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For commissions, questions or feedback, please e-mail me at jpresourcesuk@gmail.com
An extract analysis booklet which contains 24 examination-length extracts from Much Ado About Nothing and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Paper 1, Section A (can also be used for: AQA, Paper 1, Section A by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording; Eduqas, Paper 1, Section A; or OCR Paper 2, Section B).
Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage.
This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.
This bundle comprises fifteen poetry PowerPoints based on the poems from the Edexcel Time and Place cluster: London; Composed Upon Westminster Bridge; To Autumn; I started Early, Took my Dog; Adlestrop; Where the Picnic Was; Home Thoughts from Abroad; Stewart Island; Postcard from a Travel Snob; First Flight; Hurricane Hits England; Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan; Nothing’s Changed; In Romney Marsh; and Absence.
Each PowerPoint contains the following:
A starter discussion activity
Contextual information
Form and structural information
Detailed annotated questions which incorporate a challenging range of poetic terminology
Consolidation questions
An optional additional lesson guiding students through an exemplar examination question
These lessons will challenge and engage your students, including the most able.
A lesson plan is included for every poem, which includes differentiation suggestions.
If you would like to check that my poetry resources are right for you, please download my free poetry resource, ‘Island Man’
Two detailed lessons exploring Moniza Alvi’s ‘Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with thorough annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
A complete unit of work for teaching The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas.
This is a dynamic and engaging unit for teaching this text. A range of activities are included, incorporating textual analysis, comprehension, contextual linking, comparison and creative writing.
The main resource includes 87 Powerpoint slides which stretch over at least 15 lessons. If class reading time is incorporated into the lessons, then this would double the number of lessons available.
Additional consolidation and assessment activities are included to extend the unit further. Any worksheets mentioned are included in the pack as are detailed lesson plans with learning objectives, suggestions for differentiation and variety in activities.
This unit will stretch and challenge even the most able students whilst supporting those learners who require it. In addition, the Powerpoint slides are visually engaging and accessible.
A comprehesive 40 slide Powerpoint which takes students through an introduction to The Merchant of Venice; a background to Shakespearean tragedy; and all three scenes of Act I.
Included:
A comprehensive guide to tragedy with a terminology matching exercise
Contextual background to the play
Analysis and discussion questions for each scene
Modelled textual analysis
Longer exam-style questions
Extension questions for higher ability students
This resource can be used with higher ability GCSE or A Level groups.
The slides in yellow are aimed at A Level students or those GCSE students who are aiming for a grade 8 or 9.
Two detailed lessons exploring Tatamkhulu Afrika’s ‘Nothing’s Changed’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with thorough annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
A revision lesson (or lessons if you want to do more with the initial card revision activity) for the Edexcel Poetry Time and Place cluster question for GCSE English Literature. Students will use the enclosed resources to briefly revise the poems from the cluster before identifying the four or five key poems they should revise for the examination. This encourages analytical and evaluative connections. This is best used once the students know the poems well and understand the requirements of this question.
Included:
Blank revision cards for a starter activity which can be extended into a whole lesson activity (with one card modelled)
Poem linking and choice grid with eleven example exam questions
Lesson Powerpoint
Lesson plan with guidance as to how to adapt this activity across two lessons
Contains 15 short quotation cards from Jane Eyre for student analysis. One card completed for modelling purposes. Instructions for analysis attached and the activity can take a whole lesson. These are quotations which can be easily learned for the examination.
Includes a follow up analysis grid to build on student understanding in a subsequent lesson. Lesson plan with suggestions and learning objectives included.
Suitable for Edexcel, AQA and Eduqas GCSE English Literature specifications.
Contains 15 short quotation cards from The Merchant of Venice for student analysis. One card completed for modelling purposes. Instructions for analysis attached and the activity can take a whole lesson. These are quotations which can be easily learned for the examination.
Includes a follow up analysis grid to build on student understanding in a subsequent lesson. Lesson plan with suggestions and learning objectives included.
Suitable for Edexcel, AQA and Eduqas GCSE English Literature specifications.
An extract analysis booklet which contains 26 examination-length extracts from Jane Eyre and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Edexcel Paper 2, Section A (can also be used for AQA, Paper 1, Section B; Eduqas, Paper 2, Section B; or OCR, Component 1, Section B, by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording).
Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage.
This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.
A complete set of six ‘Learning Checkpoint’ sheets for A Level Edexcel English Literature.
Included are templates for every section of each exam paper and for the NEA.
The sheets allow you to set a short task or paragraph response with pre-filled lines for students to write on. Students write in their own graded target. All you need to do is to tick the appropriate box as to whether they met their target and highlight or underline any of the pre-populated targets appropriate for that task or response.
You can easily mark a class set of responses in 10 to 20 minutes and students quickly receive appropriate targets/feedback. I use these every other lesson in the run up to mocks or exam season and they are a game changer.
Easily adaptable for your own targets, these low stakes templates will reduce your workload.
Two detailed lessons exploring Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on the two part exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring John Keats’ ‘To Autumn’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring William Wordsworth’s ‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
Two detailed lessons exploring 'Peckham Rye Lane’ by A.K. Blakemore from the Belonging cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
A 10 lesson unit comprising a 61 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets exploring the topic of Language and Region (UK) and a summary terminology and theory sheet.
Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and concepts listed below, a worksheet (with the exception of lesson nine) and activities, and a homework task. The following theories and concepts are covered:
MLE & MBE
Howard Giles’ Matched Guise Study (1970)
Queen Mary University & The University of York Accent Bias Study (2020)
David Rosewarne – Estuary English (1984)
Peter Trudgill – Norwich Study (1972)
Overt and covert prestige
Paul Kerswill - Dialect Levelling (1999)
Watt and Gunn (HSBC) - The sound of 2066 (2016)
Howard Giles – Capital punishment study (1973)
Dixon, Mahoney and Cocks – Accents of Guilt (2002)
Rob Drummond – MLE, MUBE and MBE (2016)
Amanda Cole – SSBE and research into MLE, RP and SSBE in London (2023)
Isogloss
General Northern English and the research of Strycharczuk, López-Ibáñez, Brown and Leemann (2020)
Urban West Yorkshire English (UWYE)
There are some references to AQA-style A Level specification questions, but you can adapt these if needs be. These can be found on slides 13, 37-38 and 51-58. Lesson 9 is based on an AQA A Level question.
This unit does not cover World Englishes and only touches briefly on Language and Ethnicity through references to MLE and MBE.
The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.
Check out my other English Language A Level resources!
Language and Gender
Language and Power and Occupation
Language and Global and World Englishes
Language Change
Language and Technology
Language and Ethnicity
Language and Social Groups
Language Discourses
Analysing Spoken Language
Child Language Acquisition - Speech
Child Language Acquisition - Reading and Writing
Language Discourses Opinion Writing
A 10 lesson unit comprising a 68 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (including texts for analysis) exploring the topic of Language and Ethnicity and a summary terminology and theory sheet.
Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and concepts listed below, a worksheet (with the exception of lesson nine) and activities, and a homework task. The following theories and concepts are covered:
Idiolect, dialect, sociolect and ethnolect
Pidgins and creoles
Multicultural London English – Cheshire andKerswill (2011)
Multicultural British English – Drummond (2016)
Black British English – Thompson (2022)
Code switching – Haugen (1950s)
Code mixing – Wardhaugh (1986)
Types of Code Switching
West Yorkshire Study - Ives (2014)
White talk Black talk - Hewitt (1986)
South London Study - Ives (2014)
Code Switching - Holmes (2017)
Language in a Black Community - Edwards (1986)
The objectification of ‘Jafaican’ - Kerswill (2014)
Ethnolects - Eckert (2008)
Stylising the ‘roadman’ - Ilbury (2023)
Style-shifting in Multicultural London English - Oxbury and De Leeuw (2020)
Phonetic variation and change in the Cockney Diaspora - Cole and Evans (2020)
Style Repertoire and Social Change in British Asian English – Sharma (2011)
Style variation – Sharma and Rampton (2015)
Aspects of identity in a second language – Drummond (2012)
Language as a resistance identity – Pitts (2012)
Black/white borders through linguistic stylization – Clark (2003)
Style shifting and identity – Barrett (1994)
Cultural appropriation in language – McWhorter (2021)
Language and ethnicity and identity – Ogbu (1999)
Linguistic Injustice – Baker-Bell (2020)
There are some references to AQA-style A Level specification questions, but you can adapt these if needs be. These can be found on slides 57-65. Lesson 9 is based on an AQA A Level question.
The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.
Check out my other English Language A Level resources!
Language and Gender
Language and Region
Language and Power and Occupation
Language and Global and World Englishes
Language Change
Language and Technology
Language and Social Groups
Language Discourses
Language Discourses Opinion Writing
A grid template which guides students through an analysis of each poem from the Worlds and Lives cluster from the AQA poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3!
Please check out my individual PowerPoints for each of the poems in the Worlds and Lives Cluster: Worlds and Lives Individual PowerPoints
This is a visual and creative resource for planning the creative/narrative/descriptive writing question for GCSE English Language. The document encourages students to focus on the key assessment foci. It can be used early in the topic or as a revision resource. Lesson plan included!
This simple document will guide students through researching key contextual points relating to William Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
You could set this as a homework task or a lesson activity. Students are required to research using the internet.
Suitable for Key Stage Three, or for GCSE.