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 should come after an initial introduction to comedy, and Commedia Dell’Arte. This lesson explores the four key character types of Commedia, with a key focus on the ‘master’ and the ‘servant’. Students will analyse their physicality, and then attempt to emulate it in an improvised performance.
This lesson focuses on how perspective can alter scriptwriting. Students will learn key terms, practice freeze-frames and scriptwriting, and perform in front of the class. At the end, students will have a chance to review their own work.
An excellent, high level lesson on critical analysis, with a focus on Albert Camus’ ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’. Perfect for a non-fiction SOW.
Key concepts include: Existentialsm, futility, absurdism and nihilism.
Key technique focused on: Extended metaphor
This lesson is for KS4 students preparing to write their own analytical response in essay form. However, this gives them even more freedom and independence by asking them to find their sources, and formulate their own essay questions.
This welcome back lesson has everything you will need - a template for an ‘about the teacher’ slide, an expectations quiz, a ‘which book character are you’ quiz, and many activities for students to complete. The activities include a top-trumps making session (with a resource), a ‘story of my life’ activity, and a joint-story making partner session.
This is a fun lesson and worksheet that can come directly after watching the film ‘Elf’ and looking out for themes of identity/cultural identity. This lesson/sheet includes:
An analysis task
A poetry task
A film review task
A fun ‘elf-on-the-shelf’ creative task
As Head of Year, you have probably notice that two things are often lacking in the cohort: punctuality and good manners! This assembly offers some key reminders and acts as a sort-of behaviour reset.
5 lesson SOW on satire and modern-world issues. Can fit with Unseen prose or a Non-fiction SOW. Complete with word of the week, resources to print, and a 12 question end-of-week quiz.
Lesson one: Word of the week (satire) and satire to caricature.
Lesson two: Satire to criticise (focus on privilege and power inbalance)
Lesson three: Satire to ridicule (focus on conspiracy)
Lesson four: Satire for humour (focus on controversy, scandal and mockumentary)
Lesson five: Low stakes quiz, recap of key concepts and creative tasks
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 will guide students to choosing a type of poem to deliver a presentation about. The best part is, that there are 4 options (haiku, ballad, sonnet, and rhyming poem), and for whichever option that they choose, there is a powerpoint that the students can download to instruct them every step of the way. All of the resources are made and included.
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: Focuses on England pre-1066, the reign of Cnut, and the difficulties Edward faced in his early life
Lesson 2: Explores the reign of Edward, his relatioship with Godwine, and the failures of his rule.
Three lessons on Question One and Two of the AQA Language Paper 1. These lessons include quality resources, and opportunities for students to use both critical and creative skills, in preparation for the next questions.
3 stand-alone SPAG lessons which include:
An introduction to and consolidation of general punctuation
A focus on hyphens, en and em dashes
A study of advanced punctuation (specifically speech marks and semi-colons).
One lesson includes an easy ‘tick-off’ teacher feedback sheet, all lessons include opportunity for purple pen reflection or peer reviews.
The Hunger Games: Lesson Summaries
Lesson 1: This lesson will give students an understanding of subjugation as a concept, and will allow students to detect evidence of government subjugation in an extract of ‘The Hunger Games’. After they have completed some analysis questions, students will be writing their own ‘choosing ceremony’ scene, and peer-reviewing each others creative efforts at the end.
Lesson 2: This lesson focuses on analyzing the character of President Snow, and the contextual influences behind dystopian antagonists. The students will be introduced to the idea of a ‘facade’ and how dictators use facades of fairness and benevolence to maintain power. The students will read and analyze an extract from Catching Fire.
Lesson 3: This lesson focuses on acts of rebellion in Dystopian Fiction, in particular the ‘berries scene’ in The Hunger Games. The students will detect rebellious/revolutionary language in the extract, and then write their own revolutionary speech against the Capitol and President Snow.
Lesson One: How to structure a persuasive piecce of writing (ethos, logos and pathos)
Lesson Two: Using AFOREST (persuasive) techniques
Lesson Three: Studying TED talks an planning a persuasive TED talk
