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.
Over 14 lessons to support the teaching of Skellig.
Opportunities for students to:
- analysis writer's methods
- analyse the creation of tension
- develop speaking and listening skills
- explore symbolism
- create diary entries
- make links to other literature including the schoolboy by William Blake
- explore the effect on the reader
- explore characters and themes
Fully differentiated resources to support the teaching of the following poems from the new specification Edexcel conflict poetry collection:
1. Poppies
2. War photographer
3. Charge of the light brigade
4. Exposure
5. Extract from the prelude
Outstanding lessons (2-3 power points per poem) that are meticulously planned and numbered for ease of use with activities and homework tasks included. Ready to go lessons.
Lessons cover: language, form, structure and context to meet the requirements of the new specification.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
5 differentiated lessons to support students in comparing the AQA power and conflict poetry
Includes sample answers and structural tips
Comparisons:
- Kamikaze and Poppies
- Exposure and Storm on the island
- Storm on the island and Extract from the prelude
- Ozymandias and one other poem
- The Emigree and one other poem
Opportunities to:
- compare poetry
- explore and compare writer's methods and ideas
- self and peer assess
- integrate context
- use the mark scheme
6 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of language analysis for new specification AQA paper 2 - (non fiction texts)
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources use a range of modern non fiction and 19th century non fiction texts to guide students through answering Q3 - language analysis.
Model answers included and opportunities for students to improve model answers,
Text on super markets - girl of the period and a letter from a student.
Texts included
These resources cover act 2 and act 3 of An Inspector Calls and meet the requirements of the new GCSE 9-1 specification.
16 meticulously planned and fully differentiated lessons that are numbered for ease of use with activities included.
Homework tasks and assessment opportunities 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 act 2 and 3
- Context - socialism and capitalism, men and women, trade unions, Priestley's moral message, welfare state
- Exploration of the theme of responsibility
- character analysis
- theme analysis
- Assessments in line with 9-1 success criteria
- homework tasks
- opportunities for debate and persuasive writing (prep for lang exam)
- opportunities for imaginative writing (prep for lang exam)
- development of tension
- Analysis of Priestley's structure
13 differentiated lessons to support the teaching of ballads at KS3 for lower/middle ability students.
Differentiation:
Blue = low ability
Green = middle ability
Red = higher ability
Ballads covered:
1. Lefty and Ned
2. Homeless Jack
3. The ballad of Hillsborough
4. Frankie and Johnny
5. Charlotte Dymond
Opportunities for speaking and listening and homework also included
Resources to support the teaching and creating of awareness for the effects of alcohol and alcohol abuse.
Opportunities to explore the following:
- reasons people drink
- effects of alcohol
- peer pressure
- effects on the body
- create alcohol awareness campaign
6 exam questions:
5 for poetry - power and conflict collection.
Named poems on the papers:
- Remains
- Bayonet Charge
- London
- Emigree
- War photographer
1 example exam question for unseen poetry
5-6 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of Romeo and Juliet Act 1 scene 5.
Study of the scene is broken into manageable chunks:
1. Seeing Juliet
2. Meeting/kissing Juliet
3. Discovering identities
Opportunity to explore language/form/structure at each juncture.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore language, form and structure
- assess against the 9-1 specification success criteria
- explore the presentation of character
- explore the theme of power
- analyse the presentation of character using 'what, how, why'
Fully differentiated resources to support the teaching of the following poems from the new specification Edexcel conflict poetry collection:
1. What were they like?
2. The destruction of Sannacherib
3. No problem
4. Poison tree
5. The man he killed
Outstanding lessons (2-3 power points per poem) that are meticulously planned with differentiated activities. Ready to go lessons.
Lessons cover: language, form, structure and context to meet the requirements of the new specification.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
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.
Fully differentiated resources to support the teaching of 3 of Wilfred Owen's war poems.
Lessons develop skills for new specification 9-1 English literature
1. Exposure
2. The Send off
3. Dulce et decorum est
Ideal for KS3 and KS4
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore context
- Analyse language, form and structure
- Form analytical paragraphs
- self and peer assessment
- write imaginatively
Differentiated resources to support the revision of Romeo and Juliet for new specification GCSE.
Includes:
- extract to whole revision
- quotation revision
- tips for getting through the exam
- sample responses
- context revision
2 lots of exam revision including sessions on structuring responses and extract to whole practice.
Also included are 5 sample assessments that have been written to look like the real thing.
Quotations with images also included.
Fully differentiated resources (by colour) to support the teaching of Music videos for GCSE.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore the history of music videos
- analyse music videos
- explore the audience of music videos
- explore and create audience profiles
- present ideas for a new music video
- explore the mark scheme for assignment 3
- explore music video genre
- explore camera angles
A Walking talking mock that uses the AQA examiner feedback from the summer exams to guide students through a process of planning and then writing answers to English language paper 2.
Power point (86 slides) and student work booklet included.
This resource focuses on helping students to:
plan their responses to the questions
structure shorter but more effective responses
consider the order in which to answer the questions
explore methods and their effect concisely
improve responses through model answers
develop their transactional writing
plan and sgtructure effective persuasive writing
explore rhetoric and what makes it effective
Source material: extracts are on the topic of train travel as used in the summer 23 exams
Model answers included.
A Walking talking mock that uses the AQA examiner feedback from the summer exams to guide students through a process of planning and then writing answers to English language paper 1.
Power point (81 slides) and student work booklet included.
This resource focuses on helping students to:
plan their responses to the questions
consider the order in which to answer the questions
explore methods and their effect concisely
improve responses through model answers
consider ‘mood’ as a central concept in all of the tasks on the paper
develop their imaginative writing
Source material: Daphne De Maurier ‘Don’t look now’
Model answers included.
A card for each poem (15 in total) for all of the conflict poems for new specification Edexcel.
Each card contains an image reminder, several key words taken from the poem and context links.
Useful for students to revise the key messages for each poem and rather than learn quotes remember key words that should spark a memory about the poem's meaning and tone etc.
Students can use the cards to arrange by themes or content as part of a revision lesson.
A quick quiz for each of the 15 poems in the conflict collection. (Differentiated by colour)
The first 3 purple questions are straight forward idea and information recall questions
The next 3 blue questions provide students with the first letter in the answer and require them to think
The final 3 yellow questions relate to techniques
Use at the start of a lesson and then come back to it at the end - student ability at recalling the poems studies becomes excellent. Then keep popping the quiz up on the board and student knowledge improves dramatically.
Could also be perfect for homework but works best as a team quiz in lessons as a starter and plenary.
Fully differentiated resources to support the teaching of 'The Edge' by Alan Gibbons
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunities to:
- comprehend plot
- analyse character
- write agony aunt articles
- explore racism
- Analyse language
- peer and self assess