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Thank you for visiting my shop. My aim is to provide high quality teaching resources that reduce the
need for hours of planning and help learners to achieve their potential in English and English Literature.
Please feel free to email me at sdenglish18@gmail.com with any queries, requests or comments.
A double-sided, detailed context sheet for ‘A Christmas Carol’.
As this doesn’t seem to show on the preview, the reverse side of the sheet contains a section on working conditions in the Victorian age and the ideas of Thomas Malthus.
There is an accompanying worksheet on which students can write their notes.
If preferred, these resources can be purchased as part of a larger unit of work on Stave One:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-stave-one-11996048
This lesson enables learners to explore ‘Kamikaze’ by Beatrice Garland. It includes:
Lesson Starter (see cover image)
An image of the sinking US Arizona with the question, ‘When do you think this photograph was taken’? Learners discuss and then feedback.
A context sheet contained a simplified explanation of the Pearl Harbour attack and the rise of Kamikaze pilots. There is a corresponding worksheet for this.
A link to a BBC interview with a surviving Kamikaze pilot with three questions to answer.
A sheet of questions to prompt annotation of the poem.
The lesson is aimed at lower ability learners whose primary goal is understanding.
A lesson on Imtiaz Dharker’s ‘Tissue’ for lower ability learners. It includes:
Do Now Task (see cover image)
Keywords Task: architect, transparent, monolith and sepia. Learners look at a six images and suggest which keyword they represent. This worksheet is best printed in colour or at least projected at the time of use.
Contextual information with ‘How far do you agree with these statements?’ worksheet
Storyboarding the poem worksheet (learners insert quotes)
Analysing three quotations task
Comparison with ‘Ozymandias’ table
Learning Review
This lesson focuses on the creation of interesting and believable characters. It is aimed at lower ability KS3 and follows on from the ‘Developing Skills in Creative Writing’ series:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/developing-skills-in-creative-writing-12079150
However, it can stand alone.
Lesson Structure:
Do Now Task - see cover image
Feedback slide
How many of the following statements in relation to fictional characters do you think are true or false?
Feedback slide
The importance of creative interesting and believable characters, with two examples.
The major ‘Do’s’ and ‘Do Not’s’ of character creation
Character planning worksheet task
Tell a friend about your character
Write an extract from your character’s story, with WAGOLL. The WAGOLL is about a penguin who has never learnt to swim.
Peer Assessment
Review
A PPT that teaches ‘My Last Duchess’ from the Power and Conflict Anthology. It covers:
The contextual background
What is a dramatic monologue?
The poem, broken down into manageable chunks and annotated.
A series of questions for group work.
Suitable for upper-middle ability learners.
An alternative lesson for the same poem is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/my-last-duchess-11933556
A lesson on ‘The Prelude’ for lower ability learners. It includes:
Multiple choice starter based on the Romantic Movement
What is ‘The Prelude’?
Context sheet + tasks
Suggested annotations for lower ability learners
True or false to test understanding
Comparison task with ‘Storm on the Island’
Review
This lesson is aimed at middle-upper ability learners and focuses on broadsheet article writing for AQA English Language 8700/2. The questions is:
“Those who are obese have nobody to blame but themselves.”
Write an article for a broadsheet newspaper in which you explain your point of view on this statement.
The lesson includes:
Do Now Task: learners use their general knowledge to match seven health-related terms to their definitions. Teacher answers provided. Extension task included.
Feedback slide
For the following slides, learners use a designated note-taking sheet to record information on:
Key points about AQA Question 5, Paper 2
What an AQA Paper 2, Question 5 will look like
The basic differences between broadsheets, tabloids and the middle-market dailies
The difference between an article and a news report
Broadsheet readers
Layout features of an article (heading, strapline, lead photo, by-line and date + main body)
Basic language requirements of a broadsheet article
From this point on:
Learners look at the question again and come up with arguments for and against the statement.
Feedback slide
They then consider what makes a good heading, with several made-up examples
What is the strapline? (Example provided)
The internal structure of an article e.g. introduction, main body with PEC (point, evidence and comment) paragraphs, counterargument and conclusion. Learners take notes on a designated sheet
A WAGOLL
The writing task is set for homework (basic planning sheet included)
Review
Initially, I wrote one WAGOLL and it turned out to be too long, so I shortened it! Both are included.
The shortened version has been broken up into sections on PPT slides, which you can print out and use as a carousel and group work activity, if you wish.
A lesson on John Agard’s ‘Checking Out Me History’ aimed at lower ability learners. It includes:
Do Now task (shown on cover slide)
Contextual information regarding the historical figures and events referenced in the poem, with corresponding worksheet.
Link to relevant video + the meaning of ‘Eurocentric’
Quotation Hunt + Challenge Task
Imagery in the poem worksheet
Comparison table to complete with ‘My Last Duchess’ in terms of the presentation of the abuse of power.
Review learning with challenge question.
An introduction to simple, compound and complex sentences with activities at the end. Suitable for KS2 or lower KS3 groups.
Update:
I have created an alternative to this lesson, found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/lower-ability-ks3-sentence-types-12057647
A lesson ‘Storm on the Island’ for lower ability learners. It includes:
Do Now task: learners examine an image of storm in a coastal area, identifying how it represents power and conflict.
Context sheet with corresponding tasks
Quotation hunt
Comparison with Exposure in terms of 1) power and 2) conflict
Review
This is the eleventh in the KS3 Creative Writing for lower ability learners. It follows on from this introduction to creative writing techniques:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/introduction-to-creative-writing-la-ks3-12065152
This lesson includes:
Do Now Task (see cover image)
Feedback slide
An introduction to flashback as a device + what is a flashback?
Links to YouTube videos in which flashback is used in 3 different films. Learners watch the clips and then say at what point the flashback occurs
An introduction to flashback as a structural technique + the difference between language and structure
Different ways of incorporating a flashback (worksheet)
Feedback slides
Flashback writing task with basic and challenge success criteria
Peer assessment
Review
Estimated time 1:5 hours
This PPT enables an exploration of ‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen, part of the AQA Power and Conflict Anthology. It is aimed at lower ability learners whose primary objective is understanding and basic comparisons.
It includes:
Starter: Infer the meaning of the word exposure by examining the three images (sun exposure, exposure to the elements, exposure to harmful gases in the air)
Learners then look at an image of WW1 soldiers in the trenches and link it to their understanding of the word exposure.
There is a context sheet which explains some of the background to the poem e.g. the Western Front and conditions for soldiers in the trenches. Learners then work through relevant tasks e.g. label the Western Front on a blank map of Europe.
Poem synopsis with 4 comprehension questions.
The poem translated into reasonably simply English + reduction task.
Suggested annotations for lower ability learners.
A comparison table for completion (presentation of effects of war with ‘Remains’.
Review.
An extended lesson on writing a discursive essay, aimed at middle-upper-ability GCSE. It covers:
The assessment objectives for writing (learners should put these in their own words)
What is a discursive essay?
Planning in full and planning in the exam
A planning activity to carry out in pairs, followed by feedback
The structure of a discursive essay
Different ways to start a discursive essay
An example introduction, internal paragraph and conclusion
The importance of linking paragraphs
The importance of using evidence and different forms of evidence
A final writing task
Self-reflection
The whole powerpoint is likely to last over an hour. The sample paragraphs are also included on a separate sheet so learners can annotate them.
There is reference to AQA 8700/2/Question 5 but it could be adapted to other boards.
These files were last saved in Office 2016.
A 110-slide PowerPoint that explores Act Three of ‘An Inspector Calls’. The PPT covers:
Revision of Act Two
Put quotations in order + identify quotes in relation to three different themes: a) Parents and children b) Responsibility
c) Capitalism versus socialism.
A range of differentiated sample paragraphs in response to the above tasks. Students identify the missing words.
Worksheets for the characters of Arthur, Sheila, Gerald and Sybil in terms of their attitude towards responsibility.
Quotations: ‘Who Said What?’ task + sample answers
Exploration task on how Act Two ends (differentiated).
Act Three:
Focus on Eric: Quotation Hunt followed by comparison task in relation to Eric and Eva’s relationship and Gerald and Daisy’s relationship.
Illegal Versus Immoral Behaviour task.
A 15-point quiz (essentially how capitalist/socialist are you?)
Group-work task on the contextual background of the Inspector’s speech: capitalism v socalism, communism, the rise of the USSR, communism in the USSR, the reasons for Priestley’s socialist views, British capitalists’ antipathy towards socalism, rising public interest in socialism, Conservative anti-socialist propaganda task (diff’d) + the Labour win of 1945 + its effects.
Analysis of the Inspector’s final speech task.
Drama activity.
Sample extended analysis of the Inspector’s final speech.
Exploring the aftermath of the Inspector’s departure + extended response task on theme of responsibility.
The significance of the end of the play in terms of the generational divide + time theories in ‘An Inspector Calls’, extended response
Act 3: 20 questions
A whole-play revision section.
This resource is suited to middle-upper-ability learners.
A lesson on Ted Hughes’ ‘Bayonet Charge’ for lower ability learners, It includes:
Starter - a short explanation of what a bayonet is and how they were used in WW1. Learners then answer ‘Why do you think the bayonet was considered to be a suitable weapon for infantry attacks?’
Feedback slide
Basic contextual information about the poet.
A link to a relevant YouTube video
Learners then read the poem and use choose quotations to caption six images on a storyboard depicting the main events of the poem.
This is followed by a worksheet in which learners are asked to make three basic comparisons with ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ (this will have to have been covered beforehand). The table is partly filled in.
Review
A full lesson on GCSE discursive essay writing for lower ability learners. The PowerPoint covers:
The purpose of a discursive essay, with a sample question that learners are encouraged to ‘break down’. This includes an extension question.
Planning a response + extension question
Structuring a discursive essay
PEA paragraphs in a discursive essay
Counterargument
A sample response for annotation + extension activity
An opportunity for learners to produce their own responses
A peer assessment activity
Self-reflection
The lesson was produced with AQA 8700/2 in mind but could apply to other exam boards.
These files were last saved in Office 2016.
This is a newly-differentiated version of the following resource:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-annotated-act-one-11875448
This lower-ability version contains:
The full text of Act 1, translated (same as original)
Several key extracts for study
Scene summaries for Scenes 2-7
A range of activities to develop understanding.
Simplified contextual notes with a corresponding worksheet
Key information with corresponding worksheet.
This resource is aimed at lower-middle ability learners.
A knowledge organiser for AQA Paper 1, Question 4 (the evaluation question).
It is based on a past paper, so please take this into account if you are using it for a mock.
The WAGOLLs on the reverse side demonstrate Levels 3, 5 and 7.
Full colour and black and white copies included.