A series of lessons plans and powerpoint presentations for the exploration of 'Two Weeks with the Queen&' by Morris Gleitzman. A series of worksheet activities are included.

A detailed scheme of work on the theme of 'order and disorder'. I designed this for year 9 students but this can easily be amended for other year groups. This scheme of work also utilises the movie resources starring Michelle Pfeiffer.

A powerpoint lesson presentation that uses Willy Russell's Our Day Out to Introduce pupils to writing to advise. Discuss understanding. Intro to modal verbs. Revise connectives. Read through Carol's letter. An activity where students respond as an agony aunt in the format of a letter. Peer/self-assess.

Pupils to write letters home from Tommo or Charlie.

A series of lessons that will take you and your classes through Michael Morpurgo’s novel, ‘War Horse’ providing a focus on structural and language choices. Images used for illustrative purposes were obtained via a search engine. War Horse images from Steven Spielberg’s movie of the same title and from War Horse On Stage production.

Exercises designed so that pupils can visualise WW1 and engage with the war contextually and through textual comparison.

A full scheme of work for the play 'Face'. PEA responses to reading including analysis of language, characters, relationships, theme, setting and mood and atmosphere. Extract assessment to interleave GCSE format and question types.

A mock Paper 2 with timer and approaches prompt for each question. Sources credit: Greta Thunberg speeches to MEPs at European Parliament and to MPs at UK Houses of Parliament. Thomas Miller, Picturesque Sketches of London Past and Present, 1852

Exploring ‘Love’s Philosophy’ by Percy Shelley. Some useful analysis of imagery and a group response to question (groups of 4): Students write their response on a lined Post-it and share with their group. The group discuss the WWW and EBI of each individual response before working together to create a group response.

Exploring ‘The Manhunt’ By Simon Armitage through analysis of imagery.

A lesson that explores this poem from the Power and Conflict cluster. Metacognition is used to help students understand the key ideas of the poem. There are opportunities for independent and collaborative learning throughout.

Compare the attitudes of adults towards children in ‘Your Shoes’ with the attitudes of adults towards children in ‘Flight’. A range of activities to help pupils with the analysis of these short stories. It was my aim to arm pupils with the building blocks they required to approach the above essay title with increased confidence.

An activity where pupils study a job advertisement which has caught the eye of Mrs. Kay from ‘Our Day Out’. Pupils to identify key words in the job advert - words or qualities which reflect/describe Mrs. Kay. Pupils to write a letter in the character of Mrs. Kay applying for the job of Assistant Head teacher.

Pupils to write a letter from Charlie to Molly or Molly to Charlie.

Hi, I have updated my scheme of work for AMND this year and thought I would share it again. This update includes new approaches to building analytical responses to reading, peer/self-assessment opportunities, links to poetry and some lessons on creative writing - some of the creative writing lessons have been inspired by the website Pobble 365. I hope you find it useful!

This is an activity I devised for my year 9 class to help them in their study of character within the short stories we were studying - they really enjoyed it and their group role play really helped them to access the characters we were studying and empathise. We studied 'Your Shoes&' and &';Flight' and I asked them to adopt to work in groups and each group was a family from one of the stories. It was a fab lesson and the pupils in my class really loved it as they could relate to chat shows. We filmed the &'shows&'; and watched them back so we could self/peer-assess.