Full unit of work aimed at high ability year 8 on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Contains reading and writing assignments. Builds to reading assessments.

Interview lesson on Curley's wife

A lesson teaching how the opening of a story can be made engaging. Textual analysis included at end of lesson to enhance understanding of how structure and language is used. High ability KS4

Grid for revision purposes

Could be suited to y9 to y11. It focuses on how language is used and then begins to look at how horror conventions are created. Ideal end of term pair of lessons which could be extended into a full writing assessment.

A lesson aimed at high ability KS4 on writer’s style and voice. It uses analysis of song lyrics before moving onto an autobiography where students can use it as an example to write their own.

Can be used for KS3 or KS4. Based on sensory language using pictures of monsters around Manchester

Y 7 poetry unit - all activities included

Resource on writing for year 10/11

Full unit of war poetry aimed at high ability KS3 using both reading and writing skills.