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Two detailed lessons exploring 'In Wales, wanting to be Italian’ by Imtiaz Dharker from the Belonging cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Jamaican British’ by Raymond Antrobus from the Belonging cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Us’ by Zaffar Kunial from the Belonging cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'My Mother’s Kitchen’ by Choman Hardi from the Belonging cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Kumukanda’ by Kayo Chingonyi from the Belonging cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Peckham Rye Lane’ by A.K. Blakemore from the Belonging cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
A 9 lesson unit comprising of a 66 slide PowerPoint and 9 different worksheets (8 include a transcript for analysis) exploring the topic of spoken language analysis and a summary terminology and theory sheet. This unit can be used to teach A Level English Language or A Level Language and Literature and is not linked to any particular exam board.
Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and terminology listed below, a worksheet containing a transcript (or revision cards for lesson 9), and a homework task. The following theories and terminology are covered:
Discourse – Michel Foucault (1969)
Narrative Categories – William Labov (1972)
Turn taking; adjacency pairs; backchanneling
IRF Model – Sinclair and Coulthard (1975)
Charles Goodwin – Storytelling Structure (1984)
Discourse markers; tag questions; skip connectors; overlap
Speech Acts – J.R. Searle (1969)
Transactional talk; phatic talk; monitoring features
Cooperative Principle and Gricean Maxims – Paul Grice (1975)
Contraction; elision; ellipsis; interruption
Register and Context – Michael Halliday (1985)
Situational Factors Affecting Language Use – David Crystal (1995)
Assimilation; false start; filler; intonation; non-fluency features; paralinguistic features; prosodic features
Face-work - Erving Goffman (1967)
Politeness Theory - Brown and Levinson (1987)
Accommodation; colloquialisms; comment clauses; deixis; hedging -
The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.
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Language and Gender
Language and Region
Language and Power and Occupation
Language and Global and World Englishes
Language Change
Language and Technology
Language and Ethnicity
Language and Social Groups
Language Discourses
Child Language Acquisition - Speech
Child Language Acquisition - Reading and Writing
A 10 lesson unit comprising of a 70 slide PowerPoint and 10 different worksheets exploring the topic of child language acquisition (reading and writing) and a summary terminology and theory sheet. The first 2 lessons are about reading and the final 8 are about writing. This unit can be used for any exam board.
Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and terminology listed below, a worksheet containing examples of writing or a transcript (or revision cards for lesson 10), and a homework task. The following theories and terminology are covered:
Early literacy – Shirley Brice Heath (1983)
Stages of Reading Development – Jeanne Chall (1983)
Features of reading schemes
Language Acquisition Support System – Jerome Bruner (1983)
Synthetic phonics
Stages of writing development – Barry Kroll (1981)
Emergent writing
Stages of writing development – Kathy Barclay (1996)
Emergent literacy – Marie Clay (1975)
Initial literacy – Yetta Goodman (1985)
Ascender/descender graphemes, cursive handwriting and different types of join
The impact of touchscreen technology on children’s writing – Dunn and Sweeney (2018)
Homophones, graphemes and digraphs
Stages of spelling - Bear, Invernizzi, Templeton & Johnston (2004); Bear & Templeton (1998); Gentry (1977; 1982)
Categories of spelling errors
Functions of punctuation – David Crystal (1995)
Learning About Punctuation – Nick Hall and Susan Robinson (1996)
Playful punctuation – Andrew Burrell and Roger Beard (2022)
Genre theory in children’s writing – J.R. Martin and Jean Rothery (1981)
How genre is linked to schoolwork – Frances Christie (1987)
Modes of children’s writing – James Britton (1982)
Chronology in texts – Katherine Perera (1984)
The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.
Check out my other English Language resources:
Language and Gender
Language and Region
Language and Power and Occupation
Language and Global and World Englishes
Language Change
Language and Technology
Language and Ethnicity
Language and Social Groups
Language Discourses
Analysing Spoken Language
Child Language Acquisition - Speech
A table-based revision document where students write down an evaluative statement (possibly lifted from a past question beginning ‘Evaluate the idea…’ before adding their own argument, a supporting theorist and a real world example.
Four rows have been completed to guide students through the process.
This is an excellent way of supporting students to plan for an evaluative response, and demonstrates how to bring in theory and supporting ideas.
Check out my other English Language resources:
Language and Gender
Language and Region
Language and Power and Occupation
Language and Global and World Englishes
Language Change
Language and Technology
Language and Ethnicity
Language and Social Groups
Language Discourses
Analysing Spoken Language
Child Language Acquisition - Speech
Child Language Acquisition - Reading and Writing
A 10 lesson unit comprising of a 69 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (including a range of transcripts) exploring the topic of Language and Power and Occupation and a summary terminology and theory sheet.
Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and concepts listed below, a worksheet (with the exception of lesson nine) and activities, and a homework task. The following theories and concepts are covered:
Shân Wareing – Types of Power, 1999
Pierre Bourdieu – Language and Symbolic Power, 1993
Norman Fairclough – Types of power, 1984
Erving Goffman – Face-work, 1967
Brown and Levinson – Politeness Theory, 1987
Howard Giles – Communication Accommodation Theory, 1973
Drew and Heritage - Institutional Talk and Inferential Frameworks, 1992
John Swales – Discourse Community, 1990
Sinclair and Coulthard – IRF Model and Teacher Talk, 1975 and 1992
Paul Grice – Cooperative Principle and Gricean Maxims, 1975
Almut Koester – Phatic Talk in the Workplace, 2004
Judith Baxter – Double-voiced discourse, 2014
Janet Holmes and Maria Stubbe - Power and Politeness in the Workplace, 2003 & 2015
There are some references to AQA-style A Level specification questions, but you can adapt these if needs be. These can be found on slides 58-66. Lesson 9 is based on an AQA A Level question.
The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.
Check out my other English Language A Level resources!
Language and Gender
Language and Region
Language and Global and World Englishes
Language Change
Language and Technology
Language and Ethnicity
Language and Social Groups
Language Discourses
Analysing Spoken Language
Child Language Acquisition - Speech
Child Language Acquisition - Reading and Writing
A 10 lesson unit comprising of a 61 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets exploring the topic of Language and Region (UK) and a summary terminology and theory sheet.
Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and concepts listed below, a worksheet (with the exception of lesson nine) and activities, and a homework task. The following theories and concepts are covered:
MLE & MBE
Howard Giles’ Matched Guise Study (1970)
Queen Mary University & The University of York Accent Bias Study (2020)
David Rosewarne – Estuary English (1984)
Peter Trudgill – Norwich Study (1972)
Overt and covert prestige
Paul Kerswill - Dialect Levelling (1999)
Watt and Gunn (HSBC) - The sound of 2066 (2016)
Howard Giles – Capital punishment study (1973)
Dixon, Mahoney and Cocks – Accents of Guilt (2002)
Rob Drummond – MLE, MUBE and MBE (2016)
Amanda Cole – SSBE and research into MLE, RP and SSBE in London (2023)
Isogloss
General Northern English and the research of Strycharczuk, López-Ibáñez, Brown and Leemann (2020)
Urban West Yorkshire English (UWYE)
There are some references to AQA-style A Level specification questions, but you can adapt these if needs be. These can be found on slides 13, 37-38 and 51-58. Lesson 9 is based on an AQA A Level question.
This unit does not cover World Englishes and only touches briefly on Language and Ethnicity through references to MLE and MBE.
The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.
Check out my other English Language A Level resources!
Language and Gender
Language and Power and Occupation
Language and Global and World Englishes
Language Change
Language and Technology
Language and Ethnicity
Language and Social Groups
Language Discourses
Analysing Spoken Language
Child Language Acquisition - Speech
Child Language Acquisition - Reading and Writing
A 10 lesson unit comprising of a 71 slide PowerPoint, 10 different worksheets (including texts for analysis) exploring the topic of Language Discourses and a summary terminology and theory sheet.The following are covered and taught as part of the unit: self-representation of the writer; positioning of the audience; evaluating and challenging discourses; applying different linguistic levels; context and genre; comparison.
Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and concepts listed below, a worksheet (with the exception of lesson nine) and activities, and a homework task. The following theories and concepts are covered:
Definition of language discourses
Descriptivism and prescriptivism
Sticklerism – Robert Lane Greene (2011)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves – Lynne Truss (2003)
Declinism – Robert Lane Greene (2011)
Crumbling Castle, Infectious Disease and Damp Spoon – Jean Aitchison (1996)
Standard and Non-Standard English
Complaint Tradition – James and Lesley Milroy (1987)
Complaint Tradition – John McWhorter (2013)
The Language Wars – Henry Hitchings (2011)
Verbal Hygiene – Deborah Cameron (1995)
David Crystal – A Sea of Language Change
The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.
Check out my other English Language A Level resources!
Check out my other English Language resources:
Language and Gender
Language and Region
Language and Power and Occupation
Language and Global and World Englishes
Language Change
Language and Technology
Language and Ethnicity
Language and Social Groups
Analysing Spoken Language
Child Language Acquisition - Speech
Child Language Acquisition - Reading and Writing
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Clear and Gentle Stream’ by Robert Bridges from the Belonging cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
This resource is comprised of a set of four lessons exploring the theme of identity in Hamlet.
A Powerpoint guides students through revision activities, discussion questions and activities leading to a non-exam board specific question which you can adapt for your own purposes.
Enclosed is an extract booklet with three different extracts linked to identity. The opening of each of these is analysed in detail on the Powerpoint slides. A theory document is included for one homework task. There are also questions and answers for two revision quizzes intended to be transferred onto Kahoot or another such app. A detailed assessment guide consolidates the unit. A lesson plan is included with detailed notes for four lessons.
Two detailed lessons exploring 'We Refugees’ by Benjamin Zephaniah from the Belonging cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'I Remember, I Remember’ by Thomas Hood from the Belonging cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Based on the Eduqas poetry anthology, this unit is comprised of 18 poetry lessons (which can be extended to 36 lessons if you include the assessment lessons).
Each PowerPoint explores a different poem in isolation and is the perfect introduction to poetry for a Year 9 group. This can also be used as an unseen unit for GCSE if you do not teach Eduqas. Eduqas questions lend themselves well to unseen analysis as they are comprised of two parts - one question focuses on the poem and the second question asks students to compare that poem to another in the anthology.
You will need to download the Eduqas poetry anthology or print off copies of the poems from the PowerPoint slides.
This bundle comprises 18 poetry PowerPoints based on the poems from the Eduqas Poetry Anthology: ‘A Wife in London’; ‘Afternoons’; ‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’; ‘Cozy Apologia’; ‘Death of a Naturalist’; ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’; ‘Excerpt from the Prelude’; ‘Hawk Roosting’; ‘Living Space’; ‘London’; ‘Mametz Wood’; ‘Ozymandias’; ‘She Walks in Beauty’; ‘Sonnet 43’; ‘The Manhunt’; ‘The Soldier’; ‘To Autumn’; and ‘Valentine’.
Each PowerPoint contains the following:
A starter discussion activity
Contextual information
Form and structural information
Detailed annotated questions which incorporate a challenging range of poetic terminology - guided poetry analysis
Consolidation questions
An optional additional lesson guiding students through an exemplar examination question
These lessons will challenge and engage your students, including the most able
A lesson plan is included for every poem, which includes differentiation suggestions.
Two detailed lessons exploring Rita Dove’s ‘Cozy Apologia’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Sunday Dip’ by John Clare from the Belonging cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Island Man’ by Grace Nichols from the Belonging cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
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