I am a teacher of English, English Literature, Moving Image Arts - and when I'm really lucky, History as well! I have been teaching in N. Ireland since 2006 and am particularly familiar with the CCEA curriculum from KS3-KS5. I have worked with CCEA for over a decade and have been employed to create resources for KS5 English Literature. I also ran my own Tutoring company and have a real passion for creating user friendly resources.
Contact me at - mcttresourcesni@gmail.com
I am a teacher of English, English Literature, Moving Image Arts - and when I'm really lucky, History as well! I have been teaching in N. Ireland since 2006 and am particularly familiar with the CCEA curriculum from KS3-KS5. I have worked with CCEA for over a decade and have been employed to create resources for KS5 English Literature. I also ran my own Tutoring company and have a real passion for creating user friendly resources.
Contact me at - mcttresourcesni@gmail.com
Also available as part of my full Unit 1 BUNDLE of all 5 tasks.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12446833
A complete pupil booklet covering all aspects of Tasks 3 with help from three CCEA GCSE publications: textbook, revision book and resource booklet.
37-page document
A matching Teacher answer booklet to accompany and aid completion of Student work. All Student work is answered int he teacher booklet.
User and teacher friendly.
Provides:
guidance for what to expect, and how to approach the task
example layout guiding the student through expected responses
activity to aid deduction of implicit and explicit writing
five structured activities to aid the correct choosing of quotations
six structured activities to aid appropriate summarising of the author’s argument
ten exam practice tasks, imitating the correct styling of the exam
inclusion of past papers questions (four to date) and the specimen question
Teacher booklet provides suggestions and example paragraphs for all tasks, including exam practice tasks.
Also available as part of my full Unit 1 BUNDLE of all 5 tasks.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12446833
A complete pupil booklet covering all aspects of Tasks 4 and 5 with help from three CCEA GCSE publications: textbook, revision book and resource booklet.
60+ page Booklet
80+ slide Power Point
Includes:
Two booklets and one PowerPoint
A Student booklet to be completed
A Teacher Answer booklet to assist with completion of student booklet, with student responses, teacher notes and teacher answers.
A Task 5 PowerPoint to assist teaching of Student booklet, with pertinent notes, sample answers and advice
Exam guidance
Worked answers
Reference to CCEA examples - current and past paper
Variety of examples to have pupils cover multiple scenarios
An introduction to Diary writing, along with some diary writing exercises.
Includes:
Key words
Key features
Date and Time activities
First Person activities
Personal thoughts and feelings activities
Past tense activities
Chronological Order activities
Time connectives activities
Informal activities
Introduction and conclusion activities
Annotated diary, diary to annotate
A day in the life - cat and dog
Anne Frank exercises
References to ‘Zlata’s Diary’
Creative piece inspired by The Literacy Shed’s material on ‘The Clock Tower’
Assessment piece to be completed at the end of the Unit
nine weeks of daily personal topics to be completed in student’s own time.
George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’
This resource offers analysis of three of Squealer’s speeches, indicating his methods of manipulative propaganda.
A copy of all ecamples when Squealer speaks
An exercise to put the true events of the Battle of the Cowshed into correct order.
A labelled first example from Chapter 3
A pupil copy of his first Chapter 5 speech
An answer sheet for the first Chapter 5 speech
A pupil copy of his second Chapter 5 speech, without answers
A complete Unit of work for both student and teacher - engaging and original.
There are many options for close reading comprehensions for “Private Peaceful”, but this unit offers thoughtful, engaging and skill-enhancing work for each chapter. The student is encouraged to critique and explain the development of character; or writer’s craft, creating PEE paragraphs and PETE paragraphs - with the inclusion of TECHNIQUE, among other challenges…
All excepts are copyright of Michael Murpurgo.
In my classroom,** “Private Peaceful”** is taught in tandem with “War Poetry” and there are several occasions when overlap is made - check out my complete Student and Teacher Booklets, as well as some free samples below:
War Poetry Booklets + PP
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12375733
Wildred Owen’s “Dolce” - free
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12366844
Jessie Pope’s “Who’s for the Game” - free
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12366846
“The Target” Essay Analysis
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12506386
Included here:
Chapter 1 - notes and tasks
Chapter 2 - description of mother, example supplied; character analysis of Big Joe - mix and match creation of PETE paragraphs; close analysis of Grandma Wolf using BARSCAP - all with answers.
Chapter 3 - close analysis of entire chapter - close reading, technique spotting and explanations - annotated chapter included - with answers.
Chapter 4 - tasks including PETE development, creation of newspaper article - all with answers and samples
Chapter 5 - tasks including the development of Charlie and Molly’s relationship, creation of Love Letter between them - guidance and sample pupil example provided - with answers.
Chapter 6 - tasks including Big Joe’s disappearance and close analysis of negative and positive atmosphere - how it is created - all with answers
Chapter 7 - tasks including close reading, differentiated work for the Seargant Major’s speech, propaganda work (linked to “War Poetry” resource - all with answers
Chapter 8 - tasks including close reading, scaffolding of PETE paragraphs, BARSCAP analysis of Sergeant Hanley - with answers
Chapter 9 - tasks including reality of life in the trenches - notes and table supplied; PETE paragraph work for Tension; PEE and technique work; links to ‘The Target’ - with answers
Chapter 10 - three options for close analysis - scaffolded and guided analysis using PEE/PETE; a look at colloquial language and Tommo’s changing feelings - with answers
Chapter 11 - thorough questions of the whole chapter - could be used as an assessment - close references to ‘Dulce’; Letter home from Tommo with notes to assist - with answers
Chapter 12 - key questions to aid understanding of what happened and why - looking again at Hanley (add to BARSCAP from Chapter 8); notes to aid creation of the courtroom dialogue - with answers
Chapter 13 + Postscript - analysis of Charlie’s last moments, and questions
A complete set of resources covering all aspects of teaching the Identity Anthology for CCEA GCSE Unit 2 Literature course.
You won’t need anything else!
Includes:
Identity Anthology Pupil Booklet - for students to complete as the poems are being taught - includes space to complete context, poetic techniques and sample Question at the back.
Pdf of Teacher completed Identity Anthology Pupil Booklet - all context complete and images of some annotated poems - see separate pdf for all annotated poems - Noteboook file is even more useful
Identity Anthology Student Summaries - blank, to reveal students’ learning - to complete after the teaching of each poem
Identity Anthology of poems - blank, for exams
PowerPoint Identity Poems - Images, Author info, Context, Message, Themes
Handwritten Annotations - in pdf form, Identity Poetry TES; multiple versions of poems dependent on class ability; also available in Notebook form, Identity Poetry TES
Poetry Essay Layout
Word Document of Context Notes
Sample Comparative Essay Titles x18
Completed Comparative Essay Title ideas
Poetic Themes - Ideas for Comparison
PowerPoint -Images and Poem o accompany teaching of Prayer Before Birth
PowerPoint -Images and Poem to accompany teaching of Mrs Tischer’s Class
PowerPoint -Images and Poem to accompany teaching of I Remember, I Remember
Full Essay - how choices affect identity - Road Not Taken and Invictus
Essay Notes - sense of who you are - Here and Belfast Confetti
2 Different Approaches to How Childhood Affect us - Essay Notes and Developed Language and Imagery Section
3 Variations to How Relationships Affect Us - Essay Notes and Developed Language and Imagery Section
2 Variations to A Sense of Who We Are - Essay Notes and Developed Language and Imagery Section
Student Booklet and Teacher Booklet
Two 32 page booklets, providing an introduction and explanation of Media Texts for KS3 pupils using the mnemonic CLIF to assist analysis of the media texts.
This is an accessible introduction to the analysis required at GCSE, aimed at KS3 pupils engaging the knowledge they already possess and have used in cross-curricular work for posters, leaflets etc.
Suitable for KS3 pupils, lower ability GCSE students, or as a quick forerunner to the more indepth study at GCSE.
You may also be interested in our KS3 Non-Fiction Resource - perfect for introducing KS3 students to Unit 1, Task 2 and 4 analysis.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12366853
**The GCSE version for Unit 1 Task 4 and 5 can be found here
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12393894
Included:
brief review of Target Audience, with task
Colour - explanation of the psychology of colours, key meanings, info graphics (referenced), tasks to complete, sample analysis of full advert
Layout - explanation of layout and key rules, several tasks to complete
Image - explanation of how we ‘read’ images; logo work, expected images, emotion in images, analysis tasks
Font - explanation of a range of fonts, font types explained with tasks to complete, formatting explained, font matching exercise, IT tasks to complete
Analysis of texts - full text to be analysed, followed by five shorter tasks to be analysed for CLIF.
Student Booklet and Teacher Booklet match page to page, providing possible answers to assist with teaching.
Also available as part of Unit 4 Bundle https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-ccea-unit-4-exam-task-2-comparing-texts-12446799
Student instruction booklet for Unit 4, Task 1: Personal and Creative Writing
26-page document.
User and Teacher friendly
Used in class as a thorough REVISION booklet. (Even more comprehensive version available in early 2021)
Includes:
Review of Past Paper topics
Checklist of topics for Personal Writing
Student to complete common Personal Writing themes
Student to complete of more thoughtful Personal Writing themes
Student to complete quick descriptive practice
Helpful overview of how to approach Personal and Creative Writing - including how to open and conclude
Student to complete 11 Personal Writing Topics - short, engaging introductions supplied as an example for how to begin each question theme.
Example response upleveled - three attempts with three feedback and guidance for approval - students will see the increasing competence as each attempt improves.
Example creative response ‘Description of place’
Example creative response - looking at connotation affecting storyline and word choice
5 guided Student responses to Creative Images (all sourced via Google Images)
8 further Creative Images to be used at teacher’s discretion
3 story arc outline tasks supplied to aid response to 3 further creative images
Personal Writing mat - brings together all writing advice, and example questions.
Four Student booklets bringing together everything you need to complete CCEA’s GCSE English Unit 1.
All five Unit 1 Tasks - combined teacher and student user- friendly booklet Power Point and Teacher Answer booklets covering the course in detail.
Task 1: Writing for Purpose
Task 2: Reading Non-Fiction
Task 3: Reading Non-Fiction
Task 4+5: Reading Media Texts
Task 1
Student instruction booklet for Unit 1, Task 1: Writing for Purpose
45-page document
User friendly for both teacher and student.
Tried and tested in the classroom as a thorough REVISION booklet.
Provides:
Exam basics and advice
Typical topics
Legacy and current spec Questions
Fully comprehensive list of possible questions - 25 possible themes gathered to be analysed - with over 100 questions divided variously among them - to stimulate debate, research, essays etc
Advice basics about WHAT and to WHOM you are writing
Four pages of advice for WRITING EFFECTIVELY including handy Essay Layout
Exercises to complete: compiling similar questions and reacting to thought provoking questions
Separate planning pages for controversial topics: smoking/abortion/drugs etc
Highly effective STUDENT SCAFFOLD for full Essay Layout - has been used for every topic in the classroom
Three example essay titles with developed answers and guidance for completion: Organ Donation/Tolerance/Tattoos and Piercings
Student research of 12 separate topics - for and against points - gathered collaboratively - comprehensive and easy to use as stimulus for completion of essays.
Task 2
A complete 31-page pupil booklet covering all aspects of Task 2, taking some inspiration from CCEA GCSE publications and past papers from different boards.
Sample Teacher annotation and paragraphs have been provided for the majority of the work – please note, in most cases the same article has been annotated up to three different ways to accommodate the ability level of the class, therefore the sample answers range from basic to advanced.
This resource provides:
• A 31-page pupil booklet
• 11 separate documents of Teacher answers matching the tasks of the booklet – for a variety of pupil ability.
• This booklet carries the student through from easy to harder tasks, assisting in the building up of confidence as they grow accustomed to the task styles.
• Guidance for what to expect, and how to approach the task
• Worked example layout guiding the student through expected responses
• Exam guidance and annotation of past paper layout
• What to look for when analysing a variety of techniques
• Five short tasks where students annotate for key term
• Seven longer tasks where students annotate for named techniques and work through the accompanying tasks
• Seven practice articles to be worked on independently
Task 3
A complete pupil booklet covering all aspects of Tasks 3 with help from three CCEA GCSE publications: textbook, revision book and resource booklet.
37-page document
A matching Teacher answer booklet to accompany and aid completion of Student work - every piece of student work is answered in the Teacher Booklet.
User and teacher friendly.
Provides:
guidance for what to expect, and how to approach the task
example layout guiding the student through expected responses
activity to aid deduction of implicit and explicit writing
five structured activities to aid the correct choosing of quotations
six structured activities to aid appropriate summarising of the author’s argument
ten exam practice tasks, imitating the correct styling of the exam
inclusion of past papers questions (four to date) and the specimen question
Teacher booklet provides suggestions and example paragraphs for ALL tasks, including exam practice tasks.
Tasks 4+5
A complete pupil booklet covering all aspects of Tasks 4 and 5 with help from three CCEA GCSE publications: textbook, revision book and resource booklet.
60+ page Booklet
80+ slide Power Point
Includes:
Two booklets and one PowerPoint
A Student booklet to be completed
A Teacher Answer booklet to assist with completion of student booklet, with student responses, teacher notes and teacher answers.
A Task 5 PowerPoint to assist teaching of Student booklet, with pertinent notes, sample answers and advice
Exam guidance
Worked answers
Reference to CCEA examples - current and past paper
Variety of examples to have pupils cover multiple scenarios
Making use of the text ‘Ex-Poser’ by Paul Jennings, this resource carefully and accessibly works through how to answer ten comprehension questions using PEE - the method of Point, Evidence, Explanation.
This has proven to be a really useful way to introduce PEE into the classroom and to ensure it is applied correctly.
You may also be interested in my Unit 1 Bundle:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12446833
Three Student booklet bringing together everything you need to complete CCEA’s GCSE English Unit 4.
Includes:
Task 1 Personal and Creative Writing Student booklet - advice, examples and exercises
Task 2 Comparative Texts Student booklet - advice, LOTs of examples of comparative text, guided exercises, and example responses
Task 3 + 4 Reading Non-Fiction Student booklet - advice, example text response examples and exercises to complete.
Unit 4, Task 1
Student instruction booklet for Unit 4, Task 1: Personal and Creative Writing
Trialled in class as a thorough REVISION booklet. (Even more comprehensive version available in early 2021)
Provides:
• Review of Past Paper topics
• Checklist of topics for Personal Writing
• Student to complete common Personal Writing themes
• Student to complete of more thoughtful Personal Writing themes
• Student to complete quick descriptive practice
• Helpful overview of how to approach Personal and Creative Writing - including how to open and conclude
• Student to complete 11 Personal Writing Topics - short, engaging introductions supplied as an example for how to begin each question theme.
• Example response upleveled - three attempts with three feedback and guidance for approval - students will see the increasing competence as each attempt improves.
• Example creative response ‘Description of place’
• Example creative response - looking at connotation affecting storyline and word choice
• 5 guided Student responses to Creative Images (all sourced via Google Images)
• 8 further Creative Images to be used at teacher’s discretion
• 3 story arc outline tasks supplied to aid response to 3 further creative images
• Personal Writing mat - brings together all writing advice, and example questions.
Unit 4, Task 2
A fully comprehensive student booklet covering a wide range of comparative fiction. Utilising content from the current CCEA publications as well as pre 2010 specification.
Provides:
• Tried and tested Exam Advice and ‘Basics’
• Writer’s Craft
• Example paragraphs
• Language analysis examples
• Full story analysis
• Examples taken from CCEA Textbook, Revision Book and Work Book
• Advice for Character work - including structured comprehension questions
• Advice for Setting and Atmosphere - including accessible questions
• Advice for Tension - including multiple comprehensions
• Multiple single and paired exercises for various areas of writer’s craft
• Annotation of Specimen Comparison provided by CCEA with accompanying tips and example paragraphs.
Unit 4, Tasks 3+4
A complete pupil booklet, with accompanying teacher answer booklet to teach Unit 4, Tasks 3 and 4, Reading Non-Fiction
Tried and tested in the classroom.
Provides:
• Comprehensive and developed list of writer’s craft techniques
• Paragraph layout advice - suggested by CCEA, built upon by writer
• Non-Fiction example articles adapted from Non-Fiction Past Papers, pre 2017 spec, made suitable for new Task 3 and Task 4
• Sample tasks to accompany example articles, guide students to make pertinent comments
• Tasks could be used as practice or for mocks.
• Teacher booklet offers some example answers, and sample paragraphs to be built upon
Also available as part of Unit 4 Bundle https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-ccea-unit-4-exam-task-2-comparing-texts-12446799
Unit 4, Task 2, Comparing Literary Texts
A fully comprehensive student booklet covering a wide range of comparative fiction.
76-page document
Utilising content from the current CCEA publications as well as pre 2010 specification.
Includes:
Tried and tested Exam Advice and ‘Basics’
Writer’s Craft
Example paragraphs
Language analysis examples
Full story analysis
Examples taken from CCEA Textbook, Revision Book and Work Book
Advice for Character work - including structured comprehension questions
Advice for Setting and Atmosphere - including accessible questions
Advice for Tension - including multiple comprehensions
Multiple single and paired exercises for various areas of writer’s craft
Annotation of Specimen Comparison provided by CCEA with accompanying tips and example paragraphs.
This resource is the second in a series of GCSE pupil booklets designed to be user friendly and cover all aspects of the novel and writer’s technique.
These pupil booklets have been created by a seasoned teacher and examiner for English Literature, have been tried and tested in the classroom, and cover all aspects of the curriculum.
Teacher booklet provided offers possible responses for every question, and suggestions of quotations for Chapter work.
Currently available:
*Of Mice and Men: Background https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ccea-of-mice-and-men-background-context-12366444
*Of Mice and Men: Chapter by Chapter
*Of Mice and Men: Characters
*Of Mice and Men: Themes
*Of Mice and Men: Writer’s Technique
Also available as part of my full Unit 1 BUNDLE of all 5 tasks.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12446833
Student instruction booklet for Unit 1, Task 1: Functional Writing
45-page document
User friendly for both teacher and student.
Tried and tested in the classroom as a thorough REVISION booklet. (Even more comprehensive version available in early 2021)
Provides:
Exam basics and advice
Typical topics
Legacy and current spec Questions
Fully comprehensive list of possible questions - 25 possible themes gathered to be analysed - with over 100 questions divided variously among them - to stimulate debate, research, essays etc
Advice basics about WHAT and to WHOM you are writing
Four pages of advice for WRITING EFFECTIVELY including handy Essay Layout
Exercises to complete: compiling similar questions and reacting to thought provoking questions
Separate planning pages for controversial topics: smoking/abortion/drugs etc
Highly effective STUDENT SCAFFOLD for full Essay Layout - has been used for every topic in the classroom
Three example essay titles with developed answers and guidance for completion: Organ Donation/Tolerance/Tattoos and Piercings
Student research of 12 separate topics - for and against points - gathered collaboratively - comprehensive and easy to use as stimulus for completion of essays.
Two booklets - one for the STUDENT and one with answers for the TEACHER.
Excellent preparation for the Unseen section of CCEA GCSE Unit 1 English Literature.
Tried and tested in the classroom.
Try our free sample to get a taste of what’s included…
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/sample-ccea-gcse-unseen-student-booklet-12478647
63 Page Student Booklet
64 Page Teacher Booklet
Includes:
Exam basics
Full explanation of the question layout and advice for how to answer
Detailed advice for how to form your response - with unique and useful mnemonic memory guide
CCEA advice
Research into popular C19th authors and the times in which they lived
Link to BBC’s excellent selection of free audio ‘Classic Stories’
Close focus, example responses and exercises covering: Setting, Tone, Atmosphere, Mood, Plot, Narration and Character.
Close reading of C19th language style with four developed examples
Plot work on extracts
Guided reading and exercises to assess Setting and Atmosphere
Narrative voice notes, exercises and assessment of Tone in writing
Character notes on C19th expectations
Six exercises to practice Close reading and analysis of Character
Five practice papers with notes to assist student completion
CCEA GCSE: Unit 2 Literature - ‘Blood Brothers’
Includes
Pupil Booklet - information about this section of the exam
Pupil booklet to be completed for Characters
Indiviudal and detailed Character Powerpoints
- Mrs Johnstone
- Mrs Lyons
- Mickey
- Edward
- Linda
Each PowerPoint includes:
- Key Words
- Description and explanation of personality
- Actions/Development of each character
- Role/Relationships between the named characters and others
- Any extra information
- Key Quotations
- Some worked quotations
- Answers to example exam question
Also available as part of my full Unit 1 BUNDLE of all 5 tasks.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12446833
Task 2
A complete 31-page pupil booklet covering all aspects of Task 2, taking some inspiration from CCEA GCSE publications and past papers from different boards.
Sample Teacher annotation and paragraphs have been provided for the majority of the work – please note, in most cases the same article has been annotated up to three different ways to accommodate the ability level of the class, therefore the sample answers range from basic to advanced.
This resource provides:
• A 31-page pupil booklet
• 11 separate documents of Teacher answers matching the tasks of the booklet – for a variety of pupil ability.
• This booklet carries the student through from easy to harder tasks, assisting in the building up of confidence as they grow accustomed to the task styles.
• Guidance for what to expect, and how to approach the task
• Worked example layout guiding the student through expected responses
• Exam guidance and annotation of past paper layout
• What to look for when analysing a variety of techniques
• Five short tasks where students annotate for key term
• Seven longer tasks where students annotate for named techniques and work through the accompanying tasks
• Seven practice articles to be worked on independently
Enjoy these free samples of UNSEEN PROSE for CCEA GCSE English Literature Unit 1.
For more, click on the link below to buy the complete 63 page STUDENT BOOKLET and 64 page TEACHER BOOKLET complete with answers.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ccea-gcse-unseen-prose-english-literature-12478637
Thank you!
A simple PowerPoint offering explanation and analysis of Shakespeare’s language, with tips on how to decifer it.
Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth are both referenced, with original language offered, and their modern translation.
Several exercises requiring translation and explanation are also included.