A lesson revising ideology, culture and sub-culture. Suitable for students studying Pearson BTEC Creative Digital Media Production. Students consider how dominant ideologies have changed over time and evaluate their effects on society. Students apply their learning to analyse a TV clip and evaluate a model answer. Students recap the meaning of culture and sub-culture and work independently to write an exam style answer.

A fun and interactive quiz revising camera angles, lighting and reading styles. The lesson includes a range of different rounds including quiz questions, picture rounds and video clip rounds.

A fully resourced debate lesson for students to argue who is responsible for the conflict in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Students work in groups to prosecute a specific character from the play. Students are given specific roles and a structure for their argument. The lesson is fully differentiated with both challenge and support tasks provided. The lesson has a focus on oracy with frequent reference to the GCSE Speaking and Listening criteria.

A quiz testing students on the main features of the exam for Pearson BTEC Creative Digital Media Production Unit 8. Includes 12 questions and answers.

A lesson to develop students’ article writing skills. Based on controversial ideas and stereotypes about the youth of today. Lesson includes a model and frequent reference to AQA GCSE English Language mark scheme.

A revision guide for Power and Conflict anthology poems and Unseen poetry. Suitable for students studying AQA GCSE. The revision guide includes comprehension questions for each poem in the Power and Conflict anthology, focusing on quotations, theme, poets’ intentions and devices. A list of comparison exam style questions are included as well as exam style questions for unseen poetry.

Twelve fully resourced lessons on The Kiss of Death by Malcolm Rose. The lessons include two homework tasks and opportunity for assessment. The lessons allow for both group and independent work and there are opportunities for drama, oracy and writing skills.

Suitable for students studying AQA GCSE Power and Conflict poetry anthology. Page per poem knowledge organisers with detailed notes on key ideas, context, themes, language, form and structure. All poems in the Power and Conflict anthology covered with key quotations included.

A Macbeth whoosh drama activity. Resource includes the teacher script, lesson and plot gap-fill task. A fun and enjoyable way to introduce the play to students.

Three lessons focusing on non-fiction letter writing skills. Based on the controversial topic of debt and pay day loans. The first lesson introduces the idea of pay day loans. Students read an article about the dangers of pay day loans and identify and analyse the devices used. The second lesson allows students to develop a personal response to the topic and students practise their oracy skills. A differentiated article is provided as further support for students. In the third lesson, students work independently to write their persuasive letters and peer assess against the success criteria. These lessons have been used with both KS3 and KS4 lessons with the GCSE mark scheme used for self assessment.

A series of 5 fully resourced and differentiated lessons focused on reading and writing non-fiction articles. In the first lesson, students recap persuasive language features. In the second lesson, students develop understanding of broadsheet and tabloid newspapers and compare the features. In the third lesson, students analyse a model newspaper article and focus on identifying the structure of a report. In the fourth lesson, students take part in a crime scene lesson to collate facts and information to prepare them to write their own articles. In the fifth lesson, students write their newspaper articles. This could easily become a sixth lesson.

A series of 4 fully resourced lessons guiding students through how to create a description of a villain character. All lessons include challenge tasks and help sheets for thorough differentiation. One homework task with accompanying resource also included. Lesson 1 allows students to analyse a villain from the extract of The Joker and provides opportunity for drama. The second lesson asks for students to write their own description of The Joker. The third and fourth lessons prove the opportunity for students to work independently to create their own villainous character. Opportunities for peer and self assessment also included.

A lesson introducing students to the basics of psychoanalysis. Students then consider how the novella Jekyll and Hyde could be interpreted through the lens of psychoanalysis. Particularly suitable for grade 7-9 students.

30 comprehension questions for the poems in the Power and Conflict AQA anthology. Questions relate to quotation, theme, general understanding and devices.

Three lessons focusing on writing a letter to argue. Based on the controversial issue of school exclusions. In the first lesson, students practise their oracy skills and develop a personal response to the issue of school exclusions. In the second lesson, students analyse a model and plan their own response. In the third lesson, students work independently to write their letters to argue and peer assess.

An extract from the start of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley with accompanying comprehension questions focusing on both understanding and language analysis. Includes a challenge task based around creative writing skills. Ideal for homework or cover lessons.