Great cover work, homework, or activities for students to work through in a lesson. Contains sections on: Events and Characters (contains ‘find and fix’ activity, 3 for each chapter; quotation quilt for key quotations, A-Z quiz) Contexts and Concepts (contains mind map to complete with links to videos; activity to justify to what extent J+H is a gothic novel, and question with a model answer, success criteria activity, and space for students to have a go) Themes Symbols and Motifs (contains spider diagram for students to fill in with link to video, hexagon activity to find links between texts) Practice (question and mark scheme). This took my students a good 8 lessons to complete this. Sets of all abilities have used it and have found it invaluable. Contains PDF for formatting, and word document for easy editing.

A lesson on reported speech and direct quotations in newspapers. The starter asks pupils to consider the difference between a sentence with reported speech, and a sentence with direct quotation. After a few simple translations from direct speech to reported (and vice versa), pupils can watch a youtube video of a news story. Their speech has been transcribed, and pupils can then use this to create their own newspaper article on the incident, using a direct quotation and a piece of reported speech for each of the three witnesses.

A SOW on PowerPoint that goes through 15 lessons on the first half of The Hobbit. Particular focus includes clauses and sentence types, and analysing the language and structure of an extract. I have taken lots of ideas from different SOW already on the internet, including CPtucker and MissIredale on TES. I will also upload the second terms lessons (16-30) when I have completed them.

This follows on from my previous SOW for The Hobbit, looking at chapters 9-19. It focuses on reading and writing skills such as comma splices, speech punctuation, foreshadowing, pathetic fallacy, and language analysis.

LESSON 1 - Pupils watch monologues on youtube and decide what makes a good monologue. LESSON 2 - Using this knowledge they then create a monologue based on a nursery rhyme. Using the Guardian three pigs advertisement, they then consider alternative viewpoints to create an original voice. They should then peer assess based on the success criteria. Some can be performed whilst the rest of the class guess who it is.

Print off pages one and three on card. Page 3 needs to be cut where marked. These can be joined in the middle with a split pin to create a connective wheel that pupils can use in English, or for whole school literacy. Page 2 is optional- you can print this on paper and stick it on the back of the wheel to remind pupils of the connective categories.

A help sheet and video for students on How to take Cornell Notes. https://youtu.be/eKhn7UXFCpg