Students are required to read a variety of different extracts from dystopian literature and make inferences and deductions about the anti-heroes and how the author chooses to present them. Anti-heroes they’ll analyse: V from V for Vendetta Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games series Flora 717 from The Bees Winston from 1984 Montag from Fahrenheit 451

Lesson comes from a dystopian scheme of work. Students will be required to analyse the way in which an author of a non-fiction text structured their text. They will also be expected to identify and evaluate the most impactful technique used by the author. This leads to the students writing their own articles, using the techniques analysed, which serves as propaganda for a dystopian government. Connections are made with the real world through the use of an article about Donald Trump.

Get your students out of their seats and develop their 19th Century vocabulary with this Quiz, Quiz, Trade game. It uses challenging vocabulary from Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic short story, The Tell-Tale Heart (the word class is also included). You can either have your students play it before they approach the short story or after having read it. If you don’t know how to do Quiz, Quiz, Trade, there are short instructional videos on YouTube.

A lesson which seeks to teach students what a doppelganger is and what Freud meant by the uncanny. Students then go on to create their own doppelgangers. Students also look at an extract from Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Frankenstein. Homework booklet can be found in my shop.

A lesson on Crooks and the themes of prejudice and racism in Of Mice and Men.

An ideal booklet for a high-ability Year 8 or for Year 9. It seeks to target analytical skills through the study of a variety of extracts from across the Gothic genre. Would be great to challenge and stretch KS3 students.

A homework booklet with activities which looks to develop analytical and literacy skills. Extracts come from a range of dystopian novels. Ideal for students in KS3, especially Year 8 and Year 9. It can be used in and out of lessons. It also includes a homework choice menu at the end of the booklet.

A-level English Literature lesson for Edexcel on the poem, To my Nine-Year-Old Self by Helen Dunmore.

A lesson which seeks to encourage students to use more ambitious sentence structures in their dystopian writing.

Challenge your students with ambitious vocabulary and help to enrich their reading and academic writing. This was created with our Year 8s in mind; they would be studying Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice whilst doing these. These can be used across KS3 though and for any units.

Support your students through a series of Do-Nows. Great for pre-teaching vocabulary before reading A Christmas Carol. Uses sixteen words from Stave 1. Words include:- Hallowed Emphatically Caustic Dirge Shrewdly

Lessons cover: -Sentence structure -Inference and quotations -Using evidence -Punctuation and sentence structure

I use this to help the students structure their own answers and those of their peers. It also helps them track how their own opinions evolve and develop when working with their peers.

Easily adaptable lesson on using punctuation and sentence structure for effect. Uses an extract from Malcolm X's autobiography. Uses the NC App levels but can easily be changed to suit your school's system.

A lesson on Crooks and loneliness.

A bundle pack of the two Crooks lessons from Of Mice and Men.

Easily adaptable lesson on sentence structure. Uses the NC App levels but can easily be changed to suit your school's system.

Easily adaptable lesson on inference and quotations using an extract from Stephen Fry's autobiography, Moab is my Washpot. Uses the NC App levels but can easily be changed to suit your school's system.

Copied and pasted from SparkNotes and put onto a Word Doc. Full credit goes to the SparkNotes team. I cut them out and laminated them and made a display for the English corridor with them. Both students and teachers have enjoyed them!