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 part of my full scheme of work on the Black Death, that has been taught this year. These are the remaining lessons and the first lessons will be uploaded on the same title stem for ease of finding. Includes lots of games and activities as well as cooperative learning techniques. All resources are with the lessons too - aimed at KS3.
This is part of my full scheme of work on the Black Death, that has been taught this year. These are lessons 1-10 and the remaining lessons will be uploaded on the same title stem for ease of finding. Includes lots of games and activities as well as cooperative learning techniques. All resources are with the lessons too - aimed at KS3.
This is another one of my older schemes, so it will probably only act as a springboard for other people to design a scheme around it. There are 7 lessons that have been slightly differentiated for upper and lower band and both lessons are here, with resources - some of which are included in the PPs and some are separate. Please don't be too harsh with reviews... they will need some adapting to teach today but it isn&'t a scheme I&';ve rewritten yet!
This is a series of lessons that I've used with year 9 based on the scene from a film task for AQA. It wasn&'t actually submitted as controlled assessment as it is part of building pupils up ready to sit CA in year 10 and 11.
This is a selection of ways of demonstarting progress in the classroom - Tutorials that I have created for my colleagues on how to demonstrate learning throughout a lesson. There are also some more on here, as there are 15 in total.
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.
This is a Full Lesson PP on Reality TV Types. Lesson Objectives are:
Investigate the characteristics of ‘Reality TV'.
Design your own reality TV show and critique others.
Building on other lessons that I've uploaded on Culture, this lesson asks pupils to consider their preconceptions of culture and how this adds to the construction of a Media Text.
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.
