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Introduce your students to the genre of dystopian fiction with this Powerpoint that explains the origin of the term. After contrasting modern dystopian novels, the lesson focuses on the opening of George Orwell’s 1984, looking at how he constructs the introduction. After several opportunities for discussion and feedback, students are invited to write the opening to a descriptive peace entitled, “A Perfect World”. The extract of the opening is included in the folder.

After studying Tennyson’s “The Eagle”, students write their own animal poem.

Inspired by “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”, students explore the creative world of JK Rowling by devising their own fantastic beast. Fully supported by a Powerpoint with numerous examples, students use their imaginations to brainstorm their own unique, fantastic creature and then fill in a fact file. The lesson can be extended with students writing an A-Z style encyclopedia entry for their creature after studying two examples. The fact file template is included in the folder.

Using a short extract from the potion’s lesson in the first Harry Potter book as inspiration, students create their own recipe for a potion of their choice from a list of options. Students choose suitable ingredients and write the method using imperatives. After having their work checked, they re-draft their potions recipe onto a template provided in the folder. A fun Powerpoint guides students through this activity and an example recipe is included to scaffold their writing. A fun way to teach verbs and imperatives.

Inspired by the list of sweets in the first Harry Potter book, students create and advertise their own sweet. Using their imaginations and a scaffolding template, they write 5-6 sentences of persuasive copy and turn their design into an advert for display. Ideal for primary students or year 7, it could also be uses as a fun transition activity for year 6-7 transition day. A Powerpoint exemplifies the task and engages students with some persuasive language techniques. The scaffolding template for weaker students is included in the folder.

A great Powerpoint resource to allow you to get to know a new class in a relaxed, creative and fun way. Students engage with two several examples of acrostic poems and then write their own acrostic with their own name, thereby introducing themselves and their personalities to you. Great for English or for exploring oneself during PSCHE lessons. After checking by the teacher, students take care in re-drafting their poems for a class display. Bordered display paper templates are included in the folder. Students are also given a bank of positive and appropriate adjectives to inspire them.

Cinquains are poems with clearly defined conventions and encourage students to think in metaphorical ways. This resources uses a cinquain about the emotion of anger to teach the structure of a cinquain. Students then choose an emotion of their choice to write a cinquain about. This exercise teaches students to “think outside the box” about their emotion. Thinking metaphorically develops higher level cognition. This lesson also allows students to explore emotions.