Unit of work for the novel Clap When You Land by Elizabath Acevedo. Novel looks at themes of grief and sisterhood. Unit includes 6 weeks worth of work and essay support.
A media unit looking at the documentary Blackfish and culminating in a personal essay taking on the perspective of an animal in captivity. This unit encourages students to feel empathy towards these animals.
PowerPoint and study booklet including tasks for every chapter of the novel. PDF of novel and essay plans. This unit looks at Rape Culture within society.
Vast PowerPoint unit of a six week unit covering persuasive writing, speaking and researching and finally debating. This unit includes a range of innovative resources and AifL strategies. Included in this bundle:
PowerPoint (143 slides)
Persuasive writing examples for students
Checklist for peer and self assessment
Media text for National 5 class, could be used for Higher students too.
This pack includes:
two PowerPoints - one should be printed as a booklet for students,
the second PowerPoint introduces students to media techniques and incorporates this into the viewing of the text.
Worksheets and grids for analysing scenes.
Exemplar introduction and conclusion.
This detailed PowerPoint includes ‘own words’ questions and ‘word choice’ questions, introducing students to connotations and denotations.
This PowerPoint includes around five or six lessons of work, including differentiated slides that can be printed off for some students who struggle with the work.
A powerpoint teaching camera angles and camera shots, followed by quizzes for each. There is also a few other worksheets, and a booklet for students to record their notes on.
PowerPoint for the short story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’
This covers the context of the story: Victorian Era, quiz, essay planning and model paragraphs. This is a fully comprehensive unit of work for senior pupils.
This is a fun Media Unit that teaches students about media techniques and camera angles and shots, culminating in students creating their own Superhero.
Media Unit including 100 Slide PowerPoint with quizzes, tasks and terminology. Also included is another powerPoint with only a media quiz, character pictures to print, response prompts during the movie, media terms and task worksheet, storyboard, superhero worksheet and model worksheet to show students as an exemplar.
*Resource bundle includes PowerPoint and Textual Analysis questions for National 5 examination prep, and culminating in essay writing practice. The textual analysis can be used as practice for curriculums other than Scottish - I used this resource with a hard working - mixed ability S3 as preparation for S4. I have also included an essay planning sheet *
This unit of works introduces learners to figurative language, through definition, and song lyrics, the resources are innovative, creative, engaging, and effective.
Included is:
a detailed PP (introducing figurative language, implicit and explicit language, poem with annotations, close reading questions pertaining to poem.
a copy of the poem and the song chosen to be studied.
PowerPoint looking at Understanding and Analysis question types.
This includes a formula and model answers, scaffolding this for students with answers and practice for exam preparation.
PowerPoint, homelearning booklet/homework booklet. 2 x essay plans for different themes, theme tracker and 2 x reading comprehension/RUAE activities for chapters. This is a fully comprehensive unit of work for the novel ‘The Woman in Black’.
PowerPoint teaching formula and revision RUAE/Close Reading questions for Understanding:
-Own Words Questions
Context Questions
Link Questions
The PowerPoint also contains a breakdown of how to answer and a model answer, and includes answers for this.
There are also two worksheets, to follow on from this, one on own words questions and the other for context and link questions.
This is around a weeks worth of Close Reading work.