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I created this project inspired by the study of ‘The London Eye Mystery’ and ‘Sherlock/ Enola Holmes’. The students love mystery stories so as a end of year project, they got into groups and planned and designed their own mystery stories. Attached is an excellent planning sheet for their group to take them through the steps of characterization and mystery structures. Each member puts their name next to a character and a section of the story for accountability and in my absence, students could work on their section independently.

This is a murder mystery project for KS3-KS4. This is a group project that requires little to no teaching. The resource has instructions for the project and an example for support. The project requires them to look at elements of a mystery story, characters, structure, monologues, voice.

Volume 2-3 of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein gap fill summary with answers.

Plot summary gap fill for the first part of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

Creative Writing full mark answer.

This is a full mark response to a GCSE writing task.

A lesson on the AQA Poem ‘Winter Swans’ from the ‘Family and Relationships’ collections or taught as an unseen poem. The lesson focuses on the development of explanation of methods to create meaning and effects - particulary, the deeper meanings of symbols and figurative language and how they are illuminated by patterns and structure. The lesson has grouped analysis for differentiation. The lesson has scaffolding such as sentence starters and prompts.

This is a complete lesson/ two-part lesson teaching the essential and foundational skills of processing sounds and seeing how they are used in the poetic form: haiku. This lesson has support for learners such as writing frames, sentence starters, tips and prompts and challenge and extension tasks for more advanced learners. Information, answers and teacher notes are provided so it can be taught be anyone! Students can use any materials to complete these activities. The lesson included prior knowledge activities, addressing misconceptions, assessment for learning, reflection, redrafting and reviewing to easily demonstrate progress.

Poetry revision resource

Resource for students revising poetry for an exam or assessment.

This lesson introduces students to the form of poetry. Students get a chance at writing their first poem and reflecting on the process.

This uses another extract from The Hunger Games where Katniss’ sister Prim is chosen to take part in the games and Katniss volunteers herself. The question looks at the tension built by the writer. The lesson begins with short questions to check the students’ understanding of the extract. Answers given. Then, the slides go through the break-down of the question and mark scheme. The students have an opportunity to practice annotating their ideas, which is scaffolded, before writing their answers using the sentence stems provided. Peer/self/teacher assessed.

This lesson checks students’ comprehension of the text as a whole. Goes through the question and mark scheme in detail. Gives the students a task to annotate the extract with colour-coded guidence and a model paragraph before students complete and self-assess the answer. The extract is taken from ‘The Hunger Games’. This is a great introductory lesson to question 4 of Language Paper 1. There is plenty of scaffolding and modelling.

A revision activity to get students to understand and show understanding that the writer is making deliberate choices (AO2).

Mini SOW introducing students to Language Paper 2 Part B (writing). The first few lessons focus on understanding, evaluating and making choices about perspective, viewpoints, audience, purpose and tone. The next week of lessons focus on identifying, revising and applying an effective structure for a speech.

A 40/40 students creative writing piece used to get the students thinking about how to structure their narratives in interesting and engaging ways but also explain the effect of writer’s structural choices.

Practice question 4 from Language Paper 1. Not a past paper. Potential question. Encourages the students to give a personal response and group methods/ideas together.

Exam Question Beginning of a level 6 response Activities to finish and self-assess essay using students- friendly success criteria

Activity to get students to structure their essay according to their introduction making sure their response fully supports their ideas. Students are to read the introduction, identify the points that need to be proven in their essay, add relevant examples from the text and organise their essay into a coherant argument e.g. chronologically through the text. A Christmas Carol and Poetry.

Task: Cut out and order the moments in Act 3. Stick them onto an A3 sheet leaving space for key quotations. Challenge: add contextual links. Option: You could get them to plots them onto a tension graph deciding which is the most tense reveal/moment for the audience. 1-2 lessons to complete - can set as homework/ revision to finish.