This SoW takes students from the Romans' departure from Britain to the BBC newsreader, via Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Renaissance drama, & Victorian novelists. One powerpoint covers Old & Middle English, the other covers Early Modern and Late Modern English. Please rate & comment! Lessons: Beowulf - monsters, mates & kennings Manuscripts - celebrating awesomeness Vicious Viking, posh Noble & poor Peasant Conversations Canterbury Tales - acting & updating Printing Press posters King Arthur & Bestiaries Renaissance Drama (Jonson, Lyly & Shakespeare) - independent work & reading assessment Dickens research project & literary caricatures Scandalous Victorian Newspaper Stories Penny Dreadful creative writing Time Travel Novels - The Lost World & The Time Machine: reading, writing & comparing Ingenious Inventions & etymology Words of the World Stream of Consciousness BBC RP

A gentle introduction to Shakespeare for KS3 students. Borrows ideas from the RSC-BBC “Shakespeare Unlocked” teachers pack (links to clips in slides) and adapts for year 7/8. Lessons include: The theatre, with optional library research project for able students whilst others use laptops to research general theatre terms. The plot - what happens? Mapping this with stickfigures. The Mechanicals - who are they, how do Bottom & Quince battle to be in charge? The Fairies - how are they different from stereotypical fairies? Why have Titania & Oberon fallen out, & what are the effects? Problems & Advice - Agony Aunt letters. Helena Vs. Hermia - at the start, Helena & Demetrius, the BIG FIGHT SCENE! Assessment planning - S's presentation of H&H. Fun end-of-module games.

SoW (missing first 2 lessons on context) working through the novel Private Peaceful towards an assessment on the themes of bravery and cowardice. Each lesson has a different topic focus, and activities include research on underage soldiers, a social media profile page to complete, brainstorms, map-making, letter-writing and censorship, source analysis, analysis of poetry and writing to argue. A cheat-sheet of useful quotes is included! Please rate & comment with your thoughts!

A scheme of work based on deception. Includes the Toledo Letter end-of-the-world trick, the Ghostly Drummer story, Jonathan Swift's hoax prediction and poem, the Balloon Hoax and Poe's Moon Hoax newspaper stories, selling the Eiffel Tower posters, and the War of the Worlds radio broadcast script. Includes all resources and an end of module task option sheet.