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.
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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 useful learning mat that provides a guide to writing detailed paragraphs in English Literature. Works as a display or a teaching tool for learners who struggle to write in depth.
A two-page guide to writing a discursive essay. The topics covered are:
The purpose and content of the introduction
The role of topic sentences
Different forms of evidence
Concluding sentences
The use of counterargument
The content and purpose of the conclusion
This revision sheet is suitable for upper-ability learners at GCSE.
An essay on two important theories of time and their representation in Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’. Could be used as a teaching tool with middle-upper GCSE groups.
An extended response to the essay question, 'To what extent is 'An Inspector Calls' a product of its time?' Could be used as a teaching tool with middle-upper GCSE groups.
A powerpoint that provides an introduction to some of the main poetic devices and introduces the concept of iambic pentameter. Suitable for middle ability KS3 groups.
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
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.
A ready-to-go lesson on ‘Remains’ in the P&C Anthology. It is aimed at low ability learners whose primary goal is understanding the poem.
The lesson includes:
A starter that encourages learners to think about PTSD and how they might advise someone who is showing symptoms of PTSD
Feedback slide
What is trauma? What events could be considered traumatic? Discuss in pairs.
Feedback slide with link to YouTube video
A storyboarding activity in which learners read the poem and then label the nine scenes with quotations from the poem. This comes with two additional challenge tasks.
A straightforward comparison table with ‘Poppies’, by Jane Weir, on the subject of internal conflict.
Review.
A free lesson on ‘Poppies’ can be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/poppies-for-lower-ability-12073600
You may wish to undertake this lesson before moving onto ‘Remains’.
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 a ‘crash course’ in Act 4 for lower ability learners. It comprises of three storyboards and scene summaries for Act Four of ‘Macbeth’.
The aim is for learners to use the scene summaries to describe what is happening in each scene, based on the images and quotations.
This could be used for revision of Act Four or to promote understanding. It was designed with time pressure in mind.
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 straightforward lesson on the homophones there, they’re and their. It is part of the lower ability skills series and follows on from this lesson on ending sentence correctly:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/lower-ability-ks3-ending-sentences-12066805
It could stand alone but assumes some knowledge of when to use a full stop.
This lesson includes:
A starter (see cover image) with feedback slide
What is a homophone?
Homophone identification challenge
The differece between there, they’re and their
There, they’re and their worksheet
Learning Review
A lesson for lower ability KS3. It covers:
A short punctuation starter
Paired discussion: what is the difference between a sentence and a group of words?
What is a subject and a verb? Learners then read and identify ten statements and identify the sentences.
Making simple sentences interesting using adverbs and adjectives. Learners use a table of words to create a range of sentences with suggested structures (increasing difficulty).
Review
Estimated time: 1 hour.
NB: These lessons increase in demand through the series.
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.