A scheme of work and powerpoints to ensure students understand popular music and the key features as well as improving their ensemble performance.
Stand By Me is used as the prime example however this can also be mashed up with Just the Way You Are and Beautiful Girls.
Band parts for the following instruments are available and differentiated into multiple tasks: drum-kit, keyboard (riff and chords), ukulele, bass guitar, lyrics.
Sibelius files are also available so you can adapt the music to suit your needs.
This scheme of work can last up to 7 weeks and also includes the option of adding in the middle 8 or student’s composing their own.
A comprehensive bundle of differentiated resources to support the teaching of the following 3 Christmas songs:
Jingle Bells
Jingle Bell Rock
Rocking around the Christmas Tree
Suitable for KS2/KS3
Week of lesson activities on Theseus and the Minotaur which would work for KS2/KS3
Includes the text to the story
A differentiated storyboard activity (bronze, silver, gold)
A myth mountain to study the structure of the story
A differentiated worksheet on who is the cruellest character
The accompanying PowerPoint with learning outcomes
A music test based on classical music to test student’s understanding of musical language and identifying key features.
Answers and links to the pieces are provided.
A series of 4 lessons based on Grieg’s ‘In the hall of the mountain king’, Stravinsky’s Firebord suite and Adams’ Short ride in a fast machine.
These pieces are used as a stimulus to perform sections of classical music and create compositions in the western classical genre. All resources are differentiated.
PowerPoints are also provided with differentiated tasks and push your thinking ideas.
A 10 week scheme of work which is fully differentiated. It focuses on 6 western classical composers and encourages students to perform famous motifs as well as using these pieces as a stimulus to compose their own pieces.
Glossaries and a end of unit listening test with answers is also available as well as a tracking sheet where students can keep a track of all tasks they have completed and at what level.
Keyboard music with and without notes and 6 levels of differentiation.
Guitar tab is available as a push your thinking task.
The sibelius file is available so parts can be altered.
A simple but effective and ready to go worksheet to promote a group activity exploring who is responsible for the death of Eva Smith.
After splitting your class into 5 groups, ask students to create their argument for their character by finding further quotations to support their point and adding them to the structured grid.
Students can then share their ideas in a carousel style.
Lesson along with planning sheets to help students to plan and write an AQA exam response on the character of Mr Birling.
Sheet 1: Listening activity with youtube link
Sheet 2: Find quotations
Sheet 3: Exploratory questions and useful sentence stems/writing frame
Sheet 4: Grade 6 exemplar response with examiner comments
Sheet 5: 10 quotations explained in detail
A sheet to help students plan a response to the following AQA 1-9 question on Romeo and Juliet which meets the criteria for A01, A02, A03:
How far do you think Shakespeare presents Capulet as a good father. (34)
PowerPoint with differentiated Worksheets for 2/3 lessons analysing Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen. Includes annotations for lower ability students.
Also includes an additional creative writing lesson based on the poem with full resources.
Worksheets to teach The Midas Touch.
Includes text to the story:
Differentiated storyboard activity
Differentiated activity exploring the question: Is Midas a good father?
A term’s worth of ready-to-teach resources created for the 2021 examination on A Christmas Carol.
Includes:
Revision sheets containing key quotes and context points and differentiated revision tasks
Context match up sheet
9 grade 9 model answers
Writing frames
5, Sample AQA-style questions
Partially completed essay plans to finish
Difficult vocabulary glossary activity
Carousel activity on key extracts
Differentiated questions on stave 2
Differentiated questions on Marley’s ghost
Which vision in Stave 2 affects Scrooge the most worksheet
Activities with model responses on how Dickens presents ideas about Christmas in Stave 3
Comprehension questions on all staves
Top 50 quotations revision sheets
Fred lesson
Fezziwig lesson
Lesson on more obscure extracts
Lesson on women in the novella
Plus lots more
40 key lines from the play in the form of a quiz in which students have to work out which character speaks each line.
I have other resources available for An Inspector Calls:
Bundle
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-aqa-1-9-differentiated-birling-sheila-11412310
Revision Cards:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/theme-revision-cards-for-an-inspector-calls-12124143
Knowledge Organisers
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-4-ultimate-revision-sheets-themes-character-stage-directions-cards-11574057
Revision quotations:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-inspector-calls-test-on-10-quotations-per-character-9-1-revision-12138293
Lesson with worksheets and a PowerPoint for analysing the word choice in Romeo’s final soliloquy in Act 5 Scene 3. Students follow the instructions and zoom in to two words choices within each quotation. They should then discuss the combined or contrasting effect of these two word choices.
A range of worksheets focusing on figurative language.
Using the examples as a guide, students come up with an A to Z of similes, metaphors, alliteration, oxymoron, personification. It works well as a home and away group activity.
There is also an extension on hyphenated words that can be used to replace one of the sections.