This worksheet can be used in guided teaching or as a homework task to help students interpret, analyse and annotate their copy of the anthology poem ‘Walking Away’ by Cecil Day-Lewis.
Students will read an article about Overtourism in Venice, explore the controversy through debate and comprehension before writing their own persuasive letter.
In this lesson, students will consider the context of the play in relation to post war Britain and the kitchen sink genre. The class will consider the use of set, dialogue and stage directions to create setting.
In this lesson students will critically consider Delaney’s representation of class and parenting in her play. Attention is given to staging and the playwright’s use of language.
Designed for a high ability Year 9 class students to analyse pathetic fallacy and language.
Extracts (including modern translations), worksheets and PowerPoint included.
Designed for a high achieving Year 9 class.
Students will consider the relationship between King Lear and Goneril and the theme of ‘betrayal’.
Includes a PowerPoint, extracts and activities.
In this lesson students analyse theatrical performances and the language in the scene to consider how King Lear is presented.
Students are tasked to write a creative response to the scene.
The lesson was designed with high-achieving Year 9s in mind.
This scheme of work requires students to work with Shakespearean language as well as translations. They will develop their analytical writing skills and consider staged versions of the text.
5 Lessons included:
Act 1 Scene 1
Act 1 Scene 2
Act 2 Scene 4
Act 3 Scene 2
Act 5 Scene 3
In this lesson students read extracts, use the scaffolds in the PowerPoint to consider how characters are introduced.
There are video links to Royal Shakespeare Company performances and translations of the scene in modern English.
Designed for a high achieving Year 9 class with plenty of challenges, this SOW is an overview of King Lear (5 lessons) to familiarise students with Shakespearean Language and conventions of a tragedy.
In this lesson students will explore the thematic significance of the casket scene and it’s relation to the wider themes of trade and justice.
Students will read the scene, consider theatrical adaptations and look at quotations from across Shakespeare’s play.
This is a bundle of three lessons explore Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ considering pathetic fallacy in the opening and the relationship between Prospero and Ariel (Act 1 Scene 2).
Students will also explore costume in theatrical adaptations and write their own scene.
This lesson explores the theme of ‘marriage’ and Beatrice’s attitude towards it.
Students will read Act 4 Scene 1 in Shakespeare’s original language and modern translations and watch theatrical interpetations of the scene before partaking in guided analytical writing.
I made this for my Year 8 class studying ballads.
Students learn the narrative of the poem before write their own analytical paragraph. There is a model answer.