Pupil outcome: I can explore the opening scene of ‘Macbeth’, focusing on Shakespeare’s use of foreboding. Key learning points: - The opening scene is used to foreshadow events later in the play - The supernatural is an important theme in...

Pupil outcome: I can explain and explore the key events of Chapter 9 of 'Lord of the Flies'. Key learning points: - Simon wakes up after fainting, sees the parachutist and realises the boys have mistaken the dead body for the beast. -...

Pupil outcome: I can write an unsettling description using a wide range of language devices, as well as punctuation and sentence types chosen for effect. Key learning points: - To plan an effective description, you should establish a...

Pupil outcome: I can confidently understand and use pathetic fallacy. Key learning points: - Pathetic fallacy is a literary technique in which emotions are ascribed to non-human objects and things. - Pathetic fallacy helps to show the...

Pupil outcome: I can analyse how Conan Doyle presents character and atmosphere on the night of Julia’s death in ‘The Speckled Band’. Key learning points: - The night Julia Stoner dies, there is an awful storm. - Conan Doyle uses pathetic...

Pupil outcome: I can write a monologue which uses descriptive and rhetorical devices to convey the emotion of an outsider in relation to Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’. Key learning points: - Descriptive devices are used to help the reader...

Pupil outcome: I can explain how violence and honour are presented in Act 3, Scene 1 of ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Key learning points: - Arguably, Shakespeare opens Act 3, Scene 1 with the expectation of violence through the pathetic fallacy...

Pupil outcome: I can identify and use pathetic fallacy to describe a setting and create a specific atmosphere. Key learning points: - Mormor's cabin is very isolated and the surrounding forest is dark. - A strange boy is living in the...

Pupil outcome: I can create a powerful atmosphere in my creative writing through language choices and symbolism inspired by Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s ‘The Lady of Shalott’. Key learning points: - Symbolism is when writers use something...

Pupil outcome: I can explain how the symbolic storm reflects the structure and key elements of the tragedy. Key learning points: - Shakespeare often uses different locations to represent mindsets. - In 'Othello', Venice represents...

Pupil outcome: I can include meaningful context when writing about modern poems in the ‘Love and Relationships’ anthology. Key learning points: - Browning uses pathetic fallacy to reflect the emotional turmoil the speaker initially...

Pupil outcome: I can explain how Brontë uses language and structure to express ideas of nostalgia and melancholia in ‘Mild the Mist Upon the Hill’. Key learning points: - We might interpret Brontë’s poem as evoking either nostalgia or...

Pupil outcome: I can write an effective description using precise sensory imagery. Key learning points: - Sensory language can be used to enhance the atmosphere of a description. - Effective sensory language uses a variety of senses...

Pupil outcome: I can explain how Cecil Day-Lewis conveys the significance of a past parting between the speaker and their child. Key learning points: - The speaker, a father, reminisces on the moment their child left to go to school...

Pupil outcome: I can understand how Dickens uses symbolism to reflect Scrooge’s journey of redemption. Key learning points: - Dickens uses the weather throughout the text to symbolise Scrooge’s redemption. - The fog in Stave 1 symbolises...

Pupil outcome: I can analyse how Thomas Hardy presents the devastating consequences of war. Key learning points: - Hardy uses figurative language in Stanza one to create a foreboding atmosphere and foreshadow the devastating news. -...

Pupil outcome: I can explain how Brontë uses a semantic field and pathetic fallacy to create a Gothic setting. Key learning points: - A successful Gothic setting makes the reader feel uneasy and unsettled, but not necessarily frightened....

Pupil outcome: I can explain how Shelley crafts an unsettling atmosphere on the night of the birth of the Creature. Key learning points: - On a dreary night in November, Frankenstein brings his creation to life. - He despises his...

Pupil outcome: I can analyse how Stevenson uses his descriptions of Victorian London to explore the impact of the Industrial Revolution. Key learning points: - Victorian London was noisy, overcrowded, and diverse, with people from...

Pupil outcome: I can explore how Hardy uses imagery to present a foreboding interaction during the breakdown of the relationship. Key learning points: - Hardy uses colour imagery to create a bleak and barren emotional landscape. - Hardy...

In this second lesson, we’ll dominate the essential techniques in theatrical drama. Our main focus will be on how playwrights create characterisation, use staging and the conventions of genre. The lesson includes quick revision of basic...

Our second lesson will zoom into the finer elements of prose fiction. We’ll tackle narrative style, techniques and figurative language. You’ll discover a writer’s number one rule – show, don’t tell. Soon enough, you’ll have all the...

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