KS3 English Scheme: Speeches of Power and Protest Can be used with Year 7 / 8 / 9 depending on ability. Can be adapted for your group also. Resources include some for LA/HA. 21 lessons fully resources with worksheets, powerpoints and fully anthology of speeches. Developing both reading and writing skills. First 12 lessons focus on Reading Last 9 lessons focus on Writing Topics by Week: Week 1: Introduction to Rhetoric (Rhetorical methods / appeals to pathos/logos/ethos) Week 2: Influential leaders (MLK / Churchill / Obama / Nelson Mandela) Week 3: Contemporary Protests ( John Boyega / Emma Gonzalez / Malala) Assessment 1: How does Malala use language to persuade her audience? Week 4: Empowering Women (Elizabeth I / Emma Watson / Sojourner Truth / Suffragettes ) Week 5: Climate Change (Sir David Attenborough / Leonardo DiCaprio / Greta Thunberg / Obama / Writing Assessment) Assessment 2: Writing to persuade: views on climate change

KS4 Media (or Year 9) Media representations of celebrities / royals. Tabloids vs. Broadsheets. Language used in papers with different political stances.

Who was Christina Rossetti? An interactive, well planned lesson to introduce A Level students to Rossetti. One ppt and some worksheets: Who was Rossetti? Rossetti said what? Research Project

Piano by DH Lawrence Annotations Edexcel Literature iGCSE

Hide and Seek by Vernon Scannel annotations iGCSE Literature

Remember by Christina Rossetti Annotations iGCSE

Context infused GCSE English Literature A Christmas Carol scheme Split across a whole term (Autumn term works well). 45 lessons of in depth analysis of the whole novel, including 5 lessons on Language Paper 2 covering themes evident in the novel: Homelessness, Charity, Shelter, Poverty, Ragged Schools etc. 2 weeks of context lessons on The Victorian Era, Victorian Authorities, Social Classes, Industrial Revolution, The Poor Law, Crime in 1800s, Thomas Malthus, Ragged Schools, Sabbatarianism, Workhouses, Charles Dickens’ upbringing, 19th Century Religious Views. Stave 1: How Scrooge is presented, Bob Cratchit, Interaction with charity workers, Interaction with Fred, Marley’s Ghost. Stave 2: The Ghost of Christmas Present, Scrooge’s childhood and seeing Fan, Fezziwig, Belle. Stave 3: The Ghost of Christmas Present, Abundance of Food, Greed in 19th Century London, The Cratchits’ Christmas, Parallel Scenes: The Lighthouse, The Miners, Fred’s Christmas, Ignorance and Want, Analysis of Poverty across the whole text. Stave 4: The Ghost of Christmases Yet to Come, Context: Grave Snatching, Old Joe and Mrs Dilber, The family in debt, Scrooge’s Grave, Redemption. Stave 5: Analysis of Stave 5, How Scrooge has changed, Comparison to Scrooge at the start vs end.

Fully resourced scheme of work for A Level AQA English Language Social Variation Age Theories Social Groups Theores **8 lessons of powerpoints with tasks on the powerpoints. **: Lesson 1 - Intro to Social Variation: idolect/sociolect Lesson 2 - How does age affect language use? Theories of age. Lesson 3 - Slang / Michael Rosen Podcast / Jonathan Green’s ideas of slang Lesson 4 - Slang / Stenström’s Teenage Talk / Research into slang usage / Ives / Teenspeak and textspeak Lesson 5 - Defining age - Eckert and Chesire’s ideas / AO2 critiquing studies Lesson 6 - Multi-Modal Language / Textspeak & teenspeak / Is text speak killing language? Ted Talk from John McWhorter / Thurlow’s Sociolinguistic Maxims (2003) Lesson 7 - Jenny Chesire’s Reading study / AO2: Evaluate and Critique skills Lesson 8 - Jocks and Burnouts - Eckert’s study / AO2: Evaluate and Critique skills / Copeland’s code-switching. Also includes many example A Level questions. Very helpful for A Level English Language teachers or students.

1 x Full lesson on London by William Blake Includes: Contextual information and tasks about London and William Blake Analysis worksheet to fill in alongside the PowerPoint tasks A reading and video of the poem Quote explosions of key quotes showing power from the poem Analysis of the Meaning Language and Imagery Themes

2 x lessons on A Wife in London by Thomas Hardy. Analysis of the poem including: Predictions based on the title Context / Content of the poem / poet Language Quote explosions of key quotes Structure Meaning Form Tone Practice exam paragraph ‘How does Hardy present War?’ including WAGOLLs and WABOLLs

KS3 Of Mice and Men Scheme - Year 8 / 9 25 lessons with all resources: ppts, worksheets and pdf of text. Lessons follow the text covering main points of discussion / study. One reading assessment One writing assessment

A Level English Literature Named Poet - Christina Rossetti Full Annotations: At Home

Edexcel / OCR English Literature A Level Christina Rossetti - Goblin Market (some annotations)

A Level English Literature Named Poet - Christina Rossetti Full Annotations: Up-Hill

A Level English Literature Named Poet - Christina Rossetti Full Annotations: What Would I Give?

Christina Rossetti A Level Poetry - English Literature: Full Annotations: Babylon The Great Including Context

A Level English Literature Named Poet - Christina Rossetti Full Annotations: A Christmas Carol

A Level English Literature: Named Poet - Christina Rossetti Full Annotations: Our Mothers, Lovely Women Pitiful

A Level English Literature Christina Rossetti - Full Annotations: Maude Clare

A Level English Literature - Christina Rossetti Full Annotations: A Helpmeet For Him