A set of two 1.5hr session plans for a KS3 English group centred around the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Session one spends a significant length of time looking at sub-groups, so is also relevant for those studying GCSE sociology.
Print outs that can be used to help students analyse literary/film/theatre characters or to create their own before writing their own stories. Designed with KS3 in mind, but could really be used or adapted for any age.
A set of three 1.5hr session plans for a KS3 English group.
Written up for a KS3 English group, but could easily be adapted to any age group and/or film group.
Everything you need to create your own A5 book log.
For use as a group discussion, as points to consider with your child/ren or on your own. This session focused primarily on context and the difference that makes to understanding a narrative.
Written for a KS3 English group, but can be easily adapted for older and aspects taken for younger students. Can be used as a stand-alone session looking at last lines and editing stories, broken up into two sessions or as the third part of a series on short short stories.
Written for a KS3 English group, but can easily be adapted for older students and aspects used for younger children. Minus the final activity, it can be used as a stand-alone session, looking at the opening line of stories, but is also the second part of three 1.5 hr sessions.
Written for a KS3 English group, but can be easily adapted for any age. Can be used as a stand-alone session giving an introduction to flash fiction (short short stories) with or without the exercise, but was originally intended to be the first of three 1.5 hr sessions.
For use as a group discussion, as points to consider with your child/ren or on your own. The main themes running through this compare and contrast session are becoming the person you are meant to be rather than the one everyone else thinks you should be, imagination, thinking and belief.