GCSE Poetry Lesson: ‘Tissue’ by Imitiaz Dharker
A GCSE English Literature poetry lesson (PowerPoint) analyzing Imtiaz Dharker's poem 'Tissue', covering author context, tone, content/narrative, and stanza-by-stanza language analysis.
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A GCSE English Literature poetry lesson (PowerPoint) analyzing Imtiaz Dharker's poem 'Tissue', covering author context, tone, content/narrative, and stanza-by-stanza language analysis.
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A lesson plan and reading passage profiling Greta Thunberg's activism and Asperger's/autism experience, used to teach reading comprehension and spark discussion on climate change, activism, and related social topics.
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Read a multi-paragraph informational passage, answer short-answer comprehension questions, write synonyms for target vocabulary words, judge true/false statements and justify the answer from the text, then complete one of three open-ended written response prompts on the topic.
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Students write what they know about unique castle architecture, then fold, cut, and glue the sheet into a two-sided flap book.
Cut out planets, an asteroid, a comet, and a spaceship; color the spaceship and optionally design a new planet; arrange the pieces (order does not need to be astronomically correct) and glue them onto a base sheet.
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A full print-and-teach novel unit for 'Tuck Everlasting' (Natalie Babbitt), combining pre-reading discussion, chapter comprehension questions, figurative language instruction, projects, quizzes, a review game, and tests, aligned to Common Core.
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Eurovision topic cards give students a focus for questions they write themselves. Partners use those questions in an interviewer-and-singer role play, discussing choices such as language, genre, and stage performance. The song gap-fill provides listening practice, and three essay prompts guide an imaginative account of attending the contest.
Teacher instructions for guiding students to build two Scratch coding games (a Goalie Game and a Catch It Game) that teach computational thinking concepts.
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A creative-writing characterization activity in which students write a eulogy for the character Piggy after reading Chapter 11 (or the full novel) of Lord of the Flies.
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