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Jekyll and Hyde context
A context sheet to help students understand how Stevenson was influenced by the late Victorian context.
It is divided into 6 sections:
Victorian London
Calvinism
Science
Fin de Siecle
Gothic literature
Atavism
Each section intertwines contextual knowledge with links to the actual novel.
How does Shakespeare present Macbeth as a male character who changes? Timeline and exemplars. 2023
A timeline focusing on how the character of Macbeth changes during the play. There is also a question template to help students explore their own interpretations of the different stages of Macbeth’s descent into evil.
Also includes 2 exemplar high grade exemplars to the question for students to compare and consider which are the most perceptive in meeting the criteria for level 6/grade 9.
Also includes 12 character flashcards to help trace how the different aspects of Macbeth’s complex personality are communicated in the play.
SEND Inset Training
This 227 slide (full day inset) PowerPoint covers the following areas in depth:
• The SEND Code of conduct and the implications for teachers
• The 5 recommendations from the EEF SEND review
• The emphasis on high quality teaching as a first step in support
• Guidance on scaffolding, flexible groupings, collaboration, metacognition
• Advice of identifying and supporting students with dyslexia
• Advice on supporting SEND students with reading
• Advice on practical differentiation and adaptive teaching within lessons
• Opportunities for teachings to put the ideas into practice.
Suitable for trainee teachers or experienced practitioners.
Extending Similes to describe the weather
Detailed lesson looking how to extend similes to describe the weather by making the comparisons more precise and intricate.
Includes a vocabulary sheet to help with creating interesting similes.
Includes modelled examples.
Includes a test on identifying the tone of similes.
Includes examples of similes for each season.
World and Lives Revision Flashcards
Revision flashcards for the 15 poems in the Worlds and Lives Poetry Anthology.
Each card has brief notes on main ideas, 3 key quotations, structure and context.
Ideal for anyone in the same position as me and teaching these poems for the first time.
The Handmaid's Tale Context
5 context information sheets to help students to understand factors that influenced The Handmaid’s Tale.
Margaret Atwood
4 waves of feminism
The New Conservative Right
Literary Influences
What The Handmaid’s Tale teaches us about the human condition
Also includes a 10 question knowledge quiz with detailed answer sheet.
How I teach it:
Flipped learning: Get students to research the context to the novel.
Test the quality of the research through the knowledge test.
Go over the answer sheet and get students to highlight points they missed.
As imperceptibly as Grief
Highly detailed annotations of Emily Dickinson’s As imperceptibly as Grief for the Eduqas poetry anthology to support students aiming for grade 9.
A Streetcar Named Desire: Scene 5
Detailed 41 slide lesson analysing scene 5 from A Streetcar Named Desire to over 2 or 3 lessons. Includes detailed analysis of 12 key quotations from Scene 5 along with a blank template for students to explore their own thoughts about the quotations. Includes an analytical writing task based on the episode at the end of the scene.
Edexcel Conflict Poetry Revision Booklet
A 42 page revision booklet containing detailed question and answer revision sheets covering all 15 poems. Also includes knowledge organisers focused on big ideas, context and structure in all 15 poems. Finally, there are 7 model exam-style comparative responses covering a range of familiar themes: war, conflict, powerful images, anger, tension.
Power and Conflict May 2024 Model Answer Kamikaze
A model answer to the May 2024 AQA Power and Conflict Question.
This response compares Kamikaze and Remains.
Conceptual paragraph 1 explores how conflict dehumanises soldiers in both poems.
Conceptual paragraph 2 explores how conflict leads to internal struggles for the soldiers.
Conceptual paragraph 3 explores the debilitating nature of survivor’s guilt and shame.
Quotations and poetic are analysed in thoughtful ways in each paragraph with a clear focus on authorial methods.
Reading Intervention Booklet Unit 2
A 6 week reading intervention unit aimed at students in Year 6 and Year 7. Each session involves looking at a short speech on a contemporary topic (topics include homework, school uniform, the environment) working on a range of fluency strategies to develop students’ confidence in accessing the text. Full details are included for how to structure each session. At the start of the unit and in week 6, the teacher should assess students against Rasinski’s rubric to help measure progress in reading fluency.
Othello Plot Storyboard
Simple storyboard worksheet to help lower ability students understand the basic plot to Othello.
Jekyll and Hyde - Settings Model Response
A high level response exploring how Stevenson uses settings to create a disturbing and threatening atmosphere in the novella.
Merchant of Venice Plot Storyboard
A simple storyboard to help students learn the basic plot points for A Merchant of Venice.
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Reading Intervention Booklet
A 6 week reading intervention module focused on building reading fluency and comprehension aimed at supporting students in Year 6 and Year 7 whose reading age is slightly below their chronological age.
The theme of the booklet is superheroes. In each session, students read a 500 word text about a superhero and complete fluency activities before ending the session with comprehension questions. Full details are included on how the sessions can be delivered.
Also contains an answer booklet for the comprehension questions.
The superheroes covered are Iron Man, Superman, Hulk, Captain Marvel, Captain America and Spiderman.
At the start and end of the unit, I recommend assessing students against Rasinski’s fluency rubric.
Motif of fire A Christmas Carol
A revision sheet exploring the motif of fire with 13 carefully selected quotations allowing students to trace how the motif is used by Dickens to convey his authorial messages about poverty, isolation, kindness, family and the transformative power of redemption.
Also includes a blank student version to encourage students to explore the impact of the quotations themselves.
No Problem Revision
Revision sheet on No Problem by Benjamin Zephaniah for students studying the Edexcel Conflict poetry.
Contains a question sheet with 10 questions and an answer sheet with high level answers to the 10 questions.
My most popular resource on Edexcel conflict poetry, which puts together all my resources into one booklet, is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/edexcel-conflict-poetry-revision-booklet-12955594
Half Caste
Handy one page revision sheet on Half Caste by John Agard for the Edexcel conflict anthology. It contains 10 analytical questions and 10 developed responses to the questions.
My most popular resource on Edexcel conflict poetry, which puts together all my resources into one booklet, is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/edexcel-conflict-poetry-revision-booklet-12955594
Guilt An Inspector Calls Model response
A high grade model response looking at how the theme of guilt is explored in An Inspector Calls.