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In this lesson students will work with an extract and quotations from the novel to evaluate Fagin’s character analysing Dickens’ language and consider if he is a hero or villain.

This was designed for a high achieving Year 9 class. The students read Act 1 Scene 1, consider how flattery is used to convince King Lear of his daughter’s love and then write and peer assess. All resources (peer assess sheets, script extract, PowerPoint) are included. I used this for our King Lear SOW but it would also work nicely as a stand alone lesson for KS3 Shakespeare studies.

I used this as cover for my top set Year 11 class to consider themes, politics and context in more detail. There are three worksheets in the set: Gender, Morality and Responsibilty. You could use this as a whole class worksheet or as a homework task too.

Here is a PowerPoint with 4 or 5 questions on each slide and the answers revealed on the next slide. There are 10 slides so around 50 quotes in total. I have also included the task as a word document which students can do individually as a starter task.

Using an extract from Chapter 10, this 11-slide PowerPoint is designed for students to analyse Dickens’ language and consider the themes of crime and punishment.

In this lesson students read an extract introducing the character of The Artful Dodger and then complete independent writing tasks.

This three page resource is designed for homework or cover work. It also comes with an answer sheet. This was designed for a literacy set in Year 7 and could also work well for a KS2 class studying language or 19th Century Literature. Tasks: Peter Pan: Language and Exploration TASK A: Early in the story, Peter explains that in order to fly the Darling children must ”think happy thoughts and they will lift you up into the air!”. Write down four happy thoughts or memories you could use you to help you fly. Example: When my friends made me a surprise chocolate cake for my birthday. 1. 2. 3. 4. TASK B: Most English words can be classed into nouns, adjectives and verbs. Nouns: words used to identify people, places and things. In other words, nouns are the names we give things. Examples of nouns: London, Clock, Flower, Dragon Verbs: words used to describe actions or things you can do. Examples of verbs: drawing, reading, shouting Adjectives: words used to describe nouns or verbs. Put the nouns, verbs and adjectives into the correct boxes. Can you colour in examples of nouns, adjectives and verbs in this extract? Example- (Both extracts are taken from Chapter 16 where Mr Darling is missing his children). TASK C: This extract is taken from the end of the novel, where the Darling children have come home and are hiding waiting for their mother to find them. I have removed all the full stops and speech marks from this extract. Can you add in the missing punctuation? TASK D: Design a costume for Tinkerbell based on the description- “Tinkerbell is Peter Pan’s fairy companion. She is small, maybe the size of your hand. She wears a handmade dress sewn together from autumn leaves that she chose herself. Her hair is messy, as you might expect from a fairy who spends her days in the forest. Tiny buttons made from daisy are sewn along her dress and earrings created from spiderwebs dangle in her hairs. She is a feisty fairy with a sharp tongue.” Take a look at these interpretations to give your ideas for your costume-

In this lesson my G.C.S.E class rotated the information sheets and made their own notes on the provided grid. The resources help students gain an understanding of the socio-historical context J B Priestley wrote ‘An Inspector Calls’ for and in.

Here is a set of four spelling sheets, forty words total. I used this for homework with my top set G.C.S.E class to ensure they had relevant higher level vocabulary for their ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ essays.

Students follow the PowerPoint to create their own retelling of Puck finding the magical flower for Oberon. This resource was created for a mixed ability Year 8 class.

A quick homework task - students define and give an example of each poetic device.

This SOW comprises of six lessons designed to introduce students to the play, characters and themes of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ focusing on the relationship between Hermia and her partner. There are a number of creative and analytical writing tasks and students will analyse scenes using both original extracts (Shakespearean language) and modern.

These two lessons are designed for KS3 students. Although the lessons are based around the tourist attraction, Kew Gardens, the lesson involved students reading about the gardens in Springtime and writing persuasively about the gardens in Autumn. Students do not need to be familiar with Kew itself! Lesson 1: There is a starter based on P2.Q1 (true or false), followed by identifying language devices in an unseen non-fiction extract and evaluating their effect on the reader (P2.Q3). Lesson 2: Students will write a short piece describing Kew Gardens in Autumn using persuasive devices. There are scaffolds avaliable for peer and self assessment (P2.Q5).

This resource is designed for Philip Pullman’s play adaptation of ‘Frankenstein’. Students analyse the prologue and epilogue and consider how the play has been structured to interest the audience. This will be useful for Drama or English classes studying the play.

This PowerPoint scaffolds the opening scenes to ‘Romeo and Juliet’ using photos from the Luhrmann film. Students are invited to write a creative response following the slides. This was used with my Year 7 class (mixed ability).

This lesson is designed to link students understanding of the play with some relevant context about the playwright, her life and work.

Themed around the ‘This Girl Can’ media campaign (empowering girls to get involved in sport). In this lesson students read the ‘This Girl Can’ article, answer some comprehension questions and write their own persuasive letter. A model persuasive letter is also provided.

This two lesson set requires students to analyse Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 considering conventions of love poetry before writing their own creative response!

In this lesson students will analyse quotations from Brod and explore his character in relation to ideas of identity and migration. PowerPoint: Nine slides.