I am an English, Media and Film Studies Teacher. All my resources aim to be inclusive and exciting for students and for teachers. With my love of educational research, I have tried to apply pedagogical practices to the resources created. Please leave me review and comment - would love to make improvements!
I am an English, Media and Film Studies Teacher. All my resources aim to be inclusive and exciting for students and for teachers. With my love of educational research, I have tried to apply pedagogical practices to the resources created. Please leave me review and comment - would love to make improvements!
Here is a small booklet, jam packed with information that students can read, annotate and highlight. All information in relevant to OCR specification for GCSE Media Studies.
There are two units:
Research and Planning
Statement of Intent
The research and planning unit is split into teaching slides and student slides. Each presentation aims to focus on each feature of the brief and specification. Whilst designed with the 2023 specification, slides can be tweaked for future briefs.
The statement of intent lessons use the specification and facilitate students drafting their work.
The same booklet but in two formats, Word and PDF. Best used as an interactive document, where students can complete tasks online, click on the links and use resources to create there own resources to present from. All the best!
This is full scheme of work for To Kill a Mockingbird. Each presentation has chapters marked with resources to support students wider learning of the text. Attached to this scheme is a homeowrk menu with potential assessments to use with students. All ready to go!
This is a jampacked scheme of work that goe sthrough each scene of Macbeth. With differentiated tasks and worksheets to support students learning of the Shakespearean tradegy. starting from underpinning the context of a tragedy all the way through to the finale scene of the texts. Plus, there are reading slides to support class reading of the play. Good luck!
Get this pack of 10 worksheets that addresses each criterion of Section B: Writing in AQA’s English Language Papers. Worksheets include:
Spelling Game
Purpose
Audience
Grammar misconceptions
Sentence structures
Word choice
Constructung paragraphs
SO MUCH MORE!
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Check out this range of 15 poems that focus on wars from different cultures. From World War One to the Iraq war, this anthology aims to capture the thoughts, feelings and emotions of individuals across the world. Each poem has information about the poet. PLUS! There are pages dedicated to contextual information, where students can research and better understand the wars that have impacted the poets.
See the selections of poems below:
Anthem for Doomed Youth, Wilfred Owen
Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen
Who’s for the Game?, Jessie Pope
The Gift of India, Sarojini Naidu
Untitled, Takijiro Onishi
War Baby, Pamela Holmes
We are Not Blessed, Nikolay Mayorov
The Butterfly, Pavel Freidmann
High Flight, John Gillespie Magee
All of Us or None, Bertolt Brecht
Songs of Love and War, Sayd Bahoudine Majrouh
The Brutal Game, Alex Cocker
Helmand, John Hawhead
Landays, Rashila Mushka
War Sees No Colour, Donna Zephrine
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The SEVEN page booklet has everything you need to set students a mini in-class assessment. The exam question this focuses on is '…explain how far you think Shakespeare presents Macbeth as a ruthless and aggressive character. The extract is from Act 4 , Scene 1 - after the second prophecy.
This booklet includes:
Warm up activity
Scaffolded planning sheet
PEEZL structure for practice
Effect of the audience: focus on four quotation that support the question.
Self assessment sheet with each AQA AO broken down.
Language analysis sheet
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This SEVEN page booklets guides students through warm up activities, planning and scaffolded paragraphs. All activities aims to target each of AQA’s AOs.
This booklet includes:
Warm-up activities
Quotation analysis
Scaffolded PEEZL paragraphs
Self Assessment with student friendly AQA AOs
and so much more!
This unit of work facilitates young new reporters. Students will have the opportunity to explore reading, watching, listening and writing a range of mediums. From food adverts, current newspaper articles and advertising campaigns; all of the tasks aim to support students having a better understanding of different media platforms that shares news and information.
Tried. Tested. Taught!
This is jam-packed SOW that covers THREE areas: research & planning, production of short film/ digital stills, and evaluative analysis.
Within the research & planning unit, topics covered are: analysis of all eight specified short films, narrative structure (McKnee), mise-en-scene and genre.
As for the production unit, topics covered are: scriptwriting, dialogue, location recce, risk assessment, character development, costume, make-up, casting, lightin, editing, composition, shooting scripts, storyboarding and screen testing.
Lastly, within the evaluatuve analysis unit, lessons are focused on: planning (with planning sheets), developing a writing style, scaffolding for writing introduction, main body paragraphs and the conclusion.
I have used current resources from Studiobinder, Masterclass and many more online articles and videos to keep the unit current. Enjoy!
Here a full scheme of work that guides students to a successful study of A Christmas Carol. All learning objectives and tasks are in line with AQA English Literature Paper 1. All slides have been designed by me and are accompanied with worksheets ready to go!
Here is a full scheme of work for the text, The Whale Rider. The scheme of work is broken down in to the key sections of the book; each section gives students the opportunity to learn about a culture unknown to them, whilst developing their analytical skills.
There are 15 lessons which address all areas of study for OCR Film Studies A-Level. With the focus film, The Act of Killing, each lesson draws on theoretical approaches and direct students to refer directly to their chosen documentary.
This anthology is ideal for Key Stage Three students. It spans across three different wars: World War One, World War Two and the Afghanistan war. Each section allows students to read about the diverse experiences of those in war and those impacted by war. Embedded in each of the poems is a short synopsis of the poet and at times a glossary of words that students may not already know.
The first six poems have accompanying slides; more presentations will be added this term.
All the best!
This Macbeth exam booklet is jam packed with a range of learning activities. From scaffolded exam practice questions, to embedded context sheets - this booklet has 34 pages of everything a student needs to succeed in the exam!
FIVE exam practice questions
Modelled examples to ‘make better’
Memory recall activities
Context sheets embedded throughout
Key quotations
Effect on the audience
Answering the exam question
30 day revision challenge.
AND MUCH MORE!
This 55 page exam revision booklet full of planning sheets for each poem, scaffolded exam practice sheets, AO specific revision and **SO MUCH MORE! **This booklet focuses on AQA’s assessment objectives and supports students to develop explained, structured responses.
This booklets includes:
Planning sheets for each poem
Scaffolded exam practice
Scaffolded PEEZL structures
Self Assessment linked to AQA AOs
Information sheets on form, and structure and poetic features
Quotation analysis guides
Writing guides for a comparison
Summary card templates
30 day revision challenge
SO MUCH MORE!
Get students revising question one and two of Unseen Poetry. This 40 page booklet has warm exam practice as well as THREE whole papers created by me! Interleaved throughout this booklet are revision activities, memory recall and quiz creations!
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With over 40 pages of revision, students have the opportunity to practice with over 5 exam questions. This booklet includes:
Summary activities
Scaffolded PEEZL structures
AQA AO specific assessment sheets
Character profiles
Key Quotations
Context sheets
Dickens research tasks
SO MUCH MORE!