Analysing Stormzy's 'Blinded by Your Grace' lyrics to understand semantic fields, using the terms 'lexis' and 'lexicon' and allusion.

Thirteen by Tom Hoyle - Mega introduction lesson!

Seven Deadly Sins introduction - Good Context for Jekyll and Hyde, Macbeth, An Inspector Calls - AQA English GCSE. Includes videos, songs and drama activities.

Scannell - Nettles: Poetry response model answers.

Exploring racism in the media. Chapter 16/17 of Noughts and Crosses.

2-4 hours of lessons on effective hooks using a dystopic extract from The Hunger Games. Aiming to write a baseline description. Mini quizzes, retrieval and recall, explicit definitions, engaging youtube task, digging in deeper, method spotting and analysing effective hooks and openers. Improving crafting opening of sentences with ISPACE.

Key vocab, themes, key texts, writing tips

Effects of language, methods, techniques - reader’s response - AO2 AQA.

Havisham Poem Carol Ann Duffy Language analysis lesson

Diverse Voices through short stories: including Caleb Femi, My POlish teacher’s tie, Colours of Humanity, Tender Earth, May Malone. Under-represented voices in English. A mix of language, structure, holistic approaches in English. VERY engaging. Black voice, minority voices, polish voices. Includes KO, assessment, full SOW and lessons.

Exploring transition points and endings through ‘Spies’ English Language GCSE

Exploring Language and Structure through Bring up the Bodies GCSE

Analysing language through The Reluctant Fundamentalist GCSE LANGUAGE

Presenting Places People and Action GCSE LANGUAGE

Model answer Shakespeare Macbeth - Lady Macbeth and ‘look like the innocent flower’. A large, secure paragraph that hits A01,2,3 ready to be metacognitively torn apart for student benefit.

Comparing Exposure to Bayonet Charge - Power and Conflict comparison skills.

Engaging glossary task for the ambitious vocabulary in the short dystopian story ‘The Lottery’. Intro lesson, introducing utopia and dystopia and deep thinking about the notion of a lottery. Complete with full short story attached.

Rupi Kaur Father poetry lesson character, voice, speaker, identity plus more poems.

Introduction to Diverse Voices - 2 lessons on diversity for English lit - ks3. Walks through definitions, why we need diversity, videos from speakers of the BLM movement and the white privilege video.

1-3 hours worth of Salome Poem World’s Wife Duffy and Method Zoom Skill - working on the lang paper 2 q4 skills. This is part of a two-week introductory SOW for introducing female voices and female representation in literature to year 9 though it is suitable for all ks3 and possibly ks4. Starting with Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife - other lessons available for more World’s Wife poems, Duffy’s Havisham and Rupi Kaur’s Progress. All lessons link with retrieval, recall, specific method and vocab explicit teaching and a variety of engaging tasks and thought-provoking feminist notions. Knowledge organiser is available for this mini SOW too.