Couldn’t find anything like this online so made my own! Some realistic tips for highly motivated students to independenly revise english literature at GCSE.

Anaphora, Hypophora and Epiphora definition and tasks with music examples. High ability subject terminology.

Speaking and Listening Feedback Sheet Informal Language Oracy

Exploring Language and Structure through Bring up the Bodies GCSE

Engaging glossary task for the ambitious vocabulary in the short dystopian story ‘The Lottery’. Intro lesson, introducing utopia and dystopia and deep thinking about the notion of a lottery. Complete with full short story attached.

Introduction to Diverse Voices - 2 lessons on diversity for English lit - ks3. Walks through definitions, why we need diversity, videos from speakers of the BLM movement and the white privilege video.

This is part of a two-week introductory SOW for introducing female voices and female representation in literature to year 9 though it is suitable for all ks3 and possibly ks4. Starting with Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife - other lessons available for more World’s Wife poems, Duffy’s Havisham and Rupi Kaur’s Progress. All lessons link with retrieval, recall, specific method and vocab explicit teaching and a variety of engaging tasks and thought-provoking feminist notions.

Show Not Tell Descriptive Writing Task or Booklet or Intervention. Activity and task to encourage SHOW not TELL. Identifying verbs and adjectives. Creating a glossary/vocab word bank. Two model answers of show not tell and 3 engaging images for all abilities. Initially aimed at y8 intervention (KS3 LITERACY).

Pre-assessment prep, assessment and mark scheme and post-assessment feedback ‘make a difference’ time. 3-5 hours worth. Using extracts from Noughts and Crosses. Heavy focus on WHAT/HOW/WHY approach to analysing language with scaffolding, model answers, checklists, self-assess, peer-assess.

The Highwayman: Tim the Ostler and IMAGERY, Peer Assess and Diary Entry. MEGA few lessons! ENGAGING! Group work, peer work, etc.

Reading chapter 1 of Noughts and Crosses: structure, dual narrative, knowledge organiser included.

Thirteen by Tom Hoyle - Mega introduction lesson!

Private Peaceful End of Chapter 5 questions and tasks

Scannell - Nettles: Poetry response model answers.

Exploring racism in the media. Chapter 16/17 of Noughts and Crosses.

2-4 hours of lessons on effective hooks using a dystopic extract from The Hunger Games. Aiming to write a baseline description. Mini quizzes, retrieval and recall, explicit definitions, engaging youtube task, digging in deeper, method spotting and analysing effective hooks and openers. Improving crafting opening of sentences with ISPACE.

1-2 hours of lessons on There Will Come Soft Rains - analsying and echoing the themes and style of writing to create their own writing skills.

Effects of language, methods, techniques - reader’s response - AO2 AQA.

Havisham Poem Carol Ann Duffy Language analysis lesson

Black narratives: exploring THUG (including black narrative multiple extract booklet resource consistenting of extracts from: Ghost Boys, Emmett Till article, THUG - The Hate U Give, Noughts and Crosses). Black narrative lessons, BLM.