I am an experienced History teacher who has created SOW for different schools. I love making different and creative resources and hope you enjoy them too! I will try and update any old resources and you are welcome to recommend any SOW for me to create!
I am an experienced History teacher who has created SOW for different schools. I love making different and creative resources and hope you enjoy them too! I will try and update any old resources and you are welcome to recommend any SOW for me to create!
A complete SOW with detailed lessons to teach Macbeth! These lessons are extremely engaging and support a variety of students with differentiation throughout. The lessons have a variety of activities including: analytical writing, evaluating texts, annotating texts and model paragraphs, group work, storyboards, ordering activities, exam practice, creating profile maps, comprehension, videos and so much more!! The lessons can be used to first teach the topic or for revision lessons. The lessons were designed to be longer than a normal 1 hour lesson so can also be used for double English lessons.
The lessons cover the following:
Macbeth Act 1
Macbeth Act 2
Macbeth Act 3
Macbeth Act 4
Macbeth Act 5
Content Revision
Major Themes
Context
Structure/Language Analysis
Exam Practice
Exam
A lesson on Guy Fawkes and The Gunpowder Plot. The lesson had a variety of activities with videos, reading comprehension, chronology and narrative tasks and creating a storyboard. This was a lesson given to students on Bonfire Night and students enjoyed it! The tasks in the lesson can be removed for an assembly (and the videos should remain).
A full detailed SOW of Charles Dicken’s ‘A Christmas Carol’. This SOW compromises of 20 detailed lessons for KS3/4 students. The lessons are fully differentiated and resourced, with a variety of creative, analytical and evaluative activities. The lessons develop students understanding of the novel, support their ability to analyse the text/language, develop vocabulary, support students with SPAG and help them foster an interest in the story!
The lessons focus on:
An Introduction - Source analysis, context, creative writing
Setting
Character Analysis
Comparing Characters
Gothic Features - Ghosts
The First Spirit
The Second Spirit and Context
The Present
The Present p2
The Present p3
The Last Spirit
The Last Spirit p2
The Last Spirit p3
Moral Lesson
Ending
Ending Part 2
Revising Key Characters
Themes and Characters
Language Analysis
Exam Practice
This lesson focuses on Victorian England and can be used as part of the English unit on ‘A Christmas Carol’ or as a History lesson (has contextual information, source analysis, video analysis and writing tasks). This is from my wider ‘Full SOW A Christmas Carol’ resource.
A single lesson part of my wider 'KS3/4 Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar; SOW. This lesson is focused on parts of speech with practical activities and differentiation embedded in the lesson to support students.
An outstanding introductory lesson on Macbeth which covers: GCSE Exam requirements/objectives, chronological ordering task, detailed quote analysis (both as a class and independent student work), recapping context, key vocabulary for language analysis, analytical writing and homework. This is part of my wider ‘Macbeth: Full SOW’ resource/bundle.
These outstanding lessons are focused on Key Topic 2 of EDEXCEL GCSE Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918 – 1939. The lessons use both the Hodder and Pearsons book and is full of different activities and exam practice. The lessons can be used and adapted for any year group and exam board including AQA, OCR or IGCSE. It has a range of resources and is great for students!
The lessons cover:
● Hitler’s early career: joining the German Workers’ Party and setting
up the Nazi Party, 1919–20.
● The early growth and features of the Party. The Twenty-Five Point
Programme and the role of the SA.
● The Munich Putsch: Events
● Putsch Significance
● The Lean Years
● Reasons for limited support for the Nazi Party, 1924–28. Party
reorganisation and Mein Kampf. The Bamberg Conference of 1926.
● Depression: The growth of unemployment – its causes and impact. The failure of successive Weimar governments to deal with unemployment from
1929 to January 1933.
● Reasons for the growth in support for the Nazi Party, including the
appeal of Hitler and the Nazis, the effects of propaganda and the
work of the SA.
● How Hitler became Chancellor, 1932–33: Political developments in 1932. The roles of Hindenburg, Brüning, von Papen and von Schleicher.
● Assessment
●Assessment feedback and mark scheme
This CPD is essential for every school to cover. The CPD is especially relevant as students may deal with these issues on a daily basis and much of it was undetected/unknown whilst in lockdown.
CPD covering: understanding safeguarding and recognising signs of abuse, implementing government legislation, assessing case studies and practical advice.
Lesson and resource focused on the Rise of Empires with activities on: A01, vocabulary and language, source analysis, categorising and paragraph practice.
CPD focused on effective pedagogy for both PGCE, NQT and experienced teachers. The lesson covers: pedagogical approaches, reflective teaching, analysing essays on effective pedagogy and implementing techniques in each department’s teaching/curriculum.
A good resource for KS3/4/5 students to help them understand the importance of income and expenditure and the value of money. The lesson focuses on identifying items that are needs and wants and the factors which influence spending. It also has an activity to get students started on budget planning.
This SOW was created for the EDEXCEL Medicine Through Time/Renaissanxe in Britain course but can be used for the OCR/AQA topics too. It has a variety of activities and resources, exam skills and revision and students perform extremely well! The lessons cover:
Ideas about the cause of disease and illness
● Continuity and change in explanations of the cause of disease and
illness. A scientific approach, including the work of Thomas
Sydenham in improving diagnosis. The influence of the printing
press and the work of the Royal Society on the transmission of
ideas.
Approaches to prevention and treatment
● Continuity in approaches to prevention, treatment and care in the
community and in hospitals.
● Change in care and treatment; improvements in medical training
and the influence in England of the work of Vesalius.
Case studies ● Key individual: William Harvey and the discovery of the circulation
of the blood.
● Dealing with the Great Plague in London (1665): approaches to
treatment and attempts to prevent its spread.
These outstanding lessons are focused on Key Topic 3 of EDEXCEL GCSE Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918 – 1939. The lessons use both the Hodder and Pearsons book and is full of different activities and exam practice. The lessons can be used and adapted for any year group and exam board including AQA, OCR or IGCSE. It has a range of resources and is great for students!
The lessons cover:
Key topic 3: Nazi control and dictatorship, 1933–39
1 The creation of a dictatorship, 1933–34
● The Reichstag Fire. The Enabling Act and the banning of other
parties and trade unions.
● The threat from Röhm and the SA, the Night of the Long Knives and
the death of von Hindenburg. Hitler becomes Führer, the army and
oath of allegiance.
2 The police state
● The role of the Gestapo, the SS, the SD and concentration camps.
● Nazi control of the legal system, judges and law courts.
● Nazi policies towards the Catholic and Protestant Churches,
including the Reich Church and the Concordat.
3 Controlling and influencing attitudes
● Goebbels and the Ministry of Propaganda: censorship, Nazi use of
media, rallies and sport, including the Berlin Olympics (1936).
● Nazi control of culture and the arts, including art, architecture,
literature and film.
4 Opposition, resistance and conformity
● The extent of support for the Nazi regime.
● Opposition from the Churches, including the role of Pastor
Niemöller.
● Opposition from the young, including the Swing Youth and the
Edelweiss Pirates.
Two lessons focused on the Opposition the the Nazi Party. Part 1 is full of activities focused on the main groups which opposed the Nazi Party and Part 2 is focused on exam practice/paragraph writing. This is part of my larger SOW on Key Topic 3 Weimar and Nazi Germany.
This SOW was created for the EDEXCEL Medicine Through Time/18th and 19th century Medicine in Britain course but can be used for the OCR/AQA topics too. It has a variety of activities and resources, exam skills and revision and students perform extremely well! The lessons cover:
Ideas about the cause of disease and illness
● Advances in understanding the causes of illness and disease: the
influence of genetic and lifestyle factors on health.
● Improvements in diagnosis: the impact of the availability of blood
tests, scans and monitors.
2 Approaches to prevention and treatment
● The extent of change in care and treatment. The impact of the
NHS and science and technology: improved access to care;
advances in medicines, including magic bullets and antibiotics;
high-tech medical and surgical treatment in hospitals.
● New approaches to prevention: mass vaccinations and
government lifestyle campaigns.
3 Case studies
● Key individuals: Fleming, Florey and Chain’s development of
penicillin.
● The fight against lung cancer in the twenty-first century: the use
of science and technology in diagnosis and treatment; government
action.
These lessons are focused on the Great Plague in 1665-6 which addresses the causes, events, treatments and preventive methods used at the time. These lessons have a variety of activities including: active plenaries, videos, creative writing, descriptive writing and exam practice. The lessons were mostly made using the EDEXCEL Medicine Through Time spec and using a mixture of the Hodder and Pearsons book. The lessons are great for GCSE students especially.
A student booklet for OCR Y102 Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman Conquest 1035–1107. The booklet includes: past exam questions, pages for students to complete their own revision notes on each topic, model structures, fact tests and a glossary.
These outstanding lessons are focused on Key Topic 4 of EDEXCEL GCSE Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918 – 1939. The lessons use both the Hodder and Pearsons book and is full of different activities and exam practice. The lessons can be used and adapted for any year group and exam board including AQA, OCR or IGCSE. It has a range of resources and is great for students!
The lessons cover:
Key topic 4: Life in Nazi Germany, 1933–39
1 Nazi policies towards women
● Nazi views on women and the family.
● Nazi policies towards women, including marriage and family,
employment and appearance.
2 Nazi policies towards the young
● Nazi aims and policies towards the young. The Hitler Youth and the
League of German Maidens.
● Nazi control of the young through education, including the
curriculum and teachers.
3 Employment and living standards
● Nazi policies to reduce unemployment, including labour service,
autobahns, rearmament and invisible unemployment.
● Changes in the standard of living, especially of German workers.
The Labour Front, Strength Through Joy, Beauty of Labour.
4 The persecution of minorities
● Nazi racial beliefs and policies and the treatment of minorities:
Slavs, ‘gypsies’, homosexuals and those with disabilities.
● The persecution of the Jews, including the boycott of Jewish shops
and businesses (1933), the Nuremberg Laws and Kristallnacht