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.
This SOW combines both Media and English in order for students to construct a film review during their assessment week. This is week one of a five week scheme - please see my shop if you would like to purchase the next week, or to buy the whole scheme.
This SOW includes the following lessons:
Lesson One: How to write a film review
Lesson Two: Camera shots and angles and writing an analysis
Lesson Three: Pathetic fallacy in film and writing an analysis
Lesson Four: Colour in film and writing a comparative analysis
5 lesson scheme of work focusing on analysing non-fiction texts (mostly autobiography extracts, one letter). Includes a word of the week (adversity) and a 12 question end of week quiz and extra recap/filler lesson.
Many key concepts are covered including tragedy, trauma, phobia, desensitisation, etc.
Lesson 1: Intro to Dystopian Environments
Lesson 2: Dystopian Character Archetypes
Lesson 3: The Context Behind Dystopia
Lesson 4: Analysing the Setting of 1984
Lesson 5: Analysing the Character of O’Brien in 1984
Lesson 6: The Key Dystopian Concepts of 1984
Homework Sheet 1: Creating a Dystopia Worksheet
Homework Sheet 2: Dystopian Verbs
8 Lesson SPAG scheme plus end of scheme quiz, SOW breakdown and resources included. I used these for a year intervention group, but I 've concluded that this scheme would work anywhere from years 6-9.
This scheme of work focuses on the first two questions of the AQA Language Paper 1. In these lessons, students are given the necessary knowledge and resources to be able to answer both of these questions confidently.
Texts included in these practice questions include:
Stephen King’s ‘IT’
Peter Benchley’s ‘Jaws’
Khaled Hosseini’s ‘The Kite Runner’
Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’
Tolkein’s ‘Lord of The Rings’
Lesson 1: This lesson is essentially a context lesson. To prepare Year 10 students for a mock paper (past paper 12, IGCSE 2020 June), this lesson will introduce students to the background of the play, the key events and characters, and give them the opportunity to predict and analyze some themes of the play.
Lesson 2: In this lesson, students will perform the whole of Act 1 (timed at around 33 minutes if the reading is slow), and have some time left for a starter, and a main character analysis task.
Lesson 3: This lesson gives students the chance to act out Act 2 of Dara, and answer some component 1, section A style questions in preparation for their mock exam (the June 2020 Paper 12).
Lesson 4: In this lesson, students will act out Act 3 of ‘Dara’, and answer IGCSE Section A style questions at the end. They will contemplate the staging of certain scenes, and the changing relationships between characters - in particular, the relationship between Dara and Aurangzeb.
Lesson 5: This lesson focuses on the events and key themes in Act 4 of the play Dara. After reading the act in its entirety, students will have the chance to answer some comprehension questions, and reflect on the way they would stage the execution scene.
Lesson 6: This lesson focuses on the final act of the play Dara. The students will read the play, and then answer a series of comprehension questions, and one IGCSE style long answer question. The final slide will have students reflecting on their own feelings about the ending, and the change in Aurangzeb’s character between scenes 1 and 2.
Lesson 7: This assessment prep lesson includes a link to the IGCSE past paper that the assessment will be based on, (only section A) and a preparation lesson explaining to students how to best tackle Section A questions. I’ve chosen to only test my students on Section A, but this preparation lesson could help with Section B as well. This also includes a student assessment reflection sheet for when you give back their marked work.
Lesson 8: Assessment lesson (no lesson for this, but the assessment paper is linked in the assessment prep lesson
Lesson 9: Students will receive back their graded papers, and complete the reflection sheet in purple pen (attached in assessment prep lesson)
This SOW combines both Media and English in order for students to construct a film review during their assessment week. They will also have the chance to explore elements of cinematography, scriptwriting and analysis of cliche in film. This is the first two weeks of a five week SOW, which is also available as a bundle. Each week is also available to purchase seperately.
11 SPAG lessons with a focus on:
Introduction to using basic punctuation
Using commas and how to ‘pause’ in sentences
Using colons when listing
Using discourse markers correctly
Sentence and word types
Hyphens, en and em dashes
Advanced punctuation (using speech marks and semi-colons.
There is an end of unit quiz attached for students to consolidate their learning at the end of the scheme. One lesson includes an easy ‘tick off’ teacher feedback sheet, all lessons include opportunity for purple pen reflection or peer reviews.
Lesson 1: Intro to Dystopian Environments
Lesson 2: Dystopian Character Archetypes
Lesson 3: The Context behind Dystopia
Lesson 4: Analyzing the Setting of 1984
Lesson 5: Analyzing the Character of O’Brien in 1984
Lesson 6: The Key Dystopian Concepts of 1984
Lesson 7: Intro to A Handmaid’s Tale
Lesson 8: Horrors of Gilead – HMT
Lesson 9: Aunt Lydia Analysis - HMT
Lesson 10: Intro to the Hunger Games
Homework Sheet 1: Creating a Dystopia Worksheet
Homework Sheet 2: Dystopian Verbs
Lesson 1: Intro to Dystopian Environments
Lesson 2: Dystopian Character Archetypes
Lesson 3: The Context behind Dystopia
Lesson 4: Analyzing the Setting of 1984
Lesson 5: Analyzing the Character of O’Brien in 1984
Lesson 6: The Key Dystopian Concepts of 1984
Lesson 7: Intro to A Handmaid’s Tale
Lesson 8: Horrors of Gilead – HMT
Lesson 9: Aunt Lydia Analysis - HMT
Lesson 10: Intro to the Hunger Games
Lesson 11: President Snow Analysis
Lesson 12: Revolution & Rebellion in The Hunger Games
This 12 lesson scheme of work focuses on the first three questions of the AQA Language Paper 1. In these lessons, students are given the necessary knowledge and resources to be able to answer all three of these questions confidently.
SOW Summary:
Lesson 1: Question 1 focus, reading Stephen King’s ‘IT’. Students have a chance to write their own question 1 as well!
Lesson 2: Question 2 focus, with a guided annotation of King’s ‘IT’ extract.
Lesson 3: A focus on language techniques, and testing language analysis with an excerpt from Peter Benchley’s ‘Jaws’.
Lesson 4: A focus on analyzing setting, using an extract from Khaled Hosseini’s ‘The Kite Runner’.
Lesson 5: A focus on allusion and advanced language techniques in Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’.
Lesson 6: Finalizing the study of question 2 by analyzing an extract from Tolkien’s ‘Lord of The Rings’.
Lesson 7: Intro to question 3 and metamorphosis extract used for event tracking.
Lesson 8: Focus on voice and tracking events, using an extract No Country for Old Men.
Lesson 9: Focus on tracking events, using extract from The White Tiger.
Lesson 10: Focus on structural devices, using extract from A Christmas Carol
Lesson 11: Focus on key changes in a text, using the lyrics from ‘Let it Go’.
Lesson 12: Finalizing the exploration of question 3. A study of a text’s ‘focus’ and sentence types, using an extract from Voices from Chernobyl.
Lesson 1: Intro to question and metamorphosis extract used for event-tracking.
Lesson 2: Focus on voice and tracking events, using an extract No Country for Old Men.
Lesson 3: Focus on tracking events, using extract from The White Tiger.
Lesson 4: Focus on structural devices, using extract from A Christmas Carol
Lesson 5: Focus on key changes in a text, using the lyrics from ‘Let it Go’.
Lesson 6: A study of a text’s ‘focus’ and sentence types, using an extract from Voices from Chernobyl.
These lessons were originally planned for my bottom set intervention Y7 group, and therefore would work for a Y5/6 group, or any bottom set Y7 or perhaps Y8.
Lesson 1: Intro to Romanticism
Lesson 2: Intro to I wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Lesson 3: Finding techniques in IWLAAC
Lesson 4: Writing a paragraph on IWLAAC
Lesson 5: Intro to ‘Wind’ by Ted Hughes, and finding connotations
Lesson 6: Finding violent verbs and onomatopeia in ‘Wind’ by Ted Hughes
Lesson 7: Planning and Writing a paragraph for ‘Wind’ by Ted Hughes
Lesson 8: Introduction to ‘The Moon’ by Robert Louis Stevenson
Lesson 9: Planning an assessment response on ‘The Moon’.
Lesson 10: Writing an analytical paragraph on ‘The Moon’
Lesson 11: Paragraph Improvement Lesson (with teacher feedback sheet)
Lesson 1: Plot and Themes
Lesson 2: The pastoral and anti-pastoral
Lesson 3: Fate and Foreshadowing in the early chapters
Lesson 4: Fate and Foreshadowing – self assessed exam response
Lesson 5: Settings as a symbol of Tess’s tragic journey
Lesson 6: How to plan a section B (feedback from lesson 4)
Lesson 7: ‘The Nemesis within’ – to what extent is Tess to blame for her demise? Mapping external and internal influences.
Lesson 8: Critical reception and Victorian morality
Lesson 9: The assault of Tess and critical reviews
Lesson 9 (continued optional extra): The assault of Tess – the laws regarding women in Victorian England
Lesson 10: The Existentialist Lens
Lesson 11: Tess and Existential Crisis
Lesson 12: Comparative Analysis
4-5 weeks worth of Nature poetry lessons, including an introduction to poetry, a presentation week (with matching presentation templates), and a build to an assessment task.
This SOW contains 3 lessons each on the following poems: Storm on the Island, Wind, Hurricane Hits England, London, In a London Drawing Room, and Blessing.
Suggested Order:
Week One: Storm on the Island
Week Two : Wind
Week Three: Hurricane Hits England
Week Four: London
Week Five: In a London Drawing Room
Week Six: Blessing
8 Week 40 lesson non-fiction SOW including:
Word of the weeks at the start of each week
A focus on a range of non-fiction pieces
Fully differentiated resources
Many extension activities and opportunities for student reflection
Multiple choice knowledge tests at the end of each week
A mid-term assessment and end of term assessment
An end of term 68- question multiple choice knowledge test