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This 33-slide PowerPoint covers the entire novella, providing a comprehensive foundation for teaching and exploring the text. It includes a blend of reading and writing activities, with a gentle introduction to analytical skills linked to AO1 and AO2—ideal for helping Year 7 students begin developing critical thinking and textual analysis. This resource supports close reading, comprehension, and structured responses, making it a flexible tool for whole-class teaching, guided reading, or homework tasks.

This Folder contains several activities based around My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell. This includes vocabulary review, introduction and a summary. This isn’t a complete unit of work but this activities could easily be incorporated with other work.

In this PPT students will read different short stories making note of plot and themes. They will also explore the text type in preparation for writing their own short story,

This resource is a fantastic foundation covering the short story Vendetta by Guy de Maupassant. It includes reading comprehension questions and answers as well as key vocabulary. With an extended writing task if you want a more extensive lesson.

This stand alone drama lesson introduces Bertolt Brecht’s acting technique - Gestus. The lesson combines a little bit of theory and practice as an excellent starting point. This would be the perfect foundation to build upon, or simply a once off lesson as you explore different practitioners and their techniques.

Students will watch the film ‘Alike’ and answers questions about it.

A range of useful drama comments to assist in your report writing. These comments are divided into two categories: general comment and improvement comment. These comments touch on a range of skills explored in the classroom.

Through these worksheets students will review the features of narrative writing and practice their descriptive writing skills.

Students will use this worksheet to start planning a film review based on a movie of their own choice.

In this worksheet students will explore different blogs to become more familiar with the text type as a pre-activity before creating their own blog.

In this lesson students will be exploring fantasy and reality through philosophy for children (P4C). Defining these abstract concepts and exploring to what extent they impact one another and often overlap.

This resource can be used as a stand alone lesson or combined with other lessons in order to explore different language features found in descriptive writing. The four language features used in the lesson are pathetic fallacy, personification, juxtaposition and extended metaphor.

An interactive double lesson introducing Ebenezer Scrooge as a character. The lesson explores the first few pages of the text and how the setting reflects Scrooge’s character.

In this lesson parents will be exposed to a philosophy for children (P4C) lesson in order to understand what their children are experiencing in the classroom. The topic is based on ‘allowing children to fail in order to learn.’ Parents will explore different situations and when it is acceptable to allow children to make their own mistakes. Parents should come away from the lesson feeling postive about P4C and having a better understanding of the lesson structure and overall benefits.

Students review a number of useful words that can be used in their day to day work. After this the teacher could encourage students to use this vocabulary in a piece of writing.

This vocabulary list is based on a short films and theme studies unit introducing new vocabulary and reviewing it.

In this lesson students will use philosophy for children (P4C) to explore different phenomena. This will provide them with a deeper understanding of the extent of different phenomena in the world.

A lesson designed to introduce short films and what themes are. This is aimed at junior secondary level.

In this worksheet students will complete a vocabulary exercise to discover new vocabulary for their character profile. Followed by a list of areas (personal/personality/appearance) to describe in order to understand their character better.

These two worksheets take students through different exercises in order to work on their descriptive writing skills.