A full SOW for the ‘Noughts and Crosses’ play for year 9. 21 lessons including a knowledge organiser and assessment.

A full 24-lesson scheme of work, studying Malorie Blackman’s ‘Noughts and Crosses’. Accompanied with lesson by lesson resources, the scheme covers the reading of the entire novel, as well as relevant and varied activities.

This resource booklet contains a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of Malorie Blackman’s ‘Noughts and Crosses.’ Teachers have found them particularly useful in comprehension or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the KS3 expectations within the National Curriculum framework. Children have found these resources extremely engaging, and for teachers there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They also relate to key extracts, characters, and themes from the story, ensuring that children gain a deep understanding of the text. Activities within the booklet include: ‘Blackman’s Description’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Know how language, including figurative language, vocabulary choice, grammar, text structure and organisational features, present meaning.’ ‘Callum McGregor Character Profile’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Study setting, plot, and characterisation, and the effects of these.’ ‘Context: Jim Crow Laws’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Know the purpose, audience and context of the writing and drawing on this knowledge to support comprehension.’ ‘Vocabulary Inspector’ - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: ‘Learn new vocabulary, relating it explicitly to known vocabulary and understanding it with the help of context and dictionaries.’ Plus many, many more activities (the booklet is 23 pages in length!) I’ve also added it as a PDF in case the formatting differs on your computer. All images are licensed for commercial use.

This is a full scheme of work for the novel Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman. The scheme was designed for mixed ability yr 8 so covers all levels - the challenge levels are built within each lesson and may be good for year 9 too. We do AQA at KS4 and this scheme aims to introduce students to the type of questions they can expect to see when they reach this stage. The scheme takes context into consderation in preparation for the transition into GCSE and requires students to discuss some provocative and comtemoporary topics. The students responded incredibly well to this and were very passionate in their conversations. As the book is quite long, there are chapter summaries built in throughout. There are page numbers linked to the reading of the more essential chapters (These are taken from the black cover with rainbow coloured font). There is a Takeaway Homework to go with this scheme along with assessment lessons and BOOST lessons (or DIRT to some schools) The lessons have levelled outcomes and levelled challenges throughout. The scheme covers a variety of topics and covers many elements of SMSC in schools. There are 21 lessons and additional assessment lessons (These are floating so you may add them in when you need them). The lessons are titled as follows: Introduction Prejudice Quote Hunt Structure Freedom Fighters Little Rock Privilege Formal Letters Reading and Retrieving Lynette and Callum Tension IRA and Manchester Arena BOOST (DIRT to some- opportunity to improve marked assessment piece) The Trial Capital Punishment Jude's persusuaive techniques The Betrayal Summative assessment The Escape Finale Overview

Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman – KS3 Unit of Work Noughts and Crosses is a unit of work containing a 161-slide PowerPoint, 28 PDF worksheets and 15 lessons. This engaging scheme of work explores Malorie Blackman’s novel chapter by chapter, analysing its plot, characters, themes and language through a range of stimulating activities. Resources can be used at KS3 with either Year 8 or Year 9 depending on the ability of the students. Our unit for Noughts and Crosses includes a fully editable PowerPoint teaching resource and 28 accompanying PDF worksheets. The resource can be used to teach a whole class text or as part of a guided reading programme. Activities contained in the lessons include: Exploring the social context of Noughts and Crosses, apartheid, civil rights, the novel’s introduction, and Malorie Blackman’s motives for writing it Engaging chapter by chapter activities to consolidate understanding as learners read through the book Reading comprehension questions to assess students’ knowledge of plot, character, language, and themes - with example answers. Analysis of the characters of Sephy, Callum, Kamal, Jasmine, Meggie, Ryan, Jude, Lynette, Minnie Exploration of the key themes of friendship, racism, growing up, prejudice, privilege, love, power and social segregation Developing the key reading skills of inference and deduction Analysis of language and techniques such as effective description, creating conflict and building tension Role play - hot-seating to aid understating of characters, plot and themes Developing understanding of key characters through empathy writing tasks Plus many more fun starter, plenary and reading and writing activities

A SOW delivered to HA year 8 (though has been taught previously to mixed ability) studying the novel Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman. Students are preparing for a transactional writing assessment so there is plenty of non-fiction context too.

Eight lessons, with room for extensions, on Noughts and Crosses. These lessons explore the text practically, but also prepare pupils for Component 3 of the Eduqas GCSE Drama.

Hello All, Within this resource you will be able to access a fully planned revision session for component three of Eduqas’ Exam. This is based around the play text Noughts and Crosses. Within this file you will obtain access too: 1 Ppower Point identifying what students need to do in the exam, exam questions and modelled exemplar answers. 1 Revision Booklet filled with questions for the students to complete and general advice. 1 Exemplar booklet outlining the correct answers for the assessment questions. My resources have been published by National Drama the UK’s leading national professional association for drama teachers and I am apart of the core team of drama matters. I hope you enjoy this resource and if you need any assistance with it, please feel free to email me at ryan_coates@outlook.com. Regards, Ryan

This revision pack is suitable for the GCSE exam board Eduqas and will provide students with the necessary information for them to succeed in their final exam. This revision pack covers the following: Context, style of performance and structure When it was originally performed and original design aspects Characters Key Themes Exam Preparation- Vocal/Physical Characterisation Lighting Sound Set Costume Rehearsal Techniques Dramatic Devices Section B- Live Theatre

Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman reading comprehension. Five weeks worth of worksheet activities, including a before reading activity. The worksheets are all labelled with what chapters they cover, and the whole resource covers the prologue to chapter 31 (first half of book). All pages are easily edited, and include a variety of different tasks to help generate discussions around the pages. Can be used as homework, one off lessons or as a whole block of teaching.

This is an 18 lesson scheme of learning used with Year 9 on a carousel structure. The lessons are clear and simple to follow on the powerpoint, including links to clips and homeworks to set. Additional resources are included in the download.

2023** Now updated with more activities for Act 2** This is a full scheme of work for Noughts and Crosses (the play version), ideal for KS3, year 8/year 9 English. Included: PowerPoint with 95 slides and three different assessment options for reading, writing and speaking. Fonts used (free to download - just go to Google Fonts): [Montserrat] and [Staaliches]. Act 1 is analysed in detail, then students read through Act 2, completing some optional tasks at the end, such as review writing or an empathic monologue. Context of racism, segregation and the IRA bombing Narration task for the trailer, where students take the trailer without sound and add on their own narration Group research and presentation task Language analysis, including a model answer Drama activities including hot seating Newspaper writing task that forces students to pick a biased perspective Review writing Empathic response - taking on the voice of one character to write a monologue Preview video: https://youtu.be/Q1QDDNe2L2c

A full scheme of work (12 lessons) based on the playscript Noughts and Crosses. Students will explore the script in many different ways. They will be introduced to Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theatre. They will then use these skills to devise an assessment using inspiration/stimulus from the play and stories of BLM. Ideal for Year 9 upwards. Great for giving an insight into GCSE. Includes a Practical and Written Assessment. Includes: Full SOW PP Brecht resources cards Assessment plan template Written Evaluation template Information sheets for assessment Assessment criteria for both practical and written

36 page document that explores Drama GCSE Component 3 acting and design elements. This pack was created to be able to print out and hand to students as a revision resource, it involves worksheets for both design and acting elements to prepare them for the written paper.

A summary sheet for Malorie Blackman’s Noughts and Crosses. Including: Space for students to summarise the start/middle/end of the novel Space for students to clearly state who is a ‘Nought’ or a ‘Cross’ Key word bank to include definitions I made this as a one page revision/overview resource for my class. Lines are included on the summary sections for students who prefer some structure for their writing. I printed this onto A3 so students had lots of room to write their ideas. Great for homework, whole class revision, individual or group tasks.

Powerpoint game with noughts and crosses grids on for use with whiteboards/projectors in any Language. Describe Hair/Eye Colour & Pets, for Year 7.

This powerpoint covers the key points of the storyline of Noughts & Crosses, as well as character maps, in-depth information, key themes, genre and extra notes for students to keep in mind. The end of the powerpoint also includes a 4 , 8, 12 and 20 marker question, with example responses and examiner commentaries. I would expect this powerpoint to cover 2 -3 full lessons, possibly more if you do the example questions with your students under timed conditions within the lesson (it is 71 slides). This could also be used as a revision resource to send to students for when they are practicing or revising at home.

A full scheme of work on ‘Noughts and Crosses’ by Malorie Blackman.

Noughts and crosses game to show on whiteboard. Pupils come to front to participate in the game. Useful starter/plenary.

At least 12 double lessons which include a range of fully differentiated activities including developing reading skills, creative writing, critical thinking and speaking and listening. I used this scheme with my Year 8 class who absolutely loved this novel and this play - as well as the novel. AQA exam style extended writing questions are embedded throughout, with a focus on character and language analysis throughout. Please enjoy!

Powerpoint that gets students thinking about prejudice and what they would change about the world if they could.