A complete lesson on chapter 13 of Achebe’s No Longer at Ease with focus on language analysis and a passage question on duality in Obi represented through his mother and father. I have included the language devices match starter on a worksheet (2 per A4 page) so you can easily print it and get the lesson off to a focused start. Enjoy!

This complete lesson is focused on Achebe’s use of intertextuality in No Longer at Ease. The usual guided reading questions are provided after a starter on different text types and then the development activity is to finish writing a paragraph about Obi’s references to other literature or sayings which I have started for them. Enjoy!

This lesson is a revision focused lesson apart from a guided reading of chapter 11 of No Longer at Ease. The starter is a game of Taboo to help students revise key character names. After the usual guided reading with questions, students are asked to come up with their own questions on NLAE. These progress in difficulty, At the end of the lesson, swap each team’s questions (make sure you’ve kept a strict eye on the questions they come up with so they are easy enough to answer in a couple of sentences) and then each group will compete to answer all the questions and get to the finish first. This puts all of the effort on to the students and you will be able to just stamp their answers as you check them. Enjoy!

Lucky for some! Part 13 focuses on structural and language features as well as analysing the two poems included in this chapter. I have included these two poems on a separate worksheet. This could be blown up to A3 for group work or each student could write their own notes on this A4 version. The lesson begins with a game of structural/language features. The questions relate the language and structure to the themes of the novel and the development activity asks students to find quotations to find support for the points being made abut language and structure in chapter 10. The students could then pick one or two P+E to turn into full paragraphs. Enjoy!

A complete lesson on chapter 9 of Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease. There is a wordsearch with suggested differentiated options of how to offer it to students. The words should be challenging to every student. The next lesson will include a spelling test on some of these words - so there’s the students’ homework :).

This lesson focuses on the changing relationship between Clara and Obi. There is a highly scaffolded diary entry to be completed by students if necessary as well as group work with roles provided in addition to the usual complete lesson from starter, guided reading of chapter 9, development activity and plenary. Enjoy!

A full lesson on chapter 7 of No Longer at Ease. The lesson objective is about themes in the novel as a whole and the starter, questions for each passage and main lesson activity all relate back to the themes. Don’t worry! Lots of my students need a little reminder of what themes actually are too, so there’s an interactive game to play at the beginning as well. Enjoy!

A complete lesson on chapter 6 of No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe. This lesson has sentence level analysis for students to complete as well as starter, timeline, questions on each passage from chapter 6, practice for essay writing with mark scheme and plenary. Just project and go!

Two complete lessons on PowerPoint including every word of chapter 5 with questions to guide students’ first or second reading of Chinua Achebe’s novel No Longer at Ease. There are starters, plenaries, biographical and contextual information as well as a finished exemplar essay on Obi to help your students reflect on their own essays. Mark it with them and then allow them to mark their own essays and improve them. The essay mark scheme as well as planning documents are included. I have also added useful links for the chapter which could support your subject knowledge, or become a webquest/revision/flipped learning activity for students.

The fourth part of the complete SOW for No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe. These are the resources for at least two complete lessons including homework/revision, starters, context, a major focus on vocabulary with several fun and engaging activities to let students practice using them, sentence level analysis games and activities, every word of the novel with questions and answers for each paragraph, a focus on Obi as a tragic hero, essay writing scaffolding which breaks down how to analyse the question, plan a response and structure a paragraph with sentence starters and a student-friendly mark scheme. Nothing YOU have to do except print the worksheets to support weaker students if applicable, and then project the presentations. Next lesson is an assessment essay on Obi!

The third installment of the complete SOW for No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe. These are the resources for at least two complete lessons including homework/revision, starters, context, summarising skills, a diary writing activity, every word of the novel with questions and answers for each paragraph as well, essay writing scaffolding which breaks down how to analyse the question, plan a response and structure a paragraph with sentence starters and a student-friendly mark scheme. Nothing YOU have to do except print the diary outline to support weaker students if applicable, and then project the presentations.** I believe you could walk in and teach the book without having ever read it or checking these slides once. ** Prove me wrong!

This is everything you need to start teaching immediately! No books yet? No problem. It’s all on the slides! These resources are designed to guide students through their first reading of Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease (1960). Each PowerPoint has a complete lesson, from starter to plenary including every word from the chapter displayed, key vocabulary and definitions displayed and questions on langugae, character, relationships, context and theme asked and answers animated to pop up after each slide. The useful links provided will help you as a teacher and they make excellent G&T or flipped learning webquests to give to students for homework. Useful quotes on our main character, Obi, have been provided, ready for students to add to them as they read the further chapters. I have also included two games/activities to build students’ vocabulary and language analysis skills. Wherever an activity has more than one method of facilitation, I have added notes to the PowerPoint suggesting how it could be completed for different groups. After the comprehension questions, each lesson has 10 slides of structured essay writing guidance designed to support students tackle the question, plan their response, and structure analytical paragraphs. The student-friendly iGCSE mark scheme comes last along with peer/self-marking instructions. COMPETITION TIME!* I haven’t yet decided on my next SOW to make. If you have a request, please send me a brief message explaining what you would want. If I choose yours, I’ll pass the resources on to the first person who suggested it for FREEEEEEEE!!! No purchase necessary :)

Hi! I know how much hard work it is teaching a novel. I’m here to do it all for you. Just download this and teach. Everything you need is provided. It has been sdesigned to support GCSE students, though it could easily be adapted for A level. Three complete lessons with foolproof PowerPoints for lesson including titles, dates, objectives, starters, mark scheme analysis, paragraph structure support, character analysis, language analsysis sheets, comprehension and analysis questions for every paragraph of the story which is displayed alongside the questions. Where answers are provided, they aim to stretch and challenge the answers given by students. Two or more plenaries are provided for each lesson. Links to useful online videos, articles, historical background and more are linked within the lessons for students, but I have also provided you with a “cheat sheet” of all the useful links in one document. This could also become a webquest for students or a revision document. I have also provided revision documents in the form of quotations for the first chapter’s themes. If you like this resource, please save some cash and buy the bundle! There’ll be a lot of resources for all 19 chapters!

A wide range of women of different backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, points in history, professions, etc. All the women are chosen for their inspirational work, even the cartoon characters! You'll find Lisa Simpson, not Betty Boop; Wonder Woman, not Black Widow. My less able students had 5 minutes to add as many names as possible, then 5 minutes to add their achievements, then I gave each group a chance to come up and look at the answer sheet which I'd hidden on the reverse of the board and report back to the group. You could also print the achievements out and allow students to match them to the picture. Marks are out of 100, so easy to demonstrate percentages with students too.

15 different resources to teach the events, structure, imagery and characterisation in chapters 4, 5 and 6 of Mildred D Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry including a mid-point assessment in the form of an essay on the character of Cassie Logan. The assessment includes a blank essay template with prompts as well as a completed one and an essay built from that template as a model for your students. My students loved Roll of Thunder and enjoyed Cassie as a character. I hope yours do to.

I had a whole stack of newspapers in my classroom which the cleaners were threatening to throw away and an end of term lesson with my year 7 students. I put together this selection of the games we played to get students engaged with this text type (which lots of them said they rarely, if ever, saw at home). Most are set up as team building challenges, but there are several which would make great independent activities as a starter for a lesson involving or analysing newspapers. There are artistic, kinesthetic and, of course, literacy- based challenges suitable for a variety of ages and abilities. Nothing that isn't fun! Very few materials are required for these activities apart from the newspapers: sticky tape, any scrap materials, marker pens, A3 paper and glue would cover every challenge and most can be done with nothing more than a pen. Enjoy!

A range of questions including ideas about content, structure, language, vocabulary, quotations, creating similes, sentence types, punctuation and more, all related to creative writing and fiction. There are 2 questions regarding the Paper 2 of the Cambridge English Checkpoint, but these can be changed to suit your exam board/curriculum. After students complete this activity, I chose 10 questions to quiz the students on to check they were paying attention! Enjoy!

Quiz, quiz, trade is a great way to get kids asking and answering questions on Geography. This activity has some straightforward questions covering topics including globalisation, climate and weather, Antarctica, maps and directions. Answers provided. Cut out and go! After the students have quizzed each other and traded enough times, the PPT has a quiz related to those questions so you have a grade for your mark book.

Hi! Song lyrics get stuck in our heads, so why not get students to use that to their advantage? This lesson has a guess the song starter using images. The first pair to work them all out get the first choice of song. There is a reminder of how to work out syllables to ensure students have the right number per line. I then included some specific revision topics for Geography, but obviously you can change those to suit the subject. One video didn't want to attach: https://youtu.be/pvdrN3GJFZo Enjoy! PS: Since the price increase I have attached the revision lyrics I made for my KS3 Geography lesson.

These lessons cover, in detail, the first three chapters of the novel and include everything for each lesson: objectives, starters, activities, analysis, character sheets, quizzes, plenaries and the text itself, just in case someone forgets a book (which inevitably happens!). This is a wonderful book to study with year 8 or 9 and fills in a lot of the gaps in their knowledge of the USA between the end of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. It is a sweet story, told through the eyes of our plucky heroine, Cassie as she learns about the unfairness and danger of her society. It holds up some important mirrors to today's society and the political and social issues we all still deal with. This goes well with the 1930s historical context lessons I have uploaded to my store. Look out for part 2, coming soon!