I provide resources mainly for English (IGCSE and GCSE content), but also post useful Drama resources. There are also brand new English-with-Media resources to choose from, and many materials such as assemblies and certificates that could prove useful to Head of Years. All resources are differentiated appropriately and labelled with key year groups.
I provide resources mainly for English (IGCSE and GCSE content), but also post useful Drama resources. There are also brand new English-with-Media resources to choose from, and many materials such as assemblies and certificates that could prove useful to Head of Years. All resources are differentiated appropriately and labelled with key year groups.
Lesson One (Opening): This is the first lesson on ‘A Handmaid’s Tale’ in a dystopian SOW. This lesson introduces the students to the concept of objectification, and the key themes and techniques present in the opening chapter (surveillance, biblical allusion, threat).
Lesson Two (Horrors of Gilead): This lesson has students analyze the use of power and indoctrination in chapter 2 of A Handmaid’s Tale. After a class annotation task, students will construct an analytical point independently.
**Lesson Three (Aunt Lydia Analysis): **This lesson focuses on the character of Aunt Lydia, and the concepts of internalized misogyny, and indoctrination. The students will complete a pair-analysis task, and then at the end, they will construct an analytical paragraph in response to a GCSE style question.
This is a fun lesson and worksheet that can come directly after watching the film ‘Elf’ and looking out for themes of identity/cultural identity. This lesson/sheet includes:
An analysis task
A poetry task
A film review task
A fun ‘elf-on-the-shelf’ creative task
Three lessons on Question One and Two of the AQA Language Paper 1. These lessons include quality resources, and opportunities for students to use both critical and creative skills, in preparation for the next questions.
3 stand-alone SPAG lessons which include:
An introduction to and consolidation of general punctuation
A focus on hyphens, en and em dashes
A study of advanced punctuation (specifically speech marks and semi-colons).
One lesson includes an easy ‘tick-off’ teacher feedback sheet, all lessons include opportunity for purple pen reflection or peer reviews.
The Hunger Games: Lesson Summaries
Lesson 1: This lesson will give students an understanding of subjugation as a concept, and will allow students to detect evidence of government subjugation in an extract of ‘The Hunger Games’. After they have completed some analysis questions, students will be writing their own ‘choosing ceremony’ scene, and peer-reviewing each others creative efforts at the end.
Lesson 2: This lesson focuses on analyzing the character of President Snow, and the contextual influences behind dystopian antagonists. The students will be introduced to the idea of a ‘facade’ and how dictators use facades of fairness and benevolence to maintain power. The students will read and analyze an extract from Catching Fire.
Lesson 3: This lesson focuses on acts of rebellion in Dystopian Fiction, in particular the ‘berries scene’ in The Hunger Games. The students will detect rebellious/revolutionary language in the extract, and then write their own revolutionary speech against the Capitol and President Snow.
Lesson One: How to structure a persuasive piecce of writing (ethos, logos and pathos)
Lesson Two: Using AFOREST (persuasive) techniques
Lesson Three: Studying TED talks an planning a persuasive TED talk
Lesson One: Word of the Week (Cultural Identity)
Lesson Two: Analysis and key concepts
Lesson Three: Write up of analytical paragraph, and low-stakes multiple choice quiz.
Lesson One: Students will be looking at the word of the week (impoverishment) and studying the context and key themes of the poem.
Lesson Two: Students will be completing a guided and structured analysis of the poem, stanza by stanza.
Lesson Three: The students will be finalising their study of the poem by filling a revision table, and writing a critical paragraph response to an exam-style question
First lesson: Word of the Week and Context
Second lesson: Guided structural and poetic analysis
Third lesson: Planning and writing a critical analysis, and a 10- question multiple choice low stakes quiz.
Lesson One: WOTW (Emancipation) and study of key concepts and context connected to the poem.
Lesson Two: Analysis and pair annotation lesson
Lesson Three: Creation of revision resource and analytical paragraph. Finishes with a fun Kahoot quiz.
Lesson One: Word of the Week (Monotony), context and key themes
Lesson Two: Guided analysis of techniques and deeper meanings
Lesson Three: Creation of revision table, and writing of critical analysis paragraphs
Lesson one: Introduction to the dystopian genre, key concepts and terms
Lesson two: Understanding Dystopian character archetypes
Lesson three: Context behind dystopian fiction (understanding the link between history and literature)
Lesson One (1984 Lesson): This lesson explores the concept of totalitarianism, and has the students analyze the opening scene of 1984 in order to detect evidence of totalitarianism in the environment.
Lesson Two (O’Brien and the rats): This lesson focuses on the idea of false consciousness, and the character of O’Brien. The students will explore how O’Brien uses torture and fear to brainwash and control Winston, and in the end, students will write a paragraph analyzing O’Brien’s character.
Lesson Three (Key Concepts): This lesson focuses on understanding the key concepts in 1984: The War, Doublethink/speak, and Hate Week. By the end the students will be writing their own polemical pamphlet using doublespeak, promoting hate towards the new enemy (Eastasia) and promoting Eurasia as an ally.
5 lesson SOW including a word of the week lesson, key concepts, and a low stakes quiz. Students will be trained to analyze articles relating to current affairs, and produce a critical paragraphs recording their findings. Focus of the week is ‘disparity’.
This IS A three lesson SOW that introduces the students to the origins of the tragic genre.
Lesson 1: In this lesson, students become familiar with vocabulary associated with the tragic genre, with a particular focus on Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex.
Lesson 2: In this lesson, students analyse the origins of the tragic genre. Students will analyse and become familiar with the themes and characters of the play ‘Medea’.
Lesson 3: In this lesson, students will become familiar with different tragic solilquies throughout history: from Antigone, to Othello, to Death of a Salesman. The students will choose to analyse one of six soliloquies, and then get into pairs so that they can present a comparative analysis.
This is the third week in a SOW combines both Media and English in order for students to construct a film review during their assessment week. In this scheme, students have the chance to explore elements of cinematography, scriptwriting and analysis of ambiguity and sensationalism in film.
Lesson One: What is sensationalism?
Lesson Two: Identifying persuasive devices
Lesson Three: Implementing persuasive devices
Lesson Four: Writing a sensationalist review
This is the second week in a five week scheme that is available on my shop, but this can easily be a stand alone week of work.
Lesson one: what is ambiguity? Ambiguous versus obvious film trailers comparative analysis
Lesson two: Imagery in film and using descriptive imagery
Lesson three: Emotion in film and learning to describe emotion
Lesson Four: Planning our own ambigous trailer