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.
4 fully differentiated (by colour) resources to support the teaching of extracts taken from 19th century texts with paper 2 comparison skills incorporated. (Theme of education)
Students will study an extract from Jane Eyre and Nicholas Nickleby on the theme of education and will analyse language and explore context. Students will look at the presentation of school life and compare to modern society. (Extracts included)
Students will then read a modern news report on behaviour in schools and draw comparisons.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
With very few sample assessment materials provided by the exam boards I have created my own.
They have been made to look exactly like the assessments that students will sit in the real 9-1 examinations and are phrased in the same ways too.
The student responses can then be marked using the relevant mark scheme for literature.
Extract is taken from chapter 4
Resource to support the revision 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.
Differentiation:
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.
Opportinities to:
- revise plot and significant characters and themes
- revise context
- revise extract to whole
- form exam responses linked to mark scheme
- explore sample answers
- practice timed writing
- learn quotations using image stimuli
4 extracts included
With very few sample assessment materials provided by the exam boards I have created my own.
They have been made to look exactly like the assessments that students will sit n the real 9-1 examinations and are phrased in the same ways too.
This paper uses an extract from act 1 scene 2
The student responses can then be marked using the relevant mark scheme for Shakespeare.
Assessment requires extract analysis and then question b is based on the play as a whole.
8 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of act 2 of An Inspector Calls
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore context 1912 and 1945
- explore Gerald's and Mrs Birling's involvement
- analyse language and structure
- structure exam responses
- compare the responsibility of different character
- write imaginatively
- write a speech
3 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of 19th century extract taken from Wuthering Heights. The focus of these lessons is childhood and students will consider the presentation of childhood in the 19th century.
Students will explore:
- differences between rich and poor 19th century children
- language in the extract
Extracts are taken from the AQA new specification 9-1, 19th century texts booklet and is included in this resource pack.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources to support the teaching of video game design. An example maze game is provided that was made using power point.
Resources include:
- investigating audiences
- researching ahead of creating a game
- investigating and designing game characters
- become the concept artist
- pitching ideas to a client
- create asset lists
- explore avatars
- apply Propp's character theory
- storyboard the game
Resources to support the exploration and then creation of radio drama.
Resources provide opportunities to:
- work to a brief as per industry standard
- explore existing radio dramas
- listen to radio drama with focus on The Archers
- explore the history of radio dramas
- explore symbolic codes
- explore cultural codes
- explore technical codes
- explore conventions of radio drama
- explore style and structure of radio drama
- explore representation in radio drama
A power point presentation covering major theorists in Media studies with opportunities for students to watch videos, conduct research and analyse media images as part of their revision.
Theorists and theories covered:
- audience positioning
- Representation and readings - Stuart Hall
- Roland Barthes - Action code & enigma code with video clip examples
- Claude Levi Strauss - Binary opposition - with video example
- Vladimir Propp - character theory with vide example
- Todorov - Narrative theory
- Syd Field - 3 act plot structure
5 lessons that support the teaching of act 2 of the Stone Cold play script.
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunities for:
- imaginative writing
- Speaking and listening
- comparing the novel and play
- reading the play and novel
- analysing the writer's use of language
- comprehension
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
Four full lessons using ‘Lamb to the slaughter’ by Roald Dahl, that support students in developing their ability in:
making inferences
evaluating
analysing
articulating their own perspectives and
researching
Worksheets have been created that can be easily uploaded to online learning platforms to make remote teaching easier. Students have everything for the lesson in one document and can simply annotate the text and fill in the relevant boxes and tables.
Model answers also included.
9 pages of revision activities that would be useful for preparation for assessments, as homework activities or as in class intervention.
Revision activities included:
knowledge matching activity
word class practice using an extract
figurative language matching activity & practice using language
rhetorical language matching activity & practice using language
Ethos, logos, pathos revision (Aristotelian triad)
Understanding - practice using short extracts to elicit information
Three language analysis revision activities that begin scaffolded
Grammar revision with focus on 'there, their. they’re and apostrophes
A presentation used for staff CPD around strategies for increasing the ratio. Active engagement versus thinking. The presentation is rooted in educational research from Doug Lemov and Tom Sherrington.
The presentation:
sets out expectations of all students in our classrooms
explains the ratio spectrum with examples of actions that would place students in varying positions on the ratio graph
emphasises the importance of ‘no opt out’ with strategies for ensuring this
explores the concept of active observation and how it an be used to increase the ratio
explores how the ratio can be increased through writing, questioning and discussion simultaneously - in detail
considers the difference between formative and summative writing
incorporates a section where the CPD leader models a process for increasing the ratio through writing, questioning and discussion using the teachers as students - participants consider the question “What makes a good lesson?”
Differentiated resources to support the teaching of chapter 4 of 'Of Mice and Men.'
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunities to:
- write to argue (200 word challenge)
- explore context of segregation
- explore the characterisation of Crooks
- Analyse writer's methods
- work as a group and give presentations on contextual information
- read actively
Differentiated resources to support the teaching of chapter 5 and chapter 6 of 'Of Mice and Men.'
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunities to:
- develop synthesis skills for language paper 2
- explore character and theme
- write analytically
Resources to support the revision of ‘A Christmas Carol.’
Included:
- 15 key quotations with accompanying images to help students learn quotations and remember useful quotes for analysis. Also great for displays.
- Extract to whole revision - ideal for carousel use whereby students read an extract and go through the process of structuring a response to the question.
Fully differentiated resources to support the teaching of KS3 war poetry.
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunities for:
- context exploration
- language analysis
- form and structure exploration
- imaginative writing
- self and peer assessment
- poetry comparison
- embedding the 9-1 skills
All resources are planned to build the skills needed for the new specification GCSE English literature course (9-1)
Fully differentiated resources to support the teaching of chapters 5 - 8 of The Edge.
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunities for:
- self and peer assessment
- character and theme exploration
- exploration of bullying
- analysing the creation of tension
- writing news reports
A well planned lesson that results in students writing a formal argument for a broadsheet newspaper.
Students will consider a range of statements and determine whether they are for or against and will justify their opinions.
Students will have an example argument modelled to them and will unpick the success criteria within the example.
Students will then use this as a basis for their own argument.