Year 9 lesson on Jane Eyre to prepare for the AQA English Literature GCSE. Includes an extract from chapter one and differentiated questions.

This lesson asks students to write a letter to Mrs Reed questioning her treatment of Jane.

A powerpoint with a guide to sentence types and two activities to complete: one as a class and one individual. Also includes a homework task. Can be used with KS3 and KS4.

A run through of paper 2 for revision. Includes comparison questions (to paper 1) and quick tasks to retrieve important information and compare model answers. Using this at the beginning of term to reintroduce English Language.

A run through of paper 1 to include model answers (from Exampro) and tasks for each question. I’ll be using this in September as revision and to remind students of the key aspects of each question.

PPT and worksheet to a complete assembly.

A powerpoint which shows the rules for the classroom with an example of an activity which invites students to think about what they want to get out of the year. Used with KS3 and KS4 students to encourage them to focus on positive behaviour and attitude.

Introducing Jane Eyre to year 9 students to prepare for AQA GCSE English Literature. A lesson prompting students to research key areas of the social context of the novel. Includes challenge task as well as information to begin their search.

A lesson preparing students to answer a question about sympathy for Jane. It includes a student friendly mark scheme for AQA English Literature.

An introduction to literacy particularly focusing on punctuation marks. Lessons included to cover sentence types and basic punctuation. Suitable for KS3.

I used this powerpoint with year 7 to teach them the techniques and get them being creative to write their own poems.

Writing about the poem and discussing ideas based on a previous reading and discussion of ARTWARS.

I used this powerpoint with year 8's to make sure they were aware of rhyming couplets, semantic field and onomatopoeia.

First week’s lessons for this unit with worksheets and example opinion pieces.

Weeks three and four lessons and resources

Further lessons to work towards controlled assessment.

Further lessons

Poems include Talking Turkeys, The Frozen Man, The Witch and Jabberwocky

Second week of lessons with resources