This bundle includes:
Using language devices on descriptive writing
Analysing the opening of The Hunger Games film
Writing diaries for CIE exam
Writing letters for CIE exam
This 17 page booklet contains:
- Pre-1914 Source A: "Ain't I a Woman?" by Sojourner Truth - speech about black women's rights in America
- Modern Source B: "Supermodel Turned Spokesperson" on Tyra Banks. A humourous article packed full of language devices and interesting language on Tyra Banks deciding to 'speak up' for women's rights.
- Both sources are annotated with talking points
- Scaffolded tasks and guidance for Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4
- Exam style questions
- An additional exam booklet with these texts in should you choose to use this as an assessment
- PDF and editable Word Docs of both booklets
This is a crash course for the American SAT English course, looking at Optional Essay, Writing & Language, Reading. This took me around four weeks to teach, including assessment time.
Inside are twelve whole lessons plus resources: sample essays, powerpoints, assessments and mark schemes, and so on.
This is a PPT lesson guiding you through teaching Question 1 letter writing for CIE IGCSE English as a First Language. It uses The Hunger Games as a text, looking at the Interview scene.
Included is one full PPT (this took me around 3 hours to teach fully), a mock CIE assessment Q1 based on The Hunger Games, a planning sheet and an example insert annotated for the three bullet points.
Three lessons on the topic of informal letter writing. This was intended for CIE IGCSE English as a Second Language question 6, but could be used also with KS3.
1. Generating ideas - four different routes into coming up with ideas for letter writing (PPT)
2. Formal/informal language with a variety of activities and model answers (PPT)
3. Peer assessment (PPT)
This also comes with a success criteria based on the CIE mark scheme.
A PowerPoint guiding students through the historical context of The Great Gatsby. Includes videos, images, songs, quotes from the Great Gatsby and discussion point. This took me around 2 hours to teach using the materials in this resource.
I cover: prohibition, the American dream, the roaring 20s and the new woman. These are linked back to the novel to explain how they are relevant to the novel.
This resources includes a PowerPoint detailed notes on the poem ‘In Paris With You’ by James Fenton. It has a short quote quiz and guides pupils through analysing the key theme of unconventional love in the poem.
Also included is a RAG rating (feedback sheet) and a follow up lesson with individual tasks for each student based on their feedback.
This is a PPT lesson guiding you through teaching Question 1 diary writing for CIE IGCSE English as a First Language. It uses The Hunger Games as a text, looking at the Reaping scene.
Included is one full PPT (this took me around 3 hours to teach fully), a mock CIE assessment Q1 based on The Hunger Games and an example insert annotated for the three bullet points.
This lesson focuses on the characterisation of Beatrice and Benedick with a focus on word level analysis. Suitable for the 2016/17 OCR English Literature New Specification.
This is a Smart Doc file.
These two lessons focus on introducing the skills needed for the OCR English Literature (new spec).
I focus on word level analysis and identifying language features.
This scheme of work is aimed at KS3, building up the skills needed for OCR's English Literature New Spec GCSE.
This presentation includes 5 whole lessons.
These lessons look at The Yellow Wallpaper, focusing on language analysis skills (AO2) and building in historical context (AO3), specifically looking at feminism in the late 1800s. Full copies of the text are available for free online - which I printed off for pupils to use alongside this scheme.
These worksheets were designed for my EAL students who were bordering between second language English and first language IGCSE English courses for The Hunger Games, from chapters 1-18 (not beyond that). The worksheets would be suitable for any students studying The Hunger Games, but especially those with EAL needs, special needs or who need a little extra support.
Activities include:
Vocabulary
Comprehension
Listening (you’ll need a copy of the film but I put time stamps in there)
Language analysis short questions
Letter writing
Notemaking
Speaking activities
This is a free resource, not claiming to be the best ever made, so if you find these useful, please do leave a good review :)
This worksheet designed for my EAL students who were bordering between second language English and first language IGCSE English courses for Holes, looking at the Sam/Katherine chapter. The worksheets would be suitable for any students studying Holes, but especially those with EAL needs, special needs or who need a little extra support.
Activities include:
Comprehension
Vocabulary
Language analysis short questions
Letter writing
Speaking activities
Review writing
This is a free resource, not claiming to be the best ever made, so if you find these useful, please do leave a good review :)