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 Romeo and Juliet lesson focuses on the relationship between Capulet and Juliet, and how the patriarchal systems of the time served as a catalyst for the final events of the play.
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)
This lesson focuses on Blake’s own invented mythology and how it relates to SOI, particularly the poems that could be perceived as more sexual in nature.
This is the third lesson in a 3 lesson mini-scheme on Tragedy in Shakespeare. However, this can easily be a standalone lesson. This lesson can be taught even if the students don’t have a prior knowledge of Romeo and Juliet.
Lesson 1: Plot and Themes
Lesson 2: The pastoral and anti-pastoral
Lesson 3: Fate and Foreshadowing in the early chapters
Lesson 4: Fate and Foreshadowing – self assessed exam response
Lesson 5: Settings as a symbol of Tess’s tragic journey
Lesson 6: How to plan a section B (feedback from lesson 4)
Lesson 7: ‘The Nemesis within’ – to what extent is Tess to blame for her demise? Mapping external and internal influences.
Lesson 8: Critical reception and Victorian morality
Lesson 9: The assault of Tess and critical reviews
Lesson 9 (continued optional extra): The assault of Tess – the laws regarding women in Victorian England
Lesson 10: The Existentialist Lens
Lesson 11: Tess and Existential Crisis
Lesson 12: Comparative Analysis
This project allows students to work independently, and is split into instructions for 6 lessons.
Lesson one and two will be a planning stage, in which the students will find their topic and research.
Lesson three and four will be the writing stage, and a clear success criteria and newspaper template is provided for this.
Lesson five and six will be the presentation stage, students are given instructions as to how to offer feedback verbally to each group.
This lesson explores all of the historical events that inspired and shaped dystopian fiction. The students will conclude the lesson by completing a creative task titled ‘walking around a dystopia’, in which they will include all of the elements of dystopian fiction that they learned about in the lesson.
This lesson is the fourth in a scheme of work on GCSE skills - however, it can easily stand alone. This lesson allows students to study a section of The Fellowshio of The Ring, and analyse any techniques they find. At the end, students will produce a question 2 style response.
This lesson is the fourth in a scheme of work on GCSE skills - however, it can easily stand alone. This lesson allows students to study a section of The Kite Runner, and analyse any techniques they find. At the end, students will produce a question 2 style response.
Students will complete a quick review of chapter 1, and then read and analyse chapter 2. There is a paragraph task at the end, and an opportunity for peer review as well.
8 Lesson SPAG scheme plus end of scheme quiz, SOW breakdown and resources included. I used these for a year intervention group, but I 've concluded that this scheme would work anywhere from years 6-9.
Lesson One: Introduction to the elements of Detective Fiction, research into Arthur Conan Doyle
Lesson Two: Interactive lesson on Victorian true crime, and Victorian crime detection techniques
Lesson Three: Introduction to the character of Sherlock Holmes with accompanying ‘casefile’ resource and quiz, creative main task and reflection opportunity.
I have used this lesson to prepare A-Level Literature students to read Blake’s Songs of Innocence & Experience, but this could easily be a stand alone lesson for high level Y11 students and above.
In this lesson, students can use the template to make their own board game based on a fantasy book of their choice. I give them two examples: Harry Potter and Lord of The Rings, but students can choose any book! Lesson comes with resources.
This is a fun lesson that can come directly after watching the film ‘Elf’ and looking out for themes of identity/cultural identity. This lesson includes:
An analysis task
A poetry task
A film review task
A fun ‘elf-on-the-shelf’ creative task
This lesson lasted me around 50 minutes with my Year 7 Group.
Includes:
Vocab List
Two simplified extracts (Death of Beowulf by The Dragon, Beowulf’s Funeral). These are rewritten so they are simple enough to be read by a Year 7/8 Student.
Book Review Main Task
Final Reflection Activity
Includes:
Vocabulary List
Simplified Extracts with Illustration (Suitable for Y7-Y8)
I Do/We Do Annotation Tasks
Sea Monster Descriptive Writing & Success Criteria
Self-Reflection Task
This lesson includes:
Vocab List
One simplified extract (I have rewritten this section of Beowulf so that it is appropriate for Y7-8 students, yet still challenging).
Guided analysis task (with scaffold resource)
Description task & criteria (Meeting and exceeding)
Self-reflection task