I have worked within secondary education for the last twelve years. I upload a lot of lessons for KS3-KS4 students. I try to make sure all of my lessons are differentiated to help students in the best way possible.
For more lessons and videos please visit my youtube page
I have worked within secondary education for the last twelve years. I upload a lot of lessons for KS3-KS4 students. I try to make sure all of my lessons are differentiated to help students in the best way possible.
For more lessons and videos please visit my youtube page
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the impact of the war on the characters in the play Othello. The lesson looks in detail at extracts from the Duke and Othello and helps consolidate the learners understanding of the play and characters within act one.
This lesson works well both online and face-to-face. All my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at key questions from English language paper one: Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing. The lesson uses an extract from The Hunger Games and helps learners understand the genre of dystopian fiction. Additionally, the lesson has a step-by-step guide to help learners produce their own creative writing response.
This lesson can be taught both online and face-to-face and has been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson focusing on the theme of art. The lesson helps students build on their skills in order to prepare them for the functional skills exam level one and level two.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested. If you like this resource please check out my shop for complete bundles and also free resources.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at questions three, four and five for paper one, explorations in creative reading and writing. The lesson helps learners to gain a strong understanding of both language and structure and how to apply these to exam responses. The lesson has many opportunities for AFL and includes model responses.
The lesson also helps learners to structure their response for the creative writing question. All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups and can be taught either face-to-face or online.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking focusing largely on the theme of mystery in the novella Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The lesson works well for revision as it tests learner’s ability to recall the key chapters within the novella and their key events.
The lesson moves on to look at the theme of good and evil and how this is conveyed in key sections of the text. The lesson works well both face-to-face as well as online and have been tried and tested with my own groups.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at some of the key questions of the paper one exam-explorations in creative reading and writing. The lesson helps students to gain a strong understanding of key language and structural techniques and how to apply these to their exam responses.
The lesson also helps learners to develop their creative writing skills, with a four-step guide to writing their response. The lesson has many opportunities for AFL as well as model examples.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups and can be taught both online and face-to-face.
If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at some of the key questions of the paper one exam-explorations in creative reading and writing. The lesson helps students to gain a strong understanding of key language and structural techniques and how to apply these to their exam responses.
The lesson also helps learners to develop their creative writing skills, with a four-step guide to writing their response. The lesson has many opportunities for AFL as well as model examples.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups and can be taught both online and face-to-face.
If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the second half of the poem Cousin Kate. The lesson helps learners understand the three characters within the poem and their roles within the text. Additionally, the lesson helps learners to gain a good understanding of the poem in terms of language, structure and form.
The lesson has many opportunities for AFL and has been tried and tested with my own groups. The lesson can be taught both online and face-to-face.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the first half of the poem Cousin Kate. The lesson helps learners understand the key contextual information that has impacted the poem and to gain a good understanding of the poem in terms of language, structure and form.
The lesson has many opportunities for AFL and has been tried and tested with my own groups. The lesson can be taught both online and face-to-face.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at act four of Othello. The lesson helps learners to understand the development of Othello’s character and his mental state as he starts to suspect his wife of being with Cassio.
The lesson has multiple opportunities for AFL and comes with a model response.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups and can be taught both online and face-to-face. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated, fifteen slide lesson looking at key scenes within act four of the play Othello. The lesson looks at the development of the character of Emilia and her role within the play as Othello’s marriage breaks down. The lesson looks at key extracts within the play and helps learners to break them down to gain a deeper comprehension of the play and the characters.
The lesson has many opportunities for AFL and includes a model response. The lesson has been designed to be taught both online and face-to-face and requires no additional printing or source material.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups, if you liked this lesson then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at chapter nine of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The lesson helps learners understand the perception of good and evil within Victorian sociaty and how this is conveyed within the novella.
The lesson helps learners to understand key sections of the novella and to analyse them for deeper understanding. The lesson has many opportunities for ALF and has a model response to help learners to approach an exam-style question.
This lesson works well both online and face to face and has been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at chapter ten of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The lesson helps learners understand the importance of the chapter and how to identify key quotations and techniques used within the extract.
This lesson can be taught both online and face-to-face and has been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the character of Roderigo and his character’s development throughout the play. The lesson looks at key scenes within act four and helps learners to apply their understanding to an exam question. The lesson has opportunities for AFL and a model example.
This lesson can be taught both online or face-to-face and has been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the first four stanzas of the poem, “Exposure,” by Wilfred Owen. The poem helps learners gain a good understanding of the context surrounding the poet and helps them to work through key parts of the poem.
The lesson has many opportunities for AFL and has a model example to helps learners to being writing their own response to an exam question.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups and can be taught both online and face-to-face.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the start of act five in the play Othello. The lesson looks at the contextual factors that influenced crime and punishment and how it may be applied to help understand the play.
The lesson focuses on the character of Iago and his development throughout the play and his ability to manipulate Roderigo to do his bidding. The lesson helps learners to understand some of the key concepts within the play, analyse key extracts of act five, and apply their understanding to an exam-style question.
The lesson has a model example and has been designed for teaching both online and face to face lessons. If you liked this resource, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the end of act four of the play Othello. The lesson focuses on the development of the characters of Desdemona and Emilla and on the theme of adultery. The lesson looks at the social expectations of the time and helps learners to draw key comparisons between the two people. The lesson includes a model response and has been designed to be taught both online and face-to-face.
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This bundle is made up of a collection of lessons looking at the poems within the Edexcel poetry anthology.
the lessons help learners to gain a comprehensive understanding of the poems and how to respondexam style questions.
all of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups and can be taught either online or face to face
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the poem Medusa for the AQA poetry anthology. This is lesson one of two looking at the contextual factors surrounding the poem and looks at how the poet has used language, structure, and form.
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This is the second lesson looking at the poem Medusa by Carol Ann Duffy. The lesson helps learners to summarise the first three stanzas of the poem and gain a detailed understanding of the poem as a whole.
The lesson also helps learners to craft their own exam response and includes a model response.
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