A mini-sequence exploring the poem ‘Kamikaze’ by Beatrice Garland from the AQA Power and Conflict cluster through a mixture of reading and writing tasks.
A fully-resourced lesson building towards students completing a piece of descriptive writing on a Victorian setting. A task designed to develop understanding of A03 and to demonstrate clear links with ‘A Christmas Carol’.
This lesson explores the crafting of writing through the use of ‘Show, Don’t Tell’. Students will explore how to use this skill, followed by the crafting of a single paragraph. Students will then peer-assess their work with a focus on the use of ‘Show Don’t Tell’.
A two-part, fully resourced lesson introducing students to fairy tales, including conventions.
Lesson Two: What are fairy tales
Students will gain an initial understanding of the genre to support their homework research, which will include conventions and key-terms to be utilised throughout the topic. Students should be informed of their assessment task and informed of the skills they will need to develop over the course of this term.
Lesson Three: Fairy tale conventions
Students will explore and identify the conventions in fairy tales. This lesson should link, yet differentiate the conventions in Fantasy fiction (Term 5 SOL).
Week Overview: By the end of the week, students need an understanding of what makes a fairy tale, common conventions, different types of fairy tales, and the oral origins of the genre.
To develop SPaG, students will explore different sentence types, lengths, and openings to develop the quality of their written expression. To begin with, students will explore the effect sentences can have on the reader, focusing on pace, emphasis, and development of ideas.
A mini-sequence exploring the contextual factors influencing the work of Wilfred Owen. The lesson explores a ‘crunched’ version of the poem and encourages students to make initial predictions based on this and the context.
A lesson exploring tips and tricks to help ‘ace’ Language Paper 1, Question 5. Based on the 2019 past paper: The Sound of Thunder.
Including a follow up lesson to consolidate learning.
Q4 detailed deconstruction is also available.
All resources are formatted at the back of the PowerPoint.
A two-part lesson exploring Dickens’ short-story ‘The Signalman’. The extract is attached, supported by two easily adaptable resources for academic reading. A glossary and introduction to haunted tales is included in the booklet.
A post-assessment sequence exploring how to compare ‘Ozymandias’ with ‘Exposure’ (or other poems if edited) and structuring an academic response. Contains: a copy of the poem to live model annotate, a comparison grid, example answers, how to craft an introduction, and space to re-draft a response.
A question by question breakdown booklet of the LP1 Section A ‘The Sound of Thunder’, complete with models, stucture strips, whole-class feedback, vocabulary banks, re-draft templates, and much more!
A collection of English exam posters for weekly revision sessions for the following: AQA LP1 and LP2, ‘AIC’, ‘ACC’, ‘Macbeth’ and Power and Conflict poems.