Top set year 10 -exploring the presentation of The Ghost of Christmas Past. Model essay, with worksheets to foster independent analysis. Some resources taken from other TES users.

getting students to practice AFOREST with room 101.

exploring the opening stage directions - very weak class.

A lesson exploring and analysing key ideas in Act 1, Scene 5. This lesson really supports low ability students in grasping the key concepts of this character. I have also included a version of the grid with my teaching notes to help. Starter is a gap fill after reading the scene - with a differentiated version for really weak students. Prior to this lesson, I did a whole lesson on women in Tudor/Jacobean England - really helped with understanding this character in this lesson.

A lesson that has been heavily adapted from TES - exploring the speech of Greta Thurnberg in preparation for end of unit assessment.

adapted from resources on tes. lesson looking at how to approach an unseen poem. Worked really well at getting them to think about implicit meaning.

Who's for the game

LA Y9 - part of a series in a scheme. Spent first half of the lesson finishing off reading chapter 3 with lots of directed questioning. They had to see if they could spot any propaganda techniques learnt in previous lesson, and anywhere where they could see potential foreshadowing. they then looked closely at the speech by squealer - differentiated - to look for specific propaganda techniques. they then looked in more detail using the grid.

A lesson based on connecting and sequencing ideas in a logical order, using connectives and "useful phrases". the lesson is themed around mosquitoes.

Lesson adapted from tes

Lesson on Act 1, Scene 3 Macbeth - AQA 2017 GCSE scheme . Top set explore lesson - with model paragraph and peer assessment grid.

A lesson analysing key language - scaffolded quotes for low ability year 9. First lesson removing writing frame for them to develop more independent writing skills. There are challenges to develop analysis for higher abilities. Checklist for peer assessment.

Students completed a mid term assessment based around animal cruelty; they then practiced how to use their bodies and voices to make their speeches effective.

A lesson based on getting year 7 to practise their creative writing skills by recapping what they know to include and giving it a go using stimuli from well known clips (frozen; up) etc designed to engage.

Observed (grade 1) lesson exploring language in Dulce. the class have been using the writing frame for a while, so we are starting to lessen the amount of frame they have.

model; scaffold etc

The class had spent 2 lessons exploring Exposure. This lesson they worked on writing critical and analytical paragraphs.

exploring exposure

A lesson where the students were improving their draft assessments. I had considered the 5 areas of persuasive writing that they were struggling on and created support cards with models. I asked the students to peer assess their work and set targets - from there, they chose which support card to focus on.