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!
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!
Lesson analysing the opening of the dystopian novel ‘The Hunger Games’
Learning objectives:
To understand the opening to ‘The Hunger Games’
To be able to explain how the writer creates a dystopian world
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity.
There are challenge activities and sentence starters for differentiation.
The main activity analyses a short extract, which is included.
Total of 8 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.
Revision lesson for Relationships cluster of the Edexcel Literature exam.
Contains:
Comparison tasks
Looking at themes
Quote work
Mark schemes
Planning essays
Two model essays
Paragraph structure
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.
Fully resourced and differentiated lesson on the prologue from ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Worksheet with the prologue and detailed comprehension questions. Differentiated learning objectives, model answers and sentence starters.
PDF resource for supporting a G7/Y8/KS3 unit on Dystopian literature - can be bought together with a series of corresponding lessons as a bundle for a good price
Extracts from ‘The Hunger Games’, ‘Farenheit 451’, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘1984’
19 pages so can be printed easily as a booklet
Contains helpful images and vocabulary to support students
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 evaluating the role of resistance in the Dystopian novel ‘1984’ by George Orwell
Learning objective:
To be able to evaluate how Orwell presents the idea of resistance
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced, studying the key word ‘resistance’
Total of 7 slides
Designed for G7 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
Lesson analysing the theme of fear in ‘The Woman in Black’
Learning objective:
To be able to analyse how a writer creates tension
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity.
There are challenge activities and sentence starters for differentiation.
The main activity analyses a short extract, which is included.
Total of 8 slides
Designed for G7 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
CAN BE BOUGHT AS PART OF A 3 LESSON BUNDLE *
A mini scheme of work on Gothic literature
50% saving on the bundle!
SOW designed originally for G8 / Y9 / KS3
Contains a mix of creative writing and analysis, with a copy of the relevant extract booklet to support teachers
Lessons on the following texts: ‘The Raven’, ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’, ‘The Woman in Black’ and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’
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 resources.
Total of 10 fully planned lessons
3x lesson series on ‘The Woman in Black’ by Susan Hill, fiction reading and analysis
Learning objectives:
To be able to explain how description of a setting can create tension
To be able to explain why ‘The Woman in Black’ is an example of Gothic literature
To be able to analyse how a writer creates tension
Has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity. Comes fully resourced.
Total of 7, 8 and 8 slides
Designed for G8 / KS3 students
Engaging, fun, and interesting!
Lesson bundle more than 25% off *
5 lesson series on Beyonce’s visual album ‘Lemonade’.
Designed for English A Language and Literature course for the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program, to prepare students for their Individual Oral.
Each lesson has Learning Objectives, a Do Now, Activation, Demonstration and Consolidation activity. Most slides have an extension or challenge activity.
Students are asked to analyse stills from the visual album, Beyonce’s lyrics, and various critical opinions.
They are taught advanced vocabulary such as “antebellum”
Students are challenged to discuss their ideas and make links with literary works
Each lesson can be bought separately
Comes with a resource booklet that has the transcribed lyrics and text from the whole album and list of media terminology to help students when analysing
50% off total price!
This bundle contains 10 grammar worksheets and a series of end of unit assessments for each different year group at KS3, with separate answer sheets. The worksheets can be used as homework or quick starter tasks.
It is ideal to spread these tasks out throughout the year or a term.
For KS3 or revision activities for KS4.
The areas of grammar focussed on are:
Simple, compound and complex sentences
Different types of punctuation
Fragments
Subject and object
Parts of speech and subject terminology
Vocabulary
PDF resource for supporting a G8/Y9/KS3 unit on Gothic literature - can be bought together with a series of corresponding lessons as a bundle for a good price
Extracts from ‘The Woman in Black’, ‘The Raven’, ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’
20 pages so can be printed easily as a booklet
These 4 worksheets contain questions relating to the following aspects of grammar:
Word classes
Vocabulary
Subject and object
Simple sentences
Fragments
Punctuation
They are very easily accessible and make an effective homework or starter task.
PDF resource for supporting a G6/Y7/KS3 unit on Magical Beasts - can be bought together with a series of corresponding lessons as a bundle for a good price
Mix of fiction and non-fiction extracts on real-life zombies, the history of zombies, famous monsters, the opening of ‘A Monster Calls’ by Patrick Ness, witches in Britain, extract from ‘The Witches’ by Roald Dahl, ‘The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe’ by Lewis Carrol and real life vampires.
16 pages so can be printed easily as a booklet