I provide resources mainly for English (IGCSE and GCSE content), but also post useful Drama resources. There are also brand new English-with-Media resources to choose from, and many materials such as assemblies and certificates that could prove useful to Head of Years. All resources are differentiated appropriately and labelled with key year groups.
I provide resources mainly for English (IGCSE and GCSE content), but also post useful Drama resources. There are also brand new English-with-Media resources to choose from, and many materials such as assemblies and certificates that could prove useful to Head of Years. All resources are differentiated appropriately and labelled with key year groups.
The Hunger Games: Lesson Summaries
Lesson 1: This lesson will give students an understanding of subjugation as a concept, and will allow students to detect evidence of government subjugation in an extract of ‘The Hunger Games’. After they have completed some analysis questions, students will be writing their own ‘choosing ceremony’ scene, and peer-reviewing each others creative efforts at the end.
Lesson 2: This lesson focuses on analyzing the character of President Snow, and the contextual influences behind dystopian antagonists. The students will be introduced to the idea of a ‘facade’ and how dictators use facades of fairness and benevolence to maintain power. The students will read and analyze an extract from Catching Fire.
Lesson 3: This lesson focuses on acts of rebellion in Dystopian Fiction, in particular the ‘berries scene’ in The Hunger Games. The students will detect rebellious/revolutionary language in the extract, and then write their own revolutionary speech against the Capitol and President Snow.
This lesson introduces students to the dystopian genre, explores key dystopian concepts and addresses common misconceptions (the difference between science fiction and dystopian fiction).
This Romeo and Juliet lesson focuses on the relationship between Capulet and Juliet, and how the patriarchal systems of the time served as a catalyst for the final events of the play.
This teacher feedback sheet is separated into 2 sections for physicality and vocality- WWW and EBI. All you as a teacher have to do is highlight the correct sections - and the student work is marked!
8 Lesson SPAG scheme plus end of scheme quiz, SOW breakdown and resources included. I used these for a year intervention group, but I 've concluded that this scheme would work anywhere from years 6-9.
This lesson explores all of the historical events that inspired and shaped dystopian fiction. The students will conclude the lesson by completing a creative task titled ‘walking around a dystopia’, in which they will include all of the elements of dystopian fiction that they learned about in the lesson.
This lesson explores the concept of totalitarianism, and has the students analyse the opening scene of 1984 in order to detect evidence of totalitarianism in the environment.
Lesson 1: Intro to Dystopian Environments
Lesson 2: Dystopian Character Archetypes
Lesson 3: The Context behind Dystopia
Lesson 4: Analyzing the Setting of 1984
Lesson 5: Analyzing the Character of O’Brien in 1984
Lesson 6: The Key Dystopian Concepts of 1984
Lesson 7: Intro to A Handmaid’s Tale
Lesson 8: Horrors of Gilead – HMT
Lesson 9: Aunt Lydia Analysis - HMT
Lesson 10: Intro to the Hunger Games
Lesson 11: President Snow Analysis
Lesson 12: Revolution & Rebellion in The Hunger Games
This sheet includes everything students will need in revising the character of Eric in AIC
Side one: Quote analysis
Side two: contextual and thematic analysis, as well as space to find key vocabulary and write essay-openers using frames provided.
Students will use this lesson to write a narrative opening to a story about skydiving. This includes a speedy starter, a matching up activity with accompanying worksheet, an extended writing task and a peer assessment opportunity at the end.
This sheet includes everything students will need in revising the character of Mrs. Birling in AIC
Side one: Quote analysis
Side two: Contextual and thematic analysis, as well as space to find key vocabulary and write essay-openers using frames provided.
If you are currently teaching in the UAE, you might benefit from these 3 lessons on the upcoming National Day. Keep the students busy with fun activities, and a mini history lesson on the UAE, and National Day!
This lesson can be used for mid-top set KS4, used as a double lesson or simplified/split in two for a single hour lesson. Includes how to analyse personal pronouns, concrete and abstract nouns, and Mrs Birling/The Inspector’s use of superlative adjectives. Great way to push your students to conduct some deeper analysis of the text. Lots of visual aid (videos), differentiation (challenge activities), example analysis and comparative essay sentence starters. Hope you find this useful!
