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 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!
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 mini scheme of work on Dystopian fiction
65% saving on the bundle!
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
25% saving on the bundle
2x lesson series on ‘The Tell Tale Heart’ short story by Edgar Allen Poe
Learning objectives:
To explain how Poe creates tension in the story
To explain the tone of the story using a range of adjectives
To analyse how Poe uses language and structure to create tension
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity.
There are challenge activities and sentence starters for differentiation.
Some activities analyse a short extract, which is included, and some refer to the whole story, which is also included.
Designed for G7/ KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
Lesson analysing the description of setting in ‘The Woman in Black’ and linking to features of the Gothic.
Learning objective:
To be able to explain how description of a setting can create tension
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. There are challenge activities, sentence starters, and a model answer. The analysis focuses on a short extract (provided) from ‘The Woman in Black’.
Total of 7 slides.
Designed for G7 / KS3 students.
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
CAN BE BOUGHT AS PART OF A 3 LESSON BUNDLE *
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!
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!
Lesson analysing the creation of tension in the short story ‘The Tell Tale Heart’.
Learning objective:
To be able to explain the tone of the story using a range of adjectives
To analyse how Poe uses language and structure to create tension
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity.
There are challenge activities, model answers and sentence starters for differentiation.
The main activity analyses a short extract, which is included.
Total of 5 slides
Designed for G7 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
CAN BE BOUGHT AS PART OF A 2 LESSON BUNDLE *
A must-have resource for anyone studying the Edexcel English GCSE. A comprehensive breakdown of all four Language and Literature papers, including mark schemes, breakdowns of AOs and paragraph structures. 53 page PowerPoint presentation.
Can be altered to suit different texts.
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!
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!
A series of lessons introducing students to Orwell’s ‘1984’
50% saving on the bundle!
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
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 *
These 2 worksheets contain questions relating to the following aspects of grammar:
Speech punctuation
Complex sentences
Semi-colons
Possessive apostrophes
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!
A mini scheme of work on magical beasts
62% saving on the bundle!
SOW designed originally for G6 / Y7 / KS3
Contains a mix of fiction and non-fiction lessons, with a copy of the relevant extract booklet to support teachers
All lessons have Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced.
Total of 12 fully planned lessons
Perfect for KS3. Lesson looking at analysing speeches, with examples from four famous figures. Fully resourced, with model paragraphs and sentence starters.
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!