I provide resources mainly for English (IGCSE and GCSE content), but also post useful Drama resources. There are also brand new English-with-Media resources to choose from, and many materials such as assemblies and certificates that could prove useful to Head of Years. All resources are differentiated appropriately and labelled with key year groups.
I provide resources mainly for English (IGCSE and GCSE content), but also post useful Drama resources. There are also brand new English-with-Media resources to choose from, and many materials such as assemblies and certificates that could prove useful to Head of Years. All resources are differentiated appropriately and labelled with key year groups.
This lesson includes:
Do Now activity with Challenging Vocab
Video task and questioning
Stretch and Challenge
Interactive Research Task with Resources
Discussion tasks and prompts
This lesson will teach students:
What a ‘TED Talk’ is.
How to differentiate between good and bad public speaking
How to review a TED Talk for persuasive devices
How to plan their own TED Talk
This lesson was originally created for my intervention year 7 class, however it would be appropriate for any year 5-6 class as well.
This lesson introduces the students to the Industrial Revolution and William Wordsworth, with the aim that students will finish the lesson understanding the intentions behind Romantic Poetry.
Students will also be introduced to 'I Wandered Lonely/Daffodils) in order to find positive connotations within the poem, associated with nature.
This teacher feedback sheet is separated into 3 sections - WWW, EBI, and a task. All you as a teacher have to do is highlight the correct sections - and the student work is marked! There are also marking codes and their meaning at the top of the sheet, to help the students to understand your marking. The numbers at the bottom reflect the student grade.
This display includes 8 different poetic techniques, a visual for each, and the definition. It also includes two key terms for structure. The cover sheet is there to help guide you to make the display.
In this lesson, students will learn how to utilize the 5 senses, and also how to use a range of language devices in a creative piece about the sinking of the Titanic.
This lesson introduces students to speaking and listening as a topic, and asks them to consider what makes an effective speaker, and listener. By the end, students will write their own mini-speech on a topic of their choice.
This is the first lesson on ‘A Handmaid’s Tale’ in a dystopian SOW. This lesson introduces the students to the concept of objectification, and the key themes and techniques present in the opening chapter (surveillance, biblical allusion, threat).
This lesson explores the concept of totalitarianism, and has the students analyse the opening scene of 1984 in order to detect evidence of totalitarianism in the environment.
This lesson introduces students to the dystopian genre, explores key dystopian concepts and addresses common misconceptions (the difference between science fiction and dystopian fiction).
This lesson includes a word of the week (emancipation), an exploration of the key context behind Blake’s poem ‘London’, and an exploration of key concepts related to the poem. By the end of the lesson, students will have conducted a first reading of the poem, and been able to connect key concepts and context to particular stanzas.
This sheet includes everything students will need in revising the character of Sheila in AIC
Side one: Quote analysis
Side two: contextual and thematic analysis, as well as space to find key vocabulary and write essay-openers using frames provided.
This lesson continues from the creative writing: narrative hook lesson that I have posted previously. Please find a bundle deal for both lessons for a reduced price.
However, this lesson can easily also work as a stand alone lesson on sentence types and evaluating their effectiveness in a written piece.
Links to other cultures are also present in the excerpt of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid’s memoir.
Lesson includes a word of the week (impregnable) with accompanying questions, context on Heaney, Stormont and The Troubles, a first reading of the poem and group/discussion work activities.
5 lesson scheme of work focusing on analysing non-fiction texts (mostly autobiography extracts, one letter). Includes a word of the week (adversity) and a 12 question end of week quiz and extra recap/filler lesson.
Many key concepts are covered including tragedy, trauma, phobia, desensitisation, etc.
Lesson 1: Intro to Dystopian Environments
Lesson 2: Dystopian Character Archetypes
Lesson 3: The Context Behind Dystopia
Lesson 4: Analysing the Setting of 1984
Lesson 5: Analysing the Character of O’Brien in 1984
Lesson 6: The Key Dystopian Concepts of 1984
Homework Sheet 1: Creating a Dystopia Worksheet
Homework Sheet 2: Dystopian Verbs
Lesson One (Opening): This is the first lesson on ‘A Handmaid’s Tale’ in a dystopian SOW. This lesson introduces the students to the concept of objectification, and the key themes and techniques present in the opening chapter (surveillance, biblical allusion, threat).
Lesson Two (Horrors of Gilead): This lesson has students analyze the use of power and indoctrination in chapter 2 of A Handmaid’s Tale. After a class annotation task, students will construct an analytical point independently.
**Lesson Three (Aunt Lydia Analysis): **This lesson focuses on the character of Aunt Lydia, and the concepts of internalized misogyny, and indoctrination. The students will complete a pair-analysis task, and then at the end, they will construct an analytical paragraph in response to a GCSE style question.
Lesson 1: This lesson is essentially a context lesson. To prepare Year 10 students for a mock paper (past paper 12, IGCSE 2020 June), this lesson will introduce students to the background of the play, the key events and characters, and give them the opportunity to predict and analyze some themes of the play.
Lesson 2: In this lesson, students will perform the whole of Act 1 (timed at around 33 minutes if the reading is slow), and have some time left for a starter, and a main character analysis task.
Lesson 3: This lesson gives students the chance to act out Act 2 of Dara, and answer some component 1, section A style questions in preparation for their mock exam (the June 2020 Paper 12).
Lesson 4: In this lesson, students will act out Act 3 of ‘Dara’, and answer IGCSE Section A style questions at the end. They will contemplate the staging of certain scenes, and the changing relationships between characters - in particular, the relationship between Dara and Aurangzeb.
Lesson 5: This lesson focuses on the events and key themes in Act 4 of the play Dara. After reading the act in its entirety, students will have the chance to answer some comprehension questions, and reflect on the way they would stage the execution scene.
Lesson 6: This lesson focuses on the final act of the play Dara. The students will read the play, and then answer a series of comprehension questions, and one IGCSE style long answer question. The final slide will have students reflecting on their own feelings about the ending, and the change in Aurangzeb’s character between scenes 1 and 2.
Lesson 7: This assessment prep lesson includes a link to the IGCSE past paper that the assessment will be based on, (only section A) and a preparation lesson explaining to students how to best tackle Section A questions. I’ve chosen to only test my students on Section A, but this preparation lesson could help with Section B as well. This also includes a student assessment reflection sheet for when you give back their marked work.
Lesson 8: Assessment lesson (no lesson for this, but the assessment paper is linked in the assessment prep lesson
Lesson 9: Students will receive back their graded papers, and complete the reflection sheet in purple pen (attached in assessment prep lesson)
