Teaching Resources

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson: Year 8 Novel Scheme of Work

This scheme of work contains 23 lesson plans and is fully resourced, making it possible for you to download and teach with minimal planning.

This scheme of work for The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit contains 20 lesson plans exploring a wide range of themes.

This scheme of work for Tender Earth by Sita Brahmachari contains 22 lesson plans exploring a wide range of themes.

Olympe de Gouges was a political activist during the French Revolution. She was a prominent writer, as a playwright and a political commentator.

Empress Nur Jahan was the only woman to rule the Mughal Empire and one of the most powerful figures of 17th-century South Asia.

Maeve Cavanagh was a political activist and poet. She was one of the few women in James Connolly’s Irish Citizen Army.

Malintzin was an indigenous woman in the Yucatán peninsula whose role was pivotal in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire.

Shajar al-Durr is the only female Egyptian ruler and only the second woman to rule in her own right in the Muslim world.

Shirley Chisholm was a teacher, political reformer and civil rights campaigner, the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress.