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 lesson is half-punctuation and half-comprehension. This allows students to ‘solve the punctuation crimes’ by detecting the ‘stolen punctuation’ in a sentence. After answering some 11+ style comprehension questions, students will test their punctuation skills by writing a crime fiction piece. The lesson finalises with a peer-review.
4 PSHE lessons on wellbeing. The focus is mental health, becoming mindful, learning how to identify and control emotions, and learning how to deal with cyberbullying.
This session focuses on enabling students to understand when they feel certain things, and the triggers behind these emotions. There are both videos and interactive activities that students can enjoy.
This SPAG lesson focuses on the specifics of speech marks and semicolons. Students are given a spelling test, knowledge questions, and then a creative task to prove all they have learned. Included in this bundle is an easy teacher marksheet, in which teachers can simply highlight a student ‘What went well’ and ‘Even better if’.
This lesson focuses on the effect that students can have on others. At the ends the students will write a letter to a hypothetical friend who is suffering with cyberbullying, offering support, understanding and solutions.
In this lesson, students will understand how to approach an extract with Question 4 in mind. Students will complete a guided annotation, and by the end of the lesson, should have completed a peer-reviewed Question 4-style response.
These 3 lessons allow students to understand the context behind the play ‘Dara’, and act out the first two scenes of play. Students will also be trained to answer GCSE style questions/complete analysis tasks in order to prepare for a component 1 paper (the 2020 Cambridge IGCSE past paper).
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).
This is the second lesson in a scheme of work about the play ‘Dara’. In this lesson, students will perform the whole of the first act (timed at around 33 minutes if the reading is slow), and have some time left for a starter, and a main analysis task. Will help if teaching the 2020 component 1 past paper.
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.
To prepare Year 10 students for a mock paper (past paper 12, IGCSE 2020 June), this lesson will introduce students to the context of the play, the key events and characters, and give them the opportunity to predict and analyse some themes of the play.
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.
This lesson focuses on tracking events in a text and analysing structural features , using an excerpt from Voices from Chernobyl. This is one of 6 lessons uploaded with the aim of preparing students for answering Language Paper 1 Question 3.
This lesson focuses on tracking events in a text and analysing the change in voice/themes as the text progresses, using the lyrics from Frozen.This is one of 6 lessons uploaded with the aim of preparing students for answering Language Paper 1 Question 3.
This lesson focuses on tracking events in a text and analysing structural features such as juxtaposition and analepsis (excerpt from A Christmas Carol).This is one of 6 lessons uploaded with the aim of preparing students for answering Language Paper 1 Question 3.
This lesson focuses on tracking events in a text (excerpt from The White Tiger) in order to prepare students for answering language paper 1 question 3.
This lesson focuses on preparing students to spot patterns, and hone their non-verbal learning skills. This could also be a brilliant lesson on Venn-diagrams and shapes.
