Blood Brothers SOW

A fully resourced scheme of work for Blood Brothers with PPT, Resources, HW tasks and a knowledge organiser... MORE

Nature Poetry poems anthology

Anthology of nature poems... MORE

Planet Earth nature poetry lesson Create own poem

Create your own poem using Planet Earth documentary as stimulus.... MORE

Ted Hughes Nature poetry lesson The Jaguar

Ted Hughes nature poetry unit- The Jaguar... MORE

Nature poetry Nettles

Nettles (Vernon Scannell) poem with mix and match devices activity.... MORE

Twelfth Night - Trickery, deception and disguise

I refer to a scam letter that I received (it is pictured on the final slide) however you would not necessarily need to include this resource. Students were very familiar with the modern on-line scams and many had been approached by scammers on their phones so you could refer to that instead.... MORE

Twelfth Night - presenting the theme of love

How does Shakespeare use language to present the theme of love in Twelfth Night?Brief ppt with extract and questions.... MORE

Twelfth Night - bullying Malvolio

Create an anti-bullying leaflet inspired by the treatment of Malvolio in Twelfth Night.... MORE

The Woman in Black - isolation and language

Word level work to look at vocabulary and impact. Exploring Gothic settings. Following on from a lesson looking at The Graveyard Book.... MORE

Feminism (2) and Great Expectations: Task Sheet

The task sheet for the activities on the Feminism (2) Ppt. Designed for top set group but with scaffolding for students to choose level of support.Essay title: ‘In Great Expectations, Dickens highlights the injustice of patriarchal society’ To what extent do you agree?... MORE

Feminism (2) applied to Great Expectations

Second of two lessons on GE and feminism. This to prepare students to write an essay on gender and the text. I'll upload the task sheet, which summarises the Ppt activities, as a separate file.Done with top set Yr9 for prep on Lang P1 Q4 and introduction to A Level skills: critical analysis... MORE

Feminism (1) Great Expectations

An introductory lesson on feminism to allow students to apply to Great Expectations in subsequent lessons. You'll need wrapped sweets and post-its. Produced for a top set to prepare for GCSE (Lang P1 Q4) and A Level skills: critical analysis... MORE

Marxism and Great Expectations (2) Applying P1 Q4 Lang skills

To go with the Marxism theory lesson. This applies more closely to the book. Designed for Yr9 top set but can be adapted for A Christmas Carol for GCSE... MORE

Marxism and Great Expectations (1) The Theory

Quite a practical lesson, which involves students mocking up a means of production and oppression factory situation. The Lesson 2 applies more closely to Great Expectations.You'll need sweets for wages!... MORE

The Importance of Reading

My slides for the KS3 assembly I did on the importance of reading. Obviously aimed at our students so reading ages etc are specific to them. Feel free to adapt so it's fit for your purpose!... MORE

Writing to describe Day after Tomorrow tsunami scene

For use with tsunami scene from Day after Tomorrow (youtube clip).... MORE

Lion King descriptive writing worksheet

for use with the opening of the Lion King (circle of life).Students to then write a short piece of creative writing.... MORE

Of Mice and Men Scheme of Work

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Gothic Horror -The Black Cat

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Fiction Knowledge Organiser

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Snoop Dogg Speech of Acceptance

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Peer/Self-Assessment Grid

Based on Talk for Writing. My classes made this 'Plan It, Link It, Express It, Check It' self/peer-assessment grid.... MORE

Hacking a Text- Text Analysis

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Descriptive Writing Assessment

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Short Story Writing Assessment

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Hurricane Gold Comprehension

One page extract from 'Hurricane Gold' from the 'Young Bond' series by Charllie Higson. Designed for SEND and uninterested boys in KS2/3.... MORE

Animals in Literature - KS3 Unit

3 week SOW for Y8 students on Animals in Literature covering anthropomorphism and extracts from a range of 19th and 20th Century Literature.Slideshow, Resource Booklet and Planning Overview.... MORE

The Adventures of Odysseus - KS3 Myths and Legends

The text is written by Patrick Healy can be used for myths and legends unit.Question Booklet focusing on information retrieval and PPT for self/peer marking.... MORE

Outline exemplar for teacher training materials on Teaching writing PDF file

Second attempt to upload. Converted to pdf.... MORE

PPT2 Reload as PDF Teacher Training on teaching effective writing KS3-5

Attempt three to upload. PPT2 saved as PDF.... MORE

Teaching Effective Writing KS3-5: Teacher Training PPT1 PDF (Reload)

PPT saved as PDF file and reloaded as PPT wasn’t downloading properly.... MORE

Response Writing Ladder

A writing support frame to help students properly analyse language techniques.... MORE

Is it Sheeran or Shelley?

Just for a bit of fun - students see if they can tell which quotes are Percy Shelley and which are Ed Sheeran.... MORE

Of Mice and Men Escape Room

Escape room lesson for OMAM... MORE

Katy Perry Fireworks Poetry Lesson

Lesson on identifying techniques in the Katy Perry Fireworks song. Works well as an introduction into poetry.... MORE

Poetry From Other Cultures Knowledge Organiser

Knowledge organiser for Poetry from Other Cultures Scheme (unseen practice) aimed at Y8s... MORE

Coraline Knowledge Organiser

Coraline knowledge organiser created for a Y7 group. ... MORE

Growing Up in Literature: Class 8

A collection of extracts and poems based around the theme of 'Growing Up'. Used to explore and bulk out the theme whilst reading 'King of Shadows'. Brief sketch of some topics/ activities included. Extracts: Great Expectations Huckleberry Finn Catcher in the Rye To Kill a Mockingbird Romeo and Juliet Jamaica Kincaid; “Girl” Tintern Abbery, WordsworthPeter Pan (not inc) Sonnets (not inc)... MORE

Animals in Literature: Class 8

This is a collection of extracts and poems about animals. I did this for a small class of Waldorf students who were really into animals and really nervous about starting new English lessons. I found it time consuming to find good extracts so hope this might help someone- the extracts could be used in many different ways/ ages/ classes.Extract from White Fang, Hawk Roosting by Hughes, the Swan by Oliver, Chris Packe article on Insects, Ugly Duckling, Wolf and the Dog Fable, and some other ideas of writers I looked at but didn't have time to use.Also didn't get to Magical Animals (Rowling/ Tolkien etc?)... MORE

Great Expectations and skills for Paper 1 Q4

Taught to Yr9 top set, followed by a write up assessment. Simplified form of the GCSE AQA Paper 1 Q4... MORE

War Poetry anthology

An anthology of poems paired for comparison.... MORE

Gothic Homework Booklet

Gothic Homework Booklet. Lasts 3 weeks. Suitable for KS3... MORE

Cover lesson writing a description Yr9 Victorian Scene

I set as a cover lesson to be taught in conjunction with 'Great Expectations' but would work as an assessment and with any Victorian (urban) novel. For Y9 but can be adapted... MORE

Simple sheet for pitching a film idea

Great for any generic task where you are asking students to pitch a new film of their own idea. Works really well, for instance, if you have been studying the Gothic conventions and students can then think about how they would use these conventions in their own film ideaA great SpL idea... MORE

A Midsummer Nights Dream SoW

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National Poetry Day

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Year 7 Transition Lessons

Three lessons we have used this year for our Year 7 students Transition before we group them.The only thing not included is the Vernon spelling test - not sure about the copyright as I do not own the rights!... MORE

Alice in Wonderland-teaching explicit and implicit understanding within a text

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Treasure Island observation lesson Year 7 HA

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Icarus observation lesson HA Year 7

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English Basic Skills Starters

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Gothic Writing Scheme

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Description of the Hulks: Great Expectations

Used as part of a SOW on Great Expectations. This is a good way to allow students to move focus around the ships to create a description. Completed a step by step planning guide with the help of a grid uploaded by another kind soul.... MORE

University of Sussex Faster Read Guidelines

Guidelines for University of Sussex "Faster Read".... MORE

Open evening Quiz - which Shakespeare character are you

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Nouns in Writing - specificity and granularity - Artemis Fowl

A worksheet introducing and exploring the Cognitive Grammar concept of specificity and granularity and their role in creating tension in a text. Short extract taken from Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer) with brief writing prompt.Could work as short homework task, or in lessons... MORE

Verbs in Writing - Artemis Fowl

A worksheet that can be used in a lesson or as homework looking specifically at the role of verbs in expressing action. Extract taken from Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer), tasked based on Cognitive Grammar and exploring stative vs dynamic verbs.... MORE

The Wound in Time - poetry Carol Ann Duffy

Lesson on The Wound in Time - Armistice Centenary poem by Carol Ann Duffy.Made for HA yr 9, would also work for unseen with KS4... MORE

The Wish - a series of lessons exploring writer's craft

A short story by Dahl with a series of comprehension questions and 4 lessons that take students through the text exploring language, structure and then crafting a piece of creative writing.... MORE

The Landlady - a series of lessons exploring writer's craft

A short story by Dahl with a series of comprehension questions and 4 lessons that take students through the text exploring language, structure and then crafting a piece of creative writing.... MORE

Princess Mammalia - Roald Dahl lessons to explore writer's craft

A short story by Dahl with a series of comprehension questions and 4 lessons that take students through the text exploring language, structure and then crafting a piece of creative writing.... MORE

Reading for pleasure at KS3: an alternative to buying in reading programmes

A reading programme based on free-reading at KS3. Rather than online testing or comprehension questions, the programme relies on a range of writing activities linked to reading, along with the minimum expectation of 20/30 minutes reading per night.It uses the Rosenshine principles of retrieval practice, alongside promoting tier 2 vocabulary and inference skills. This is based on students having a bi-weekly lesson; this SOW has sessions planned for our Autumn term, but also has a template for lesson prompts and writing tasks.I have printed and laminated these, to make packs for use by students whilst teachers monitor engagement with reading through their writing tasks.... MORE

Animal Farm

Animal Farm scheme taught to Y8 students.... MORE

Narrative Writing Scheme

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Noughts and Crosses- The Play

A scheme for Noughts and Crosses play. Includes homework and assessment tasks.... MORE

The Greatest Show

I really loved Zoe Barne's booklet and lessons on 'Lost and Found'. I messaged Zoe to see if she would mind if I used them as a template to create a further booklet called 'The Greatest Show'. This is based on the circus. Some of the content is the same. I have uploaded as it may be of use to some. Complete credit to Zoe Barnes- thank you... MORE

The Crucible SOW

A SOW created on Arthur Miller's The Crucible for a high ability year 9 class.... MORE

The Crucible SOW

A SOW created on Arthur Miller's The Crucible for a high ability year 9 class.... MORE

The World of You- first lessons back

Two lessons which gets students to design a world that represents themselves then describe it.... MORE

Summer Reading Challenge

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Spring Reading Challenge

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Autumn Reading Challenge

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Question literacy mat

Literacy Support for how to respond to a range of questions.... MORE

Detective Fiction Display

Display of detective fiction novels and blurbs... MORE

Introduction writing - detective theme

Are you a super sleuth or Super Villain? A writing introductory lesson for KS3.... MORE

Detective Fiction Workbook

Workbook with extracts from detective fiction with language analysis and writing activities.Designed for KS3... MORE

War (Non Fiction)

Range of resources to use on the topic of war-includes war poetry, propaganda articles and speeches. All looking at the theme for non fictional writing tasks and writer's point of view.... MORE

Ruby in the Smoke SoW

Ruby in Smoke Scheme for use with year 7 or 8.... MORE

Year 7 Literacy Work books

5 Literacy booklets with a range of task, devised for each half term. Can't locate book 1 at the moment! Suitaable across range of abilities and good for starter tasks or homeworks.... MORE

Vocabulary SOW updated

UPDATED 29/07/19- 20 weekly lessons, each with 3 additional Do Nows and a homework sheet for each lesson.Lessons are divided into 4 groups of 5, with a baseline/end of half-term assessment to determine where students are with retaining/using the words.The vocabulary comes from an old Geoff Barton resource- 100 A* words- and lesson activities are based on the work of Isable Beck. There is also now an exploration of root words/etymology, based on further ideas from Alex Quigley's book 'Closing the Vocabulary Gap' and activities based in Isabel Beck's work ('Bringing Words to Life').Feedback welcome- twitter @mrsmdatherton or @EnglishErdAcad... MORE

Chaucer and English Language

Resources for year 7 to work on unit of Canterbury tales and evolution of English Language.... MORE

Beowulf for year 7

Range of resources for teaching unit of work on Beowulf with year 7... MORE

Creative Writing: The Trench

These lessons are being taught alongside a reading of War Horse but may be of some use to others. Slides 1-6 have used some activities from Pobble 365 (The Trench) - one or two activities have been adapted to suit my class and aims.... MORE

NON-FICTION ARTICLE ON PRISONS TO GO WITH LESSON

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Reading skills - non fiction LINKED TO CRIME

The extract has been uploaded separately. It explores an article on prisons and was made to accompany a Macbeth SOW... MORE

Romeo and Juliet SOW

Full SOW for teaching Romeo and Juliet to KS3.... MORE

Gender debate SOW

A full SOW and lessons based on gender inequality. Students over the last few years have been really engaged with this SOW, which teaches them speaking and listening skills and question 5 paper 2 skills. Some of the lessons use peer and self assessment to make your mark load easier and to help students develop their knowledge of what examiners are marking for.... MORE

Poetry comparison KS3

A SOW for KS3 based on the old spec conflict poetry. This has been adapted to meet the new GCSE boundaries. It is a great scheme for introducing poetry comparisons to year 9 or top set year 8.... MORE

Extension 25 activities

25 extension activities for display in classrooms - applicable across all subject areas... MORE

Wonder SOW

A full scheme of work on wonder.... MORE

Darkside extracts

Extracts from the novel 'Darkside'... MORE

Why Should We Read?

A PPT with some reasons for reading and a range of quotations on the subject to try to enthuse and encourage students to read more.... MORE

Reading Motivation Posters for Display

A collection of posters/memes/inspirational quotations to display around the classroom to encourage reading.... MORE

Reading Lesson Activities

Sitting in silence reading can be very difficult some students. This PPT can be projected during a reading lesson and the teacher can interrupt the reading every now and again with a question or a task. Works well to share which books are being read by pupils and to give recommendations within the classroom.... MORE

A Midsummer Night's Dream Scheme of Work

I have been updating my scheme of work on AMND and thought I would share it - it includes response to reading, poetry, creative writing and non-fiction writing opportunities. I hope you find it useful!... MORE

Persuasive Writing and Argumentation Cover work booklet - Non-Fiction Persuasion

12 lessons worth of cover worksheets to complete independently... MORE

Year 7 Introduction/Baseline writing unit

10 lesson baseline writing unit. With introduce yourself style task (lesson 1 and 2) and baseline writing task lessons 3-10. Resources included (often at the end of the slides) and marking rubric and student-friendly success criteria.... MORE

Half termly planning sheet

A sheet I use at the start of a half term to organise my planning of a topic.... MORE

Marvel Posters

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Science week linked to Dystopian literature Paper 1 & 2 Question 5 options

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World Myths and Legends

This is a 15-lesson scheme of work (fully-resourced) on world myths and legends.We have used it with Year 8 and it has been excellent at keeping them engaged and enthusiastic about English in the final half term of the academic year.It covers a range of skills, but focuses mainly on speaking and listening, as well as creative writing.... MORE

Rhetoric Booklet

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Richard III Knowledge Organiser

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Julius Caesar Booklet

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Frankenstein Booklet Year 7

A booklet scheme of work for Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.... MORE

Year 6 transition day Flash Fiction lesson

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Letter Writing Lesson based on 'Stan' - Eminem

My attempt to make the art of letter writing more exciting. Students listen to Stan and read the lyrics - having done so they are to write a letter to Eminem that he would like to receive.... MORE

Book Review 'Milestone'

A book review designed for incoming year 7 students to complete over the summer holidays - gives a starting point for discussion on their first lesson in September. Could be used with any KS3 class though!... MORE

Careers using English

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Blind date with a book

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Celebrities Reading campaign

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Punctuation Treasure Hunt

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Transition activity for Year 6 based on Sonnet 130

I put this together for our Year 6 transition day. It is pretty self explanatory but any questions, please ask!... MORE

The Graveyard by Neil Gaiman

Please note, I did not finish teaching the whole of the novel but there are a number of lessons to get started.... MORE

Language Paper 2 Skills - Zombies Theme

Created for KS3 to introduce Language paper 2 skills. Idea and some resources from someone on here or TES (sorry, I have forgotten your name but it was really helpful) and then adapted for our KS3.... MORE

Shakespeare 30 min scripts

A load of abridged Shakespeare plays cut down to roughly 30 mins each.Useful for KS3 or lower abilities, either to help with class learning or as mini-plays to prepare and perform.... MORE

Frankenstein play Pullman SOW

Full SOW for the play script of Frankenstein, adapted by Philip Pullman. Lesson by lesson Powerpoints.... MORE

Creative writing knowledge organiser

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Of Mice and Men knowledge organiser

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Comparing Poems

First introduction to planning a poetry comparison - heavily scaffolded.Poems used are Dulce et Decorum Est and Who's for the Game?... MORE

Writing Challenge and Self Assessment

An amalgamation of the 200 word challenges found on Twitter and a self-assessment task getting students to analyse the language they have used.... MORE

Year 7 Knowledge Organiser - Poetry from Other Cultures

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Year 7 Knowledge Organiser

This KO is to accompany an autobiography unit and has basic punctuation and grammar rules.... MORE

Literature through the Ages SOW

This SOW is meant to increase pupils' cultural capital. It starts with the general information about literature, introduces literary timeline, explains how literary canon is created. It then moves to Ancient Greece the development of writing, Homer, the philosophers, Aesop's fables - oral tradition. Next there is the study of the Greek theatre - Antigone by Sophocles. Then, we move on to study the Bible and link it to the story of creation in the GreekMythology. After that there is the closer look at the Medieval Period -Chaucer, The Renaissance and Paradise Lost, and finally the Romantics and poetry. This SOW included the baseline assessment (lesson to introduce as well) and the end of unit assessment (the Romanticism). There are 6 core lessons and some of the suggested lessons - it is a work in progress and I will upload all lessons at the end of this half term.... MORE

Spoken work poetry Dreadlock Alien - Well done

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Poetry Do not stand at my grave...

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Autobiographies- booklet of extracts

A great booklet which can be used with any year group to explore language and structure.... MORE

English/Media Film and Advertising

This a Media/English Unit- potentially a good end of term fun unit which looks at film and advertising.... MORE

Film Review: 'Wonder'

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Nando's Class Reader Task Takeaway

12 differentiated tasks to accompany the reading of a text/class reader. Easy to adapt. ... MORE

Maths poetry - limericks, the fibonacci sequence and pi-ems

This fun lesson uses Maths to investigate writing limericks and has a fun, open-ended set of task using other number sequences such as pi to create other poems (or pi-ems).Have fun!... MORE

Year 6 to 7 Summer Tasks Transition Booklet

The English section of a whole school summer tasks booklet.Students self or peer mark answers in lessons.Teachers have slides with answers to share.Not prescribed how teachers use it.... MORE

Short Story Collection for Year 7 from BBC 500 Word Stories

Stories written by children from KS2-KS3 from BBC2's 500 Words competition.All stories freely available online.... MORE

Exploding Quotations

Allows students to analyse quotations in detail and by considering four different perspectives. Worksheet can be applied to any text and allows low ability students to improve their analytical skills.... MORE

Of Mice and Men

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War Poetry KS3

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Boy in the Striped Pyjamas SoW

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Introduction to Shakespeare

An introduction to Shakespeare through context/extracts.... MORE

Oliver Twist SoW

Uses the real reads abridged version. Writing assessment.... MORE

Coraline KS3 scheme

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Poetry - Comparing God's Plan and Still I Rise

Interview lesson comparing Drake's God's Plan to Maya Angelou's Still I Rise... MORE

Room 101 writing speeches

A whole scheme of work based on writing and performing Room 101 style speeches.... MORE

The Monkey's Paw - reading and writing tasks

A PPT with links to online reading and adaption of the Monkey's Paw. Students look at how the story has been crafted and then write their own backstory about the origin of the paw.... MORE

The Tell Tale Heart

A variety of activities based on Poe's 'The Tell-tale Heart'... MORE

KS3 Exam and Marking Critieria

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Aligning key stages within English

The KS3 and KS5 coordinators and I wanted to make sure our curriculum was helping pupils build relevant skills over a long period of time as they transitioned from one key stage to the next. This document was our starting point.... MORE

Improving creative writing.

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Brother in the Land playscript Scheme of Work

A 7 week scheme of work, complete with resources and Powerpoint, to teach the playscript version of "Brother in the Land" by Robert Swindells. ... MORE

Vocabulary for Macbeth

Vocabulary to describe characters in Macbeth. Makes for more varied points and ideas!... MORE

Restaurant Review

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Travel writing conventions

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Conventions of non-fiction writing/language and grammar

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Creative writing - Creating a superhero a short SOW

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Gothic fiction SOW complete