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Merchant of Venice Social Media Profiles
A series of worksheets with fake blank Facebook pages for main characters in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice including Shylock and Portia. Great for an extension activity.
Starters
A variety of starter tasks in a PowerPoint - includes riddles, grammar work, short writing stimuli and more.
Remote Learning Creative Writing
Creative writing resources designed to help pupils who are working from home or working with less support (these were made during the first lockdown). Includes a variety of worksheets which cover different aspects of creative writing (character, dialogue etc.) culminating in writing their own story.
Scary Story Haunted House Writing
A unit of work designed to support BGE classes with writing a scary story about a haunted house. Includes a PowerPoint and some differentiated paragraph writing worksheets.
The Polar Express Media Study
Some resources designed to help support teaching The Polar Express. Includes a short PowerPoint and some worksheets.
Shrek Media Study Film Unit
Designed for teaching the 2001 film Shrek as a critical essay text. Includes a PowerPoint designed to take pupils through the essay as well as worksheets for use beforehand. Also includes a short group talking task which can be used as an extension task. Designed for use with a fairly low ability class, but could be adapted to be used with less support.
Discursive Essay Resources
A PowerPoint and basic essay plan to help guide pupils through writing a basic discursive essay. Also includes some other worksheets for extra help if necessary. Designed for use with a National 5 class, but can be adapted for use with other levels.
Roald Dahl RUAE/ Close Reading
Some RUAE/close reading resources based around Roald Dahl extracts. Covers word choice, imagery and own words with some resources on sentence structure. Includes a PowerPoint and worksheets for both practising and testing.
The Highwayman Alfred Noyes Poetry
A unit of work designed to teach Alfred Noyes’s The Highwayman, culminating in a critical essay. Includes a PowerPoint, the poem itself, a short task on similes and metaphors, a wanted poster and storyboard for extension activities, a critical essay plan and a write-on critical essay.
Nettles Vernon Scannell
A short unit of work designed to teach the poem Nettles by Vernon Scannell, culminating in a short class test. Includes work on analysing metaphors.
War Poetry Dulce and Remains
A unit of work designed to teach Wilfred Owen’s Dulce et Decorum Est and Simon Armitage’s Remains. Includes a PowerPoint teaching both poems, a PowerPoint with an annotated version of Remains and an AVU-type comparative essay write-on sheet. Also contains Critical Reading/TA-type assessments.
Mid Term Break Seamus Heaney Textual Analysis
A short unit of work designed to teach Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney, culminating in a textual analysis test (differentiated for different levels). Also contains one practice assessment.
Camping Out Vernon Scannell
A unit of work designed to teach the poem Camping Out by Vernon Scannell, working towards a critical essay. Includes a PowerPoint, the poem itself and a differentiated write-on version of the essay.
Scots Poetry Unit
A unit of work designed to teach Scots poetry. The poems included are Shug the Claw by Gerry Cambridge, 6 O’clock News by Tom Leonard, A Dug, A Dug by Billy Keys and Lament for a Lost Dinner Ticket by Margaret Hamilton. The unit works up to writing a newspaper article in Scots. Also includes a short Scots word quiz.
RUAE Close Reading Question Type Guides
Short guides on how to answer own words, word choice, sentence structure and imagery questions in RUAE. Designed for use with National 5 classes but can be adapted for use with other levels.
RUAE Close Reading Resources
Includes a PowerPoint designed to teach own words, word choice, imagery and sentence structure questions as well as two practice papers and some short tasks which can be used in a carousel.
The Haunting of Jessop Rise Danny Weston
A PowerPoint and critical essay plan designed to support the teaching of Danny Weston’s novel The Haunting of Jessop Rise.
The Play of Room 13
A PowerPoint and critical essay plan designed to support the teaching of The Play of Room 13, dramatised by Joe Standerline, original novel written by Robert Swindells.
Extension Writing Tasks
A selection of short tasks (mostly writing-based) which are great for use as extension tasks. I printed them off, cut them up and let the pupils choose at random which ones they will complete.
Example: In your jotter, write a description of your favourite place. You should use the 5 senses to help you describe this place - sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell."
Hatchet Gary Paulsen
A PowerPoint and essay plan designed to support the teaching of Gary Paulsen’s novel Hatchet.