Aimed at Y7 and 8, this short scheme aims to introduce KS3 pupils to 6 of Shakespeare’s famous characters/speeches. Ideal for introducing Shakespeare or one of his plays. Students are guided to act out conversations or deliver monologues. All resources included. Would probably take 3 1 x hour lessons in total. Could be extended. Includes Beatrice & Benedick, Malvolio, Lady Macbeth, Don John, Seven Ages of Man and Romeo and Juliet.

This is the first four lessons aimed at Y7 or 8 for working in pairs or groups to create their own theme park. Lessons 1 and 2 include some engaging activities to consider the idea of themes and look at examples of existing theme parks. They watch clips, name rides and create 3 rides for a blank dinosaur theme park. Lessons 3 and 4 are geared towards them creating their own theme park map after looking at Chessington World of Adventures’ example and answering some questions to illustrate the importance of a clear and informative park map.

In this lesson, aimed at middle to high ability Y9 or KS4, the stanzas of the poem are divided up with prompts to be given out to pairs or groups of students. Once students have thought about their individual stanza, they can feed back to the class and everyone can complete the A3 copy of the poem (with spaces for notes) to provide themselves with revision notes. The accompanying ppt provides a structure for the teacher to use when facilitating feedback.

This is a step by step (1 - 2 lessons) guide to Remains by Simon Armitage. Contains 2 quizzes on content and techniques, a guided task on considering how the poem relates to the themes of power and conflict, and a step by step process of writing a response on the theme of power. Worked very well with middle ability Y9 but would also be suitable for higher sets.

This resource contains lessons on The Storm, Piroska, Pitch, The Boy in the Boat, Nature, Mud and Monkey from Chris Priestley’s Tales of Terror from the Black Ship. Some focus on identifying and writing skills such as simile, onomatopoeia, alliteration, metaphor and inference. Aimed at Y7 & 8.

This resource contains a lesson on using CLAPS (content, language, atmosphere, poetic devices, structure) as either a way of ordering an exam response or using it as a checklist. There is an example response on Remains to read and then several slides asking students to add a linking sentence to the example in order to answer the given essay title. Then groups can work on aspects of CLAPS to produce a response to a question on War Photographer to practice both the concept of CLAPS as a way of responding to a poem and the importance of linking ideas back to the question. An assessment on War Photographer (on conflict) is included, along with a Key Stage 3 marking and feedback sheet which could be used if desired. This feedback sheet contains prompts to help students to DIRT their answers.

AIMED AT LOW TO MIDDLE ABILITY Y9, 10 AND 11, THIS RESOURCE CONTAINS A SHORT SUMMARY OF ALL POWER AND CONFLICT ANTHOLOGY POEMS, WITH KEY IDEAS. EACH SLIDE FOLLOWS THE SAME FORMAT AND IS DESIGNED TO BE AN UNCOMPLICATED REVISION TOOL FOR THE LESS ABLE GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE STUDENT. USEFUL REVISION GUIDE FOR THE ENGLISH LITERATURE EXAM.

A 20 MINUTE, THREE TASK LESSON LOOKING AT INFORMATION RETRIEVAL / MEMORY, INDEPENDENCE AND SUMMARISING TO ENABLE KS3 ENGLISH STUDENTS TO REVISE TEXTS FOR ASSESSMENTS.

LESSON 1 LOOKS AT TWO EXAMPLE STORIES AND ASKS PUPILS TO IDENTIFY WHAT IS EFFECTIVE AND WHAT REQUIRES IMPROVEMENT. INCLUDES A SIMPLIFIED MARK SCHEME TO ALLOW PUPILS TO ASSESS. TIPS ON PLANNING AND AN OPPORTUNITY TO PLAN IS BUILT IN. A TSUNAMI HOMEWORK IS PROVIDED AS HOMEWORK FOLLOWING THIS LESSON, PROVIDING A WRITING FRAME FOR PUPILS TO CREATE THEIR OWN STORY USING A GIVEN PICTURE. NARRATIVE WRITING LESSON 2 FOLLOWS UP ON THIS HOMEWORK, WITH A FURTHER EXAMPLE STORY TO LOOK AT. A NARRATIVE WRITING ASSESSMENT IS INCLUDED, FOR PUPILS TO APPLY SKILLS LEARNED. THIS COULD BE TEACHER OR PUPIL ASSESSED.

Example essay for students to learn from. Could be used as a class marking activity. Island Man by Grace Nichols

Students are shown a short set of slides defining women and marriage in Victorian times, including part of a Tennyson poem and Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management. Kahoot quiz follows (link available). Then students should match up a range of Pride and Prejudice quotations about marriage with the modern translation to get an idea of how important marriage was to women at this time. They will then watch the clip where Mr Collins proposes to Lizzie to show that she was atypical of victorian women of the time. Then we look at noble women and the extract where Lady Catherine de Bourgh visits Lizzie Bennet to show her disapproval of her alleged marriage to Mr Darcy. Discussion of language choices to show her attitude to the middle classes. Radio clip of a rich girl relating a day in her life; this links to the idea of governesses which are looked at in connection with middle class women and their jobs. Students can use two extracts to compare the job of a governess (Jane Eyre) with an account of the duties of a lady’s maid. Leads on to lower class women and a clip of Downton Abbey where students have to be observant and answer a series of questions about the servants’ roles. Leads to women (Nancy) who cannot get respectable work - students look at an extract and then freeze frame the emotions described. Ends with creating a wordle about all that they have learned.

This is a minimum of 2 whole lessons (of one hour), beginning with Sir Robert Peel. Students are given two slides of information about the first police force then quizzed. This is followed by a look at the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, with some deduction tasks and a literacy correction exercise. Then on to hulk ships and writing a diary entry of someone on board serving a prison sentence for stealing onions. Links to clips re-enacting children sentenced to transportation for pickpocketing. Then, complete the outline using description of Magwitch’s character (escaped convict in Great Expectations), and some language analysis using an extract from this story. The final task uses information given in an extract from Oliver Twist to create a wanted poster for Artful Doder.

This is intended for KS3 English lessons looking at Victorian context in preparation for English Literature at GCSE. This resource is a minimum of 2 lessons. Includes extracts from Lowood school (Jane Eyre) followed by a kahoot quiz, an extract from Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby with a cloze exercise to describe the dilapidated school room, followed by an inference exercise on the boys of Dotheboys Hall. Drama task to finish capturing Mr Brocklehurts’s reaction to a curly haired, red-headed pupil at his school.

Two lessons focusing on Q2 and Q4 of AQA English Language Paper 2 (one lesson each) using Rory Stewart’s Afghanistan travel extract and an extract from Dorothy Wordsworth’s Grasmere Journals.

Two lessons developing students’ reading skills in a (hopefully!) creative way. Covers the characters of Gradgrind, Bill Sikes, and Scrooge. Includes extracts to analyse (included), clips to watch and ultimately to decide who the favourite villain is.

This lessons allows students to examine a couple of example city guides, written by students, to understand the type of information used in writing one and also to look at the persuasive techniques used. Using given information about the city of Sheffield, students can work individually or in pairs to produce their own city guide.

Fully resourced scheme, including step by step look at two exam style extract questions, aimed at MA ability KS4. Easily differentiated up or down.

Three lessons focusing on Stave 5 - The End of It. Includes step by step guide through an extract question, looking at Scrooge's change of heart in the final stave. Extract included as part of the power point.