SCHEME OF WORK - YEAR 7 - LESSON PLANNER

Created by Carys Davies

TIME/ACTIVITY BREAKDOWN RESOURCES NC/DIFFERENTIATE HOMEWORK
LESSON 1
Parts of Speech - common and proper nouns.
Private reading diaries / introduction to rules, expectations.
  • Introduce expectations, book format, home works, private reading and diaries, discipline etc.
  • Introduce term's work The Witches and Poetry - starting with parts of speech and sentence building.
  • Introduce common and proper nouns - examples and alphabet game. Capital letters etc.
    		•   AT3 K.A.L - PROPER AND COMMON NOUNS / ALPHABET, CAPITAL LETTERS
    AT2 PRIVATE READING INTRODUCED     		Find the school library, take out a reading book - read for a review in three weeks time.
    LESSON 2
    Parts of Speech - adjectives. Building sentences.
  • Introduce term adjectives - definition.
  • Think of different types of description in spidergram - comparative, colour, personality, visual.
  • Make a table - four columns 6 lines down. Head it, 1st column adjective, 2nd column - noun
  • Think of 5 real animals and one made up mythical creature - write them in the noun column.
  • Think of how they appear, characteristic - don't think of the first adjective - try to make it interesting. Talk about selectivity in writing.
  • Go round class.
  • Game - My Aunty's Cat - alphabet adjective game.
    		•   AT3 K.A.L - ADJECTIVES / ALPHABET.  
    LESSON 3
    Parts of Speech - verbs. Building sentences.
  • Introduce term verbs - definition.
  • Look at how verbs can be boring and interesting - the technique of word choice as an aid to writing - think of interesting verbs for moving. Creeping, stalking, skulking, zipping, tiptoeing.
  • Go back to the 5 real animals and one made up mythical creature.
  • Think of how they move, don't think of the first verb - try to make it interesting. Selectivity in writing.
  • Go round class.
  • Game - My Aunty's Cat .... argues, bounces, creeps etc - alphabet verb game.
    		•   AT3 K.A.L - VERBS / ALPHABET  
    LESSON 4
    Class reading - The Witches - Roald Dahl C1 & 2
  • Read Chapters 1 & 2
  • After C1 analyse as a class which you think is the witch in the cartoon.
  • As a witch invent an original fate for a child. Look at how Dahl takes out the pain/ horror of the fate - Solveg in the picture. Try to make it bizarre rather than gruesome.
    		• The Witches - Roald Dahl AT2 READING
    AT1 DISCUSSING THE TEXTAT3 CREATIVE WRITING     		Finish draft
    LESSON 5
    Parts of Speech - adverbs. Building sentences.
  • Introduce term adverbs - definition.
  • Look at how adverbs can enrich the verb and sentence - the technique of word choice as an aid to writing - think of interesting adverbs to add to a list of verbs on board. Creeping cautiously, stalking silently, skulking sulkily, zipping frenetically, tiptoeing daintily.
  • Go back to the 5 real animals and one made up mythical creature.
  • Think of how they move, don't think of the first adverb - try to make it interesting. Adding dimension to the writing in writing.
  • Go round class.
  • Game - My Aunty's Cat .... walks, anxiously, boastfully, courageously etc - alphabet verb game.
    		•   AT3 K.A.L -ADVERBS / ALPHABET.  
    LESSON 6
    Parts of Speech - revision
  • Recap in quick fire test - on parts of speech. Introduce the term - parts of speech - importance in writing.
  • Lined paper, fold into four with flap.
  • Play the word game where you have to select words:
    Noun - D, C, T, S
    Adjective - C, R, S, L
    Adverb - P, B, F, G
    Read out the nonsense sentence. Game cross off the word if another has it - winner has most words left.
    Quick fire quiz.
    		• Scrap lined paper. AT3 K.A.L - PARTS OF SPEECH / ALPHABET.  
    LESSON 7
    Class reading - The Witches - Roald Dahl C 3
  • Read Chapters 3
  • List key features of a witch as a plan.
  • Draw a picture of witch without her disguises on as a wanted poster. Underneath write a paragraph explaining the key features of a witch to look out for.
  • Redraft on paper (or computer) for homework.
    		• The Witches - Roald Dahl AT2 READINGAT3 WRITING FOR A PURPOSE, USING DESCRIPTIONS, LIST PLANS Finish redraft
    LESSON 8
    Descriptions - Witches' gathering
  • Read through traditional view of witches on worksheet p12.
  • Try to use adjectives, verbs and adverbs to describe a gathering of witches.
    		• Witches and Spells worksheets AT2 READING
    AT3 WRITING CREATIVELY     		Finish draft
    LESSON 9 & 10
    Descriptions - Witches' cures / Macbeth extract     		Lesson 1
  • Read through worksheet. Think of who were witches in history - medicine women, no doctors. Introduce The Crucible, Salem Witch Trials.
  • Using imagination think up some inventive solutions for common ailments.
    Lesson 2
  • Look at the Macbeth witches (Act 3?) extract - analyse the alliteration, introduce term.
  • Look at the idea of a spell as a poem.
  • Try to do a class poem, think of an ingredient using adjective and adverb, maybe alliteration.
  • Redraft onto old paper snippets for class cauldron display.
  • Class spell.
    		• Macbeth
    Old paper snippets
    Cauldron display     		AT2 READING SHAKESPEARE / POETRYAT3 WRITING CREATIVELY - K.A.L  
    LESSON 11 & 12
    Class reading - The Witches - Roald Dahl C 4
  • Read Chapters 4
  • In pairs, role play the conversation, then write down the feelings and thoughts that you have when the witch is there and after the witch has gone in a spidergram.
  • Go over the form and purpose of diary writing and draft a diary entry for the boy, recounting the events AND his thoughts and feelings.
    		• The Witches - Roald Dahl AT1 ROLE PLAY, PAIRED WORKAT2 READING
    AT3 DIARY WRITING, USING DESCRIPTIONS AND EMOTIONS, SPIDERGRAM PLANS     		Finish draft
    LESSON 13
    Private reading - Reviews, genre
  • Write a review of your book - plot, characters, was it good, who would like it? Look at reading diaries.
  • In pairs discuss each other's books.
  • Class discussion.
  • Introduce chart - look at genre and create class chart. Try to get class to choose book from different genre next for lesson 30 private reading lesson.
    		• Reading chart AT1 PRESENTATION, PAIRED WORK
    AT2 READING, REVIEW, GENRE
    AT3 WRITING REVIEWS.     		 
    LESSON 14, 15, 16 & 17
    The Jabberwocky - Nonsense poetry, creative use of description and words. Rhythm and rhyme and performing poetry
    Folder poem     		Lesson 1
  • Read poem twice. Introduce the idea of creating words and nonsense poetry. Poetry as performance. What is a poem?Fun, short lines, playing with language
  • Pairs - what is the jabberwocky like?
  • Groups of 4 - try to perform a verse - try to bring out the rhythm / feel of the poetry with background sounds.
  • Class performance.
    Lesson 2
  • Read again - plot it out. Boy / girl lives in strange place - looks and finds and kills strange animal, returns home a hero.
  • Try to think of own strange creature - introduce elision - hippocrump, rhinoflab, zebzab.
  • Analyse Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe.Ellision - toads, doves, movement, light sounds.
  • How will your animal move - waddle/ trot troddle. Butt/jab bab & jutt.
  • Create two lines in Jabberwocky style.
    Lesson 3 & 4
  • Choose a location for our poem - jungle, artic, urban - think of words to describe it in a class spidergram - strange plants and animals.
  • Collect sounds and rhythms - killing sounds. How will you kill your creature - slicker slack.
  • Try to write a verse or a poem in The Jabberwocky style - 4 beats. May be class poem and display. Redrafting critically and for wall and folder.
    		• The Jabberwocky worksheetPaper and pens for wall display. AT2 READING PRE 1900 POET. ANALYSING POETIC STYLE
    AT3 WRITING CREATIVELY - K.A.L     		Lesson 15 draft of own Jabberwocky
    LESSON 18 & 19
    Class reading - The Witches - Roald Dahl C 5
    Redraft for folder
  • Read Chapters 5
  • Go over the form and purpose of letter writing and draft a friendly letter from the boy to a school friend, explaining about his holiday, the hotel and his mice.
  • Plan the letter out in spidergram.
    		• The Witches - Roald Dahl Paper for letter redraft. AT2 READING
    AT3 LETTER WRITING, SPIDERGRAM PLANS     		Finish redraft for folder
    LESSON 20 & 21
    Class reading - The Witches - Roald Dahl C 6 & 7
  • Read Chapters 6 & 7
  • Plan out a description of the Grand High Witch and the sort of things that she does.
  • In pairs try to think of bad deeds she has done - improvise an interview with her.
  • Perform some.
  • Go over a magazine article format.
  • Draft a celebrity interview for Witches Weekly with The Grand High Witch and preview the conference.
    		• The Witches - Roald Dahl AT2 READING
    AT1 IMPROVISATION AND SMALL GROUP WORKAT3 WRITING FOR A PURPOSE, PLANNING     		Finish draft.
    LESSON 22 & 23
    Class reading - The Witches - Roald Dahl C 8
  • Read Chapter 8
  • Plan in a list what the witches intend to do.
  • Plan leaflet in books
  • Design a leaflet warning other children about the plan, the Delayed Action Mouse Maker Formula 86 and about the witches.
  • Extension - computer redraft
    		• The Witches - Roald Dahl Paper for leaflet AT2 READING / COMPREHENSIONAT3 WRITING FOR A PURPOSE, PRESENTING INFORMATION - CONCISE / INFORMATIVE WRITING Finish leaflet for folder.
    LESSON 24
    Class reading - The Witches - Roald Dahl C 9 & 10
  • Read Chapters 9 & 10
  • Draft a recipe for Formula 86 - like a chemistry experiment - equipment, diagram, method, results (Bruno), conclusion (the Plan)
    		• The Witches - Roald Dahl AT2 READING / COMPREHENSION
    AT3 WRITING FOR A PURPOSE, PRESENTING INFORMATION - CONCISE / INFORMATIVE WRITING     		Finish draft
    LESSON 25
    Private reading - Reviews, genre
  • Write a review of your book - plot, characters, was it good, who would like it? Look at reading diaries.
  • In pairs discuss each other's books.
  • Class discussion - individuals reviewing their books.
  • Fill in chart - look at genre and try to get class to choose book from different genre next for private reading lesson.
    		• Reading chart AT1 PRESENTATION, PAIRED WORK
    AT2 READING, REVIEW, GENREAT3 WRITING REVIEWS.     		 
    LESSON 26
    Class reading - The Witches - Roald Dahl C 11
  • Read Chapter 11
  • In pairs produce two spidergrams - one of how Bruno feels about being a mouse, one on how his parents will react, different stages of emotion.
  • Role play the scene of Bruno meeting his parents.
  • List the advantages and disadvantages of being a super-mouse for homework
    		• The Witches - Roald Dahl AT1 PAIRED WORK - ROLEPLAY WITH STRUCTURED EMPATHY PLANNED OUT.
    AT2 READING / COMPREHENSION
    AT3 LISTING BOTH SIDES OF ARGUMENT     		Advantages / disadvantages list.
    LESSON 27
    Class reading - The Witches - Roald Dahl C 12 & 13
  • Read Chapters 12 & 13
  • How is the protagonist going to turn back into a boy?
  • Invent a recipe for turning a mouse into a boy - ingredients and maybe a spell poem method. Look at the reasoning behind Dahl's ingredients.
  • Extension - try to create some sort of logic in the spell - c.f. wrong end of a telescope to shrink- magnifying glass?
    		• The Witches - Roald Dahl AT2 LOOKING A T DAHL'S STYLE
    AT3 POETRY WRITING, WRITING FOR A PURPOSE     		Finish draft.
    LESSON 28
    Class reading - The Witches - Roald Dahl C 14 & 15
  • Read Chapters 14 & 15
  • Compare the character of Bruno to the main character in the story. How do they compare, differ? In what way is one character made to look dislikeable? Why does Dahl do this?
    		• The Witches - Roald Dahl AT2 LOOKING A T DAHL'S WRITING STYLE COMPREHENSION AND CHARACTER ANALYSIS.  
    LESSON 29
    Class reading - The Witches - Roald Dahl C 16
  • Read Chapter 16
  • Write a formal manager's report on the events in the lobby. Write down Mr Jenkins' official complaint about the Grandmother's strange story. Also invent a response taken by the Manager after an interview with the Grandmother. Write your conclusion - who do you believe and what are you going to do about it?
    		• The Witches - Roald Dahl
    Report template?     		AT2 COMPREHENSION AND READING
    AT3 CREATIVE WRITING AND EMPATHY     		Finish off draft
    LESSON 30, 31 & 32
    Reading & Library Module - How to Care for a Pet Booklet
  • Introduce project - booklet on How to care for a pet. Choose pet.
  • Introduce layout - contents page, informative clear instructions on care, food, cleaning, exercise, special clubs, activities.
  • Suggest private research also
  • Look at book box choice of books.
  • Find information in encyclopaedia and internet sources.
    		• Reading chart
    Library & librarian     		AT2 READING, LIBRARY SKILLS, RESEARCH SKILLS Booklet work, finish off.
    LESSON 33 & 34
    Class reading - The Witches - Roald Dahl C 17 & 18
  • Read Chapters 17 & 18 over two lessons.
  • Go through the key moments and story board in about eight boxes the key moments in the scene.
    		• The Witches - Roald Dahl
    Story board template     		AT2 COMPREHENSION AND READING
    AT3 TRANSFERRING TEXTUAL GENRES     		Finish off draft
    LESSON 35
    Text in performance - Hamlet's ghost
  • Go through Hamlet extract.
  • Support attempts at performance.
  • Choose two vastly different interpretations of the text and perform in class.
  • Look at how different moods can affect interpretation.
    		• Hamlet's ghost extract AT1 PERFORMING SHAKESPEARE AND LOOKING AT TEXT IN PERFORMANCE AND ITS MODALITY.  
    LESSON 36, 37 & 38
    Class reading - The Witches - Roald Dahl C 19 & 20
    Spellings
    Redraft for folder
  • Read Chapters 19 & 20.
  • Recap scene. Imagine the story in the tabloid newspapers.
  • Headline. Alliteration introduced.
  • Go over how a newspaper article is written - impact, interview reported, facts, layout and pictures.
  • Write a newspaper article in books, redraft on computers for folder
    		• The Witches - Roald Dahl
    Story board template.
    Computer room 2 LESSONS.     		AT2 COMPREHENSION AND READING
    AT3 WRITING FOR A PURPOSE, NEWSPAPER ARTICLE.
    AT3 K.A.L. ALLITERATION INTRODUCEDUSING I.T.     		Finish off draft
    LESSON 39, 40 & 41
    The Listeners - Reinforcing poetry work & looking at performance     		Lesson 1
  • Read through the poem.
  • Class performance - pairs perform lines - two lots of the poem.
  • Recap on rhythm, rhyme, ghostly atmosphere - try to find examples of each in the poem.
  • Story board the story - best for wall display.
    Lesson 2
  • Description of The Listeners using adjectives, verbs and adverbs, simile and (extension) metaphor. Draw picture - for wall display (masks).
    Lesson 3
  • Look at the style - try to think of the rhythm / rhyme / atmosphere.
  • Write an extra verse about what happens after the man has gone.
  • Extension - masks of The Listeners and descriptions of the man on his horse using simile and metaphor.
    		• The Listeners worksheetPlain paperPens etcGlue, crepe etc for masks AT1 PERFORMING POETRYAT2 READING PRE1900 POETRY
    AT3 WRITING POETRY AND USING PARTS OF SPEECH AND IMAGERY CONSCIOUSLY IN WORK.
    RHYTHM AND RHYME     		Finish story board.
    Finish work.
    LESSON 42
    Class reading - The Witches - Roald Dahl C 21
  • Read Chapter 21.
  • Try to think of some of the problems that the mouse-boy may encounter in the house.
  • Write down the problems and some original inventions that may make being a modern house mouse a little easier.
    		• The Witches - Roald Dahl AT2 COMPREHENSION AND READING
    AT3 PROBLEM SOLVING     		 
    LESSON 43
    Class reading - The Witches - Roald Dahl C 22     		Read Chapter 22.
  • Invent an extra chapter for the book. How did the mouse and the grandmother get into the castle? Did they succeed in killing the witches? Did anything disastrous happen? Write down the final showdown between grandmother and the witches.
    Extension
    Try to keep to Dahl's style of the unusual and inventive ideas, and use of the grotesque but without the gore.
    		• The Witches - Roald Dahl AT2 COMPREHENSION AND READING
    AT3 CREATIVE WRITING     		Finish draft.
    LESSON 44, 45 & 46
    Video - The Witches - Review
  • Watch The Witches video 90 mins (CD)
  • Introduce the idea of reviews.
  • Review the film and compare it to the book. Which is the most effective version and why. What did you like / dislike about the book and the film? Was anything different in the book / film?
  • Introduce the term genre.
    		• The Witches - Roald Dahl
    Video, TV and tape.     		AT2 COMPREHENSION
    AT3 COMPARING GENRE TYPES AND ANALYSING VIDEO CRITICALLY     		Finish draft.
    LESSON 47
    Private reading - Reviews, genre
  • Write a review of your book - plot, characters, was it good, who would like it? Look at reading diaries.
  • Try to guess what sort of person reads what books. Anonymously put title of book in. Try to work out what it's about from the title, what types of people would like to read it.
  • Look at the danger of stereotyping books but also pulp fiction.
  • Fill in chart - look at genre and try to get class to choose book from different genre next for private reading lesson.
    		• Reading chart AT1 PRESENTATION, PAIRED WORK
    AT2 READING, REVIEW, GENRE, STEREOTYPING OF BOOKS
    AT3 WRITING REVIEWS.     		 

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