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need for hours of planning and help learners to achieve their potential in English and English Literature.
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Thank you for visiting my shop. My aim is to provide high quality teaching resources that reduce the
need for hours of planning and help learners to achieve their potential in English and English Literature.
Please feel free to email me at sdenglish18@gmail.com with any queries, requests or comments.
A two-page guide to writing a discursive essay. The topics covered are:
The purpose and content of the introduction
The role of topic sentences
Different forms of evidence
Concluding sentences
The use of counterargument
The content and purpose of the conclusion
This revision sheet is suitable for upper-ability learners at GCSE.
A highly simplifed re-writing of Act Five of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in modern English.
There are just over 5 pages at font size 14.
Written for a Year 9 nurture group
A straightforward introduction to speech writing for lower-middle ability KS3. It covers:
Starter task (see cover image)
What is a speech and who makes a speech?
AFOREST features used in a WAGOLL. Learners label the features used in the WAGOLL. There are two provided, one for lower ability and another providing some reading challenge.
Learners then write their own persuasive statements based on the AFOREST features.
Review.
This lesson is likely to take around an hour.
Five mind maps on different aspects of J&H:
The presentation of Jekyll
The presenetation of Hyde
The presentation of Lanyon
The presentation of Utterson
Women in the novel.
NB. This is an updated listing. If you have previously paid for this resource and need a copy, please email me using the address on my store front.
A 110-slide PowerPoint that explores Act Three of ‘An Inspector Calls’. The PPT covers:
Revision of Act Two
Put quotations in order + identify quotes in relation to three different themes: a) Parents and children b) Responsibility
c) Capitalism versus socialism.
A range of differentiated sample paragraphs in response to the above tasks. Students identify the missing words.
Worksheets for the characters of Arthur, Sheila, Gerald and Sybil in terms of their attitude towards responsibility.
Quotations: ‘Who Said What?’ task + sample answers
Exploration task on how Act Two ends (differentiated).
Act Three:
Focus on Eric: Quotation Hunt followed by comparison task in relation to Eric and Eva’s relationship and Gerald and Daisy’s relationship.
Illegal Versus Immoral Behaviour task.
A 15-point quiz (essentially how capitalist/socialist are you?)
Group-work task on the contextual background of the Inspector’s speech: capitalism v socalism, communism, the rise of the USSR, communism in the USSR, the reasons for Priestley’s socialist views, British capitalists’ antipathy towards socalism, rising public interest in socialism, Conservative anti-socialist propaganda task (diff’d) + the Labour win of 1945 + its effects.
Analysis of the Inspector’s final speech task.
Drama activity.
Sample extended analysis of the Inspector’s final speech.
Exploring the aftermath of the Inspector’s departure + extended response task on theme of responsibility.
The significance of the end of the play in terms of the generational divide + time theories in ‘An Inspector Calls’, extended response
Act 3: 20 questions
A whole-play revision section.
This resource is suited to middle-upper-ability learners.
This lesson looks at the requirements of AQA Paper 2, Question 5 with a particular focus on leaflet-writing and the use of language to instruct and advise.
It draws from my original PPT:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/leaflet-writing-for-gcse-11757705
and could be used as a follow on from the free Section A questions provided here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-8700-paper-2-railway-accidents-11992280
However, this can act as a stand-alone lesson. It covers:
Key points about AQA English Language, Paper 2, Question 5
The structure of a leaflet
The different purposes of a leaflet (with task)
A note on planning and identifying the purpose, audience and format (with quick task).
The features of writing to instruct and advise (with handout)
A WAGOLL for the given task
After learners have written their own, they then use success criteria to peer assess and then rate their learning.
The PPT is aimed at middle-upper ability learners and is likely to take about 2 hours, including independent writing time (45mins).
This is the eleventh in the KS3 Creative Writing for lower ability learners. It follows on from this introduction to creative writing techniques:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/introduction-to-creative-writing-la-ks3-12065152
This lesson includes:
Do Now Task (see cover image)
Feedback slide
An introduction to flashback as a device + what is a flashback?
Links to YouTube videos in which flashback is used in 3 different films. Learners watch the clips and then say at what point the flashback occurs
An introduction to flashback as a structural technique + the difference between language and structure
Different ways of incorporating a flashback (worksheet)
Feedback slides
Flashback writing task with basic and challenge success criteria
Peer assessment
Review
Estimated time 1:5 hours
These resources were created for lower ability KS4 groups looking to study ‘Macbeth’ over the course of around five weeks.
For each act, there is a PPT with the full text translated into modern English. There is also a range of worksheets to develop understanding.
Act One also contains simplified contextual notes with a corresponding worksheet.
This is a newly differentiated version of this resource:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-annotated-act-two-11875453
This lower ability version contains:
The full text of Act 2, translated (same as original)
Scene summaries for Scenes 1-4
Scene 2 (the immediate aftermath) full text with corresponding questions
5 Worksheets to be carried out alongside the reading of Act 2.
This unit contains fewer resources than the corresponding unit for Act 1, but this reflected in the price. It was created with the issue of time pressure in mind.
A handy summary mat that provides key points and guidance in relation to several forms of transactional writing.
UPDATED to include the original PPT slide.
A 9-10 week unit of work aimed at upper ability Year 8 learners.
The activities are based on a range of extracts that focus on popular female literary characters. Links are provided to the relevant extracts which are from:
‘Great Expectations’ (sample answer included)
‘The Hunger Games’
‘Gone With the Wind’ (sample answer included)
‘Wuthering Heights’
There are also activities that focus on Roald Dahl’s Miss Trunchbull (from ‘Matilda’) and Mrs Pratchett (From ‘Boy’).
Lastly, learners read and explore ‘The Lady of Shalott’ (Tennyson).
The assessment tasks focus on two different extracts from ‘The Hunger Games’.
This unit of work uses AQA 8700/1-style questions but could be adapted with other exam boards in mind.
A fully-resourced unit of work for SEN students who need a general understanding of the play before approaching the original text in KS4.
The unit includes an adapted script in modern English.
The PPT is just over 140 slides long and is intended to provide 8-10 weeks’ worth of work for low ability and SEN students. It guides students through the adapted Acts 1-5 and provides a range of comprehension and vocab exercises.
It culminates in an assessment that makes use of both short-answer questions and one long-answer question on Romeo as a tragic hero.
Suitable for teachers and non-specialists with a low ability KS3 group.
If you would prefer to buy the adapted script separately, it is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-sen-script-11892212
NB. On slide 128, I’ve discovered that the multi-coloured text boxes look slightly out of place on different computers. If this is the case, it is simply a question of adjusting them slightly to put them back over the appropriate squares.
UPDATE: Core PPT tweaked and 2 new starters added. Please email me with any queries.
A PowerPoint that can be used to teach or revise AQA 8700 Language Paper 1, Question 2 - the 8 mark language question.
The main question is based on an extract from George Orwell’s ‘1984’. If you purchase this resource, please be aware that you will need to source the extract for yourself. It is from the opening chapter of the novel, from ‘It was a bright, cold day in April’ down to, ‘Only the Thought Police mattered’.
The entry task is based on a link to a YouTube video which outlines the plot of the novel. Learners listen out for the answers to 9 questions.
After a short Q1-style task, the lesson then moves onto the main extract, which is accompanied by a sample exam question. Learners read and highlight the extract in relation to the question and then feedback. There are some key point on the language question to go through followed by a sample answer/WAGOLL.
Learners then taken ten minutes to write their own responses and peer assess.
The sixth in the MRS SOAP creative writing series for lower ability KS3. It includes:
Starter - write the opening of a story based on one of four given images. Each response should include one complex sentence and one specified descriptive technique.
Feedback slide
What is onomatopoeia? There are links to several YouTube videos so that learners can suggest onomatopoeic words.
Learners fill in a table, suggesting onomatopoeic words appropriate to a range of environments. There is a table of 126 onomatopoeic words to help.
Descriptive or poetic writing task with image prompts.
Review
This lesson can stand alone but assumes some knowledge of the following terms: complex sentence, simile, metaphor and personification.
The 11th in the KS3 Basic Literacy Range. This lesson is aimed at middle ability learners. It includes:
Do Now task based on previous lesson on inference-making. Learners examine a range of texts and images and say what conclusion can be drawn from them.
Feedback slides
Revision of the terms subject and verb
Identifying the subject and verbs in a range of sentences (worksheet + answers)
What does subject-verb agreement mean?
An information sheet covering six of the rules relating to subject-verb agreement, each with its associated task. Teacher answers included.
Feedback slides
Learning Review
This is the tenth in the KS3 Creative Writing for lower ability learners. It follows on from this introduction to creative writing techniques:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/introduction-to-creative-writing-la-ks3-12065152
This lesson includes:
Do Now task: learners identify the ‘typical’ sights and sounds on a street, with extension task
Feedback slide
MRS SOAP revision task
Learners then go on to complete a worksheet that asks them to apply their knowledge of creative writing techniques to their own street. Teacher examples and challenge task included,
Peer assessment
Learning review
A full lesson on GCSE discursive essay writing for lower ability learners. The PowerPoint covers:
The purpose of a discursive essay, with a sample question that learners are encouraged to ‘break down’. This includes an extension question.
Planning a response + extension question
Structuring a discursive essay
PEA paragraphs in a discursive essay
Counterargument
A sample response for annotation + extension activity
An opportunity for learners to produce their own responses
A peer assessment activity
Self-reflection
The lesson was produced with AQA 8700/2 in mind but could apply to other exam boards.
These files were last saved in Office 2016.
I’ve endeavoured to create a mark scheme for the Power and Conflict poetry with indicative content, similar to the Language papers for AQA 8700/1 + 2. I’m not an examiner for this course so would be grateful for any constructive feedback.