I am an English, Media and Film Studies Teacher. All my resources aim to be inclusive and exciting for students and for teachers. With my love of educational research, I have tried to apply pedagogical practices to the resources created. Please leave me review and comment - would love to make improvements!
I am an English, Media and Film Studies Teacher. All my resources aim to be inclusive and exciting for students and for teachers. With my love of educational research, I have tried to apply pedagogical practices to the resources created. Please leave me review and comment - would love to make improvements!
A well-developed lesson that supports students in depth study of language, structure and contextual links made in the poem. Embedded in the lesson is a lovely reading of the poem by John Agard. Later, in lesson students are encouraged to make links to the theme of conflict.
A revision sheet devised to support students memory recall of poems. Also a ‘name that poet!’ grid attached to get students recalling each poet to each poem.
The SEVEN page booklet has everything you need to set students a mini in-class assessment. The exam question this focuses on is '…explain how far you think Shakespeare presents Macbeth as a ruthless and aggressive character. The extract is from Act 4 , Scene 1 - after the second prophecy.
This booklet includes:
Warm up activity
Scaffolded planning sheet
PEEZL structure for practice
Effect of the audience: focus on four quotation that support the question.
Self assessment sheet with each AQA AO broken down.
Language analysis sheet
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These presentation slides, worksheet and self-reflection sheet has been designed to warm up exam skills. This lesson work well as starter and a way to consolidate the basic!
The exam question is: **Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present the theme of redemption in A Christmas Carol? **
Included is:
Extract from Stave Five
PEE structure and guidance
Scaffolded PEEZL structure
Self-reflection sheet: plus, minus and improve.
Planning sheet focused on each AOs from AQA
There are collection of worksheet: a breakdown of the essay question, context sheet (relevant to the essay question) and an example exam question. Each have been designed to warm up exam skills. This lesson works well as a development of the previous sheets, but can also be used independently to scaffold students skills before exams.
The exam question is: **Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present the theme of charity and Christmas Spirit? **
Included is:
Extract from Stave One
PEE structure and guidance
Scaffolded PEEZL structure
Context sheet: Poor law, workhouses, social class and industrial revolution.
Planning sheet focused on each AOs from AQA
There are collection of worksheets: a breakdown of the essay question, an example exam question, self assessment sheet which has a student-friendly version of AQA’s mark scheme. Each worksheet has been designed to warm up exam skills and support student writing independently.
The exam question is: **Starting with this extract, explore how Stevenson creates a sense of mystery. **
Included is:
Extract from Chapter Two
PEEZ structure and guidance
Scaffolded PEEZL structure
Self assessment sheet - student friendly breakdown of AQA’s mark scheme
Planning sheet focused on each AOs from AQA
There are collection of worksheets: a breakdown of the essay question, self assessment sheet created with a student friendly version of AQA’s mark scheme and an example exam question. Each worksheet has been designed to warm up exam skills.
The exam question is: **Starting with this extract, explore how Shakespeare presents Macbeth’s ambition. **
Included:
Extract from Act 1 Scene 3
PEEZ structure and guidance
Scaffolded PEEZL structure
Self assessment sheet - student friendly mark scheme
Planning sheet focused on each AOs from AQA
From Stave to Five, this PDF has a quiz and an answer sheet for each Stave. Each question aims to spark memory recall, make links to context and become familiar with key quotations from the novella.
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Get these 10 entry and exit tickets that have been designed for GCSE revision season. With a range of literature and language focused tickets, students will have the opportunity to explore mini tasks to warm up skills in preparation for their GCSEs. Tickets include:
Quotation analysis
Creative writing tasks
Description tasks
Punctuation prep
Non-Fiction tasks
SO MUCH MORE
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Get this pack of 10 worksheets that addresses each criterion of Section B: Writing in AQA’s English Language Papers. Worksheets include:
Spelling Game
Purpose
Audience
Grammar misconceptions
Sentence structures
Word choice
Constructung paragraphs
SO MUCH MORE!
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There are 50 pages jam-packed with revision on each of the characters from An Inspector Calls. Each character has a:
Character Profile
Quotation analysis
Structural Analsysis
Exam practice questions
PEEZL scaffolds
This booklet also gives students the opportunity to explore creative tasks, analytical tasks and SO MUCH MORE!
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Everything you need to start teaching PAPER 2: Critical Approaches. With the focus film, The Act of Killing, you have booklet and the slides to start teaching straight away. Click & go!
Here is a lesson based on exploring different viewpoints and perspectives. At the core of this lesson, I have used an image, where students develop a storyline. The planning is detailed and gives students the space to explore language features they can use, interviews they can embed as well as consider the structure of their article.
Here are 85 questions to asking through your teaching practice. This is a great resource if you are training currect ECTs and trainees as all questions have been designed with the ECF in mind.
The second article in the series is from the fabulous Mark Quinn. Read an insightful response to our current climate. Read how teacher are adapting their practice through their own professional development.
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A research journal for all those looking to embed a little bit of research in to their practice. From flipping the classroom to case studies.
The focus for this issue is memory retention, where we have outlined the aims of our investigations. If you are interesting is collaborating, feel free to drop an email!