Lesson on Dystopian fiction, introducing students to key conventions of the genre
Learning objective:
To understand the key terms of dystopia and utopia
To identify some of the key features of dystopia and utopia
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced with model pieces of writing.
Total of 12 slides
Designed for G7 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
Lesson evaluating the opening to the Dystopian novel ‘1984’ by George Orwell
Learning objective:
To understand the opening of ‘1984’
To identify some of the Dystopian conventions of the novel
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced. Involves group work.
Total of 7 slides
Designed for G7 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
A series of lessons introducing students to Orwell’s ‘1984’
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SOW designed originally for G8 / Y9 / KS3
Contains some group work and extended writing activities, with extracts from the novel contained within the relevant lessons
Lessons on the opening, the idea of resistance, memory, and the dramatic capture scene
All lessons have Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced with thoroughly planned lesson and support materials.
Total of 4 fully planned lessons
Fun series of lessons in which students will plan, design and create their own comic strip.
The PPT has 20 slides and roughly covers three separate lessons in which students create a superhero, a villain, create a plot, design the location of their comic strip and the front cover.
A superfun series of tasks that will get students engaged and being creative with original ideas.
A lesson reading and understanding Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘The Raven’
Learning objectives: to read and understand the events of the poem and to explain how Poe presents the Raven as a symbol
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Also has a fun exit ticket challenge question. Some slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced and supported with key vocabulary.
6 slides
Designed for G8 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
These 4 worksheets contain questions relating to the following aspects of grammar:
Word classes and parts of speech (adverbs, pronouns and prepositions)
Vocabulary
Compound sentences
They are very easily accessible and make an effective homework or starter task.
Lesson on the history of witches in Britain, non-fiction text
Learning objective: be able to identify some facts about witchcraft in Britain and summarise them
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced.
Total of 4 slides
Designed for G6 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
2x lesson series on ‘Farenheit 451’ by Ray Bradbury, fiction reading and analysis
Learning objectives:
* to be able to understand the opening of ‘Farenheit 451’
* to analyse how Bradbury presents the character Montag
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced and with a video embedded.
Total of 5 and 4 slides
Designed for G7/ KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
Lesson analysing the creation of tension in the short story ‘The Tell Tale Heart’.
Learning objective:
To be able to explain how Poe creates tension in the story
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity.
There are challenge activities and definitions of key words for differentiation.
There is a short extract and then a longer extract from the story, included in the resource.
Total of 10 slides
Designed for G7 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
CAN BE BOUGHT AS PART OF A 2 LESSON BUNDLE *
Two paired lessons on an extract from ‘The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe’, focussing on the White Witch
Learning objective:
All will understand how the White Witch is presented in the extract
Some will be able to explain how Lewis’s presentation of the White Witch uses traditional stereotypes of witches
To analyse how Lewis presents the White Witch as powerful
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced.
Total of 6 and 5 slides
Designed for G6 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
Thoroughly planned 3x lesson series on ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, fiction reading and analysis
Learning objectives:
to understand the context of the ‘Yellow Wallpaper’ and how that relates to the narrator
to analyse how the relationship between the narrator and her husband is presented
to discuss the significance of the ending of the short story and link to Gothic conventions
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced and with contextual information.
Total of 7, 7 and 6 slides
Designed for G8 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
Perfect for KS3. Lesson looking at analysing speeches, with examples from four famous figures. Fully resourced, with model paragraphs and sentence starters.
A scheme of work on Macbeth. Lessons clearly labelled that take students through the play, with a range of different activities designed to ensure maximum understanding of events, themes, characters, context and plot.
These 2 worksheets contain questions relating to the following aspects of grammar:
Speech punctuation
Complex sentences
Semi-colons
Possessive apostrophes
A mini scheme of work on Dystopian fiction
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SOW designed originally for G7 / Y8 / KS3
Contains a series of lessons on various Dystopian fiction texts, with a copy of the relevant extract booklet to support teachers
Texts include ‘1984’, ‘Divergent’, ‘Farenheit 451’, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘The Hunger Games’
All lessons have Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced with embedded videos and handouts.
Total of 12 fully planned lessons
An easily accessible lesson encouraging students to recap the novel and revise the key themes. Suitable for all abilities and can be differentiated easily. Effective visual prompts for learners. Leads up to an extended writing task with sentence starters.
These exams test students’ knowledge of some of the fundamentals of grammar. They can be used at the start of end of the year to test knowledge. The sheets are altered for each year at KS3, and there are answer sheets for teachers.
Knowledge tested includes:
Word classes
Vocabulary
Punctuation
Simple, complex and compound sentences
Fragments
Lesson on Gothic creative writing, exploring the key word ‘morbid’ and recapping ideas about the conventions of Gothic writing
Learning objective: to understand how writers can use language to create a morbid atmosphere
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced with model pieces of writing.
Total of 10 slides
Designed for G8 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
Lesson evaluating the opening to the Dystopian novel ‘Divergent’
Learning objective:
* To understand how writers create engaging openings
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced with embedded video. Involves group work.
Total of 7 slides
Designed for G7 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
Resource to help students with organisation. Can be printed and laminated for maximum efficiency. Used by students in the evening/ morning to help prompt them to be more organised.