Spelling Bee words for Grand Final

Lesson and differentiated resources for teaching students how to write a review of the award winning short film ‘Father and Daughter’ 2008 by Michael Dudok de Vit. Link to film included.

Family Affair by Elizabeth Jennings worksheets

Ideas for class newspaper about environmental issues

Complete PowerPoint covering how to analyse the opening to the film.

Resources to help students write their own soap script. Includes a high level example and planning sheets to prompt ideas.

PowerPoint for a week of lessons on using the super 7 approach to plan and write a speech. There is also a student booklet to accompany the PowerPoint. Super 7 1. Generating ideas 2. Organising ideas 3. paragraphing 4. vocabulary 5. sentence construction 6. punctuation 7. spelling Originally, the speech is about defending the town of Middlesbrough from prejudice in the media. This can be changed to any town or city.

AFL: 3 universal self-assessment plenary tasks that can be adapted to any lesson.

Armitage’s Hitcher with differentiated activities. Lesson is in Active Inspire/Studio so needs converting to PowerPoint.

How does Macbeth react to the witches?

Science fiction conventions differentiated activity

A useful model response for students to annotate which focuses on how the play interests a modern day audience.

A descriptive writing task inspired by an image of trench warfare. Links to the poem Exposure. There is a high level model response to inspire students along with a planning sheet.

‘When I have fears’ by Keats. 2 worksheets containing reading and writing tasks.

PowerPoint for an exam walk-through looking at the AQA Question from May 2017. Differentiated starter: define the key words linked to male aggression and make links. Main: Analyse 5 key extracts that demonstrate male aggression with a focus on A01 and A02. Suggested answers are on the PowerPoint to guide students through each extract. Plenary: Draw a line graph to chart the intensity of male aggression across the play. Also includes a band 5/6 model response to the question so students can look at how to develop their writing into a top band style response.

Selected annotations on Tissue and Ozymandias followed by a writing frame to compare the ways power presented in the two poems. Ideal for low ability students or for students writing comparative responses for the first time. To push the more able, there are questions to encourage students to annotate Tissue independently. Also includes a high level exemplar response.

Over 10 worksheets to support the teaching of Kamikaze and Emigree from the power and conflict section of the AQA poetry anthology. Includes: - comprehension questions on both poems - a comparison table to fill in (with answers) focusing on specific conflicts on the poem linked to language, structure and form - questions based on a revision video

A grade 9 exemplar essay to the 2018 AQA question on Romeo and Juliet which was as follows: Starting with this moment in the play, explore how Shakespeare presents relationships between adults and young people in Romeo and Juliet. (30+4 marks) Includes some examiner comment for A01, A02, A03.

A grade 9 exam response answering a question about Scrooge’s fears in A Christmas Carol. I have also included a writing frame that I used with a much lower ability class (target grades 4 and 5).