I am an English, Media and Film Studies Teacher. All my resources aim to be inclusive and exciting for students and for teachers. With my love of educational research, I have tried to apply pedagogical practices to the resources created. Please leave me review and comment - would love to make improvements!
I am an English, Media and Film Studies Teacher. All my resources aim to be inclusive and exciting for students and for teachers. With my love of educational research, I have tried to apply pedagogical practices to the resources created. Please leave me review and comment - would love to make improvements!
There are collection of worksheets: a breakdown of the essay question, self assessment sheet created with a student friendly version of AQA’s mark scheme and an example exam question. Each worksheet has been designed to warm up exam skills.
The exam question is: **Starting with this extract, explore how Shakespeare presents Macbeth’s ambition. **
Included:
Extract from Act 1 Scene 3
PEEZ structure and guidance
Scaffolded PEEZL structure
Self assessment sheet - student friendly mark scheme
Planning sheet focused on each AOs from AQA
This 40 page revision booklet focuses on:
Radio One Live Lounge
MOJO magazine
Uptown Funk, Bruno Mars ft Mark Ronson
If I Were a Boy, Beyonce
The Observer
There are a range of activities from revision worksheets, exam practice pages, information collation and SO MUCH MORE!
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This Romeo and Juliet exam booklet is jam packed with a range of learning activities. From scaffolded exam practice questions, to embedded context sheets - this booklet has 50 pages of everything a student needs to succeed in the exam!
FIVE exam practice questions
Character profiles
Flashcards
Context sheets throughout
Key quotations
Effect on the audience
Answering the exam question
30 day revision challenge.
AND SO MUCH MORE!
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This is a booklet that guides students through key skills to write stories of their own. There are fifteen lessons in total; with a final assessment attached. The booklet is picthed for key stage three students. Good luck!
There are 15 lessons which address all areas of study for OCR Film Studies A-Level. With the focus film, The Act of Killing, each lesson draws on theoretical approaches and direct students to refer directly to their chosen documentary.
This 55 page exam revision booklet full of planning sheets for each poem, scaffolded exam practice sheets, AO specific revision and **SO MUCH MORE! **This booklet focuses on AQA’s assessment objectives and supports students to develop explained, structured responses.
This booklets includes:
Planning sheets for each poem
Scaffolded exam practice
Scaffolded PEEZL structures
Self Assessment linked to AQA AOs
Information sheets on form, and structure and poetic features
Quotation analysis guides
Writing guides for a comparison
Summary card templates
30 day revision challenge
SO MUCH MORE!
This 42 page booklet aims to support students developing their skills in responding to questions on this paper. With pages dedicated to students ‘warming up’ their skills before attempting a question, this booklet is driven with AQA’s mark scheme in mind. What’s more this booklet has a range of speeches:
The power of vulnerability, Brene Brown
I am still the greatest, Muhammad Ali
Try something new for 30 day, Matt Cutts
The dange of single story, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Looks aren’t everything, believe me I’m a model, Cameron Russell
Your brain on video games, Daphne Bavelier
What is it like to be a gamer? Aaron Suduiko
The writing section has a range of warm up task and exam practice. This section also has support for students in considering their audience when writing, checking their spelling and punctuation and target support for developing their writing.
This scheme of work looks to engage students in both Section A: Reading and Section: Writing. As for the reading section, there is a breadth of literature that gives students the opportunity to exercise each of skills mentioned in the AQA specification. Good luck!
This SOW includes 20 lessons with the following:
Range of fictional extracts
Self assessment sheets with AQA exemplars
Writing guides
Range of writing techniques explored
Example writing
SO MUCH MORE!
This worksheet is best A3 as students can consider the key assessment objectives when answering an exam question. This sheet is specific to the modern prose section. There is a modelled example on the second sheet to support students gaining the most from the work sheet.
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A lesson for every poem; each with annotations, notes on form and structure. There are videos embedded to consolidate learning and opportunities to practice GCSE styles responses.
Tried and tested in the classroom! This character profile for Lady Macbeth allows student to get all their notes in one place!
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Printable on ONE A4 sheet, these character flashcards focus on three areas:
Summary
Quotations
Contextual Links
There is one bonus flashcard with information on J.B Priestley.
These flashcards have been designed to support weaker learners grasping key information for the AQA English Literature Paper 2 exam.
Check out this range of 15 poems that focus on wars from different cultures. From World War One to the Iraq war, this anthology aims to capture the thoughts, feelings and emotions of individuals across the world. Each poem has information about the poet. PLUS! There are pages dedicated to contextual information, where students can research and better understand the wars that have impacted the poets.
See the selections of poems below:
Anthem for Doomed Youth, Wilfred Owen
Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen
Who’s for the Game?, Jessie Pope
The Gift of India, Sarojini Naidu
Untitled, Takijiro Onishi
War Baby, Pamela Holmes
We are Not Blessed, Nikolay Mayorov
The Butterfly, Pavel Freidmann
High Flight, John Gillespie Magee
All of Us or None, Bertolt Brecht
Songs of Love and War, Sayd Bahoudine Majrouh
The Brutal Game, Alex Cocker
Helmand, John Hawhead
Landays, Rashila Mushka
War Sees No Colour, Donna Zephrine
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Here is a video that yo can pause, discuss and play.
There are opportunities to go further by looking on the Earth Day website and even immerse students in David Attenborough’s Blue Planet.
There are two units:
Research and Planning
Statement of Intent
The research and planning unit is split into teaching slides and student slides. Each presentation aims to focus on each feature of the brief and specification. Whilst designed with the 2023 specification, slides can be tweaked for future briefs.
The statement of intent lessons use the specification and facilitate students drafting their work.
Here’s a crib sheet to guide students when making there presentation. It’s jam-packed with lots of information, top tips and advice on structuring their presentation.
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Here are a range of structural features for fictional texts. A great revision resource for all ages, in particular for GCSE students studying English Language Paper 1, Question 3.