This is a lesson planned for a high-ability Year 7 class looking at injustice and analysing sections of the ‘I have a dream’ speech.There will be activities supporting them in picking out key quotes and language devices, before discussing these. Students will then focus on how to pick quotes apart and analyse these in detail, with examples to help. The final activity will require students to write an analytical paragraph exploring how the language used makes the speech persuasive. This lesson is easily adaptable for any KS3 class of any ability.

This is a lesson planned for a high-ability Year 7 class. The lesson introduces them to the poem of ‘The Lady of Shalott’ and aims to ensure that pupils understand the plot of the poem and the legend it is based on. A copy of the poem is also attached and the lesson allows pupils to look at Camelot and the Legend of King Arthur. There is also a youtube link attached to a slide so pupils can read along with a spoken performance of the poem. Pupils then have an activity of making their own storyboard, selecting 8 key scenes. This lesson is easily adaptable for any KS3 class of any ability.

This is a GCSE lesson revision focusing on the power of nature that the AQA Power and Conflict poetry explores. The lesson features a range of activities that you can pick and chose from to suit your class. They range from pupils completing a comparison table to identify what poems link in terms of the power of nature; to a model text to analyse to support pupils in writing a response to a GCSE question. This is easily adaptable for a KS4 class of any ability.

This is a middle-ability Year 9 lesson focusing on the murder of King Duncan and Shakespeare’s presentation of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth during this. A short extract from the scene is explored in the lesson (the extract is included). Pupils are required to continue to focus on skills such as identifying and analysing a range of language techniques that Shakespeare has used and consider why he has used them. There is also an activity for pupils to be challenged further to closely analyse a quote to gain a range of interpretations. Lastly, there is the opportunity for creative writing to help them understand the characters further. Sentence starters are also provided to support them with their writing. This lesson is easily adaptable for a KS3 or KS4 class of any ability.

This is a lesson planned for a middle-ability Year 9 class on the influence of social media. It asks pupils to consider the purpose of social media and consider pros and cons during group work. There is a newspaper article on the impact of social media on teenagers for them to analyse (this can be independent or pair or group work) before pupils then need to respond to a question showing both sides of the argument, A model text is included to support pupils in their writing. This is easily adaptable for any KS3 class of any ability.

This is a lesson created for a middle-ability Year 8 class. It focuses on comparing two small extracts describing Wade’s situation and the Oasis. Pupils will select language devices used and the impressions they create for the reader. Pupils will then use these descriptions to write an opening description of their own Oasis. Sentence starters are provided to support pupils in their writing. This is easily adaptable for a KS3 class of any ability.

This is a GCSE lesson revision focusing on memory and the AQA Power and Conflict poetry that explores this. The lesson features a range of activities that you can pick and chose from to suit your class. They range from a model text for pupils to annotate and identify the AOs in; to a planning sheet to support them in structuring a comparison essay. This is easily adaptable for a KS4 class of any ability. Planning sheet and model text copies are included.

This is a lesson planned for a middle-high ability Year 9 class. It explores the representation of women in the media, looking at an advert from the 1950s up to magazine covers from the modern day. Pupils can annotate these to explore key features and the effects they create. There is also an activity where pupils can compare male and female magazine covers and consider how the genders are presented in the modern day. To finish, pupils can look at how the media describe male and female celebrities and write an analytical paragraph on this. A model text has been written to support them in their writing. All short extracts, magazine covers and adverts are included with the powerpoint. This lesson can easily be split into two/three lessons and adapted for any KS3 class of any ability.

This is a lesson planned for a middle-ability Year 8 class. It is a continuation lesson from a previous Harry Potter lesson where pupils looked at descriptions of Diagon Alley shops (see TES profile for this lesson). Pupils are now going to write a description imagining they have gone to Diagon Alley themselves and have visited a particular shop. There are images to help pupils gain initial ideas and a clip is included to help them begin to form descriptions. Group work is involved in the planning stages and roles of team leaders are available to pupils of a higher ability in the class. Worksheets are also included showing images of various shops. Each group can receive a set of images of one shop to focus their description on. This lesson is easily adaptable to any KS3 class of any ability. Shops included: Gringotts Flourish and Blotts Ollivander’s Wand Shop Eeylop’s Owl Emporium Madam Malkin’s Robes for all Occasions

This is one whole lesson for a middle- ability Year 9 class focusing on the characterisation of Lady Macbeth. The lesson focuses on a short extract and requires students to consider gender stereotypes during the Shakespearian era and how Lady Macbeth subverts them. The tasks are split into sections to make them more manageable and sentence starters are provided to support pupils in their writing. The extract for the lesson is also included and the lesson can be easily adapted to a KS3 or KS4 class of any ability.

This is a lesson for a middle-ability Year 8 class focusing on fantasy worlds. This lesson looks at extracts describing key building in Diagon Alley. Pupils have a broken-down task of identifying key language devices in each extract. There is then a GCSE-style (English Language) question for pupils to write a paragraph responding to. There is a model paragraph to support pupils in writing their own. This lesson is easily adaptable for any KS3 class of any ability.

This is a lesson planned for a high-ability Year 7 class. The lesson focuses on the poem of ‘The Lady of Shalott’ and aims to ensure that pupils can explore both sides of the argument as to whether the Lady Shalott is a victim in the poem. There is an activity supporting pupils in picking out key language devices and turning these into agree and disagree points, with examples. There is then an activity supporting pupils in writing analytical paragraphs with a model paragraph to help. This lesson is easily adaptable for any KS3 class of any ability.

I have created a booklet of 12 key scenes from Romeo and Juliet. These are: The Prologue Act 1, Scene 1: Sampson and Gregory Act 1, Scene 1: Romeo and Benvolio Act 1, Scene 2 Act 1, Scene 3 Act 1, Scene 5/ Act 2, Scene 2: Balcony Scene Act 1, Scene 2: Romeo and Friar Lawrence Act 3, Scene 1 Act 3, Scene 5 Act 4, Scene 3 Act 5, Scene 1 Act 5, Scene 3 The booklet contains extracts from each of these scenes and they are annotated by hand. Annotations include: terminology, analysis and contextual links. This booklet could be used by the teacher, or as a resource for either revision, intervention or for students who may join later in a school year and have not studied the play.

This is a lesson planned for a high-ability Year 7 class looking at injustice. Pupils will write a speech persuading an audience to fight against injustice. There will be activities supporting them in creating arguments and embedding language techniques. The final activity will require students to write their speech and there are sentence starters included to support those who may struggle to start. This lesson is easily adaptable for any KS3 class of any ability.

This is a lesson planned for a high-ability Year 7 class looking at injustice and how women are treated by the media. Pupils will look at an array of famous women and look at newspaper articles comparing their treatment. There will be activities supporting them in picking out key quotes and language devices, before discussing these. Students will then focus on the different representations of Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle in the media. The final activity will require students to write an analytical paragraph exploring how the language represents the women. This lesson is easily adaptable for any KS3 class of any ability.

This is a lesson for a middle-ability Year 8 class who were looking at Gothic literature. This lesson focuses on an extract from ‘Jane Eyre’ where Betha is finally revealed to the reader. The lesson requires pupils to look at initial quotes and explore their interpretations before then reading the extract, annotating it and writing an analytical paragraph on the extract. The extract is included in this resource and sentence starters using the PEACE structure are also included to support students. This is easily adaptable for any KS3 or KS4 class.

A worksheet for KS4 pupils explaining key terminology (with definitions) to use for English Language Paper 2.

This is an A3 worksheet for KS4 classes studying Romeo and Juliet. It allows them to write key examples from the play where fate is explored to make it easier to track its importance.

A worksheet provided top tips to pupils on how to approach English Language Paper 1.