I'm currently the head of English and raising standards leader at a secondary school in Birmingham. I'm passionate about my subject and passionate about ensuring that the young people we serve leave education with a high competency in English.
Prior to teaching I worked in the radio industry as a presenter for 7 years and so when I became a teacher I enjoyed the opportunity to teach Media studies.
You'll find hundreds of English and Media studies resources.
I'm currently the head of English and raising standards leader at a secondary school in Birmingham. I'm passionate about my subject and passionate about ensuring that the young people we serve leave education with a high competency in English.
Prior to teaching I worked in the radio industry as a presenter for 7 years and so when I became a teacher I enjoyed the opportunity to teach Media studies.
You'll find hundreds of English and Media studies resources.
6 exam questions:
6 for poetry - power and conflict collection.
Named poems on the papers:
- My last duchess
- Bayonet charge
- Remains
- The Emigree
- War photographer
- London
1 example exam question for unseen poetry Papers are presented in the same way as the real papers will be.
3 lessons designed to revise with students how to write an academic essay including introduction.
The first lesson models to students
The second lesson is a ‘we do’ lesson where, with teacher support, students structure an answer to a new Macbeth question.
The third lesson is designed to be an assessment where students answer a third Macbeth question independently.
Three Macbeth sample assessments included
A series of lessons following the I do, we do, you do structure that guides students through how to write an academic response to the GCSE exam question on ‘An Inspector Calls.’
Students are guided through:
how to tackle the question
how to plan their response
how to write an effective introduction
how to structure an academic essay
Three exam questions included for students to work on.
A resource to expose students to a range of poetry and to practice analysing an unseen poem.
Students will be exposed to the following poems:
- If
- The Tyger
- Funeral Blues
Students will use ARTWARS to analyse the poem in groups or independently
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
3 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of 19th century England context. Useful ahead of studying a 19th century text or extract with KS3.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources cover:
London
social class
gender divide
rich and poor children
Technology
Education
Children
Welfare support
Hygiene
Difference between rich and poor
Opportunities to:
- write imaginatively
- analyse gender divide
- explore social class
2 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of 19th century extracts taken from Jane Eyre and Nicholas Nickleby. The focus of these lessons is school life and students will consider the presentation of school in the 19th century and compare this to school life in the 21st century. Opportunities to compare the two 19th century texts.
Extracts are taken from the AQA new specification 9-1, 19th century texts booklet and is included in this resource pack.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
5 differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of the skills for English language question 4 on the new specification (9-1) paper 1.
Students read extracts taken from fiction and develop skills in evaluating effectiveness.
The resource uses an extract from 'Transmission.' Extract included.
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore how writer's structure texts
- analyse the use of structure in engaging reader interest
- use sample answers
- use mark schemes
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
3 differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of Romeo and Juliet Act 5 scene 1, 2 and 3.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore language, form and structure
- assess against the 9-1 specification success criteria
- explore context - fate and predestination
- explore creation of tension
- explore unfortunate coincidence
- explore the significance of the ending
With very few sample assessment materials provided by the exam boards I have created my own.
They have been made to look exactly like the assessments that students will sit n the real 9-1 examinations and are phrased in the same ways too.
This paper uses War photographer as the printed poem.
The student responses can then be marked using the relevant mark scheme for Power and conflict poetry.
A resource to support students in the comparison of Ozymandias to one other poem from the power and conflict collection
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resource provides opportunities for:
- exploration of the mark scheme
- identifying points of comparison between Ozymandias and other poems
- self/peer assessment
- guiding students through an effective analytical paragraph structure
2 lessons to support the introduction to studying plays.
Resources provide opportunities for students to:
- explore stage directions
- explore stage terminology
- explore the layout of scripts
- practice creating scripts
- perform scripts
- explore the difference between plays and prose
20 full differentiated (by colour) and meticulously planned lessons to support the teaching of reading and writing skills. These lessons are ready to go.
Ideal for transition from KS2 to KS3, for year 6, year 7 or year 8 classes.
Within these lessons students are exposed to a wide range of fiction, non fiction and literary non fiction texts and will use these as a stimulus for creating their own texts.
These lessons allow students to develop skills for accessing the new English language and English literature 9-1 specifications.
Students will explore the following texts/extracts:
- Article on bats
- Extract from the Twits & BFG - Roald Dahl
- Extract from Frankenstein
- Extract from A Christmas Carol
- Extracts from autobiographies
- Extract from Bill Bryson - travel writing (non-fiction literary)
- Extract from Bleak house
- The Lion the witch and the wardrobe
- blogs
- poetry - Sister Maude, Mother any distance
- articles about Friendship
Students will develop the following skills in preparation for accessing new 9-1 GCSE
- Synthesis
- Comparison
- Language. structure, form analysis
- Theme exploration
- Analytical writing
- Imaginative writing - narrative and descriptive
- Transactional writing
Assessment opportunities and homework tasks also included
A power point presentation covering major theorists in Media studies with opportunities for students to watch videos, conduct research and analyse media images as part of their revision.
Theorists and theories covered:
- audience positioning
- Representation and readings - Stuart Hall
- Roland Barthes - Action code & enigma code with video clip examples
- Claude Levi Strauss - Binary opposition - with video example
- Vladimir Propp - character theory with vide example
- Todorov - Narrative theory
- Syd Field - 3 act plot structure
Comment back for English teachers in an excel file.
The comments cover the following areas:
- Pupil effort
- Pupil attitude
- Pupil homework
- Pupil classwork
- Pupil targets for improvement
Also broken down to provide comments for:
- Poetry
- Prose
Carousel activities which allow students to revise the context of Elizabethan England and practice analysing extracts from the play as well as referring to the play as a whole.
Differentiated to allow students to structure an exam response which culminates in an exam practice question.
Two exam questions also included in the structure of the 9-1 literature examination.
Extracts taken from:
Act 1 scene 5
Act 2 scene 2
Act 2 scene 3
Act 4 scene 3
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue - middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Fully differentiated resources to teach Act 4 scene 1 of A Midsummer Night's dream. Focus on the creation of imagery within the scene.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
Blue - middle ability
yellow = higher ability
A speaking and listening (role play and drama) resource is also included.
14 lessons that are meticulously planned, fully differentiated and numbered for ease of use with activities included.
Homework tasks included.
Download and teach right away. These are ready to go.
Power point resources to support the teaching of the following poems from the new specification AQA power and conflict poetry collection:
1. Remains
2. Kamikaze
3. Tissue
4. Emigree
5. Charge of the light brigade
This pack also includes a comparison assessment which has been created in line with AQA format.
All resources are fully differentiated by colour. (Purple = low ability, blue = mid ability, yellow = higher ability)
All lessons are numbered for ease of use. There are 2 other packs available to support the teaching of the remaining 10 poems.
There are 2 to 3 power point presentations per poem which cover context, language, form and structure and contain assessment opportunities in line with new specification.
8 fully differentiated lessons (by colour) that re numbered for ease of use.
Resources support the teaching of the following poems:
1. Half Caste
2. Limbo
3. The Class Game
4. Blessing
Resources provide opportunities to:
- Compare poetry
- Explore context
- Analyse language, form and structure
Revision guide to support student revision of 'Of Mice and Men'
This resource could be useful as an ongoing homework project as students read the novella in class.
Resources to support the teaching of 'twisted' for lower ability.
Homework project also included.
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore stage directions
- understand and create monologues
- explore characterisation
- develop empathy skills
- explore and create flash backs
- create narratives
- develop speaking and listening skills through role play
- create tableau
- explore the theme of bullying
- analyse anti bullying posters and create own
- write letters to an agony aunt
- performs scenes