A short lesson looking at letter writing and writing to argue using a very current topic to engage students at a tricky time for teaching! Has a skeletal writing frame for students to build on and build techniques into.

UPDATED OCTOBER 2020 - INCLUDES MARK SCHEME, EXTRACT AND Q3 EXEMPLAR ALSO NOW A 28-slide walking talking mock looking at questions 2,3,4&5 from the AQA English Language Paper 1 from June 2019 (Hartop Family extract from The Mill by H.E. Bates) Resources walks through every question in depth, has detailed exemplar annotations and model responses for students to use and mould their writing around. An excellent resource for relecting on the exam and preparing any upcoming GCSE students.

A resource looking at rhetorical devices used in speeches and looking in detail at Pathos, Logos and Ethos as a means of appealing to an audience. Contains speech writing task, Michelle Obama speech and video, model speech opening and opportunity for peer assessment. Works excellent for teaching AQA Language Paper 2 speech writing and/or preparing for the spoken language endorsement.

A lesson focused on building character and setting in narrative writing. Includes videos, exemplar pieces of writing and annotations and plenty of writing and peer assessment opportunities. Created for AQA English Language Paper 1 Section B. Worked excellently with Year 11 higher ability but could easily be differentiated down for lower abilities.

A lesson that studies in depth the character of Gerald Croft and questions whether he is a character to sympathise with in the end, or one that is just a womaniser. Contains key quotes, analysis points, questions for answering and a silent debating task at the end. Was used for an Observation and graded Outstanding!

A descriptive writing lesson looking at how to use SOAPAMS in order to describe an image. Has plenty of extension tasks, peer assessment opportunities, exemplars, examples of how to vary sentence openings and opportunities to improve vocabulary.

**A double lesson looking in detail at Questions 1,2&3 of the AQA English Language Paper 1 using an extract from Empire of The Sun. The students in this lesson will be able to develop their language and structure skills using very guided annotations and prompts on the board for language and structure. They will also be able to write good responses to the language and structure questions using sentence starters and model responses from the lesson.**

A double lesson looking at questions 1,2&3 on the AQA English Language Paper 1 using an extract fromTess of D’Urbervilles The students will be prompted to annotate the extract and work in groups using guided annotations on the lesson and will be able to write good responses to questions 2&3 for language and structure using the sentence starters and model responses provided on the lesson.

A double lesson looking at questions 1,2&3 on the AQA English Language Paper 1 using an extract from Ministry of Fear. The students will be prompted to annotate the extract and work in groups using guided annotations on the lesson and will be able to write good responses to questions 2&3 for language and structure using the sentence starters and model responses provided on the lesson.

A double lesson looking at Q1,2&3 of the AQA English Language Paper 1 using an extract from Northanger abbey. Students will be prompted with guided annotations on the lesson and have sentence starters/model responses in order to write a good response for the language and structure questions. Video’s to engage interest in the extract are included.

**A double lesson looking at an extract from Oliver Twist in which students will be shown how to answer Questions 1,2&3 of the AQA Language Paper 1. ** **Students will be prompted with guided annotations on the board and sentence starters how to plan for and answer questions on structure and language analysis. **

Designed for Year 11 students taking the AQA Language GCSE. Uses an extract from Mary Shelley’s* Frankenstein* and looks at interpreting explicit information and ideas, language analysis and structure analysis. Includes model paragraph, sentence starters and writing frames.