A clear structured lesson guiding students reading of My Last Duchess. Annotations have been included with a small focus on structure. To complete the lesson is a debate statement.

An eight page revision pack made for OCR GCSE Media Studes - Paper 1, Television. With the focus texts of The Avengers (S4, E1) and Cuffs (S1, E1). This resource covers: narrative, characters, micro-elements and practice exam questions.

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.

These presentation slides, worksheet and self-reflection sheet has been designed to warm up exam skills. This lesson work well as starter and a way to consolidate the basic! The exam question is: Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present the importance of family? Included is: Extract from Stave Three PEE structure and guidance Scaffolded PEEZL structure with modelled paragraphs Self-reflection sheet: plus, minus and improve. Planning sheet focused on each AOs from AQA

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 Click. Download. Print!

Get this FULL SOW with 18 lessons! This SOW will give students the opportunity explore writing a script/ screenplay as well as writing in prose. With regular self and peer assessment sheets, students will be guided through collaborative writing practices. This SOW includes: Writing descriptions Defamiliarisation Pathetic fallacy Reading a script Writing a script Developing their use of vocabulary Settings Characterisation Playing with structure Drafting Proofreading SO MUCH MORE! Click. Download. Teach!

Tried and tested in the classroom! Use this two-page summary on Macbeth, to get students consolidating what they know! Comment and review!

This is jam-packed SOW that covers THREE areas: research & planning, production of short film/ digital stills, and evaluative analysis. Within the research & planning unit, topics covered are: analysis of all eight specified short films, narrative structure (McKnee), mise-en-scene and genre. As for the production unit, topics covered are: scriptwriting, dialogue, location recce, risk assessment, character development, costume, make-up, casting, lightin, editing, composition, shooting scripts, storyboarding and screen testing. Lastly, within the evaluatuve analysis unit, lessons are focused on: planning (with planning sheets), developing a writing style, scaffolding for writing introduction, main body paragraphs and the conclusion. I have used current resources from Studiobinder, Masterclass and many more online articles and videos to keep the unit current. Enjoy!

These four pages are clearly divided and designed for students to revise all areas for Paper 1, Section B.

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. Click. Print. Enjoy!

This short step-by-step guides helps students to warm up those comparison skills. Using a two short stanzas, students can start to compare two poems. All the best,

Printable on ONE A4 sheet, these character flashcards focus on three areas: Summary Quotations Contextual Links There is one bonus flashcard with information on Shakespeare. These flashcards have been designed to support weaker learners grasping key information for the AQA English Literature Paper 1 exam.

This booklet is jam-packed with 45 pages of revision activities. From beginning to end this booklet aims to support students revising each character, understand each of the assessment objectives and practice a range of exam questions with scaffolds to facilitate. This booklet includes: 5+ exam questions Quotation analysis PEEZL scaffolds Thematic analysis Flashcards Character analysis 30 day revision challenge SO MUCH MORE! Click. Download. Revise!

Don’t want to get the full booklet? Get this mini booklet to practice Question one and two for Unseen Poetry with AQA. With a supporting guide for writing too! Scaffolded practice Sentence starters Colour coded Self assessment using AQA AOs Writing guide Click. Download. Print!

Here is a short video on period poverty. From learning about what periods are to know ways to support women and girls. The video can be paused for discussions too.

The second article in the series is from the fabulous Mark Quinn. Read an insightful response to our current climate. Read how teacher are adapting their practice through their own professional development. Click. Download. Enjoy!

A research journal for all those looking to embed a little bit of research in to their practice. From flipping the classroom to case studies. The focus for this issue is memory retention, where we have outlined the aims of our investigations. If you are interesting is collaborating, feel free to drop an email!