I am an English teacher and SENDCo in my 9th year of teaching. I am an English and American Literature and Creative Writing specialist but have taught across a range of areas within English, Media Studies and SEND. I also have my MissC YouTube channel for English revision videos for students!
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I am an English teacher and SENDCo in my 9th year of teaching. I am an English and American Literature and Creative Writing specialist but have taught across a range of areas within English, Media Studies and SEND. I also have my MissC YouTube channel for English revision videos for students!
Please subscribe and support. Feel free to message me directly with any video or resource requests!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ0s1bwC0V6qohf-YBtWyvw
A 14 slide PowerPoint identifying the DAFOREST persuasive techniques and their effectiveness in persuasive and argument writing. There is a print-off of Emma Watson's HeforShe UN speech for students to identify the techniques in a sample text as well as statements for students to create their own piece of persuasive writing in response.
This also includes a DAFOREST techniques checklist that can be printed out and stuck into students' books as a revision resources or for classroom display.
A PowerPoint analysing language, structure, tone and images within the poem ‘To my nine-year-old self’ by Helen Dunmore, includes detailed annotation of stanzas. Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem.
For AS/A-level Edexcel Poems of the Decade Collection
An 18 slide PowerPoint exploring The Knight’s Tale in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales.
Includes:
A summary of the story
Character analysis including the knight himself
Key tasks exploring character and plot
Key questions to provoke thought and reflection on the story
An 11 slide PowerPoint on Moniza Alvi’s poem ‘An Unknown Girl’, it explores the poet’s background, includes full annotation and differentiated questions for students to respond to the poem.
Easily adaptable and suitable for KS3 and KS4!
For AS/A-LEVEL: Post-2000 Poetry Collection
A PowerPoint on Ros Barber's poem 'Material' with full annotation and focus on language and structure as well as key themes, motifs and tone. Also includes some questions for students' own response.
Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem.
An 18 slide PowerPoint lesson with corresponding resources on the poem ‘Give’ by Simon Armitage. Includes information on the poet himself, analysis of tone, structure and language within the poem and a stanza by stanza annotation. Also includes differentiated learning objectives and questions to promote students’ independent study.
-includes the poem itself and key poetic devices resources for students to improve their analytical skill.
A 10 slide PowerPoint exploring ‘An Easy Passage’ by Julia Copus. Focus on language, structure and key themes.
Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem.
Suitable for Edexcel ‘Poems of the Decade’ collection. (AS/A-level poetry prep)
An analysis lesson for Imtiaz Dharker’s famous poem ‘Tissue’. Includes differentiated tasks and full annotations. Also includes a poetry analysis checklist and revision material for how to analyse a poem.
Easily adaptable, challenging and engaging for pupils of KS3 and KS4!
The 'Newspaper Article Bundle' includes:
1)Writing a successful newspaper article - A Word document detailing the key ingredients of a successful article and includes a sample article for students to identify the WHAT WHY WHEN WHO WHERE and HOW.
2)Newspapers & Target Audiences - A 17 slide PowerPoint exploring how broadsheet and tabloid newspapers use language devices to engage their specific target audiences.
Includes:
Exemplar newspaper articles for analysis.
Brainstorming to consolidate prior knowledge.
Activities for students to work in groups analysing sample articles.
Activity for students to create their own newspaper article that appeals to a specific target audience.
Homework: To bring in their own broadsheet/tabloid newspaper article for next lesson (editable).
3) Newspaper Article Writing - A 12 slide PowerPoint on the features for writing a newspaper article and explicitly, the 5 'W's.
Includes:
The key features of a newspaper article.
The 5 'W's.
An activity allowing students to write their own newspaper article surrounding being abandoned on a desert island with their classmates.
A peer assessment activity with suggested success criteria.
A plenary consolidating learning from the lesson.
4) Sentence Types - An 11 slide PowerPoint introducing different sentence types and features of imagery as aids for improving creative writing.
Includes:
Compound and complex sentence examples and exploration.
Features of imagery and its effectiveness.
Key vocabulary: olfactory, tactile, etc for imagery.
Activity for students to complete brief descriptive creative piece using both varied sentence types and features of imagery.
A 15 slide analysis lesson for Auden’s ‘Funeral Blues’, better known as ‘Stop all the Clocks’.
Suitable for KS3/KS4/KS5 and easily amended for different abilities.
Based on Katherine Braun Mankin’s ‘Gorilla Track’, this lesson advises students on how to approach a question on a non-fiction text requiring you to explain thoughts and feelings of the writer. This 12 slide PowerPoint analyses the text line by line and includes thought-provoking question to promote independent thought. Students then approach the question by themselves with a success criteria checklist.
A 12 slide PowerPoint exploring the ingredients of a solid speech and tips for writing and presenting your own speech with model speech examples for analysis.
Attached: sample mark scheme
Suitable for all ages.
A 16 slide KS3 lesson on constructing PEA to analyse the poem ‘Albert & the Lion’ by Mariott Edgar. Easily adaptable and fun for younger students/lower sets!
An introductory lesson to Andy Mulligan’s book ‘Trash’ -
Includes a vocabulary list to help students describe both the setting of the text and the central character of Raphael.
Lesson opens with a ‘Thunk’ activity but includes an alternative starter activity.
Easily accessible for KS3 and both engaging and challenging - easily editable and can be adapted for different levels of challenge.
A PowerPoint exploring the poetic voice, including annotation key themes and emotion within the poem 'Inheritance' by Evan Boland. Also includes student tasks to promote independent thought and analysis and some information on the poet. Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem.
For AS and A level English Literature.
8 posters containing engaging wordplay and punny-business demonstrating the FUN that can be have with the English language!
Eye-catching and thought-provoking for English students of all ages!
