Each device includes questions and activities to help pupils learn and apply the techniques. Devices covered include: Simile Metaphor Analogy Imagery Motif Hyperbole Alliteration Allegory Anecdote Onomatopoeia Assonance Juxtaposition Symbolism Pathetic Fallacy Personification Repetition

AImed at KS3. A fun activity to encourage pupils to learn and apply persuasive literary devices in the form of a pitch.

A free 3 slide power point focussing on the language used to describe utopias/dystopias.

Lesson includes context and work sheet to support pupils study the poem.

Three to four lessons on Dahl’s Lamb to the Slaughter. Aimed at KS3 and includes a fun trial of Mary Maloney.

This lesson introduces pupils to reviewing and crafting their writing in response to films. Main activity involves a film review in response to Pixar’s Paperman with modelled examples.

Focussing on Mercutio and Tybalt fight scene with gifs, images and chunked text and targted differentiated questions.

feedback lesson using pupils’ work to feedback best and worst.

Comprises of a couple of lessons on representations of childhood in Victorian England and 20C. Language based lesson with questions, activities based around Ragged Schools pamphlet.

Lesson on propositions with creative writing activity based on Pixar’s Alma.

Mini activities on point of view, descriptions and explanations. Questions based on H G Wells The Red Room.

Targeted at KS3 pupils to learn about inference and deduction in literature.

Group activity directing to key characters and events in the play.

20 questions on Blood Brothers.

A handout with all cultural and contextual references together with an answer sheet to support pupils studying the play at GCSE.

Explores the staging and set as well as key terminology. Main activity asks pupils to act out a key scene.

A lesson which covers staging terms as well as poses questions on tension and superstition with a sample response.

The lesson covers the relationship between Mickey and Edward and the increasing hostility created by their social conditions. Includes questions and sample response.

A whole lesson contextualising the school system (secondary modern/grammar) with questions based on extracts from the play.

A look at the perception of motherhood in Blood brothers with an essay question and sample response.