Romeo and Juliet super abridged scheme of workQuick View
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Romeo and Juliet super abridged scheme of work

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When conventional abridged versions just aren’t concise enough. This should be the entire play, which I reacted heavily for a Y9 bottom set. Each scene and its questions should take no more than one lesson to work through. I also include the PPT which features a range of starters - usually either a wordsearch or cloze summary.
Pride and Persuasive writing - on Pride & Prejudice and Regency SocietyQuick View
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Pride and Persuasive writing - on Pride & Prejudice and Regency Society

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Like worksheets? Read on. A colourful exercise for creative writing and persuasive writing that can also serve as your Pride and Prejudice context lesson for the week (my school likes to double-up like that!). This lesson asks pupils to imagine they are either Wickham or Kitty and write an affectionate, persuasive letter. To help inform the letters, I have included for you an attractive note on Regency society - which we had covered the day before. I am also including a differentiated version that gives your lower ability pupils a writing frame.
V For Vendetta Reading Comprehension 3: Dystopia, Propaganda, making inferencesQuick View
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V For Vendetta Reading Comprehension 3: Dystopia, Propaganda, making inferences

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The third worksheet in my series asks students to make links between personalities and events and engage with the dystopian idea of restricting liberal thought. Questions are pitched to exercise KS3/4 reading skills and can be used to develop students analytical techniques while engaging them visually. To be read in conjunction with the 2005 edition of the novel published by Vertigocomics.com
Romeo and Juliet: reputation, duels and sex - the theme of honour in Elizabethan societyQuick View
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Romeo and Juliet: reputation, duels and sex - the theme of honour in Elizabethan society

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Don't begin teaching R&J without this engaging context lesson on the theme of honour. Students will learn how men were drunk with the idea of outward reputation and how women had little power beyond driving men to the madness of lusty revenge. You will learn how honour was won and lost and what men and women could do to address insults. Read in the context of a spirited Juliet, the rakish Romeo and the reputational damage caused to Capulet.
Orwell and DystopiaQuick View
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Orwell and Dystopia

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So what is Dystopia? Find out here. Also an introduction to George Orwell and how his experiences are reflected in 1984. A few weeks' worth of resources I used to teach a public school A Level class when I was training. Definitions of Dystopia, Fascism and Communism. Quotations from academics and various sources about propaganda and censorship. Also from Orwell himself about his life as a kitchen porter in Paris and the birth of his communist leanings. Make sure you read the notes because some slides are pupil-led analytical exercises. I must thank the creator of the image on the front pages but it's a hypnotic way to introduce each of the lessons.
V For Vendetta Reading Comprehension 1Quick View
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V For Vendetta Reading Comprehension 1

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Around 15 minutes worth of comprehension questions based on the opening pages of the 2005 ed of the Graphic novel. Engage your students with this arresting book and develop reading comprehesion skills. Our lesson objective was to look at the issue of sexual abuse, so the worksheet raises these issues. One of a series of worksheets I will be releasing on V For Vendetta.
V For Vendetta Speaking and ListeningQuick View
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V For Vendetta Speaking and Listening

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The latest in my series of worksheets asks students to match early scenes from the graphic novel (published by Vertigo) to descriptors of good and bad conversation techniques. Works best in A3 and you'll need scissors, glue and up to around 30 mins.
RAP meets Regency - Fetty Wap and Pride And PrejudiceQuick View
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RAP meets Regency - Fetty Wap and Pride And Prejudice

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Having trouble encouraging streetwise students to turn from Youtube to Jane Austen? Combine them both! A differentiated package of resources asking students to identify the Regency equivalent of language used in the song "679". Most engaging if you print this in colour and on A3.
Pride and Prejudice - Rap meets RegencyQuick View
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Pride and Prejudice - Rap meets Regency

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Update your literature lessons, prove you're relevant to today's world and keep your street cred "on fleek". It's best if you stick the two pages together to create an A3 size, since we are asking students to link various quotations from "Pride & Prejudice" with some of the lyrics of the Fetty Wap song "679". Check the quotations since none of the language will land you in hot water with the aunts at your school - that said it worked for us. An fun way to revisit some of the events in the novel for around 10-15 mins. Includes bonus differentiated version.