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
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 PowerPoint detailing the importance of punctuation and how it can change the entire meaning of a written piece.
Includes activities for students to correct punctuation mistakes in sentences.
Includes activities for students to change the entire meaning of a short paragraph through punctuation alteration.
Fun and engaging for all!
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!
Three lesson on Poe's 'The Black Cat' with focus on characters setting and themes within the horror genre.
Included: a focus on linguistic and structural devices used within the story.
Thunk and Do Now activity for each lesson included.
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)
A 20 slide PowerPoint exploring Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Standing Female Nude’ - key themes, language and structure with thought-provoking questions for students to respond.
Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem.
Suitable for GCSE, AS level/A-level!
A 17 slide lesson analysing Blake’s ‘London’ - its structure, attitudes and annotation of the poem. Includes a task at the end of students to create a written response to the poem and a checklist for how to approach analysing a poem.
Easily adaptable and suitable for KS3/4!
This is an 18 slide PowerPoint lesson on W.H. Auden’s poem ‘Refugee Blues’ including contextual information, full annotations, information regarding structure, and differentiated tasks for students to complete in response to the poem in preparation for GCSE.
Easily adaptable and suitable for KS3/KS4!
A detailed 12 slide PowerPoint Context Lesson for J.B. Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’ - includes challenging and differentiated questions for students on the political message behind the play as well as information on Priestley’s own life and moral/political perspectives.
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.
A 20 slide lesson supporting students in writing creatively using personification with sample writing and interesting tasks . Fun and engaging for KS2/KS3!
Includes exciting adjectives list and success criteria!
A Word document detailing the ingredients of successful PEE language analysis and including a task for students to analyse language used by Steinbeck in Of Mice and Men. Focus is on character presentation of Lennie.
Suitable for all GCSE exam boards.
This is a PowerPoint to accompany the reading of The Black Cat with a ‘horror genre’ language focus.
It is suitable for ages 11-16 and allows students to zoom in on specific language employed by Poe.
It also includes a quiz on the plot and central characters within the story to concrete understanding of what has been read.
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A 43 slide Poetry Unit aimed at KS3 and lower attaining KS4 classes that covers different types of poems from the Haiku to the Lyric Ode including their structures.
Includes:
different structural/linguistic poetic devices.
different types of poem and their structural ingredients.
fun activities for students that can be completed in class or as homework.
self-assessment success criteria for students
assessment opportunities for teachers/parents/tutors
engaging and interactive slide layouts
Links to the English GCSE exam criteria
Comparative Poetry Essay Writing
With structure and template
Structure, tone, form and language comment examples
Using quotes for reference
Choosing a thesis statement
MITSL strategy
Conflict and Character & Voice for reference (AQA syllabus)
An 11 slide PowerPoint on ‘The Gun’ by Vicki Feaver focusing on the poet herself, structure, language and tone as well as deeper meaning within the poem. Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem.
For A/AS-level Edexcel - Poems of the Decade collection
198 slide Unit of Work on John Boyne's novel 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'.
This pack includes 17 lessons and 1 bonus lesson analysing book covers!
Lessons are also colour coordinated with Hyperlink Contents Page for ease of access!
Includes:
Bonus Lesson – Analysing Book Covers
Lesson 1 – Context
Lesson 2 – John Boyne – Getting to know the Author
Lesson 3 – Key Characters
Lesson 4 – Setting
Lesson 5 – Through the Window
Lesson 6 – Clothing as a theme
Lesson 7 – The relationship between Bruno & Shmuel
Lesson 8 – Division and Distance (The Fence Imagery and Symbolism)
Lesson 9 – Storyboarding Lesson
Lesson 10 – Key Scenes Roleplay Lesson
Lesson 11 - Key Quotes Revision
Lesson 12 – PEA practice
Lesson 13 - Understanding an essay question and Planning Response
Lesson 14 – Writing an essay
Lesson 15 – Peer assessment & Understanding the Success Criteria
Lesson 16 – The Importance of Redrafting
Lesson 17 – Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Quiz
All lessons help students to deduce, infer and analyse language in depth. Also includes how to structure an essay and advice with redrafting.
Engaging, easily adaptable and educational for KS3 and KS4!
A standalone Literacy mini scheme of work (10 lessons) with topics of:
1) Introduction to using a word bank 2) Adjectives & Adverbs 3) 5 senses 4) Sentence types 5) Story Openings 6) Narrative Perspective 7)Punctuating for effect 8) Writing from a springboard text 9)Showing not telling 10)Writing to grade criteria
This SOW does not provide powerpoints or external resources but all extracts are within the Word document itself for students to use. Easily adaptable and accessible for students of differing ability.