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Hi everyone! I'm Kayleigh. I'm head of English and EAL with more than 8 years of teaching experience. I hope my resources will save you time planning, engage students in learning and guide them to academic success.
YouTube Videos: www.youtube.com/c/EnglishwithKayleigh
Hi everyone! I'm Kayleigh. I'm head of English and EAL with more than 8 years of teaching experience. I hope my resources will save you time planning, engage students in learning and guide them to academic success.
Are you teaching Ted Hughes for pupils’ upcoming exams, or are you a student who wants to revise essay structures and ideas for Hughes’ work? Then, this pack is for you.
This pack includes three real essays with real marks from CAIE from June 2023.
It includes:
A response that was awarded 21/25
A response that was awarded 17/25 (after a remark)
A response that was awarded 14/25
Please note: As these are real essays, there are mistakes present.
A comprehensive (83 slides!) PPT analysing Ted Hughes’s The Other.
Perfect for teachers and students preparing for the 0475 CAIE exams!
PPT includes:
The poem
A summary of its content
The themes encountered
A comprehensive stanza by stanza analysis
Analysis of the form, meter and rhyme
An essay questionto help you practice!
Get loads more essay practice questions here >>> https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ted-hughes-essay-questions-for-all-15-gcse-poems-12783870
Research lesson into Williams’ life, making connections between him and the play of A Streetcar Named Desire.
Lesson One | Williams’ Life
In this lesson pack, you will receive:
A lesson PPT with step-by-step guide to the lesson
Lesson worksheet
No prep needed - print and teach!
Made for the 0475 CAIE GCSE Literature syllabus, but it can be adapted for A-Level / any other syllabus.
Research lesson into the context in which A Streetcar Named Desire was written (biographical, historical, and literary) to better understand the play’s content and wider message/themes.
Lesson Two | Context
In this lesson pack, you will receive:
A lesson PPT with step-by-step guide to the lesson
Lesson worksheet
No prep needed - print and teach!
Made for the 0475 CAIE GCSE Literature syllabus, but it can be adapted for A-Level / any other syllabus.
Close reading analysis of the play’s setting and Blanche’s entrance to the play.
Lesson Three | Blanche’s Arrival
In this lesson pack, you will receive:
A lesson PPT with step-by-step guide to the lesson
Lesson worksheet
No prep needed - print and teach!
Made for the 0475 CAIE GCSE Literature syllabus, but it can be adapted for A-Level / any other syllabus.
Help students critically engage with the question, ‘how far is Mary to blame for her downfall?’ through examaning A05 analysis informing their personal response.
Lesson Nine | Mary Tyrone
In this lesson pack, you will receive:
A lesson PPT with step-by-step guide to the lesson
A05 Analysis
No prep needed - print and teach!
Made for the 9695 CAIE A-Level Literature syllabus, but it can be adapted for GCSE / any other syllabus.
Analyse Jamie’s character through independent close language analysis.
Lesson Seventeen | Jamie Tyrone
In this lesson pack, you will receive:
A lesson PPT with step-by-step guide to the lesson
Collaborative PPT
No prep needed - print and teach!
Made for the 9695 CAIE A-Level Literature syllabus, but it can be adapted for GCSE / any other syllabus.
Analyse the end of the play, considering how O’Neill makes it such a saddening moment in the play.
Lesson Nineteen | The Ending
In this lesson pack, you will receive:
A lesson PPT with step-by-step guide to the lesson
Analysis questions
No prep needed - print and teach!
Made for the 9695 CAIE A-Level Literature syllabus, but it can be adapted for GCSE / any other syllabus.
Scene Seven Analysis
Analyse Stella’s reaction to Stanley’s revelations about Blanche’s life in Laurel.
Lesson Nine | Scene Seven: ‘The Birthday Party’
In this lesson pack, you will receive:
A lesson PPT with step-by-step guide to the lesson
Lesson worksheet
No prep needed - print and teach!
Made for the 0475 CAIE GCSE Literature syllabus, but it can be adapted for A-Level / any other syllabus.
Pupils share feedback on the explode the quote exercise in the last lesson and organise them into potential body paragraphs (with point sentences) for essay exploration.
Lesson Six | Tension: Essay Writing Scaffolding
In this lesson pack, you will receive:
A lesson PPT with step-by-step guide to the lesson
No prep needed - print and teach!
Made for the 0475 CAIE GCSE Literature syllabus, but it can be adapted for A-Level / any other syllabus.
Scene Six Analysis
Engage in close reading annotation and analysis of Blanche and Mitch’s relationship in Scene Six.
Lesson Eight | Scene Six: Blanche and Mitch’s Relationship
In this lesson pack, you will receive:
A lesson PPT with step-by-step guide to the lesson
Lesson worksheets
No prep needed - print and teach!
Made for the 0475 CAIE GCSE Literature syllabus, but it can be adapted for A-Level / any other syllabus.
Lesson 3 of 3
In this final sequence of three lessons, students will co-construct a body paragraph as a class. They also have independent writing time to complete a second body paragraph.
Lesson Seven | Tension: Essay Writing
In this lesson pack, you will receive:
A lesson PPT with step-by-step guide to the lesson
No prep needed - print and teach!
Made for the 0475 CAIE GCSE Literature syllabus, but it can be adapted for A-Level / any other syllabus.
BALLADS TEACHING BUNDLE
SAVE 10% + get an extra lesson + bonus quiz game!
CONTENTS
Suggested teaching order and unit aims
Lesson 1 Features of Ballads
Lesson 2 Frankie and Johnny Ballad Analysis
Lesson 3 Ballad Storyboards The Lady of Shalott
Lesson 4 Ballad Storyboards
Lesson 5 Language in Ballads
Lesson 6 Stations Analysis The Highwayman
Lesson 7 DIRT for paragraphs
Lesson 8 Ballad Writing
Lesson 9 Proofreading Ballads
EXTRA lesson Final checking and prepare for BATTLE OF THE BALLADS
BONUS: Ballads quiz game
This pack has everything you need to teach ballads to KS3.
This is a 7-page PDF that includes tailored questions about Jackie Kay’s My Grandmother poem. It can be used as a pre-analysis worksheet to allow students to engage with the poem and explore important themes, messages, and points of interest. It comes with a FULL answer key for teachers, so you can save time and work to help students achieve the best scores in any examination! There is also a link to a FREE analysis video for teachers and students to access after completing the questions and discussing.
YouTube videos can also be found here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeDlGRh1CEo5Ku3JQyTzxecrMiemcqhUF
This is a 5-page PDF that includes tailored questions about Jackie Kay’s The Same Note poem. It can be used as a pre-analysis worksheet to allow students to engage with the poem and explore important themes, messages, and points of interest. It comes with a FULL answer key for teachers, so you can save time and work to help students achieve the best scores in any examination! There is also a link to a FREE analysis video for teachers and students to access after completing the questions and discussing.
YouTube videos can also be found here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeDlGRh1CEo5Ku3JQyTzxecrMiemcqhUF
Are you teaching Jackie Kay’s Darling: New and Selected Poems to your A-level students? Don’t know where to start? This scheme of work shows you how I teach the 32 poems (organised by theme) and essay questions for each section we cover.
FULL ANSWER KEY INCLUDED!
Get pupils excited about Indian Ink, and prepare them to score top marks in the process with this 65-page engaging workbook! Have pupils work through the activities and questions as you study Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink.
WORKBOOK CONTENT:
Assessment Objectives
Marking Criteria (CAIE)
Assessment objective 5 suggestions and notes pages
Literary lenses and notes pages
How to develop drama analysis
Story summary
Contextual information
Key things to know and Indian Ink
Character overview
Character analysis guiding questions
Character analysis pages for all major characters
Minor character analysis
Thematic concerns
Themes tracker
Symbols introduction
Symbols tracker
Act one analysis questions
Act two analysis questions
Indian Ink exam questions
Made for the Cambridge (CAIE) 9695 syllabus. However, it can be adapted for any course!
HOW I SPLIT THE SCENES:
Since we will all be using different texts, I thought it best to share the first line of each scene to help you save time!
1.1
ACT ONE Dusk. FLORA sits alone on a moving train.
1.2
The Shepperton garden is now visable. Here, MRS SWAN and PIKE are having tea while occupied with a shoebox of Flora’s letters.
1.3
FLORA: ‘So far, India likes me. My lecture drew a packed house, Mr. C’s house, in fact…’
1.4
FLORA: ‘Then I met my painter…’
1.5
FLORA: (Recorded) Yes, I am in heat like a bride in a bath,…
1.6
Anish stands up at the approach of Mrs Swan who comes from the bungalow with tea for two on a tray, and two kinds of cake.
1.7
Flora and Das sit at the table with lemonade.
1.8
We have already heard the horse. We do not see the horse.
1.9
Flora waves and turns aside. She sits at her table and starts to write.
1.10
FLORA: (Recorded)
‘…Yes, think of a woman in a blue dress…’
1.11
FLORA: Thank you Nazrul … And two kinds of cake!
1.12
Pike enters dressed for India. He is staying at the best hotel in Jummapur…
1.13
DAS: Thank you. (He lights a cigarette.) You were writing to your sister?
1.14
Das leaves the bedroom and goes along the verandah towards the servants’ quarters and disappears round the corner.
1.15
Das enters the bedroom.
DAS: (Approaching the bed Should I pour the water for you?
2.1
ACT TWO The Jummapur Club after sundown.
2.2
FLORA: ‘My suitor-I suppose I must call him that…’
2.3
The scene becomes exterior. The actors remain astride the gym horses.
2.4
*Dilip and Pike are in the garden/courtyard of the Jummapur Palace Hotel…
*
2.5
RAJAH Entering The spiritual beauty of Jummapur has been increased a thousandfold by your presence, Miss Crewe!
2.6
PIKE: Augustus de Boucheron enjoyed brief celebrity as a millionaire philanthropist and patron of the arts.
2.7
Mrs Swan and Anish are sitting in the garden with gin-and-tonic.Mrs Swan is looking at the watercolour.
2.8
Nirad Das and Coomaraswami are sit
2.9
PIKE AND
2.10
This is a 7-page PDF that includes tailored questions about Jackie Kay’s Plague poem. It can be used as a pre-analysis worksheet to allow students to engage with the poem and explore important themes, messages, and points of interest. It comes with a FULL answer key for teachers, so you can save time and work to help students achieve the best scores in any examination! There is also a link to a FREE analysis video for teachers and students to access after completing the questions and discussing.
YouTube videos can also be found here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeDlGRh1CEo5Ku3JQyTzxecrMiemcqhUF
This is a 5-page PDF that includes tailored questions about Jackie Kay’s Love Nest poem. It can be used as a pre-analysis worksheet to allow students to engage with the poem and explore important themes, messages, and points of interest. It comes with a FULL answer key for teachers, so you can save time and work to help students achieve the best scores in any examination! There is also a link to a FREE analysis video for teachers and students to access after completing the questions and discussing.
YouTube videos can also be found here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeDlGRh1CEo5Ku3JQyTzxecrMiemcqhUF
Get 5 high-quality inspirational posters for your classroom! These posters will help to motivate students and give them daily encouragement in your classroom. The best thing - they are perfect for most grade levels!
Please don’t forget to write a comment if you do purchase this item! I love interacting with other teachers and would be happy to start a dialogue with you.
Posters included:
We are a bright bunch
Say watt?
Be happy, be bright, be you
You light up our classroom
This class is lit