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I am an English, Media and Film Studies Teacher. All my resources aim to be inclusive and exciting for students and for teachers. With my love of educational research, I have tried to apply pedagogical practices to the resources created. Please leave me review and comment - would love to make improvements!
A complete lesson that has been colour coded to the Assessment Objectives: summaries, exploring writer’s method, identifying structural features and embedded exam practice. A worksheet and revision sheet has been included. If you like this resource and have found it useful, please leave a review.
Here is a complete lesson with accompanying model paragraph and a success criteria. Students are guided and support in making accurate annotations and consolidating their knowledge through embedded videos from BBC Teach.
This lesson focuses on identifying language and structural features. Students will have the opportunity to pick quotations from the poem and make links to the them of ‘power of nature’. This task provides good planning for an assessment style question.
This lesson guides students to identify language and structural features. Furthermore, it encourages students to think about the structure of the poem and begin to engage in a personal opinion.
This lesson guides students from contextual information to encouraging an in-depth analysis of language and structure. By the end of the lesson students are facilitated in planning a practice paragraph for an assessment style question.
A well-developed lesson that supports students in depth study of language, structure and contextual links made in the poem. Embedded in the lesson is a lovely reading of the poem by John Agard. Later, in lesson students are encouraged to make links to the theme of conflict.
In this lesson students will be able to understand the meaning of William Blake’s London. Students will have access to some contextual information and plenty of annotations to copy into their own anthologies. Attached to this lesson is a Tic Tac Tow grid used for differentiation with a challenge task to start thinking about a comparison. Further to this, a model paragraph adding comparing Ozymandias and London. Enjoy!
This is a booklet that guides students through key skills to write stories of their own. There are fifteen lessons in total; with a final assessment attached. The booklet is picthed for key stage three students. Good luck!
A short unit of work focusing unseen poetry across four lessons. Poems and worksheets are all included. Student will be made aware of what AQA English Literature Paper 2 looks like and be familiar with the mark scheme attached to the first lesson. Plus, a mini quiz with revision activities to get students ready for an exam.
This booklet is designed to support students planning and preparation for with either narrative or descriptive writing. There are a range of resources and tasks that can allow students to work independently as well as work with learning partners.
Don’t want to get the full booklet? Get this mini booklet to practice Question one and two for Unseen Poetry with AQA. With a supporting guide for writing too!
Scaffolded practice
Sentence starters
Colour coded
Self assessment using AQA AOs
Writing guide
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Don’t want to get the full booklet? Get this mini exam booklet with all the key exam questions.
FIVE exam questions
Planning sheets
Scaffolded practice
PEEZL
Sentence starters
Writing support guide
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This 15 page booklet guides students in strengthening each of the assessment objectives from AQA’s English Literature Paper 1, mark scheme. Using three different templates, students have the opportunity to explore their own analysis of chosen quotations, as well as read modelled examples.
This booklet includes:
Guidance in analysising quotations
Top tips
Modelled examples
Key quotations log
Consistent reference to AQA’s AOs
Space to explore exam style responses
Develop depth in quotation analysis
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Get this booklet to support students study of Arthur Birling. This booklet includes:
writing summaries
extracting quotations
speech analysis
audience perspective
writing quizzes
exam question
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The same booklet but in two formats, Word and PDF. Best used as an interactive document, where students can complete tasks online, click on the links and use resources to create there own resources to present from. All the best!
This is full scheme of work for To Kill a Mockingbird. Each presentation has chapters marked with resources to support students wider learning of the text. Attached to this scheme is a homeowrk menu with potential assessments to use with students. All ready to go!
This is a jampacked scheme of work that goe sthrough each scene of Macbeth. With differentiated tasks and worksheets to support students learning of the Shakespearean tradegy. starting from underpinning the context of a tragedy all the way through to the finale scene of the texts. Plus, there are reading slides to support class reading of the play. Good luck!
Get this pack of 10 worksheets that addresses each criterion of Section B: Writing in AQA’s English Language Papers. Worksheets include:
Spelling Game
Purpose
Audience
Grammar misconceptions
Sentence structures
Word choice
Constructung paragraphs
SO MUCH MORE!
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Check out this range of 15 poems that focus on wars from different cultures. From World War One to the Iraq war, this anthology aims to capture the thoughts, feelings and emotions of individuals across the world. Each poem has information about the poet. PLUS! There are pages dedicated to contextual information, where students can research and better understand the wars that have impacted the poets.
See the selections of poems below:
Anthem for Doomed Youth, Wilfred Owen
Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen
Who’s for the Game?, Jessie Pope
The Gift of India, Sarojini Naidu
Untitled, Takijiro Onishi
War Baby, Pamela Holmes
We are Not Blessed, Nikolay Mayorov
The Butterfly, Pavel Freidmann
High Flight, John Gillespie Magee
All of Us or None, Bertolt Brecht
Songs of Love and War, Sayd Bahoudine Majrouh
The Brutal Game, Alex Cocker
Helmand, John Hawhead
Landays, Rashila Mushka
War Sees No Colour, Donna Zephrine
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The SEVEN page booklet has everything you need to set students a mini in-class assessment. The exam question this focuses on is '…explain how far you think Shakespeare presents Macbeth as a ruthless and aggressive character. The extract is from Act 4 , Scene 1 - after the second prophecy.
This booklet includes:
Warm up activity
Scaffolded planning sheet
PEEZL structure for practice
Effect of the audience: focus on four quotation that support the question.
Self assessment sheet with each AQA AO broken down.
Language analysis sheet
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