This pack contains: 1 PowerPoint Quiz - 31 questions [and answers] 1 - picture round - 20 questions 1 - student handout to record answers/scores ** All resources are editable** This is a fun way to end the term!

These English G.C.S.E. resources have been designed for the AQA speciation. This PAPER 1 SECTION A session follows this format: 1 – Starter tasks: VOCAB expansion: learning, defining, and finding synonyms for new words 2 – SPAG Focus: Using apostrophes 3 – Text: Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo’s Calling 4 – Questions 1,2,3 and 4 are broken down and simplified. 5 – The text is explored, analysed, evaluated using each of the four questions 6- Assessment activities 7 – Plenary activities Each lesson is accompanied by a work-booklet and additional handouts for the SPAG activities.

These English G.C.S.E. resources have been designed for the AQA speciation. This PAPER 1 SECTION A session follows this format: 1 – Starter tasks: VOCAB expansion: learning, defining, and finding synonyms for new words 2 – SPAG Focus:COMMAS 3 – Text: The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan 4 – Questions 1,2,3 and 4 are broken down and simplified. 5 – The text is explored, analysed, evaluated using each of the four questions 6- Assessment activities 7 – Plenary activities Each lesson is accompanied by a work-booklet and additional handouts for the SPAG activities.

These English G.C.S.E. resources have been designed for the AQA speciation. This PAPER 1 SECTION B session follows this format: 1 – Starter tasks: VOCAB expansion: learning, defining, and finding synonyms for new words 2 – SPAG Focus: adjectives and adverbs 3 –** Questions 5-** break down and discussion 4 – Exam focus activities: Planning a response (5 mini activities using stimulus materials) 5 – Exam technique: Flashbacks 6 – Task/assessment activities: Story writing / descriptions 7 – Plenary activities: vocab test Each lesson is accompanied by a work-booklet and additional handouts for the SPAG activities.

These English G.C.S.E. resources have been designed for the AQA speciation. This PAPER 1 SECTION A session follows this format: 1 – Starter tasks: VOCAB expansion: learning, defining, and finding synonyms for new words 2 – SPAG Focus: Parts of speech: nouns and prepositions 3 – Text: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson 4 – Questions 1,2,3 and 4 are broken down and simplified. 5 – The text is explored, analysed, evaluated using each of the four questions 6- Assessment activities 7 – Plenary activities Each lesson is accompanied by a work-booklet and additional handouts for the SPAG activities.

These English G.C.S.E. resources have been designed for the AQA speciation. This PAPER 1 SECTION B session follows this format: 1 – Starter tasks: VOCAB expansion: learning, defining, and finding synonyms for new words 2 – SPAG Focus: Using question marks 4 – Questions 5- break down and discussion 5 – Exam focus activities: Planning a response (5 mini activities using stimulus materials) 7 – Task/assessment activities: Story writing / descriptions 8 – Plenary activities: vocab test Each lesson is accompanied by a work-booklet and additional handouts for the SPAG activities.

This pack contains a 33 slide PowerPoint presentation and accompanying student booklet that covers the following: This lesson will show students how to analyse Beasts of the Southern Wild whilst applying theories of spectatorship. The lesson is structured to help students ‘build an A Level response’ to several spectatorship/ideology questions. Starter: Key term re-cap (key terms with missing vowels = student must identify the term then define it) Example questions Preferred reading - group task Detailed feedback on PowerPoint Students to list technical approaches that encourage a preferred reading of the film Detailed feedback on PowerPoint IDEOLOGY: - introduce the importance of ideology in driving response Define and explore: Libeterianism and Anarchism Tentants of Anarchism explored Group task: students find examples of anarchistic principles found in the film feedback Scene analysis - opening scene (recognition / driving the preferred response Detailed analysis of intro scenes (including ‘community party’ sequences) Address The Levee = anti-corporate/capitalistic ideologies Detailed feedback on PowerPoint ACTIVE RESPONSE - discussion: What does the Auroch represent? Negotiated response Detailed feedback on PowerPoint FEMA/Hospital scene analysis Detailed feedback on PowerPoint Oppositional response Detailed feedback on PowerPoint ‘Beast It’ scene analysis Bell Hook’s response to the film NEW CONTENT: viewing BOTSW from a 2024conservative perspective: oppositional responses in 2024 Detailed feedback on PowerPoint Assessment: planning time and assessment included [optional use]

**This pack contains 7 lessons designed for AQA’s English Language Paper 1 ** Each lesson comes with: - PowerPoint presentation - Tasks handout - Digital copies of the text that is used in the session Each lesson follows the same format, which is outlined below: Starter Task: definitions and synonyms (students to define words, find synonyms and then write one sentence using as many of their new words as they can) SP&G focus: short task based around ONE SP&G area: - Lesson 1- Using Commas - Lesson 2 - Using apostrophes - Lesson 3 - Using capital letters - Lesson 4 - Parts of Speech: nouns and prepositions - Lesson 5 - Parts of Speech: verbs and pronouns - Lesson 6 - Parts of Speech: positioning the reader - Lesson 7- Parts of Speech: homophones Each SP&G focus section contains a video, task and consolidation activity Paper 1 - question 1 practice The sample tests covered in these 7 lessons are: The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Strange Case of Mr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Dracula by Bram Stoker The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien Paper 1 - question 2 practice - analysis - The question is discussed and then a series of tasks are available. How to answer the question, how to structure responses, how to break down the text, task, assessment. Paper 1 - question 3 practice The question is discussed and then a series of tasks are available. How to answer the question, how to structure responses, how to break down the text, task, assessment. Paper 1 - question 4 practice The question is discussed and then a series of tasks are available. How to answer the question, how to structure responses, how to break down the text, task, assessment. Plenary Tasks - reflection on the session. Target setting for next session.

This pack contains the 7 lessons covering AQA’s English Language GCSE Paper 1, Section B. Each lesson in this pack follows the same structure and contains: Power-Point lesson Handouts for relevant sessions. Each lesson follows the following structure and addressed the following skills/approaches: Starter task -definitions of 5 words, students find synonyms, then they write a sentence using as many of their new words as they can SP&G focus: Lesson 1- Sentence openers Lesson 2 - Speech Marks Lesson 3 - Using Dashes Lesson 4 - similes and Metaphors Lesson 5 - Adjectives & Adverbs Lesson 6 - Irregular Verbs Lesson 7 - Question 5 - How to understand, prepare for and answer the question Part 1 -What the exam will look like: a breakdown of what the exam question will look like. Part 2 - planning - students are given an image then various tasks to help them plan their narrative/descriptive writing tasks. Part 3 - writing Part 4 - self review and submission. Plenary - reflection and target setting