I have been an English Literature and Language Teacher for about 10 years now. I am now a Leader of Learning in English in my current school.
I have taken several GCSE classes through and had full success.
I have a PGCE in English and MA in Applied Linguistics for Teaching English as a Second Language.
I currently teach at a secondary school as an English Teacher and Leader of Learning in English.
I have been an English Literature and Language Teacher for about 10 years now. I am now a Leader of Learning in English in my current school.
I have taken several GCSE classes through and had full success.
I have a PGCE in English and MA in Applied Linguistics for Teaching English as a Second Language.
I currently teach at a secondary school as an English Teacher and Leader of Learning in English.
Looking for a complete Havisham by Carol Ann Duffy lesson with presentation and worksheets included, well look no further. In the range of documents above you will find a power point presentation, card sort activity, the poem itself, and two work sheets that are designed to be printed back to back to make a mini booklet for the students to work through during the lesson. Oh and of course there is an example PEE paragraph for the students to refer too as well as a success criteria.
This lesson done well can have a great impact on the students and their understanding of this poem.
Here are two great big booklets to use with your classes while teaching travel writing.
The Travel Booklet includes 10 independent tasks - creative and poetry writing, collages, designing and many more.
Mix this together with the 15 page booklet for designing your own hotel in a group of 5...and you have got two time saving dreams. The Hotel Project Booklet is something you could do in the classroom and can span over 6 lessons, or is something your class could do as a group project for homework.
Whatever you choose, these two booklets are full of creative English activities to help your students learn the art of travel writing, working in a team and presenting speeches.
FREE planning sheet as well!
Finally, I have added my Speech Lesson which could be used to introduce the skills of crafting a speech using effective persuasive devices. Now, this is a lesson I usually use with students in Year 9 and 10, however it can be adapted and would be useful to feed into the speech the students are preparing in the Hotel Booklet.
Grab this bundle now! They are worth it...there are over 10 lessons worth of work in this bundle. Don't miss out!
23% off when you buy these three together.
Here are three fantastic booklets with 10 tasks in each. They could be used as homework booklets or as an activity booklet. You could even just pick and choose what you want to use to support your teaching.
Here you have a booklet for Year 7 which includes activities that reflect their first term at secondary school.
Next, we have a booklet with 10 travel tasks all centred around that topic.
Finally, the Gothic Literature booklet has all you can want to help your students learn about Gothic Literature.
All of these booklets contain a range of tasks, such as design, creative and persuasive writing, poetry, extract analysis, and research.
This is a great package.
Get it now!
I will be adding more booklets in due time - keep an eye on this space.
Happy Booklet Teaching!
This revision booklet goes through how to answer an exam question on Blood Brothers. It includes paragraph formats, A and C grade model answers, as well as context pages. It also has space for students to do their own character summaries, and select key quotations in preparation for the exam.
This booklet is a great resource to give to the students when they are going on study leave as it really guides them through the stages.
With only two sample questions from the new spec for Edexcel literature exam on 'An Inspector Calls', I thought I would create a step-by-step guide of how to answer one of these questions.
Most of my students find it hard to add context in, and now with a question focused on context the students were finding this difficult. This power point is great at showing the students where to start and how to plan for the question. All the answers come up in sections. There is even a hand written mind map to show the students how they could link all the ideas together.
My class found this very useful and have now started to understand how to link theme, context and quotations all together for this question.
Struggling to teach basic comprehension or just need a competition/cover lesson with an extract and questions? Well, here it is!
In order to help my class practice picking out quotations for one mark questions and then picking out two quotes and explaining them for a two mark question, I created this worksheet. It will take the class the whole lesson to get all the answers completely right. The extract I have used is from Of Mice and Men Chapter 3 when Carlson is persuading Candy to let him shot his dog. I have also attached the answers.
This is a quick, easy and effective lesson just from one print out.
PEE preparation power point for A Christmas Carol.
This Power point goes very well with 'The Little Book of PEE For A Christmas Carol' as it takes students through the question they will be answering and includes PEE structures, model paragraphs, and a mark scheme (Based on the new 1-9). However it also works as a standalone resource, as it goes through how to pick out key quotations in a text, and leaves the teacher room to analyse them with the students.
This poetry lesson introduces poetry through the use of music. Students will have the opportunity to listen to each song and then discuss the lyrics. They will then analyse using the questions on the slide show. Included are the lyrics to all three songs, selected quotations for the teacher to hand around the class for the students to analyse, and an extra resource focusing on the song 'Skyscraper'.
(internet connection required for the music)
Here is a KS3 lesson that includes a lot of differentiation for those mixed ability classes. The lesson looks at an extract from Great Expectations and then the tasks are based around analysing quotations from the extract.
This lesson helps students to answer a question about Candy's loneliness and friendship with his dog. It contains a model answer and PEE structure help throughout. A quick and easy PEE lesson on Chapter 3.
Worrying about what you need to set for homework - well look no further...
Here is a booklet full of your homework setting dreams.
Here it is, the first of my Homework Booklet collection. This homework booklet was made to work along side a scheme of work for Year 7s who were in their first term at Secondary School. There are 10 tasks in this booklet such as letter writing, creative collage tasks, poems, cartoon strips, etc.
It can be adapted and used as one off activities in or outside the classroom, or can simply be printed out in a booklet for homework.
Happy Homework Setting!
Whilst Christmas maybe over, some of us are still teaching the details of A Christmas Carol to our GCSE Classes.
In order to start practicing the exam paper questions with my class, I created my own version of the paper with answers.
In this pack, I have included lesson slides that take the students throught the extract using highlighters and questions to help them think about different ways in which Scrooge is presented. I also get the students to rate the quotations they have chosen so they can start thinking about which quotation are better qualities than others.
You can use the 'Quote Answers' sheet to guide your students towards the correct points and quotations to answer Part A of the question paper.
This lesson and practice paper really helped my students. I hope it helps yours too.
Happy Teaching!
The Context and Theme Linking Sheet is here. A Christmas Carol Part B of the GCSE paper is all about linking themes to the context to the quotations and ideas in the novella. So here is a sheet that gets the students to think about that and put it all on one revision sheet.
How to use it...
All you need to do is get the students to use the context notes (writing context notes is a separate lesson I did before this one) to write down shortened notes using subtitles such as Poor and Rich, Education, etc. Then use highlighters to link them to the themes in the middle boxes. Then the students must look through the book and find key moments and relevant quotations that would link to the theme and context they have selected.
Done properly this is a really useful worksheet.
Here is another one of these fabulous Activity/Homework Booklets that will make setting homework a piece of cake.
Just download this Travel Booklet resource, click print adding staples to make it into a booklet for your students to take home and you're sorted for this terms homework. Or use this little number in your lessons as a task that the students can do to get them used to writing and designing all based around travel. All 10 tasks in this booklet are linked directly to English and writing skills.
This is a good one. There are activities such as collage making, poem and creative story writing, research tasks and designing activities.
Happy Homework Setting!
Well here is a little number to help your classes with those all important language devices for creative and persuasive writing. It will also help them learn all the language techniques ready for identifying them in novels and poems. This one is different from my other worksheets as this one is for low ability. Extra help and fill in the blankets is used here to help those struggling with these techniques.
In this pack there is a full table with the Language Teachniques, definitions and examples.
The other two sheets are for the students to fill in during the lesson to help them build a work bank of these language techniques. As I said, there is extra help in these ones as opposed to the others I have uploaded.
I did this with my class and then set learning them for homework. They then were tested to see if they could spot examples of techniques and their meaning.
Really simple, but beneficial resource.
Here is a really adaptable planning worksheet for low ability students to plan or complete their letter writing assessment.
This has all the guidance needed to help your students who need that extra bit of scaffolding.
Happy Planning!
Teaching PEE - KS3/KS4
This little book is a step-by-step guide for students to learn how to write Point Evidence Explain paragraphs.
What is included:
- General PEE structure questions and sentence starters
- A Christmas Carol PEE structure questions and sentence starters
- A mark scheme based on the new 1-9 mark scale
- Three PEE model answers - one grade 4- and one grade 5+
This is a 10 pages guide.
Once in their books, this Little Book of PEE can always be referred to as it has general aspects of PEE in it as well.
Very effective resource- I and many of my colleagues have used this with students in KS3 and KS4.
This assessment planning sheet will help students to select key language techniques from the texts and analyse appropriately, whilst covering all the PEE areas needed. .
