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I have been an English Literature and Language Teacher for about 10 years now. I am now a Leader of Learning in English in my current school. I have taken several GCSE classes through and had full success. I have a PGCE in English and MA in Applied Linguistics for Teaching English as a Second Language. I currently teach at a secondary school as an English Teacher and Leader of Learning in English.

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I have been an English Literature and Language Teacher for about 10 years now. I am now a Leader of Learning in English in my current school. I have taken several GCSE classes through and had full success. I have a PGCE in English and MA in Applied Linguistics for Teaching English as a Second Language. I currently teach at a secondary school as an English Teacher and Leader of Learning in English.
Newspaper Writing Lesson Pack - Persuasive language
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Newspaper Writing Lesson Pack - Persuasive language

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This is a adapted version of my Persuasive Leaflet Lesson. Instead this is all based around writing newspaper articles. It also has extra resources such as an article to annotate and another lesson where they put their new found knowledge into their own article. (Please see free resources for several newspaper templates, if needed) In this pack you will find two power point presentations that are both on revising persuasive language devices and then trying to find them in an article. (Please note this is an article I have got online and put into a newspaper article format with images)The only difference between the top two power points is one gives the examples and definitions to the class and the HA one asks the class questions to challenge them to remember. To go with this lesson there is the article and a hand-out sheet that the class can fill in when looking at the article. This gives them questions to answer about the article to help them identify the features and devices used in a persuasive article. After the class has completed this lesson, you will want to know if they now can apply their learnt skills to their own article. Please find attached the 'Practising Writing a Persuasive Newspaper Article Lesson' which will give them information (Short video online - not necessarily needed, but link available) and a success criteria on how to write an article. Please see free resources for newspaper templates. This really helped prepare my class for an assessment on newspaper articles. The engaging tops such as homework stress article and too many assessments information got them talking and interested.
AFOREST Techniques - Adverts and Leaflets
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AFOREST Techniques - Adverts and Leaflets

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Here is an AFOREST lesson that gets students to pick out the persuasive techniques they can see in an advert. It then goes onto analysing leaflets; for this I usually go and grab a handful of leaflets from the Tourist Information or a service station. Then you can use the middle part of the lesson and the work sheets to get students to identify and explain persuasive techniques used. This is a great lesson if your students are creating a leaflet or brochure for their assessment. It has always worked really well with Y7 and 8s.
Language Techniques - Tables and tasks
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Language Techniques - Tables and tasks

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Well here is a little number to help your classes with those all important language devices for creative and persuasive writing. It will also help them learn all the language techniques ready for identifying them in novels and poems. In this pack there is a full table with the Language Teachniques, definitions and examples. The other two sheets are for the students to fill in during the lesson to help them build a work bank of these language techniques. I did this with my class and then set learning them for homework. They then were tested to see if they could spot examples of techniques and their meaning. Really simple, but beneficial resource.
Creating a charity
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Creating a charity

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This is like a mini project as you will probably need three lessons to complete the task and students presentation. This lesson starts by asking the students questions that they have to think about when watching the news clips about refugees (internet access needed) The next slide tells the students what their task is and shows them other charities that are available to refugees at the moment. The final slide gives students a success criteria which they need to follow. This lesson aims to show students what being a refugee is a like and how we as a country could help.
Model PEE Paragraph on Tension
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Model PEE Paragraph on Tension

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This high ability model PEE paragraph will show your top students exactly how to write an outstanding answer to a question on tension using an extract from The Woman in Black. Please find the model paragraph and extract which was used. Happy Teaching!!
'An Inspector Calls' - Themes and Context
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'An Inspector Calls' - Themes and Context

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This is a great starting lesson for students who are just about to start studying 'An Inspector Calls' it introduces all the context and the themes of the play. It also goes through the exam requirements for Edexcel. It also has video links to BBC Bitesize revision videos that help students to fill in the Themes and Context sheet attached. (Internet needed for the links) This helped my students get down the basics and start making links to the themes that run throughout the play.
Coraline and her two mothers
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Coraline and her two mothers

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This lesson prepares students to analyse quotations comparing Coraine's two mothers from the book Coraline by Neil Gaiman. The analysis is done through the analogy of a house, as you look at the outside and explain the ideas generally, and then when you look in more detail inside the house you gain a further understanding of the language used by Neil Gaiman. There is a booklet resource that fits with the lesson to help students follow this ideas, as well as top tips.
Halloween Lesson - Persuasive techniques
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Halloween Lesson - Persuasive techniques

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This is the THE Halloween lesson of the year. In this pack you have a lesson plan with a step by step guide of what you need to do when in the lesson; a power point slide for the lesson; cut out resources and... a booklet to print which is where the students do all the work. (Booklet is file: Handout 1 and Handour 2 printed separately and then copied double sided) This lesson is planned for an hour and looks at persuasive devices with a Halloween theme. All slides are about Halloween and all the model texts focus on the upcoming festival. There is even a fun clip link to tell students the true historical story of Halloween - definitely worth a watch. I know what I'm using for my classes on the 31st October. Buy it now and use it for this last week in preparation or on the day of the BIG event!!! Happy Teaching!!!
Gothic Literature Booklet - Homework/classroom activites
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Gothic Literature Booklet - Homework/classroom activites

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Here is a fantastic Gothic Literature Booklet that can be used as a homework booklet or used in your classroom as an activities booklet. You could even just pull out activities you want from the booklet and use them as starters or main activities to teach gothic literature. In this pack there are 10 tasks to help students research, design, identify gothic motifs from extracts, and write gothic literature themselves. This is a fab booklet. Happy Teaching and Homework Setting!
Project - Design your own Hotel: Speaking and Listening Booklet
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Project - Design your own Hotel: Speaking and Listening Booklet

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This is a great project booklet which will span over about 5-6 lessons. It is designed for students to work through the initial tasks to help their knowledge about hotels/holidays so they gain an understanding and knowledge of what they should be designing. It also helps them with web design, as they have to annotate and design their own. Once these pages are complete, your groups of five get designing, planning and speech writing, in order to create a 5-10 minute presentation to the class. I used this as an opportunity to assessment my students on their speaking and listening skills. This booklet is packed with activities and even a clip link for the students to see some of the top 10 Hotels in 2016. This is a great buy and can be used repeatedly. Could be used in class or as a homework project. 15 page booklet. What will it teach my students: To work in a team To create a speech/script To learn about target audiences To present ideas to the class in a group To understand and design webpages and a hotel To keep to a time limit when presenting What does it include: Preparation task - positives/negatives of hotel life, investigations into top hotels, persuasive language analysis, target audience, website analysis and annotations, website design. Main Task - 5 Roles for the students to decide between themselves, with details of what they each need to prepare and design in the role they have chosen. Time - 1/2 Lessons to prepare 1/2 Lessons to design and practise their presentation 2 Lessons for presentations - class of 30 Happy Teaching!
A Christmas Carol - Essay Plans with analysis
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A Christmas Carol - Essay Plans with analysis

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Here are four essay plans for ACC. I created these for my Y11 in the lead up to their exams - they are great for showing students how to look at multiple meanings of keywords and how they are used as methods. Context is added on some of them, but they are mainly for showing analysis. Questions planned in PPT: Starting with this extract, how are the ghosts presented as a catalyst (promote and build up to) for Scrooges transformation? Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present Scrooge’s relationship with his family? Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present the Ghost of Jacob Marley? Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present society’s attitude to poverty? Happy planning!
Macbeth Essay - Violence (AQA)
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Macbeth Essay - Violence (AQA)

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If you’re looking to show your class a top level Macbeth essay 25/30 AQA, then look no further. I wrote this essay for my class to show them how you can link your ideas throughout your essay to show thoughtful and developed analysis with examined methods and top mark contexts. A great reminder of what a whole essay looks like for your class. (Please note the extract is not included in the price, this is just to show you what the question is based on.)
Identifying AFOREST Techniques
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Identifying AFOREST Techniques

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This lesson will help students to identify AFOREST Techniques using Martin Luther King's speech and prior knowledge matching cards. As you can see above this pack includes a powerpoint lesson, MLK speech for the students to use, MLK speech annotated for the teacher, and AFOREST matching cards for the starter activity. This lesson has worked really well with my Y8s and 9s. It could also be used for Y7.
PEE and Assessment Preparation - A Christmas Carol
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PEE and Assessment Preparation - A Christmas Carol

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PEE preparation power point for A Christmas Carol. This Power point goes very well with 'The Little Book of PEE For A Christmas Carol' as it takes students through the question they will be answering and includes PEE structures, model paragraphs, and a mark scheme (Based on the new 1-9). However it also works as a standalone resource, as it goes through how to pick out key quotations in a text, and leaves the teacher room to analyse them with the students.
Language Teachniques for Low Ability
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Language Teachniques for Low Ability

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Well here is a little number to help your classes with those all important language devices for creative and persuasive writing. It will also help them learn all the language techniques ready for identifying them in novels and poems. This one is different from my other worksheets as this one is for low ability. Extra help and fill in the blankets is used here to help those struggling with these techniques. In this pack there is a full table with the Language Teachniques, definitions and examples. The other two sheets are for the students to fill in during the lesson to help them build a work bank of these language techniques. As I said, there is extra help in these ones as opposed to the others I have uploaded. I did this with my class and then set learning them for homework. They then were tested to see if they could spot examples of techniques and their meaning. Really simple, but beneficial resource.
PEE Paragraph Bundle - A Christmas Carol
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PEE Paragraph Bundle - A Christmas Carol

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Teaching A Christmas Carol and PEE paragrahs? Well, here is the package for you. Here we have a 10 page booklet on PEE with sentence starters and specific structure questions for general PEE, and 'A Christmas Carol' focused PEE paragraphs. As well as a mark scheme with two different graded model paragraphs to show your students. There is even a word bank section at the back. We also have the power point lesson which goes with the booklet. That's two lessons on PEE focusing on 'A Christmas Carol' sorted. Finally, we have 'A Christmas Carol' Planning sheet with extra scaffolding to help low ability students. Or edit this out and use it as a planning sheet for higher ability students. All of these resources have done me wonders in the past, from Year 7 high ability to Year 10. This pack is a must have!
Refugee Boy: Context and Culture
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Refugee Boy: Context and Culture

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This is a great lesson on the contextual and cultural links to the book Refugee Boy. It has a great little booklet that goes with the presentation that the students can work on throughout. It also includes selected pieces of information that can be stuck around the class for the students to pick the contexts that links and put it on the outlined hand. It worked really well with my Y8 class as it got them up and about finding out the relevant information and then moving onto using language techniques from Alem's point of view from the book.
Writing D.I.R.T Mark Sheet
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Writing D.I.R.T Mark Sheet

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Here is a cheeky little mark sheet you can use to speed up that last bit of marking. All you have to do it tick the boxes you want your students to complete and they can write the answers on their work or in the spaces on the second sheet. Marking made quick and easy,