I'm currently the head of English and raising standards leader at a secondary school in Birmingham. I'm passionate about my subject and passionate about ensuring that the young people we serve leave education with a high competency in English.
Prior to teaching I worked in the radio industry as a presenter for 7 years and so when I became a teacher I enjoyed the opportunity to teach Media studies.
You'll find hundreds of English and Media studies resources.
I'm currently the head of English and raising standards leader at a secondary school in Birmingham. I'm passionate about my subject and passionate about ensuring that the young people we serve leave education with a high competency in English.
Prior to teaching I worked in the radio industry as a presenter for 7 years and so when I became a teacher I enjoyed the opportunity to teach Media studies.
You'll find hundreds of English and Media studies resources.
This bundle includes power point slides that contain key information on each of the 15 poems which can be used as a carousel activity to allow students to revise the poetry.
Also included is a card sort activity and opportunities to revise the context of each poem.
Power point resources to support the teaching of the following poems on the theme of conflict:
1. Your Dad did what
2. Cousin Kate
3. Hitcher
4. The Drum
5. Conscientious Objector
6. Invasion
7. August 6 1945
9. Oh what is that sound
These resources are useful for preparing students for unseen poetry or as part of key stage 3 schemes of work. or as part of the teaching of conflict poetry clusters.
All resources are fully differentiated by colour. (Purple = low ability, blue = mid ability, yellow = higher ability)
There are 1-3 lessons per poem which cover context, language, form and structure and contain assessment opportunities.
This is bundle one. There is 1 other bundle which covers the poems listed below. (15 poems in total)
1. The Class Game
2. Parades End
3. Belfast Confetti
4. Our Sharpeville
5. Exposure
6. Catrin
7. Half Caste
Power point resources to support the teaching of the following poems from the new specification AQA power and conflict poetry collection:
1. Storm on the island
2. War photographer
3. Extract from Prelude
4. My last Duchess
5. Checkin out me history
15 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!
All resources are fully differentiated by colour. (Purple = low ability, blue = mid ability, yellow = higher ability)
There are 2 to 3 power point presentations per poem which cover context, language, form and structure and contain assessment opportunities in line with new specification.
This medium term plan covers Jekyll and Hyde for teaching at GCSE for the new 9-1 specification.
In addition to embedding the skills for the literature GCSE examination, the scheme also prepares students for the language examinations by sign posting opportunities for developing English language reading and writing skills.
All power points to accompany this scheme are also available and are meticulously planned and fully differentiated.
These resources cover chapters 8-10 of Jekyll and Hyde and meet the requirements of the new GCSE 9-1 specification.
8 outstanding lessons that are meticulously planned, fully differentiated and numbered for ease of use with activities 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 8-10
- Context - duality - master and servant - gothic etc.
- Creation of tension
- Medical breakthroughs
- Language and structure analysis
- Opportunity for debate and persuasive writing
- Analysis development and practice
- Teacher, self and peer assessment opportunities
- Character and theme presentation
Chapters 1-7 are also available and are all meticulously planned and fully differentiated.
These resources cover chapters 1 - 3 of Jekyll and Hyde and meet the requirements of the new GCSE 9-1 specification.
14 outstanding lessons that are meticulously planned, fully differentiated and numbered for ease of use with activities 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 1-3
- Context - duality - Victorian gentlemen - gothic etc.
- Animal Imagery
- Descriptive writing opportunities
- Analysis development and practice
- Teacher, self and peer assessment opportunities
- Contrasting characters
- Character and theme presentation
Chapters 4-10 are also available and are all meticulously planned and fully differentiated.
14 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 are ready to go.
Power point resources to support the teaching of the following poems from the new specification AQA power and conflict poetry collection:
1. Remains
2. Kamikaze
3. Tissue
4. Emigree
5. Charge of the light brigade
This pack also includes a comparison assessment which has been created in line with AQA format.
All resources are fully differentiated by colour. (Purple = low ability, blue = mid ability, yellow = higher ability)
All lessons are numbered for ease of use. There are 2 other packs available to support the teaching of the remaining 10 poems.
There are 2 to 3 power point presentations per poem which cover context, language, form and structure and contain assessment opportunities in line with new specification.
Resources to support the teaching of Carol Ann Duffy poetry
Resources include a range of activities for all abilities and ages including cloze exercises, resequencing, annotations of the poem, language analysis, contextual information and much more.
Poems covered:
1. Valentine
2. War photographer
3. Salome
4. Havisham
5. Ann Hathaway
6. Human interest
7. Stealing
8. Hour
Power point resources to support the teaching of the following poems on the theme of conflict:
1. The Class Game
2. Parades End
3. Belfast Confetti
4. Our Sharpeville
5. Exposure
6. Catrin
7. Half Caste
These resources are useful for preparing students for unseen poetry or as part of key stage 3 schemes of work. or as part of the teaching of conflict poetry clusters.
All resources are fully differentiated by colour. (Purple = low ability, blue = mid ability, yellow = higher ability)
There are 2 to 3 power point presentations per poem which cover context, language, form and structure and contain assessment opportunities.
This is bundle one. There is 1 other bundle which covers the poems listed below. (15 poems in total)
1. Your Dad did what
2. Cousin Kate
3. Hitcher
4. The Drum
5. Conscientious Objector
6. Invasion
7. August 6 1945
9. Oh what is that sound
Resources to support the teaching of Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy.
A range of activities are included for students of all abilities including cloze exercises, and quote searches. Some resources are differentiated by colour.
Resources to support the teaching of a selection of romantic poetry from poets such as Duffy and Shakespeare. Differentiation is by colour coding.
Resources include a variety of activities to suit different abilities including quote searches, comparison development and links to Shakespeare.
Poems covered:
1. Valentine
2. Human interest
3. Sonnet 45
4. Sonnet 130
5. Woman to her love
This bundle of resources provides opportunities for students to tackle unseen poetry for GCSE. Poems covered include Catrin, Cousin Kate, The Motorway.
Differentiation is by colour where yellow is higher, blue is middle and purple is lower ability.
A comprehensive selection of resources to support the teaching of Simon Armitage poetry. Power points on the following poems:
1. Kid
2. Father thought it bloody queer
3. Homecoming
4. Hitcher
5. Mother, any distance
6. November
7. Remains
8. Harmonium
Resources include annotations, language analysis and a range of engaging activities for students of varying abilities. Also includes assessment opportunities and contextual information.
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
A selection of resources to support Shakespeare's sonnets.
Sonnets included:
1. Sonnet 18
2. Sonnet 45
3. Sonnet 116
4. Sonnet 130
Resources also included on the form of sonnets
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 fully differentiated (by colour) resources support the teaching of the entire novel 'Two weeks with the Queen.' Medium term plan also included along with homework tasks and assessment opportunities.
Over 25 lessons ready to go! Download and teach.
The medium term plan signposts opportunities to develop language and literature skills for 9-1 GCSE.
Differentiation:
Purple = low ability
Blue = middle ability
Yellow = higher ability
These lessons are ready to go - download and teach straight away.
Resources provide opportunities to:
- Read for pleasure
- Analyse language and structure
- Analyse pathetic fallacy
- Analyse character and theme
- Writing opportunities including persuasive writing, diary entry,news reports, writing to advise, formal letter writing, leaflet writing
- Develop literacy skills including sentence forms, direct speech
- Analyse non fiction texts
- Build skills for the new 9-1 GCSE English language and literature specifications
Fully differentiated (by colour) resources to support the teaching of An Inspector Calls for the new specification 9-1 GCSE.
Included:
- Power points to support teaching of act 2 and 3
- Context exploration
- Medium term plan (MTP) with skills for language papers embedded
- 6 exam assessment questions (2 lit, 4 lang)
- homework opportunities
- revision power points and activities for after teaching
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Revision booklet for Macbeth with activities to help students revise character, theme, context etc.
This booklet would be useful for students after studying or to complete as they study the play or complete as a homework project.
