2 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of the 'The Drum' by John Scott. Differentiation: purple = lower blue = middle yellow = higher Resources provide opportunities for students to develop skills for 9-1 poetry exam including language and structure analysis and context exploration.

Resource to support the exploration of the elegy form of poetry using Ben Johnson's 'On My first Sonne.' Differentiation: purple = lower blue = middle yellow = higher Students will explore language, form and structure

A resource that supports children in creating a comparison of perspectives using Owen’s ‘The Send Off’ and Brittain’s ‘Perhaps.’

Card sort of spoken language features.

Differentiated (by colour) lesson to support the teaching of Romeo and Juliet Act 4 scene 2 with a focus on the skill of evaluation of language paper 1 Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability Resources provide opportunities to: - prepare for language paper 1 Q4 - agree or disagree question - explore the presentation of character and theme - evaluate the Friar's plan - link to context - use structure strips to elicit better responses

Differentiated (by colour) lesson to support the teaching of Romeo and Juliet Act 4 scene 1. Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability Resources provide opportunities to: - evaluate the Friar's plan - explore the presentation of character and theme - empathise with Juliet

These resources support the teaching of opening worlds poetry Resources included for the following poems: - Two kinds - Young couple - Train from Rhodesia - The tall woman and her short husband - Leela's friend - Pieces of silver - Gold legged frog

30 facts about Shakespeare and his plays. Cut them up and ask students to move around the room sharing information. A useful activity to get students thinking about Shakespeare ahead of studying a play.

Resources to support the teaching of Carol Ann Duffy poetry Resources include a range of activities for all abilities and ages including cloze exercises, resequencing, annotations of the poem, language analysis, contextual information and much more. Poems covered: 1. Valentine 2. War photographer 3. Salome 4. Havisham 5. Ann Hathaway 6. Human interest 7. Stealing 8. Hour

Resources to support the teaching of poetry analysis and exploration. These lessons were taught to year 8 but are suitable for any KS3 group as well as KS2. Poems/poets explored include: - Carol Ann Duffy - Valentine - Sophie Hannah - Symptoms - Deserted house - Sonnet 18 - A Married state - Declaration of need - Lady of Shalott - Roger McGough Opportunities provided for students to: - develop speaking and listening skills - explore the idea of marriage - analyse language, structure and form - explore pathetic fallacy

TEACHING RESOURCES Including power point presentations and activities to support the teaching of imaginative writing. Resources include opportunities to: - develop characterisation - explorer tabloid and broadsheet - create tabloid and broadsheet

Resources to support the exploration of audio production. (Week 2) Resources provide opportunities to explore: - audio file formats - AIFF, mp3 etc. - audio platforms - media player, iTunes etc - mono and stereo - acoustics in different locations such as full and empty rooms, theatres and open spaces - recording audio in different environments - direct sound and reverberation - interior and exterior recording

A wide variety of starter activities and warms to get students engaged and awake. Included in this wide variety of starters and warm ups are: - optical illusions - ice breakers - Taboo games - Brain gyms - homophones - metaphors and similes - double negatives - imperatives - punctuation practice - spellings - inference - describing games and many, many more!

At least 8 lessons worth of resources to support the teaching of creative writing (narrative and descriptive) and take stimulus from the following texts/events: - Castaway - The London riots - The Edge These resources provide opportunities to: - Describe using the senses - watch clips from Castaway and use as a stimulus for own writing - up level vocabulary - identify figurative and use in own writing - develop characterisation - develop narrative structure - assess against GCSE criteria - create tension and suspense

A selection of activities that make links to other literature texts whilst studying the poetry in an effort to help student retention of previously studied texts. Activities make links to: An Inspector Calls Romeo and Juliet Each activity takes a theme that is evident in a particular poem and encourages students to make connections with the same theme in other texts that have been studied.

Templates to support the completion of: department evaluation department development plan

Resources to support the teaching of the following poems: - Harmonium - Sonnet 43 - Quickdraw - Sister Maude - To his coy mistress - In Paris with you - The farmer's bride - Brothers - Ghazal - Born yesterday

Resource to support the exploration of 'Our Sharpeville' Differentiation: purple = lower blue = middle yellow = higher Exploration of context, meaning, language and structure

Resources to support the exploration of Hitcher by Simon Armitage. Differentiation: purple = lower blue = middle yellow = higher Exploration of meaning, language and structure. Opportunity to compare the theme of anger in this poem with another poem.

A resource that was delivered to heads of department to help them prepare for the new specification GCSE 9-1. The power point guides heads of department through a process of preparing for their new look qualifications and covers the following: - the importance of embedding skills into KS3 medium term plans - the importance of creating age appropriate 9-1 style assessments for KS3 Also included are: - example grade boundaries that have been created - example medium term plan that embeds skills for new 9-1 GCSE