Need an engaging activity to lead your students in this WORLD POETRY DAY? Need to get your students interested in and responding to key texts? If so, you’re in the right place! Includes: -Clear instructions -A diverse selection of poems to print for students to work on -Assessment Criteria -Exemplar work & ideas

Use this engaging lesson to kick off a unit on Lord of the Flies Learning: -To begin to understand the historical and social context surrounding our next project. -To consider how outside influences can create a piece of literature that has been called ‘a masterpiece’. -To consider what assumptions we may have about the novel and how accurate they might be. Strong links to SMSC

Creative Literacy Drawing Challenge Includes: -Printable worksheets for key texts used in years 7, 8 & 9. Activity: Students use different types of expressive lines and marks to interpret and draw a visual response inspired by the text. Year 7: Theseus and the Minotaur Year 8: Act 1, Scene 4, Macbeth Year 9: Act 1, Scene 1, Romeo & Juliet