I have worked within secondary education for the last twelve years. I upload a lot of lessons for KS3-KS4 students. I try to make sure all of my lessons are differentiated to help students in the best way possible.
For more lessons and videos please visit my youtube page
I have worked within secondary education for the last twelve years. I upload a lot of lessons for KS3-KS4 students. I try to make sure all of my lessons are differentiated to help students in the best way possible.
For more lessons and videos please visit my youtube page
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the poem Ozymandias. The lesson helps students to gain an understanding of the poem as well as it’s context. The lesson goes on to help learners map out what happens in the poem and to understand the significant aspects of the poem.
This is a fully differentiated fourteen slide PowerPoint looking at the perception of women within the play Macbeth. The lesson introduces the learners to key contextual information regarding women during the time. In addition, the lesson looks at key scenes for lady Macbeth and her development throughout the play.
This lesson is ideal for either on-line or face-to-face teaching. All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources that are uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at Macbeth and Banquo’s first encounter with the witches. The lesson has been designed to help learners revise the key points of the play, attempt exam-style questions and test their knowledge on the play as a whole. The lesson has many opportunities for AFL and has extension activities for learners who require additional revision.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources with more being uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at paper one Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing. The lesson helps learners to gain a firm understanding of the key questions and how to develop their response to get high marks. The lesson includes model answers and many opportunities for AFL. This lesson also helps learners to improve their creative writing skills and improve on their response for question five.
This lesson works well both online and face-to-face and it requires no additional printing. All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at William Blake’s poem, A Poison Tree. The lesson helps learners understand key contextual factors and their impact on the poem. The lesson looks at the poem in-depth focusing on language, structure and form and has opportunities for AFL.
This lesson may be taught wither online or face-to-face and has been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the poem, The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy. The lesson has been designed to help learners gain a good understanding of the language, structure and form of the poem as well as the contextual factors that affect our interpretation of the text.
The lesson has many opportunities for AFL and class discussion as well as a comparison to the poem, A Poison Tree by William Blake (see bundle for a full lesson on Blake’s work) and how to structure a comparison.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups and can be taught both online and face-to-face. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources which are updated each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson designed to help learners to revise Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The lesson helps learners to consolidate their overall understanding of the novella and the themes Stevenson employed throughout the story.
The lesson has many opportunities for AFL and takes learners through an exam-style response focused on chapter four. This lesson works well both face-to-face and online and can be taught without any additional printing.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated, sixteen slide lesson looking at the poem, “What Were They Like,” by Denise Levertov. The lesson helps learners understand the key contextual elements surrounding the poem and how to apply these details to a written response. The lesson has many opportunities for AFL as well as an example response.
This lesson works well both online and face-to-face and has been tried and tested with my own groups.
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This is a fully differentiated, nineteen slide lesson looking at paper one of the English language qualification. The lesson looks at developing learner’s understanding of question four and five. There are many opportunities for AFL and an exam-style question for both q4 and q5.
This lesson works well both online and face-to-face and this lesson have been tried and tested with my own groups.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at act four scene one of the play Macbeth. The lesson helps learners to consolidate their understanding, develop their ability at approaching exam questions and helps them to understand the importance of the structure of the play.
This lesson has been designed both for face-face and online teaching and has been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated, sixteen side lesson looking at paper one English language. The lesson uses a key extract from the Hobbit and helps learners to understand key language and structural techniques and how to apply these to an exam-style response. Additionally, the lesson also has a creative writing challenge that helps learners develop their writing ability.
This lesson works well both online and face-to-face and has been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at act four of the play Othello. The lesson looks at key scenes within act four and the relevance of the character Bianca and how she impacts the rest of the play. The lesson has several opportunities for AFL as well as a model response and an opportunity for learners to develop their responses to exam questions.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups and can be taught both online and face-to-face. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at questions three, four and five for paper one, explorations in creative reading and writing. The lesson helps learners to gain a strong understanding of both language and structure and how to apply these to exam responses. The lesson has many opportunities for AFL and includes model responses.
The lesson also helps learners to structure their response for the creative writing question. All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups and can be taught either face-to-face or online.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at some of the key questions of the paper one exam-explorations in creative reading and writing. The lesson helps students to gain a strong understanding of key language and structural techniques and how to apply these to their exam responses.
The lesson also helps learners to develop their creative writing skills, with a four-step guide to writing their response. The lesson has many opportunities for AFL as well as model examples.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups and can be taught both online and face-to-face.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the first half of the poem Cousin Kate. The lesson helps learners understand the key contextual information that has impacted the poem and to gain a good understanding of the poem in terms of language, structure and form.
The lesson has many opportunities for AFL and has been tried and tested with my own groups. The lesson can be taught both online and face-to-face.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at chapter nine of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The lesson helps learners understand the perception of good and evil within Victorian sociaty and how this is conveyed within the novella.
The lesson helps learners to understand key sections of the novella and to analyse them for deeper understanding. The lesson has many opportunities for ALF and has a model response to help learners to approach an exam-style question.
This lesson works well both online and face to face and has been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the poem The Prelude by William Wordsworth. The lesson looks at the contextual information regarding the poem and helps learners to draw links between this and the other poems in the anthology.
The lesson looks at the whole poem and helps learners to understand key feature of language, structure and form. The lesson also has a model example and opportunities for AFL.
This lesson may be taught both online and face-to-face and has been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the poem, “No Problem” by Benjamin Zephaniah. The lesson looks at some contextual factors surrounding the poem and helps learners understand how language, structure and form has been used to convey the conflict within the poem. The lesson includes a model response and helps learners to start making comparisons with the other poems in the anthology.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups and has been designed to be taught either online or face-to-face.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the poem, “War Photographer” by Carole Satyamurti. The poem looks in-depth at the role and risks of being a War Photographer and how this could affect our interpretation of the poem.
The lesson takes learners through each stanza to help them gain a good understanding to then apply to an exam-style question. In addition, there is a model response to help learners to craft their own response.
This seventeen-slide lesson has been designed to be delivered both online and face-to-face. All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups; if you liked this lesson then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the characters of Benvolio and Tybalt in Act One of Romeo and Juliet. The lesson helps learners to understand how Shakespeare has created a contrast between the different characters.
The lesson includes a key scene from the play and helps learners approach an exam-style question.
This Lesson can be taught either online or face-to-face and has been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson, then please check out our YouTube channel for more lessons.