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Exploring Prejudice, Resilience and Social Justice This comprehensive and powerful KS3 English unit offers everything you need to guide students through Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Rich in historical context and contemporary relevance, the scheme explores themes of racism, resistance, family, land ownership, and social justice, encouraging students to think critically and empathetically about the world around them. What’s Included

• 12–14 fully resourced, editable PowerPoint lessons
• Contextual research tasks and videos (e.g. segregation, the legacy of slavery, Brown vs Board of Education)
• Reading comprehension and guided analysis activities
• PETAL paragraph scaffolding and model responses
• Creative and analytical summative assessment tasks
• Literature circles, quizzes, vocabulary tasks, and film comparisons
• Final reflection questions linking to inquiry themes of prejudice and resilience

Ideal For

• Teachers seeking a complete, flexible unit mapped to KS3 objectives
• Departments aiming to build students’ analytical writing and empathy

Bonus Features

• Opportunities for interdisciplinary links with History and PSHE
• Creative writing tasks from multiple perspectives
• Engaging assessment and retrieval tasks including quizzes and debates