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A Fortnie-inspired creative writing task. Including dreamy visual backgrounds, designed for learners who find the appearance of traditional school work challenging, for example home-schooling, school-avoiders, or SEN. All tucked into a handy PDF format.

Poetry module based around place and home. All in a handy PDF format. Exploring themes of immigration, identity, nostalgia, belonging, pride. With dreamy Fortnite-inspired backgrounds to engage students. Including poetry analysis on Anne Bronte, Charles Swain, Charles Berry, Sujata Bhatt, Lemn Sissay. Lesson Objectives: Exploring what home means to different people and interpret hidden meanings in poems about home. Exploring how James Berry presents memories of his hometown and use this to help me write about my own experiences. Analysing the imagery in ‘Search for My Tongue’ and link this with the theme of pride. Identifying similarities and differences between poems about place, home and identity Exploring how Lemn Sissay presents pride for his region in ‘Anthem of the North’ and use this to inspire my own writing. Formulating my own effective discussions on the topic. Planning a poem about my own attitudes to home. Writing my own poem that conveys my feelings towards my home. Performing my poem with confidence and use different performance techniques to convey emotion.

Three philosophical quotes from the Anime series ‘Naruto’. This bundle includes a three Naruto quotes and up to 14 questions for it’s corresponding quote, enabling full exploration and analysis. Great resource to engage students in Philosophy, as well as being used as short tasks for creative thinking. Which can help with English-based writing analysis. These have been three very helpful tools to engage my students in these topics based around their own interests.

Four separate ‘Obscure Words in the English Language’ Quizzes Each quiz includes seven obscure (some very obscure) words geared aorund learning one different word for each day of the week. Each page in the document includes one word and an example of how it is used in a sentence. Students can guess what the meaning of each word is. Answers at on the last page of each document These have been very useful to aid English Language GCSE papers to broaden students’ vocabulary. Also a fun end of term quiz!

Three Carol Ann Duffy poems with accompanying analysis questions to stimulate discussion and debate. Poems included are: Medusa Before you were mine Text Useful classroom activity for poetry analysis or, of course, general interest.

Three Maya Angelou poems with accompanying analysis questions to stimulate discussion and debate. Poems included are: Phenomenal Woman Come and be my baby Still I Rise. Useful classroom activity for poetry analysis or, of course, general interest.

Fornite-Inspired Creative Writing Prompts set against a backdrop of dreamy visuals. Includes video link to watch to pique interest. Theme: Fortnite - Survival, Strategy and Storytelling Age Group: 11–14 Length: 60–75 minutes End Goal: Students will plan and write a short, Fortnite-inspired creative story using key narrative techniques, varied sentence structures, and figurative language. Stimulate imagination and visual awareness. Builds interest and connects writing to a familiar, exciting world. Demonstrates high-quality writing. Gives a scaffold before students write independently.