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 mini booklet aims to gives students a flavour of what English Language Paper 2 involves. Each of the readings is focused on true crimes that are wholly appropriate for teenagers. It’s 20 pages of building skills for AQA’s assessment objectives. This booklet is structured per question:
Question 2: Summary
Question 3: Language
Question 4: Comparison
Question 5: Writing
The writing section has 5 writing tasks, with a structured planning sheet attached.
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This 20 page booklet gives students an opportunity to read, understand and develop depth in their study of H.G.Wells’, The Red Room. This booklet includes:
Thematic study
Quotation analysis
Comprehension questions alongside reading
Language features
Overview
Messages and moral of the story
Essay question
SO MUCH MORE!
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Get this booklet to support students study of Arthur Birling. This booklet includes:
writing summaries
extracting quotations
speech analysis
audience perspective
writing quizzes
exam question
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Here is a small booklet, jam packed with information that students can read, annotate and highlight. All information in relevant to OCR specification for GCSE Media Studies.
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.
Do you have students who are struggling to grapple with language features? Then this booklet is for them! From IDENTIFYING, ANALYSING to USING language features; this 25 page booklet has all basis covered.
Links to AQA AOs - Lit and Lang exam
Detailed understandings o language feature shared
Scaffolded tasks
Exam style questions
Extracts embedded
30 language feature challenge
SO MUCH MORE!
Get this pack of 10 worksheets that addresses each criterion of Section B: Writing in AQA’s English Language Papers. Worksheets include:
Spelling Game
Purpose
Audience
Grammar misconceptions
Sentence structures
Word choice
Constructung paragraphs
SO MUCH MORE!
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Check out this range of 15 poems that focus on wars from different cultures. From World War One to the Iraq war, this anthology aims to capture the thoughts, feelings and emotions of individuals across the world. Each poem has information about the poet. PLUS! There are pages dedicated to contextual information, where students can research and better understand the wars that have impacted the poets.
See the selections of poems below:
Anthem for Doomed Youth, Wilfred Owen
Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen
Who’s for the Game?, Jessie Pope
The Gift of India, Sarojini Naidu
Untitled, Takijiro Onishi
War Baby, Pamela Holmes
We are Not Blessed, Nikolay Mayorov
The Butterfly, Pavel Freidmann
High Flight, John Gillespie Magee
All of Us or None, Bertolt Brecht
Songs of Love and War, Sayd Bahoudine Majrouh
The Brutal Game, Alex Cocker
Helmand, John Hawhead
Landays, Rashila Mushka
War Sees No Colour, Donna Zephrine
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The SEVEN page booklet has everything you need to set students a mini in-class assessment. The exam question this focuses on is '…explain how far you think Shakespeare presents Macbeth as a ruthless and aggressive character. The extract is from Act 4 , Scene 1 - after the second prophecy.
This booklet includes:
Warm up activity
Scaffolded planning sheet
PEEZL structure for practice
Effect of the audience: focus on four quotation that support the question.
Self assessment sheet with each AQA AO broken down.
Language analysis sheet
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This SEVEN page booklets guides students through warm up activities, planning and scaffolded paragraphs. All activities aims to target each of AQA’s AOs.
This booklet includes:
Warm-up activities
Quotation analysis
Scaffolded PEEZL paragraphs
Self Assessment with student friendly AQA AOs
and so much more!
This unit of work facilitates young new reporters. Students will have the opportunity to explore reading, watching, listening and writing a range of mediums. From food adverts, current newspaper articles and advertising campaigns; all of the tasks aim to support students having a better understanding of different media platforms that shares news and information.
Tried. Tested. Taught!
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!
There are 15 lessons which address all areas of study for OCR Film Studies A-Level. With the focus film, The Act of Killing, each lesson draws on theoretical approaches and direct students to refer directly to their chosen documentary.
With over 30 pages of activities, this study guide aims to support students understanding of Animal Farm. From studying key themes, characters and extracts, students have the opportunity to apply AQA’s AOs to a couple of exam practice questions.
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With over 30 pages of activities, this study guide aims to support students understanding of Animal Farm. From studying key themes, characters and extracts, students have the opportunity to apply Edexcel’s AOs to exam practice questions.
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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.
This Macbeth exam booklet is jam packed with a range of learning activities. From scaffolded exam practice questions, to embedded context sheets - this booklet has 34 pages of everything a student needs to succeed in the exam!
FIVE exam practice questions
Modelled examples to ‘make better’
Memory recall activities
Context sheets embedded throughout
Key quotations
Effect on the audience
Answering the exam question
30 day revision challenge.
AND MUCH MORE!
Get students revising question one and two of Unseen Poetry. This 40 page booklet has warm exam practice as well as THREE whole papers created by me! Interleaved throughout this booklet are revision activities, memory recall and quiz creations!
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