These resources span my career; from my period of teaching unqualified, through to an AST of English & Director of Teaching & Learning. Although my specialism is English, I have taught GCSE Citzienship, Language and Lit, Media Studies, Maths & History. I have also taught all of those at Key Stage 3, so there is an eclectic mix here. As the main trainer in my previous school, I have uploaded many insets and training session powerpoints too.
These resources span my career; from my period of teaching unqualified, through to an AST of English & Director of Teaching & Learning. Although my specialism is English, I have taught GCSE Citzienship, Language and Lit, Media Studies, Maths & History. I have also taught all of those at Key Stage 3, so there is an eclectic mix here. As the main trainer in my previous school, I have uploaded many insets and training session powerpoints too.
This is one lesson that I have taken from a whole scheme of lessons. Each poem can be used as an individual lesson, or, if you would like to teach all of the lessons, search for ' Poetry Scheme - 3 Poems - Lesson Miss R' and they should all come up for you to work with. At the end of the unit, there is a reading and writing assessment that involves analysis and creativity too. This lesson expalins to pupils how to start linking poems together.
This is one of serveral lessons that i have uploaded from this year 9 scheme. The premise of our year 9 curriculum is that we start to get pupils used to the GCSE controlled assessment model by teaching them the skills that they need to pass Lang and Lit. This scheme covers Media and Non Fiction and More… this lesson can be taught alone or with the others. In this lesson helps pupils to break downt he use of persuasive techniques.
These are three lessons that have been used to introduce the Pre1914 literature texts for the new Edexcel Literature GCSE.
Using cooperative learning techniques, students work together to create a timeline of literature that starts with the birth of Jane Austen in 1775 and ends in 1901 at the end of thee Victorian era.
Through a series of tasks, students investigate the time period in order to help inform them about the different times, introducing the Romantic Period and the Byronic hero that appears in many of the novels of the time.
This is a full 1 hour lesson PowerPoint that can be used to introduce students to this poem in the AQA Literature anthology. The LO is: To understand the context and subject matter of London.
There is an extensive resource sheet with this that covers the context of the poem; students are expected to read the sheet as their entry activity and then there is a whole class whiteboard quiz to check their understanding and initiate discussion.
Students can then read the poem with the context in mind and see how this influences the meaning.
These are two full 1 hour lesson powerpoints that can be used to introduce students to this poem in the AQA Literature anthology. The LOs are: To understand the context of a poem and, for the second, To understand how to make progress when analysing and comparing poems. The first lesson features a poetry quiz using the ppt. template for WWTBAM that the whole class can play with mini whiteboards so that you can check understanding if techniques before delving into the poem.
Lesson 1 then looks at the context of the poem, with a video from Youtube - the image has the hyperlink in it so this can be clicked on to find the clip from the documentary.
Lesson 2 then breaks down key images with the whole class, in order to lead students into being able to write up their analysis.
Resource sheets are also included in the download.
This is an assessment for students to complete on the new AQA GCSE Literature (2017) comparative anthology question. The question sheet (which is included), sets the following assessment:
In Remains, Armitage presents how people are affected by war. Compare how Armitage presents how people are affected by war to how any other poet presents the same theme.
This is a 'made up' question that is marked using the teacher's knowledge as indicative comment, as well as the standard poetry mark-scheme from the AQA SAMs - meaning a level can be assigned but not a grade (unless a school is using PiXL spreadsheets or has a different system).
After the teacher has marked the assessments, the two lessons can then be used to help students to understand HOW to improve answers.
These are two lessons designed to help students to understand the poem and then how to write about it. The first lesson begins with a mini-whiteboard quiz, in which students are encouraged to name and identify techniques within certain lines of the poem. This then leads to students trying to break down the poem, into MILES - Meaning, Images, Language techniques / use, Emphasis / Emotion and Tone, Structure. Using an example of how to do this, students are then led to use annotation to create TEE paragraphs about the poem.
This is a full unit of work, that consists of 15 lesson powerpoints, complete with all resources. Created initially with new questions for 1,2,and 3 that have never been seen elsewhere (not SAMs) and then utilising the Edexcel SAMs, showing students how to attempt each question, allowing them to practise and using mark schemes for peer / self evaluation.
There are useful techniques provided for each and every question, including time management. The unit has been taught successfully and adapted accordingly. Obviously any teacher will need to adapt lessons in line with what they manage to cover in any given lesson but each ppt. is designed for a full one hour lesson.
All of the questions are fully covered and deconstructed so that the teacher can guide students through what they need to do - including the writing section. After this unit, students will be fully prepared to attempt a full paper so that you can diagnose areas for development.
This is one of a series of 7 lessons that I have uploaded with all of the resources attached to the upload. So each is a complete lesson ready to use. The lessosn cover the key techniques that pupils need to revise prior to the language exam and are aimed at D/C borderliners. You can obviously add / adapt them as you need but they are certainly a good starting point.
This is one lesson that is part of a series of lessons about the Media and responsible Media. It's a key stage 3 scheme of work delivered in English lessons and the end result is a persuasive speach. All of the lessons are uploaded separately with the resources attached and all have the same title as above for ease of locating.
This is a full lesson PP that is ready to teach as it is - although you may wish to adpat it for your own class and context. I've uploaded the others in the series with resources under the same title of 'Autobiography C/A for D/C borderliners'. I'm using this for teaching the AQA controlled assessment writing element for my D/C Borderlie English class - same topic but different lessons. This lesson is the intro - may need tweaking as form legacy spec.
L/O: To be able to use skills of inference and deduction.
To decipher and sort information that is relevant to you
A really good lesson that needs pupils to work out what a family needs so that they can search local estate agents for a home for them.
When marking, I use this code. Every child has one in their book and I can write the number of the target that it relates to - As the lesson starter, after I've marked, the pupils write in their own targets to show that they&'ve acknowledged them. Simple, personalised, saves me hours on marking!
Complete Shakespeare lesson plan with accompanying resources to structures the watching of any film adaptation of Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare to help pupils to track Juliet's identity through the play and movie.
This is the first in my new scheme of lessons designed to help structure the reading of the novel. This features an audio recording from youtube and some analysis of the title and cover.
Every week, we have 1 reading lesson with year 7 in English. I now like to underpn them with an objective so that their reading for pleasure has a technical focus too. This is one of my reading lessons and the focus of this one is on
