Lesson with some links to Citizenship and PHSE about fitting in and how far will someone go

Themes, with Dictionary work

A lesson designed to encourage students to try to relate to characters within the book

Lesson exploring the cultural background of Chinese Cinderella.

Opportunities to work on Speaking and Listening skills, looking at how Newspapers use opinions that sound like fact etc. Aimed at Low ability Year 9

Drama activity for chapters 5 and 6 of Chinese Cinderella

Looks at Point, Evidence, Explanation, with a focus on looking at analysing the language in a quote in detail.

A group based lesson.

Looks at the roles of men and women and gives students an opportunity to think of gender conventions and explore the connotations of masculine and feminine words.

Fourth Lesson in the Series, looking at the character of Mrs Joseph. Extension task provided.

Introductory Lesson for before reading Teacher's Dead, aimed at low ability Year 9. Unfortunately, the video was unable to upload onto the TES, but I was able to upload it to Youtube and the link is included.

The Second Lesson in the series for Teacher's Dead. Focuses on types of openings. All Resources included, except target cards, as these would be specific to the class you are teaching. Aimed at Low ability Year 9

The first lesson for Chinese Cinderella, looking at Autobiographies.

Following up on previous lesson, with focus on use of connectives

A lesson on letter writing that revises a previous lesson and gives students the opportunity to make improvements based on feedback. See Chinese Cinderella lesson on bound feet.

A lesson for lower ability year 10 students to introduce them to Human Interest.

A lesson mainly based around reading, with a simple task that can be differentiated for different abilities.

This resource was made with a VERY low ability, Year 11 group in mind. You will need a copy of the Gladiator DVD, or you can easily find the relative clip on Youtube.

This lesson assumes you have left time for the students to read chapter 12 previously. It looks at Calpurnia and the children's visit to the church. There is an option for discussion about how developed Calpurnia is as a character.

An alternative approah to Chapter three, focusing on the practice of Foot binding.