<p>In this 16- lesson unit, students begin to read and analyse the first half of the Odyssey. The scheme gives opportunity to study the key plot points, characters, settings and historical context, as well as Homer’s structural and linguistic features. This unit also introduces scholars and their theories on the text.<br /> Halfway through this unit, there is a mock assessment. This is a Question 3 and 4 on Polyphemus and Xenia.</p>

<p>This is a 15 Week scheme covering the ‘Meaning and Representations’ unit of the English Language A-Level AQA specification. It is designed to be taught over two half-terms with the first half-term focusing on Grammar and the second on Meaning and Rep practice. There is an assessment at the end of each half-term. Each lesson has a PowerPoint as well as resources.</p> <p><strong>Half Term 1: Grammar and Meaning and Representations</strong><br /> Lesson 1: Morphology and Syntax<br /> Lesson 2: Nouns<br /> Lesson 3: Pronouns<br /> Lesson 4: Verbs and Adverbs<br /> Lesson 5: Adjectives, Sentences and Phrases<br /> Lesson 6: Grammatical Features Recap<br /> Lesson 7: Meaning and Representations<br /> Lesson 8: Speech Comparison<br /> Lesson 9: Hitler and Ghandi<br /> Lesson 10: Original Writing<br /> Lesson 11: Original Writing Commentary<br /> Lesson 12: Pulse and Mumsnet<br /> Lesson 13: Pulse and Mumsnet Continued<br /> Lesson 14: Dickens’ Hanging and ACLU<br /> Lesson 15: Dickens’ Hanging and ACLU Continued<br /> Lesson 16: Obituaries<br /> Lesson 17: Assessment</p> <p><strong>Half Term 2: Meaning and Representations</strong></p> <p>Lesson 1: Fiction<br /> Lesson 2: Lucy Letby<br /> Lesson 3: Lucy Letby Continued<br /> Lesson 4: The Iraq War<br /> Lesson 5: The Iraq War Continued<br /> Lesson 6: Child Poverty<br /> Lesson 7: Paper 1 Question 3<br /> Lesson 8: Original Writing<br /> Lesson 9: Commentary<br /> Lesson 10: Elizabeth Cady Stanton<br /> Lesson 11: Language and the Law<br /> Lesson 12: Dragons Den Pitch<br /> Lesson 13: Teacher Transcript<br /> Lesson 14: Donald Trump<br /> Lesson 15: Civil Rights<br /> Lesson 16: Steve Jobs<br /> Lesson 17: My Tornado Hell<br /> Lesson 18: Looking for India<br /> Lesson 19: Assessment Preparation<br /> Lesson 20: Assessment</p>

<p>This is a fifteen lesson unit on War Poetry. The lessons analyse a broad range of poems on the theme of war: ‘Mametz Wood’, ‘Out of the Blue’, ‘Flag’, ‘Glory of Women’, ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’, ‘Come On Come Back’, ‘The Soldier’, ‘Belfast Confetti’ and ‘Vultures’. These poems refer to World War One, World War Two, the Irish Troubles, the September 11 Attacks, nationalist extremism, and wars of the future. The lessons build towards an assessment comparing ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ with one other poem from the collection. The unit is intended for Years 7-9.</p>

<p>In this 14- lesson unit, students study a broad range of Greek myths from the myth of Creation to the aftermath of the Trojan War. This gives students the opportunity to understand the historical context of Classical Greece, read the works of classical writers such as Hesiod, Ovid and Homer, identify common tropes in Greek myth, and familiarise themselves with the gods that later appear in Homer’s Odyssey, such as Zeus, Athena, Hades, Hermes, and Poseidon.</p> <p>At the end of the unit, students will complete an assessment on Greek heroes, focusing on an extract about Achilles from The Iliad.</p>

<p>These four Ultimate Quizzes provide a comprehensive series of quiz questions to aid with the study of Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’. There is a quiz for each of the five staves. Each quiz includes easy, moderate, trickier and hard questions. Ideal for comprehension at the end of each stave. All answers are provided.</p>

<p>These three Ultimate Quizzes provide a comprehensive series of quiz questions to aid with the study of J.B Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’. There is a quiz for each of the three acts. Each quiz includes easy, moderate, trickier and hard questions. Ideal for comprehension at the end of each act. All answers are provided.</p>

<p>This is an 11 Week scheme covering the ‘Accent and Dialect’ unit of the English Language A-Level AQA specification. It is designed to be taught over two half-terms with the first half-term focusing on regional dialect and the second on race and ethnicity. There is an assessment at the end of each half-term. Each lesson has a PowerPoint as well as resources.</p> <p><strong>Half-Term 1: Accent and Dialect</strong></p> <p>Lesson 1: Accent and Dialect<br /> Lesson 2: Dialect Bias and Accentism<br /> Lesson 3: Estuary and Geordie<br /> Lesson 4: The Phonemic Alphabet<br /> Lesson 5: Theorists<br /> Lesson 6: Prescriptivism vs Descriptivism<br /> Lesson 7: Paper 2 Question 1<br /> Lesson 8: Comparing Articles<br /> Lesson 9: Paper 2 Question 3<br /> Lesson 10: Theorists Revision<br /> Lesson 11: Assessment Preparation<br /> Lesson 12: Assessment</p> <p><strong>Half-Term 2: Language, Ethnicity and Race</strong><br /> Lesson 1: Idiolect and Sociolect<br /> Lesson 2: Multicultural London English<br /> Lesson 3: Attitudes to MLE<br /> Lesson 4: Article Comparison<br /> Lesson 5: Theorists<br /> Lesson 6: Language as Exclusionary<br /> Lesson 7: African American Vernacular English <br /> Lesson 8: Opinion Piece<br /> Lesson 9: Drill and Grime<br /> Lesson 10: Drill and Grime Continued<br /> Lesson 11: Verbal Blackface<br /> Lesson 12: Prescriptivism<br /> Lesson 13: Theorists Revision<br /> Lesson 14: Assessment Preparation<br /> Lesson 15: Assessment</p>

<p>A series of 17 starter tasks recapping grammar and linguistic features.</p> <p>The questions cover:<br /> • Morphology<br /> • Syntax<br /> • Prefixes<br /> • Suffixes<br /> • Affixes<br /> • Base Words<br /> • Inflections<br /> • Clause Elements<br /> • Common Nouns<br /> • Proper Nouns<br /> • Concrete Nouns<br /> • Abstract Nouns<br /> • Count Nouns<br /> • Non-Count Nouns<br /> • Personal pronouns<br /> • Possessive pronouns<br /> • Reflexive pronouns<br /> • Demonstrative pronouns<br /> • Interrogative pronouns<br /> • Relative pronouns<br /> • Indefinite pronouns<br /> • Active Voice<br /> • Passive Voice<br /> • Main Verbs<br /> • Stative Verbs<br /> • Auxiliary Verbs<br /> • Modal Verbs<br /> • Transitive Verbs<br /> • Intransitive Verbs<br /> • Aspect<br /> • Comparatives<br /> • Superlatives<br /> • Subject<br /> • Verb<br /> • Object<br /> • Complement<br /> • Adverbial<br /> • Declarative Sentences<br /> • Interrogative Sentences<br /> • Imperative Sentences<br /> • Prepositional Phrases</p>