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English Data Collation Special
Quite simply, the spreadsheets in here will allow you to track every single year group in Key Stage 3 and 4. The focus will be on preparation for the AQA English GCSE examinations.
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Character and Voice Revision Book
A bit out of date now(hence the reduced price). This is a booklet that provides a copy of each of the old AQA Moonlight on the Tides poems with a series of questions and an exam question. This is a stand alone resource you can print out (It's a whopper! Loads of pages, so check your departmental print budgets) for individuals or whole classes.
Might be useful as an Unseen Poetry resources for the new AQA English Literature GCSE (Just saying...)
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AQA English Literature Paper 2 Bundle: Modern Texts and Poetry (version 1)
Simply put, a collection of schemes and resources to aid in the teaching of this specific paper. This one focuses on the teaching of DNA and provides a mini scheme of work for the Conflict and Power unit.
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KS3: A Midsummer Night's Dream Scheme of Work
A collection of lessons and extracts designed to teach this play to KS3 students. It'll need updating a little (I talk about Controlled Assessments), but it's a good starting point for someone looking for a way in to teach this play.
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AQA English Literature: Unseen Poetry pack
So, this unseen poetry section is quite scary isn't it? This was my way of attacking it with my KS4 students. I used song lyrics to start with, but also looked at some trickier poetic forms . The songs and poems you'll need to independently download are embedded in the lessons .
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KS3: Exploring the theme of "otherness" in Shakespeare
A unit of work I did not design, but these are the lessons I created to teach it. The lessons focus on The Tempest and Othello. These lessons were designed to be taught to a bottom set Year 9 class with more interest in staring out of the window than exploring the linguistic delights of the Bard. However, once I started to Story Woosh the plays, the analytical lessons became much more productive.
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Speaking and Listening Bundle
A few resources I've cobbled together to help teach speaking and listening across the year groups.
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AQA English Language Resource Bundle
A collection of resources that will aid you in the teaching of the AQA English Language specification. This is weighted more towards Paper 2 than Paper 1 at the moment - something I will rectify as soon as possible.
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AQA English Literature Resource Bundle
A collection of schemes that will aid in the revision and teaching of the AQA English Literature examination.
PS - I intend to upload a Romeo and Juliet scheme of work too (as soon as I have finished making it).
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AQA GCSE English Language and Literature Bundle
All of my current resource of value surrounding the delivery and tracking of the English Language and Literature GCSEs.
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Mass of KS3 resources
This is a collection of free and paid resources - simply put, every single SoW and mini-unit I have ever created for Key Stage 3. Enough in here to significantly add to a KS3 curriculum for a year group or two.
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KS4 Creative Writing Pack
A series of lessons and resources that all work towards making KS4 students better creative writers.
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D6 Dungeons and Dragons: The Dark Forest (An Easter Mission Pack)
PREMISE: You’ve been summoned to the gates of the Dark Forest – a haunted woodland, home to numerous fell creatures and twisted forms. The forest shifts and twists constantly, making it impossible to map. However, you and your adventuring kin will step into this shadowy land as the fate of Easter rests upon your shoulders. The Easter Bunny has been possessed! You’re job is to find him and drive out the demon. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it…
Ok, so I kind of got carried away the whole Dungeons and Dragons thing and went and made myself an Easter Mission Pack. Also, as I had such success using my Christmas one, it felt like the right thing to do.
I include a lot of literary characters and locations in this one too.Here's the full list:
Hagrid
Aragog
Voldemort
Dracula
Frankenstein's Monster
Willow (from Buffy)
Treebeard
The Watcher in the Water (From Lord of The Rings)
The Balrog
The Wall (from Game of Thrones)
The Ringwraiths
It all seems to fit together.
Also, I include in this pack a whole-class presentation so you can do a guided creative writing lesson with a class or a large group. Either way, I am really looking forward to teaching this.
You will need to encourage all Dungeon Masters to be creative in how they manage the conflict situations.
This, is going to be great fun to teach...
PS - with the whole class presentation, clicking the main background image acts as the link to the next slide via the "secret paths" without flagging it up to students.
PPS - I've also included the first lesson - available for free elsewhere - otherwise it gets a bit complicated.
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Discussing and Listening
Four lessons that focus on improving your students abilities surrounding discussion and listening - somewhat lost art forms. Numerous discussion topics at group and whole class level.
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KS3: Introduction to the Media - Travel Brochure Project
A unit designed to be taught to Year 7. It introduces them to the basics of the Media and gets them writing creatively - a Travel Brochure. Includes resources and articles.
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Quick Lesson POETRY - Roger McGough "The Lake"
Need a quick lesson? Look no further. A whole lesson based around Roger McGough's "The Lake" - I know it can be found online elsewhere, but I include it here for convenience's sake. Perfect for when you need to fill that irritating cover lesson with something meaningful.
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KS4: Room 202 Speaking and Listening Presentations, Debates and Discussions
3 Lessons taken from the old(er) version of the AQA English Language specification (the one where S&L counted towards the grades).
I know it counts for nothing now, but it still needs to be done. These three lessons prepare a class to give a presentation OR take part in a discussion about a selected item they would save from the imaginatively named Room 202.
Enjoy.
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KS3: Introduction to Pre-1914 texts
A useful little unit that we put together to fill a 2/3 week gap. It has the students explore pre-1914 material - poetry and prose - and ends with a controlled assessment in the vein of the old AQA English style questions for the Literature paper.
Might fill some other gaps out there in shorter half terms.
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Debate Boxing
This is quite possibly, the coolest thing I've ever tried out. The premise is as follows: a debate between two students (or teams) where four referees observe. The referees score what they see and a winner is announced at the end.
Now add in entrance music a la pro-wrestlers (think the Rocky Theme, We Will Rock You etc.) and run it on an open evening and I promise you this - you will have EVERY parent in at some point to see what is going on.
I've run this at SIX parents evenings now and the same thing happens every time - all of the kids rock up to watch. I set it last time round where the Deputy Head took on the winner of the students (a year 9 girl). They packed the place out to see who won . The debate topic "Batman vs Superman" (serious stuff this). Needless to say, she wiped the floor with him (in a totally professional way).
You'll need to be the promoter/commentator/ring side referee - this can be exhilarating and exhausting!
Try it.
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Exploring Political Speeches (based around the old AQA English Language Spoken Language criteria)
I had SO much fun with this unit of work! It helped that the TA in my class went on to become a local MP for Labour (still is as far as I can tell...). Essentially, this series of 5 lessons - which, by the way, totally went over the 5 lessons I gave myself to teach this - explores a number of different political speeches. Included in the pack are a number of transcripts - Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, Alex Ferguson's farewell speech, Bush's post-911 address to the nation and the transcripts of Clegg, Cameron and Brown from the First Televised General Election Debates (heavy stuff).
I was a little tentative at teaching this to a bottom set year 9 class, but they totally got on board with the debates (they tore shreds out of Brown...) and engaged well with the controlled assessment task at the end.
I know that the controlled assessments are now null and void (a shame really), but the exploration of speeches might be useful to someone out there in the teaching ether...