Storm on the Island lesson planQuick View
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Storm on the Island lesson plan

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Planned for a top set but could be adapted. There is a concealed hyperlink on the second slide - clicking on the picture opens a link to a reading of the poem from the BBC website (with a slight Irish accent). My class were given a brief biography from a poetry website to find their own contextual information.
Marilyn Monroe in Blood BrothersQuick View
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Marilyn Monroe in Blood Brothers

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This resource looks at the references to Marilyn Monroe throughout Blood Brothers and uses context and biographic details to link her to the characters and how their situations are similar to her own life.
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Romeo and Juliet Act 3 scene 2

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Using wordles to demonstrate the clear difference in Juliet's language use between the beginning and end of this scene. Students need to plot a graph showing the changes and pinpointing the key lines to annotate the changes in direction on their graph.
Revising for the GCSE poetry anthologyQuick View
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Revising for the GCSE poetry anthology

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This is a lesson I taught to help my year 10 class revise the first 6 poems in the AQA power and conflict section of the anthology. The revision activities were run as a carousel with 6 minutes per activity (1 minute to read the instructions and 5 minutes on the activity). Pupils were encouraged to try activities which were different to ones they had done before and then took away resources at the end of the lesson to continue their revision independently. These activities could be applied to several texts.
Scrooge: Before and AfterQuick View
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Scrooge: Before and After

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Worksheet with quotations from Stave 1 of A Christmas Carol where students need to find quotes suitable for comparison from Stave 5
Lesson on 'Remains' by Simon ArmitageQuick View
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Lesson on 'Remains' by Simon Armitage

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A run through of the context for Remains and some suggested questions to encourage discussion of the poem as part of studying the AQA GCSE Poetry Power and Conflict cluster. Additional content links are in the notes section.