Step Ahead English Resourcing
A range of engaging lessons across KS3 and KS4 created by a current practicing English Teacher.
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A range of engaging lessons across KS3 and KS4 created by a current practicing English Teacher.
Dystopian Fiction - Creative Writing Booklet
This is a guide through a Dystopian story.
The guide will begin in the initial planning phase and foster the thinking of the students.
It will guide them through different perspectives on dystopian fiction and give direction to an informative video.
The booklet will then get the student’s looking at how society is developed and how in a dystopian world this construct falls apart.
Ultimatley this all comes together to give the students enough knowledge to produce an excellent, well informed piece of creative writing.
Shylock - MERCHANT OF VENICE
Shylock - Understanding the Villain
A sequence of lessons that guides students through the development of Shylocks character in The Merchant of Venice.
Looking at his actions throughout the play and considering different elements of social context.
The lessons will then aid the students in creating a speech from the perspective of Shylock.
Dystopian Fiction - Creation of a new world
Creative lesson taking the students through a dynamic view on how to structure and recreate a new society after a significant change in power.
The lesson takes the students through fundatmental elements in structuring society including power hierachies. It allows the students to challenge their on beleifs on who they think is truly in control and test what happens if this were to come true.
Includes activities:
Class discussions
Videos
Mind Maps
Source Analysis
The students will then be able to test all their new knowledge in a piece of creative writing. This is based around a diary entry of someone living in their dystopian world!
Bundle
Creative Writing Bundle - Inc Dystopian
A fantastic selection of creative writing lessons , booklets and interactive activities!
These can all be purchased individually on my shop or save and take them all.
Prospero - The Tempest - Act 4
The Tempest - Act 4 (Prospero Focus)
When I taught this I split it over 3 lessons due to the ability of my group.
The lesson covers a summary of the act, offers the opportunity to act it then focuses on very specific language choices made by Shakespeare.
The final lesson focuses on an evaluative question.
Jekyll and Hyde - Last Night Work Booklet
Jekyll and Hyde - Last Night Work Booklet
Main focus: To understand how Stevenson creates atmosphere at the start of the chapter
This is a bespoke work booklet created to guide students through ‘The Last Night’ chapter in Jekyll and Hyde.
This is based around Edexcel and their marking criteria.
The booklet is in an A4 print friendly format with areas dedicated to write.
It is also digital and can be shared with students on Google Classroom or other platforms.
To Kill A Mockingbird - Scheme Booklet (Chp 1-9)
To Kill A Mockingbird - Chapter 1 - 9.
This booklet is designed to support a scheme as either a complementary homework booklet or for use in the classroom to aid with resourcing alongside the text.
It contains tasks for each chapter, links to resources and audio files.
It is fully interactive and can be given to a student to keep as a digital homework file.
Creative Writing - Non-Linear Writing
Learning Question:
Can you rewrite a famous linear narrative adding depth to characters using non-linear structure.
This booklet has been desgined as a stand alone lesson to be delivered in the classroom or something that can be given to a student as homework.
It will take them through all the key elements of non-linear narratives and guide them into creating their own.
Key Aims
To recall key non linear texts and films
To understand elements of a non-linear narrative
To apply non-linear writing techniques to add depth to characters.
Transactional Writing - The Key Principles Booklet
This resource is an interactive booklet that has been portioned out over 3 lessons.
Each lesson can be completed within the booklet either online or in lesson on paper.
Learning Aim
To be able to organise information and ideas and present confidently to an audience (AO5) English Language.
This is acheived through a fun and interactive sales pitch. Incorporating all the key elements required of the student and aiding them in the structural develop of their answers.
Victorian Crime and Punishment - Literature
This resource has been crafted to explore the contextual factors behind the rise of Sherlock Holmes and factors that may have influenced Arthur Conan Doyle.
This resources will challenge students thinking around:
Police
Crime and appropriate punishments
The development of the police force
The reasons behind Sherlocks popularity
To Kill A Mockingbird - Atticus Finch Focus
A work booklet that focuses on Atticus Finch pre and post trial. (Chapter 10 onwards)
What kind of person is Atticus Finch?
How is Atticus presented in To Kill a Mockingbird so far? (Part 1)
How is Atticus presented in To Kill a Mockingbird so far? (Part 2)
How does our need to belong affect our identities?
How is the black community presented?
What is included:
A series of activities covering:
Analytical Writing
Recap Quiz
Sources and Resources
Interactive Activities
Creative Writing - Villains and Archetypes
A captivating lesson that explores villains over a variety of texts and films. Exploring a multitude of genres and cross examining each to understand the principals of forming an archetype.
This is a single lesson potentially two depending on ability and has several interactive tasks (Individual and group) to engage the class and get them thinking creatively.
To explore the portrayal of villains and their archetypes across a variety of texts.
Curley's Wife - Mice and Men
Did George have a choice? Was what he did meaningful? How do we now see Curley’s wife?
These are all the questions this lesson will take you through. With a series of engaging activites including hot seating tasks, extract analysis and class discussions.
This lesson is engaging and exciting with a bid to allow students to connect to the characters on an emotional level and understand what they might really be feeing.
I have also including an element of contextual analysis - students can see how expectations on a characters response might have differed.
This is one/two lessons depending on class ability.
Writing to evaluate Literature - Booklet
This resource has been designed to take students step by step through a Part B response in the Edexcel Literature paper.
This focused specifically on violence in Jekyll and Hyde but can be adapted to suit any theme very easily.
I will attach a PDF document and an editable document for you to use with your classes.
Edexcel Exam Response Practice.
Bundle
Dystopian Fiction including Work Book
FULL DYSTOPIAN FICTION WORK BUNDLE
This bundle includes:
1 Lessons
**1 x Creating a Dystopian Society
**1 x Creating and Building Tension
**1 x A fully comprehsive work booklet **
This is a guide through a Dystopian story.
The guide will begin in the initial planning phase and foster the thinking of the students.
It will guide them through different perspectives on dystopian fiction and give direction to an informative video.
The booklet will then get the student’s looking at how society is developed and how in a dystopian world this construct falls apart.
Ultimatley this all comes together to give the students enough knowledge to produce an excellent, well informed piece of creative writing.
Dystopian - Building Tension
Set in a Dystopian World - Students are taken through a journey in a apartment complex. They are encouraged to describe the mystery faced behind each door, build suspense and anticipation. Build the world and experience in a way that they see fit.
A short but encapusalting lesson to encourage students to slow down and really consider the impact of words and sentences. Looking at the effects they can create on the reader.
During this lesson students are encouraged to:
-Control the pace of their writing through sentence length
-Look closely at the adjectives and adverbs they are using.
-Think about the information they withold in the narrative to create the suspense.
Vocabularly - Gothic Horror
A creative writing lesson focused on the use of vocabularly to build suspense and engage the reader.
The lesson takes the students through several tasks to help develop vocabularly use in creative writing.
Activities include
Close analysis of a source to help generate creative ideas
Scaffolded questions to help students develop a creative mind
Challenge tasks to help push high ability students
A planning task to aid the final piece of writing.
To Kill A Mockingbird - Boo Radley
Is Boo Radley Maycomb’s local bogeyman?
How does a writer use symbolic imagery to create an idea?
This lesson works perfectly alongside the learning booklets created.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12774407
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12753640
To Kill A Mockingbird - Introduction
How has Lee introduced her key characters to create initial impressions?
An introduction to the text.
A great opening lesson that will allow the students to explore initial ideas relating to the text.
Challenge thoughts and feelings and become inspired to read on.
To Kill A Mockingbird - Mockingbird
What is the significance of the Mockingbird?
Why is the Mockingbird important to the narrative - Why has Harper Lee used a Mockingbird?
Is it a symbolic representation of something? A key message in the novel?
This lesson will allow the students to explore these questions and input their own ideas into essays and practice questions.
This lesson includes
-Metacognition tasks
-Visual source based tasks
The lesson directly correlates with the learning booklets which can be found on my shop