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.

Challenge your students with ambitious vocabulary and help to enrich their reading and academic writing. This was created with Year 7s in mind. They would usually complete this during a unit on autobiographical writing. This can be used throughout KS3 though and maybe up into KS4 depending on your group’s ability. An extremely able Year 6 class may also really benefit too.

Challenge your students with ambitious vocabulary and help to enrich their reading and academic writing. This was created with Year 9s in mind. They would usually complete this during a unit on autobiographical writing. This can be used throughout KS3 though and maybe up into KS4 depending on your group’s ability.

This is great for those teaching poetry at KS4 and KS5. My students make an abundance of notes in their anthologies, and so this double-sided A3 sheet helps them transfer their notes for revision to be used before their exams, consolidate their learning and help ME see where the gaps are in their knowledge. I’m sure it’ll help you too!

Challenge your students with ambitious vocabulary and help to enrich their reading and academic writing. This was created with Year 8s in mind. They would usually complete this during a unit on dystopian writing. This can be used throughout KS3 though and into KS4 depending on your group’s ability.

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

Support your students through a series of Do-Nows. Great for pre-teaching vocabulary before reading A Christmas Carol. Uses eleven words from Stave 2 and a few words from Stave 1. Words include:- Irrepressible Haggard Despoil Brigands Dowerless

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Easily adaptable lesson on selecting and retrieving evidence, using an extract from Richard Wright's autobiography, Black Boys. Uses the NC App levels but can easily be changed to suit your school's system.

A lesson which seeks to develop letter writing skills.

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

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

A lesson on Crooks and loneliness.