Interactive Amplify (IA) sits at the Interactive row and Amplify column of the PICRAT grid. Below: real English lessons for KS5 that classify as IA, plus anti-examples that look IA but are not.
Critical lens panel on a literary text
The teacher posts a single short extract from a class text (e.g. the opening of Mrs Dalloway, a sonnet from Shakespeare). Each student is assigned one critical lens (feminist, Marxist, postcolonial, psychoanalytic, ecocritical) and posts a 100-word reading of the extract through that lens to a class Padlet. The class scrolls all readings and the teacher draws out where lenses agree, disagree and illuminate different aspects of the text.
Tools: Padlet
Stanza-by-stanza poetry close reading
The teacher allocates one stanza of a long poem (e.g. The Waste Land) per student. Each student writes a 200-word close reading of their assigned stanza in their own page of a shared class Doc. The class scrolls the full annotated poem in plenary; the teacher pulls together themes that recur across stanzas and students whose readings illuminate adjacent stanzas.
Tools: Google Docs
Editorial comparison of published criticism
The teacher posts three published critical essays on the same text in a shared class Doc, each on its own page. Students read all three, then add suggesting-mode comments on lines they find most or least convincing, with reasoning. The class plenary scrolls comments, the teacher highlights critical disagreements between students and lines that drew the most attention.
Tools: Google Docs
Lessons that look IA but are not
Useful counter-examples when you are checking your own lesson placement on the PICRAT grid.
This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and key stage. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.