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Anglo-Saxons Daily Life - Double Lesson!
In this engaging lesson, children develop an understanding of Anglo-Saxons daily life, in particular: farming, jobs and village life, settlements and buildings and food. The learning is guided by a clear and colourful PowerPoint presentation, which guides students through the following step-by-step journey:
-Knowledge recall - gauging what children already know about the Anglo-Saxon era (answers are provided);
-Understanding that the scale of time between the Anglo-Saxon period and the modern day, helping to contextualise the how comparatively simple and harsh life was in the time of the Anglo-Saxons;
-Interpreting and analysing four sources (provided) in order to gain a deeper understanding of each of the key areas of Anglo-Saxon daily life;
-Completing their own extended research to find out more about one of the key areas of daily life;
-Composing a creative piece in which they put themselves in the shoes of an Anglo-Saxon villager;
-Comparing Anglo-Saxon daily life with other eras;
-Self-reflecting on the extent to which they feel they have met the learning objective.
Included is the comprehensive PowerPoint presentation (20 slides), the four sources for the source analysis activity, and the template upon which to record their findings.
In the past, I have used this lesson with children in upper KS2 (years 5 and 6) - the key learning is aligned with curriculum expectations for history. All images are licensed for commercial use.
Greek Myths: Theseus and The Minotaur
This engaging and detailed lesson enables students to gain a deep understanding of the Greek Myth 'Theseus and The Minotaur.' In doing so, students learn to interpret and infer the key meanings in a myth, analyse the descriptive language in a myth, and use descriptive language to describe their own ancient Greek monster.
The lesson follows a clear, logical, bite-size learning journey, which guides students towards differentiated learning objectives. Over the course of this journey, they become able to:
- Define the key terms 'adjective' and 'synonym' and use these appropriately and imaginatively to describe an image of the Minotaur;
- Read the story 'Theseus and The Minotaur' and interpret the key meanings;
- Identify, understand, and analyse the descriptive language in 'Theseus and The Minotaur;'
- Apply their understanding of descriptive techniques by creating and describing their own mythical beast, using a model example, a success criteria, and a scaffold;
- Peer assess each other's descriptive attempts.
This resource pack includes:
- A visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation;
- Paper copies and online links to the extract needed for the lesson;
- Understanding Descriptive Language worksheet;
- Creating a Beast Template, and model example;
- A detailed lesson plan, complete with what the teacher and students should aim to achieve at each stage of the lesson.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint.
Exposure - Wilfred Owen
This engaging, comprehensive lesson aims to improve students’ understanding of Wilfred Owen’s WWI power and conflict poem ‘Exposure’ with particular focus upon the language, structure, and subject matter used within the poem. By the end of the lesson, students demonstrate their knowledge of the text analytically, through assured, appropriate, and sustained interpretations.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which children learn through:
Considering the meanings of the word ‘exposure’ and inferring what this may suggest about the meaning of the poem;
Securing contextual understanding of the conditions and weather faced by WWI soldiers;
Reading and interpreting the poem, using a provided line-by-line analysis, and interactive group activities;
Developing their understanding through inferring and analysing key language and structural choices;
Analysing how the themes of suffering and misery are conveyed through Owen’s language and structure choices;
Self/ Peer assessing each other’s learning attempts.
Included is:
Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and substantial; (including hyperlinks to informative and videos)
Copy of poem (freely available online);
Deeper thinking worksheet;
Analysis template with success criteria for creating well-structured responses;
Comprehensive lesson plan.
All resources are provided as word documents (for easy editing) and PDF documents (to ensure consistency of formatting between computers).
There are also opportunities for group learning, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. This was originally taught to middle-ability year 10 and 11 groups, but can easily be differentiated for groups of different ages and abilities.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
David Attenborough Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for children learning about David Attenborough, particularly those studying significant individuals in history, those learning about prominent biologists in science, or those learning about people of discovery in geography. It contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Times in His Life;
Important Vocabulary;
David Attenborough Timeline;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
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Greek Myths: Big Lesson Bundle! (All Lessons, Resources, Plans, Everything!)
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain a deep understanding of a number of traditional Greek Myths. Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s key messages, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, understanding language devices, and relating the texts to their social and historical contexts.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Great Expectations Huge Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE ‘GREAT EXPECTATIONS’ LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER, THE 30-PAGE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Charles Dickens’ ‘Great Expectations.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Dickens’ language devices.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
Engaging
Defining/ Understanding
Identifying/Remembering
Analysing/ Creating
Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
Greek Myths: Pandora's Box
This interesting and highly-stimulating lesson enables students to gain a clear understanding of the key meanings in the Greek Myth ‘Pandora's Box.’ Through engagement with the story, students learn to interpret and infer the key elements of plot in texts, comment upon the writer’s purposes and messages in texts, challenging and building upon their ideas, and apply the key messages to other contexts.
The lesson follows a clear, logical, bite-size learning journey, which guides students towards differentiated learning objectives. Over the course of this journey, they become able to:
- Understand the phrase 'opening Pandora's Box' and apply it to modern contexts;
- Read the story 'Pandora's Box' and interpret the key meanings;
- Summarise the key events of the story through a storyboard;
- Identify, explain, and analyse the writer's key messages in 'Pandora's Box;'
- Engage deeply with the text by challenging and building upon the ideas/messages raised by the writer;'
- Test their understanding of the story by creating their own recreations;
- Peer assess each other's learning attempts.
This resource pack includes:
- A visually engaging whole-lesson PowerPoint presentation;
- Paper copies and online links to a copy of Pandora's Box;
- Pandora's Box Storyboard;
- The Writer's Message Worksheet;
- A detailed lesson plan, complete with what the teacher and students should aim to achieve at each stage of the lesson.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint.
World War I Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat!
This detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising knowledge of World War I. It contains comprehensive sections on:
Major Events - dates, images, descriptions, and key facts;
Key People - Archduke Franz Ferdinand, David Lloyd George, Tsar Nicholas II, Woodrow Wilson, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Wilfred Owen;
Main Participating Countries - Flags, Year joined and death toll;
Timeline of Major Events.
Key words and ideas are underlined for easy reference. The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
Jane Austen - Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for children learning about Jane Austen, particularly those studying different authors in English Literature, or completing a history study of ‘Significant Individuals.’ It contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Times in Her Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Jane Austen Timeline;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resource is designed to be printed onto either A4 or A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
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Great British Poems - Comprehension Activity Booklets Bundle!
These 16-page resource booklets contain a wide range of challenging and engaging comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of a range of classic poems from British poets. Teachers have found the activities particularly useful throughout teaching, or for exam revision or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of students towards meeting the key English Literature assessment objectives - suitable for all examining bodies. Students have found these resources extremely engaging, and it is clearly highlighted within each task regarding which assessment strands the task is designed to demonstrate.
Included are 15 booklets, based on the poems:
-Wilfred Owen - Dulce et Decorum Est
-Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandias
-William Blake - The Tyger
-John Betjemen - Slough
-William Ernest Henley - Invictus
-William Shakespeare - Shall I Compare thee to a Summer’s Day?
-Alfred, Lord Tennyson - The Charge of the Light Brigade
-Siegfried Sassoon - Suicide in the Trenches
-William Wordsworth - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
-Lewis Carroll - The Jabberwocky
-Lord Byron - Don Juan
-Dylan Thomas - Fern Hill
-Alfred Noyes - The Highwayman
-Rudyard Kipling - If
-Rupert Brooke - The Soldier
The resources are provided in both Word (to allow for easy editing) and PDF (to ensure for consistency of formatting between computers).
Activities within each booklet include (amongst many others):
‘Analysing Context’ - helping students to ‘Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written.’
‘Analysing Subject Matter, Language and Structure’ - to help students to ‘Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate.’
‘Diary Entry’ - to help students to ‘Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation. Make an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these.’
‘The Speaker’ - to help students to ‘Read, understand and respond to texts. Students should be able to: maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations.’
Elizabeth I Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for children learning about Elizabeth I as a part of their history study of ‘Significant Individuals.’ It contains comprehensive sections entitled:
Overview;
Times in Her Life;
Important Vocabulary;
Elizabeth I Timeline;
Answers to the Important Questions;
Top Ten Facts.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
Animal Farm: Context - The Russian Revolution
These resources enable students to understand the context of the Russian Revolution, the predominant subject of Orwell’s allegory within Animal Farm. More precisely, students learn about the key historical events and figures throughout this point in time in Russian history, and begin to comprehend Orwell’s intentions in writing the novella. These resources give students a strong foundation of knowledge which they can then utilise to begin confidently relating the text to its context. There are easily enough resources for at least two lessons within this resource pack.
Students learn through the following tasks:
- Gauging and collaborating previous knowledge through a discussion-based starter task;
- Watching, listening, and demonstrating their understanding of an engaging and informative context video and related activity sheet;
- Developing their understanding through in-depth investigative research into the main leaders of the Russian Revolution;
- Writing a letter from the viewpoint of a member of the Russian working class, who has lived through the various regimes and revolutions.
- Peer assessing their partners’ learning attempts.
The following resources are provided:
- Engaging and colourful step-by-step PowerPoint (includes links for video)
- Teacher lesson guidance/plan;
- Context worksheet;
- Five investigative research templates: Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky, Marx, and The Secret Police.
All images and videos are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint. Note - internet connection is needed for the video activity.
Everyday Life in the Middle Ages - Knowledge Organiser!
This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for children learning about everyday life in the Middle Ages. It contains comprehensive sections entitled:
-Overview;
-Life for Nobles: food and clothing, work and education, homes, religion and recreation;
-Life for Everyday People: food and clothing, work and education, homes, religion and recreation;
-Important Vocabulary;
-A Day in a Medieval Town;
-Top Ten Facts.
The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use.
The Black Death - Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat!
This detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising knowledge of The Black Death. It contains comprehensive sections on:
Overview and map;
Events - dates, images, descriptions, and key facts;
Timeline of Major Events
First Hand Accounts - Jean de Vinette, Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Le Baker, and the Cathedral Priory of Rochester;
Signs and Symptoms of The Plague.
Key words and ideas are underlined for easy reference. The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
Dulce et Decorum est Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat!
This detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising Wilfred Owen’s World War I poem 'Dulce et Decorum est.’ It contains comprehensive sections on:
Context;
Line-by-line analysis (with quotes);
Poetic Devices/ Language Devices;
Themes;
Form/Structure;
Poems for Comparison;
Thoughts of the Poet.
Key words and ideas are underlined for easy reference. The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).
Jane Eyre - Social and Historical Context!
This engaging and informative lesson enables students to gain a detailed insight into the social and historical context of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. In particular, students learn about Brontë’s life, class, religion, love and health in the Victorian era – key themes throughout the novel. They then make clear and sustained links between the features of context and the text.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which students learn through:
Playing a fun and interactive quiz about the life of Charlotte Bronte;
Completing carousel activities in groups to learn about the key features of religion, class, love, reputation, and health in the Victorian era;
Linking their understanding of context to the key elements of the text;
Peer assessing each other’s learning attempts.
Included is:
Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
All resources for the carousel activities, including sheets needed for ‘Religion Researchers’, ‘Ways to Die in Victorian Society’, and ‘Class and Gender Venn Diagrams.’
Linking the novel to social/historical context template;
Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. These resources were originally taught to GCSE students, but with subtle adaptations they have also been used with both younger and older (up to A Level) students.
Please note that one of the carousel activities requires internet access.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
The Maya Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat!
This detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for students learning or revising knowledge of The Maya civilisation. It contains comprehensive sections on:
-Overview and Maps;
-Key Places and People;
-Daily Life;
-Top Ten Maya Facts;
-Key Vocabulary
-Maya Timeline.
Key words and ideas are underlined for easy reference. The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included). The resource can be adapted for all age groups, but was originally designed for those in KS2.
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Jane Eyre Huge Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE JANE EYRE LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION ACTIVITY BOOKLET, THE JANE EYRE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER, AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Charlotte Bronte’s ‘Jane Eyre.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the nove, understanding the writer’s ideas within the novel, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Bronte’s language devices.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
Engaging
Defining/ Understanding
Identifying/Remembering
Analysing/ Creating
Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Private Peaceful Big Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE PRIVATE PEACEFUL LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative collection of lessons is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Michael Morpurgo’s’ ‘Private Peaceful.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete the lessons having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, understanding dramatic and language devices, and relating the text to its social and historical context.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
Engaging
Defining/ Understanding
Identifying/Remembering
Analysing/ Creating
Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Activity resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Secrets of a Sun King - Big Bundle!
This ‘Secrets of a Sun King’ big bundle contains all of the Secrets of a Sun King lessons, plus the detailed knowledge organiser and the 22-page comprehension activities booklet!
The entire novel is broken down in to 10 double (and in some cases triple) lesson bundles, meaning that there is a total of 23 individual lesson activity sets here - one for each chapter of the text.
-1. Chapters 1-2
-2. Chapters 3-4
-3. Chapters 5-6
-4. Chapters 7-8
-5. Chapters 9-11
-6. Chapters 12-13
-7. Chapters 14-16
-8. Chapters 17-18
-9. Chapters 19-21
-10. Chapters 22-23
The comprehensive and colourful PowerPoint presentations guide students through a wide range f activities, including those designed to enhance the following skills: retrieval, understanding vocabulary, inference, explanation, summarising, sequencing, analaysis and deeper thinking activities. Additional worksheets/ templates are provided for tasks where they are required - everything that you need to teach the lessons is here!
The lessons are most suitable for children in KS2, (I originally used them with year 4/5 children) but with minor adaptations could be used with older or younger year groups.