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A detailed lesson/series of lessons which show students how to reach the top band of the mark scheme for AO5 when evaluating critic quotes for King Lear.
This includes:
A 25 slide PPT including the lesson overview and printing instructions
A worksheet for students to fill in when practising AO5
A model answer
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A fully-resourced one hour lesson to introduce students to the character of Jessica in act 2 scene 3 of The Merchant of Venice . Students will complete a guided annotation and then consider different ways of staging the scene to make Jessica appear more or less sympathetic.
Learning Objective: Explore Jessica’s Character in Act 2.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will read a summary of act 2 scenes 1 and 2.
Students will read act 2 scene 3 and be guided through annotation of the scene before participating in a class discussion.
Students will consider different ways of staging the scene to make Jessica more or less sympathetic to the audience.
Lesson Outline:
Do it now: Summarise act 1 in five sentences and then five words.
Starter: As a class, read a summary of Act 2 Scenes 1 & 2. Then as a class, read Act 2 Scene 3. Students then answer questions and share in a class discussion.
Activity 1: Guided annotation of scene.
Activity 2: Stage the scene with Jessica portraying different emotions to make her sympathetic to the audience.
Plenary: Personal response – to what extent is Jessica a victim?
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An engaging hour-long lesson which introduces students to the main characters and themes in The Merchant of Venice before studying the play. This is aimed at students in Key Stages 3 and 4.
This resource includes:
A full Powerpoint including all teacher instructions (including printing instructions)
A graphic organiser for students to record their notes.
5 detailed character profiles: Antonio, Bassanio, Shylock, Jessica and Portia.
Learning Objective: Understand the main themes and characters in The Merchant of Venice.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will consider the title and posters of the play to mind-map themes.
Students will work in groups to use an example summary and success criteria to write their own summary of a character from the play.
Students will share features of their character with other students in the class.
Lesson Outline:
Do it now: Mind-map your ideas about the play based on the title.
Starter: Look at these covers and posters; add your ideas you have about themes and ideas in the play to your mind-map. Think-pair-share ideas with the class.
Activity 1: Modelling of an effective summary. Students read character profiles in groups and write a summary.
Activity 2: Students circulate, share information and write down notes about the other characters.
Plenary: Character quiz.
More Resources for The Merchant of Venice
Click here for a bundle of all the lessons to take you through the play plus a quiz, knowledge organiser and character revision posters.
Freebies:
For character revision posters for your classroom, click here.
For an English/Drama lesson based on Portia’s choice in Act 1 Scene 2, click here.
For a Scheme of Work overview for the unit, click here.
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This revision workbook is ideal for any student preparing for an exam and for teachers and parents supporting them. This 12 page guide walks students through how to prioritise revision topics, create an effective revision timetable using spaced learning and how to revise using retrieval practice.
The guide contains a revision template so that students can complete a RAG analysis of what they already know. It also contains a revision plan template. This would be ideal for teaching PSHE or Study Skills.
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A comprehensive and engaging one hour lesson to help students to improve their group discussion skills. This lesson looks at two short examples of discussions and asks students to explicitly label what techniques are being used and how the chairperson is moving the discussion forward. The lesson ends with students completing a short discussion on the topic of ‘which subject should be removed from the timetable?’ They then self-reflect upon this using the success criteria that they created earlier.
This could be used with key stages 3 or 4 to introduce group discussion skills or to revise them.
11 slides in total plus a worksheet.
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Fully resourced 1 hour lesson in which students learn the difference in meaning between using commas, dashes and brackets and then apply what they have learned to their own writing.
Easily adaptable for KS2, KS3 and KS4.
This lesson includes:
- Full explanation of commas, dashes and brackets.
- Task where students decide which punctuation they will use
- Writing task.
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A detailed one hour lesson to support students to explore the theme of curiosity and investigation as preparation for the IGCSE exam for Edexcel English Literature 4ET1 on the question on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play by Simon Stephens) .
This lesson explores the term ‘marking the moment’, and also prompts students to consider how the play has conventions of both a murder mystery and an anti-murder mystery.
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A thorough revision quiz that covers all 30 of the Gillian Clark poems on the CIE AS level English Literature syllabus (9695).
This takes between one and two hours to complete. Round one asks students to identify the poem and the poetic techniques used in quotes from the poems. Round two asks them to identify poems with specific themes.
Poems covered:
Advent
Apples
Baby-sitting
Blaen Cwrt
Burning Nettles
Catrin
Climbing Cader Idris
Cold Knap Lake
Death of a Cat
Death of a Young Woman
February
Hare in July
Hearthstone
Icthyosaur
Journey
Lunchtime Lecture
Miracle on St David’s Day
My Box
Neighbours
Pipistrelle
Post Script
Ram
Scything
Seal
Stealing Peas
Sunday (‘From the mahogany…’)
Sunday (‘Getting up early…’)
The Lighthouse
Times Like These
White Roses
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A detailed one hour lesson to support students to write their strongest answers in the IGCSE exam for Edexcel English Literature 4ET1 on the question on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play by Simon Stephens) .
This lesson gives students a clear five step technique for approaching the exam in order to maximise their own critical engagement and language analysis skills. This resource contains a ready-to-teach Powerpoint with all teacher and printing instructions included.
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A detailed and engaging one hour lesson to support students in their analysis of Christopher in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play by Simon Stephens) for Edexcel English Literature IGCSE 4ET1. This lesson helps students to think about how Christopher is presented at the start of the play and how he changes as a character by the end of the play.
This resource contains a ready-to-teach Powerpoint with all teacher instructions included.
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Comprehensive and differentiated 1 hour lesson in which students independently analyse the beginning of 'The Tell-Tale Heart' considering the indirect characterisation of the narrator. Students will complete a graphic organiser in detail, which could then be used as a plan to write an analytical paragraph or essay.
A differentiation support sheet is provided, which could be provided to select students who need additional support. This is easily adaptable to key stages 3 and 4. It is suited to mixed or higher ability classes but could easily be adapted to lower ability and spread over multiple lessons.
This could be used as part of a unit on gothic horror, a unit on short stories or just as a one-off lesson to examine and respond to a text.
This resource includes:
* Full Powerpoint including 'do it now', differentiated learning outcomes all tasks and teacher instructions (including example teacher answers in the notes section).
* Full text of 'The Tell-Tale Heart' with page numbers.
* Graphic organiser.
* Support sheet as a prompt for students.
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Fully resourced 1 hour lesson in which students learn how to punctuate dialogue correctly, edit a piece of dialogue and then construct their own.
Easily adaptable for KS3 and KS4.
This lesson includes:
- Full Powerpoint including teacher instructions
- Worksheet with extension work
- All activities including 'do it now' and plenary.
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Fully resourced and ready-to-teach 1 hour lesson which introduces students to sibilance and encourages them to question why writers use it and what its effect is. Students then write a poem using sibilance.
This lesson is aimed at KS3 and would be suitable for an introduction to poetry unit - but it could easily be adapted to younger or older students.
This lesson includes:
Differentiated learning outcomes
An extract from Harry Potter for students to discuss the use of sibilance
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1 hour resourced and differentiated lesson which clearly outlines to students how they should write a strong point, evidence, explain answer with an example provided and then gives them the opportunity to write an answer as a pair and then individually.
All teacher instructions provided including printing instructions (although printing is minimal).
This lesson includes:
*Do it now task
*Explanation of PEE (point evidence explain) including a model answer)
*Dracula extract
*Peer assessment slide including the differentiated learning outcomes.
This lesson is immediately ready to teach! It would be suitable for lower ability learners in key stage 3 or key stage 4.
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1 hour assessment to assess students' knowledge of punctuation and grammar. This writing assessment has 3 sections:
1) Punctuation and grammar (15 marks) - students answer questions defining different sentence types and writing specific types of sentences about topics. They also write sentences using dashes, brackets, colons and semi-colons.
2) Proofreading (20 marks) - students read a piece of writing in which 20 pieces of punctuation are missing and add them in.
3) Descriptive writing (20 marks) - students apply their knowledge by writing one paragraph to describe a beach scene.
Marking key and writing rubric is included for easy and quick marking. This test could be used at the beginning of a writing unit to find out gaps in knowledge or as an end of term assessment.
It was designed for key stage 3 but could be applicable to key stage 2 or key stage 4.
Included as a pdf for easy printing and as a word file in case you would prefer to edit the questions.
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An engaging and detailed lesson (including Powerpoint presntation and a graphic organiser) to aid students in considering how the mass media affects society and particularly young people.
This lesson includes:
A do-it-now task
Differentiated learning outcomes
A detailed team quiz about the media impact
A graphic organiser to support students’ understanding of a TEDx talk (link included)
A range of activities for an engaging PSHE lesson. However, this could be easily adapted for English or Media studies.
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Fully resourced and differentiated 1 hour lesson in which students close read an example horror extract and then write their own description of a setting.
Easily adaptable.
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Fully resourced and differentiated 1 hour lesson in which students close read in groups three classic gothic horror extracts (Frankenstein, Dracula and the Exorcist).
Easily adaptable.
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An interactive advent calendar for use in English lessons or as literacy activities in form time. Each day links to a new literacy or English activity such as descriptive writing, comprehension questions, games or critical thinking exercises.
These work especially well as 10 minute starters for the beginning of your lessons.
Happy Christmas!
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Fully resourced and differentiated 2 x 1 hour PSHE lessons in which students consider the causes of food insecurity and consider possible solutions to it.
Easily adaptable.
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