Black narratives: exploring Ghost Boys (including black narrative multiple extract booklet resource consistenting of extracts from: Ghost Boys, Emmett Till article, THUG - The Hate U Give, Noughts and Crosses). Black narrative lessons, BLM.

We like to read big chunks of it and stop to check understanding every now and then so here’s a quick lesson to retrieve what they know so far and what they can remember about language zooms from last time… Includes free knowledge organiser

Noughts and Crosses language method zooms as you read through chapter 3-8. Black narratives BLM. Exploring language/word types/methods with scaffolds. Including free knowlegde organiser.

Chapter 2 of Noughts and Crosses -connotations and knowledge organiser

Reading chapter 1 of Noughts and Crosses: structure, dual narrative, knowledge organiser included.

Linking Noughts and Crosses prologue to Romeo and Juliet’s prologue. Including free N+C knowledge organiser. Black narratives. BLM lessons.

Introduction lesson to Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman BLM Black Narratives. Explores the front cover, blurb, foreword and preamble.

Noughts and Crosses knowledge organiser BLM Black Narratives

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.

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.

Ready-made retrieval tasks, fit for all poems and all the literature SOWs too. REDUCE > TRANSFORM> DEBATE. Retrieval clock. Thinking and linking. Retrieval relay. Double spray diagram. Comparison. Concept map. and much more.

Introducing Kamikaze - Power and Conflict Poetry x2

Charge of the Light Brigade - Introductory lessons x3. Engaging, heavy on explicit retrieval and embedding knowledge and skills.

2 x lessons - Exploring War Photographer - Power and Conflict poetry

Introducing REMAINS - Power and Conflict poetry. 2 x lessons

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

Bayonet Charge Introductory lessons x2

2 x Exposure Introduction lesson - Power and Conflict Anthology.

Explicit context in A View from the Bridge

A View from the Bridge Scheme of Work unit KS3. Planned for over a half-term of 6 weeks. Includes lesson planning sequence, knowledge organiser, assessment and mark scheme and 13 lessons. Introduces/embeds soft LITERATURE AO1/2/3 skills but named WHAT/HOW/WHY. Focus on context and themes.