative writing. This was initially designed for Year 10 so links in with some themes from the Power and Conflict poetry cluster. This could easily be changed and adapted to other year groups or key stages. There is also a small scheme of work included that outlines the aims of each lesson.

This unit of work is comprised of four lessons, exploring the different elements of narrative writing. This was initially created for Y8 students but can easily be adapted to other year groups or key stages. There is a short scheme of work included for those wanting to see an overview.

This lesson explores the vulnerability (or not) of various characters in ‘Of Mice and Men’. Easily adaptable for different years/abilities.

This unit is comprised of lessons that explore different elements of the novel whilst exploring some written tasks also. This can be easily adapted for different years/key stages.

This unit of work covers a range of big ideas/themes e.g. sacrifice, relationships, conflict, etc. Each lesson intertwines both English Literature texts and English Language skills in order to ensure that life skills/emotions are being studied as well as exam content. There is a range of visual/auditory tasks, as well as exam style structured activities. This could also be suitable for Year 10 students in engaging them back into the English exam curriculum after some time away from the school environment.

This is a scheme of lessons/resources designed to teach the skills of descriptive writing. This was taught to KS3 students at the beginning of the academic year 2020/2021 to account for the gap in education due to the pandemic. However, this can be easily adapted for any years.

This lesson encourages students to mirror the same tone and structure of another writer, to create a lively article. The lesson is based on opinions of Sports Day and relies heavily on visualiser/modelling work with the students. The independent task is for students to copy the same tone/structure of the HOMEWORK article by Caitlin Moran, to produce their own article on Sports Day.

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