This medium term plan is for Romeo and Juliet and has been written in line with the 9-1 GCSE specification for AQA. This medium term plan signposts homework tasks and also signposts opportunities to develop skills for the 9-1 language examinations. Also included is an exam question with extract that I have written to assess student understanding. The extract is based on the presentation of the Friar. I also have fully differentiated and meticulously planned resources available to support the teaching of this MTP.

These resources cover Act 2, act 3, act 4 and act 5 of Romeo and Juliet and meet the requirements of the new GCSE 9-1 specification. 19lessons included that are meticulously planned, fully differentiated and numbered for ease of use with a wide range of activities included that prepare students for language as well as literature. These lessons can be downloaded and taught right away. All lessons are fully differentiated by colour Purple = lower ability Blue = middle ability Yellow = higher ability Red = most able These resources cover the following areas of act 1: - Context - Imagery analysis - Analysis of sonnet form - Language, form and structure analysis - Opportunity for role play/speaking and listening - Analysis development and practice - Teacher, self and peer assessment opportunities - Character and theme presentation - Soliloquy analysis and comparison - Homework tasks Resources to support the teaching of act 1 are also available and are all meticulously planned and fully differentiated.

These resources cover Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet and meet the requirements of the new GCSE 9-1 specification. 19 outstanding lessons included that are meticulously planned, fully differentiated and numbered for ease of use with activities included. These lessons can be downloaded and taught right away. All lessons are fully differentiated by colour Purple = lower ability Blue = middle ability Yellow = higher ability Red = most able These resources cover the following areas of act 1: - Context - Prologue - Analysis of sonnet and shared sonnet - Language, form and structure analysis - Opportunity for persuasive writing - Analysis development and practice - Teacher, self and peer assessment opportunities - Character and theme presentation - Analysis of imagery - Homework tasks Resources to support the teaching of acts 2-5 are also available and are all meticulously planned and fully differentiated.

These resources cover chapters 4 - 7 of Jekyll and Hyde and meet the requirements of the new GCSE 9-1 specification. 9 outstanding lessons that are meticulously planned, fully differentiated and numbered for ease of use with activities included. Homework tasks included. Download and teach right away. These lessons are ready to go. All lessons are fully differentiated by colour Purple = lower ability Blue = middle ability Yellow = higher ability Red = most able These resources cover the following areas of the novel in chapters 4-7 - Context - duality - London fog - Victorian gentlemen - gothic etc. - Letter as a plot device - Comparison of characters - Jekyll's changing character - Character and theme presentation - Sample GCSE answers - Idiomatic expression Chapters 1-3 and 8-10 are also available and are all meticulously planned and fully differentiated.

These resources support the teaching of opening worlds poetry Resources included for the following poems: - Two kinds - Young couple - Train from Rhodesia - The tall woman and her short husband - Leela's friend - Pieces of silver - Gold legged frog

Included: - Connectives display materials - Figurative language display materials - Multi cultural greetings - Classroom learning posters - Literary techniques posters - Where the attention flows the energy goes -posters - Thesaurus display materials

Lesson to support the understanding of the representation of women in Victorian England and in a modern society.

Resources to support the development of Accelerated Reader programme and DEAR sessions which are dedicated to reading. (DEAR) In my school students read for 20 minutes daily. Resource bundle includes: - a presentation for staff on Accelerated reader including purpose and benefits - including educational research regarding the importance of reading - a presentation for students on Accelerated reader and DEAR - templates for book and library passes - example book marks - an example student planner page to log reading - a presentation on reading engagement strategies

A wide range of ideas and resources for speaking and listening assessments at KS2/KS3. Speaking and listening lessons included based around: - Man V food - Arguing that cats are better than dogs - Deserted house - selling houses - Murder mystery - Banning Christmas - 50 things to do before you die - persuasive speeches Teacher and peer/self assessment proformas also included

Over 31 fully differentiated (by colour) and meticulously planned lessons to support the teaching of The Edge by Allan Gibbons. Lessons are numbered for ease of use. Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability Resources provide opportunities to: - explore an analyse characters and themes -explore racism and make links to other literature including John Agard poetry - explore bullying and create anti bug texts - explore perspectives - write agony aunt letters - explore and analyse the creation of tension - study news reports and create reports - study and create police reports - develop narrative writing - develop persuasive writing - explore dramatic irony

A variety of writing templates. Templates included: - newspaper template - facebook page template - twitter page template - shield - Story board template - book review template - leaflet template

Fully differentiated (by colour) resources to support the teaching of war poetry. Poetry covered: - Exposure - August 6 1945 - The Drum - O what is that sound? - Invasion - Conscientious objector - Belfast Confetti Resources explore language, form, structure and context. Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue - middle ability yellow = higher ability

Resources to support the understanding of the context of being homeless. Ideal for supporting students with their exploration of texts such as 'Stone Cold' and 'The Outsiders.' Resources included: - Homelessness case studies - missing person posters/adverts - extract from Stone Cold - homelessness and the law - true or false activities - what is a home? - 'The Streets of London' Ralph McTell exploration - 'London' by William Blake poem exploration - consideration of bullying - leaflet examples - investigation into homeless charities Resources provide opportunities to: - explore homelessness through case studies and exploring the law - write persuasively - structure formal letters - explore and create missing person posters - explore poetry - analyse texts - investigate and create leaflets# - debate whether more housing is needed

8 fully differentiated lesson (by colour) that support the teaching of writing speeches. (Spoken language) Lessons are meticulously planned and culminate with students writing a speech on a topic that interests them. Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability Speeches that are used as a stimulus: - Emma Watson - Winston Churchill - Queen Elizabeth I - George W Bush - Napoleon (Animal Farm) Students will practice writing speeches using the following topics: - increase in legal driving age - importance of mobile phones - social media Students will develop the following skills: - speech writing using the 6 part structure - persuasive writing - speaking and listening - developing effective openings

A wide variety of starter activities and warms to get students engaged and awake. Included in this wide variety of starters and warm ups are: - optical illusions - ice breakers - Taboo games - Brain gyms - homophones - metaphors and similes - double negatives - imperatives - punctuation practice - spellings - inference - describing games and many, many more!

Resource to support the revision of context of Jekyll and Hyde and how to form exam responses to an extract from the novel and make links to the novel as a whole. Meticulously planned and differentiated. purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability These resources provide opportunities for carousel activities whereby students read 4 extracts from the novel and make notes to form an exam response. Students will consider other parts of the text as part of their answer. Extracts taken from: -chapter 3 - 'Dre Jekyll was quite at ease' -chapter 4 - 'Carew murder case' -chapter 9 - 'Dr Lanyon's narrative' -chapter 10 -'Henry Jekyll's full statement' A booklet is also included to support higher ability exploration of context.

Fully differentiated lessons to support the teaching of 'Storm on the island' by Seamus Heaney. 3 lessons that include pupil talk tasks, assessment, outcomes and cover: - context of the poem - language analysis - form and structure exploration - interleave content with Romeo and Juliet. (troubles in both texts) - GCSE sample assessments Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow - higher ability

A selection of structure strips that have been incredibly useful and rewarding. They have been used to help students to form better quality analytical paragraphs as well as improved transactional/non fiction writing. All of the strips can be edited and use the 'what, how, why' method as opposed to PEE which can be too restrictive Included in this bundle are structure strips for: - Romeo and Juliet - act 2 scene 2, act 1 scene 5, imagery - poetry comparison - non fiction writing - Animal Farm - theme of exploitation - AQA language paper 2 question 2 - AQA language paper 2 question 4 - AQA language paper 1 question 2 and paper 2 question 3 (language questions) - Of Mice and Men

3 fully differentiated and meticulously planned lessons to explicitly teach AQA English language paper 2 question 3. The lessons start from scratch and provide opportunities for teachers to assess student ability and work out where their areas for development are. Students can then be pointed in the direction of a particular task that will help to plug the gaps in their understanding and climb the mark scheme. Lesson 1 focusses on the selection of judicious evidence Lesson 2 focusses on the effect of language Lesson 3 focusses on language analysis Texts used: 1. Mail online article about a spoilt child 2. 19th century extract from 'Walks in and around London' Differentiation: purple = lower blue = middle yellow = higher Resources provide opportunities to: - read 2 texts - use structure strips to form better analytical paragraphs - select judicious evidence - use the mark scheme - self and peer assess - teacher assess - develop perceptive comments - work on target grade specific tasks - explore how language makes you think, feel etc. - Analyse the effect of language - improve a sample response - grade sample responses