I am an English, Media and Film Studies Teacher. All my resources aim to be inclusive and exciting for students and for teachers. With my love of educational research, I have tried to apply pedagogical practices to the resources created. Please leave me review and comment - would love to make improvements!
I am an English, Media and Film Studies Teacher. All my resources aim to be inclusive and exciting for students and for teachers. With my love of educational research, I have tried to apply pedagogical practices to the resources created. Please leave me review and comment - would love to make improvements!
This 50 page exam revision booklet aim to support students study of Blood Brothers. From scaffolded exam practice questions to embedded contextual activities- this booklet is jam packed for students to revise all aspects of the play.
Breakdown of AOs
FIVE exam practice questions
Memory recall activities
Context activities
Thematic analysis
Character profiles and analysis
Exam writing guides
Effect on the audience
30 day revision challenge
SO MUCH MORE!
This Halloween, get students reading The Monkey’s Paw, W.W.Jacobs. This 21 page booklet has mini comprehension questions to support students understanding of the story. This booklet also includes:
My predictions
Themes
Quotation analysis
Character summary sheets
SO MUCH MORE!
These presentation slides, worksheet and self-reflection sheet has been designed to warm up exam skills. This lesson work well as starter and a way to consolidate the basic!
The exam question is: Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present the importance of family?
Included is:
Extract from Stave Three
PEE structure and guidance
Scaffolded PEEZL structure with modelled paragraphs
Self-reflection sheet: plus, minus and improve.
Planning sheet focused on each AOs from AQA
There are two units:
Research and Planning
Statement of Intent
The research and planning unit is split into teaching slides and student slides. Each presentation aims to focus on each feature of the brief and specification. Whilst designed with the 2023 specification, slides can be tweaked for future briefs.
The statement of intent lessons use the specification and facilitate students drafting their work.
This is a jampacked scheme of work that goe sthrough each scene of Macbeth. With differentiated tasks and worksheets to support students learning of the Shakespearean tradegy. starting from underpinning the context of a tragedy all the way through to the finale scene of the texts. Plus, there are reading slides to support class reading of the play. Good luck!
Get creative with a range of activities for students to learn about Guy Fawkes and The Gunpowder Plot. In this 12 page booklet, students will have the opportunity to:
Read an English folk tale
Creative task: writing your own poem
Writing a newspaper article
Reading activity
Research tasks
Creating a wordsearch
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This 12 page mini-booklet gives students the resources to plan, draft and write their opening to a story titled ‘The Poisonous Pumpkin’. This booklet includes:
Designing the pumpkin
Drawing a map
Language features
Opening of stories
Structural features
Story development questions
SO MUCH MORE!
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Get this FULL SOW with 18 lessons! This SOW will give students the opportunity explore writing a script/ screenplay as well as writing in prose. With regular self and peer assessment sheets, students will be guided through collaborative writing practices.
This SOW includes:
Writing descriptions
Defamiliarisation
Pathetic fallacy
Reading a script
Writing a script
Developing their use of vocabulary
Settings
Characterisation
Playing with structure
Drafting
Proofreading
SO MUCH MORE!
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Printable on ONE A4 sheet, these character flashcards focus on three areas:
Summary
Quotations
Contextual Links
There is one bonus flashcard with a mini-glossary of poetic terms.
These flashcards have been designed to support weaker learners grasping key information for the AQA English Literature Paper 2 exam.
As a part of the promotional media unit for OCR GCSE Media Studies, here are the first FIVE lessons. These lessons cover foundational content for studying The Lego Movie, in particular ‘Film Industry’. Further to this, students have the opportunity to start their analysis of the UK trailer and film poster.
This is jam-packed SOW that covers THREE areas: research & planning, production of short film/ digital stills, and evaluative analysis.
Within the research & planning unit, topics covered are: analysis of all eight specified short films, narrative structure (McKnee), mise-en-scene and genre.
As for the production unit, topics covered are: scriptwriting, dialogue, location recce, risk assessment, character development, costume, make-up, casting, lightin, editing, composition, shooting scripts, storyboarding and screen testing.
Lastly, within the evaluatuve analysis unit, lessons are focused on: planning (with planning sheets), developing a writing style, scaffolding for writing introduction, main body paragraphs and the conclusion.
I have used current resources from Studiobinder, Masterclass and many more online articles and videos to keep the unit current. Enjoy!
This 42 page booklet aims to support students developing their skills in responding to questions on this paper. With pages dedicated to students ‘warming up’ their skills before attempting a question, this booklet is driven with AQA’s mark scheme in mind. What’s more this booklet has a range of speeches:
The power of vulnerability, Brene Brown
I am still the greatest, Muhammad Ali
Try something new for 30 day, Matt Cutts
The dange of single story, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Looks aren’t everything, believe me I’m a model, Cameron Russell
Your brain on video games, Daphne Bavelier
What is it like to be a gamer? Aaron Suduiko
The writing section has a range of warm up task and exam practice. This section also has support for students in considering their audience when writing, checking their spelling and punctuation and target support for developing their writing.
There are 50 pages jam-packed with revision on each of the characters from An Inspector Calls. Each character has a:
Character Profile
Quotation analysis
Structural Analsysis
Exam practice questions
PEEZL scaffolds
This booklet also gives students the opportunity to explore creative tasks, analytical tasks and SO MUCH MORE!
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Get students naming the characters that have said the following lines. This worksheet is a great revision tool that can be used after reading the play!
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This 30 day revision challenge boasts a whole range of ways for students to revisit the play. From re-watching scenes and summaries, to re-reading, extracting quotations and SO MUCH MORE! As a part of each activity, students can tick off what they have achieved!
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