Resources to support the teaching of Audio production originally planned for the BTEC course unit 4. Lessons provide opportunities for students to explore and analyse: - types of audio - music, speech, silence, noise etc. - why audio is used - create mood, ambience, rhythm, reinforce images, introduce era etc. YouTube link examples to help students understand different purposes. - the difference between pleonastic and contrapuntal audio - Acoustics in different locations including theatres, empty & full rooms, open spaces etc. - digital audio file formats - mps. dvd, AIFF etc. - mono and stereo - direct sound and reverberation - interior and exterior recording - record own audio using editing software - a range of microphone types including: lavalier, boundary, direct connected, parabolic, noise cancelling etc. - polar response in microphones

A power point presentation covering major theorists in Media studies with opportunities for students to watch videos, conduct research and analyse media images as part of their revision. Theorists and theories covered: - audience positioning - Representation and readings - Stuart Hall - Roland Barthes - Action code & enigma code with video clip examples - Claude Levi Strauss - Binary opposition - with video example - Vladimir Propp - character theory with vide example - Todorov - Narrative theory - Syd Field - 3 act plot structure

Resources to support the exploration of audio production. (Week 2) Resources provide opportunities to explore: - audio file formats - AIFF, mp3 etc. - audio platforms - media player, iTunes etc - mono and stereo - acoustics in different locations such as full and empty rooms, theatres and open spaces - recording audio in different environments - direct sound and reverberation - interior and exterior recording

Over 10 fully differentiated (by colour) resources to support an introduction to Media studies for students beginning a course whether at GCSE, BTEC or A level. The lessons are ready to go and are numbered for ease of use and expose students to a wide range of Media from the outset. Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability Resources provide opportunities to: - explore connotation and denotation - explore camera angles and make inferences - analyse movie posters - analyse magazine covers - explore radio audiences - explore mass and niche audiences - explore demographics, geo-demographics and psychographics - conduct primary and secondary research - gather qualitative and quantitative data - create questionnaires - investigate media language and signs - explore representation - analyse own media consumption - investigate audience profiles for television - investigate newspaper audiences

Resources to support the teaching of cross media promotion through studying music posters and music videos. Lessons are differentiated by colour: purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability These resources provide opportunities to: - explore and analyse music posters - explore and analyse music videos - explore representation - explore and analyse the creation of synergy - explore music genre conventions - explore intertextuality - recap institutions - explore Dyer's star theory

These fully differentiated resources aim to build skills in descriptive writing for KS3 in preparation for the new GCSE specification 9-1. These resources are ready to go with extracts provided. Simply download and teach. Differentiation by colour: purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability These resource use extracts from 'The road' 'Noughts and crosses' 'Frankenstein' and 'Jurassic Park' as a stimulus for descriptive writing. These resources provide opportunities to: - Identify descriptive writing in extracts - develop first person narratives - develop mysterious characters - use the 5 senses - identify and then use pathetic fallacy - show not tell

Over 16 lessons that are ideal for KS3/KS2 students to develop grammar skills through creating an autobiography Topics covered: - Sentence structure - Paragraphing - Tenses - Word classes - punctuation

22 fully differentiated lessons (by colour) that enable students to explore a wide variety of poetic forms. Opportunities to create poems of a variety of forms. These lessons are meticulously planned and are ready to go. Lessons are numbered for ease of use. Assessment opportunities and homework tasks also included. Poetic forms explored: - Villanelle - shape - ballad - Elegy - love poetry - war poetry - free verse - limerick - haiku - dramatic monologue - song and rap - blank verse - dialect poetry - simile poems - culture poems Featured poems/poets: - Carol Ann Duffy - John Agard - Half Caste - The Chimney sweep - This is this six o'clock news - Alone - Daffodils - London - Declaration of need - William Blake - Robert Graves - Blessing Resources provide opportunities for students to: - analyse language, structure and form - create their own anthology of poetry - explore context - explore the relevance of poetry Differentiation: purple = low ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability red = most able

Creative writing revision guide that would be useful as an ongoing homework project as students study creative writing.

Resources to support the teaching of Edgar Allan Poe short stories. (Gothic literature) Lessons are numbered for ease of use. Short stories resourced: - Masque of the red death - The pit and the pendulum - The tell tale heart Resources provide opportunities for students to: - write imaginatively - analyse language - develop speaking and listening skills - explore context - black death - explore structure

Revision guide to support student revision and understanding of the novel. This resource could be ideal as an ongoing homework project as students read the novel in class.

20 full differentiated (by colour) and meticulously planned lessons to support the teaching of reading and writing skills. These lessons are ready to go. Ideal for transition from KS2 to KS3, for year 6, year 7 or year 8 classes. Within these lessons students are exposed to a wide range of fiction, non fiction and literary non fiction texts and will use these as a stimulus for creating their own texts. These lessons allow students to develop skills for accessing the new English language and English literature 9-1 specifications. Students will explore the following texts/extracts: - Article on bats - Extract from the Twits & BFG - Roald Dahl - Extract from Frankenstein - Extract from A Christmas Carol - Extracts from autobiographies - Extract from Bill Bryson - travel writing (non-fiction literary) - Extract from Bleak house - The Lion the witch and the wardrobe - blogs - poetry - Sister Maude, Mother any distance - articles about Friendship Students will develop the following skills in preparation for accessing new 9-1 GCSE - Synthesis - Comparison - Language. structure, form analysis - Theme exploration - Analytical writing - Imaginative writing - narrative and descriptive - Transactional writing Assessment opportunities and homework tasks also included

Over 10 lessons worth of resources to support the teaching of spoken language. All lessons are meticulously planned and fully differentiated by colour. These lessons are ready to go and are numbered for ease of use. Ideal for use in KS3 given the removal of this component as part of GCSE. Differentiation: purple - lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability These resources allow students to identify and analyse the following spoken language techniques: - face threatening acts - jargon - accent and dialect - formal and informal talk - Adjacency pairs - back channel features - Fillers and hedges - Holding the floor - turn taking - overlapping speech - standard English - spontaneous speech Students will explore spoken language taken from the following sources: - Catharine Tate as Lauren in the UK sitcom - Jeremy Paxman interview with Russell Brand - Ali G interview with Tony Benn - Jonathan Ross interview with Lady Gaga - Board room conversations taken from the Junior apprentice - Classroom talk taken from Highgate Wood school - Transcripts of students talking with teachers Links provided for YouTube video clips to allow students to observe the spoken language before analysing Planning sheets, card sort of techniques, homework tasks and analysis writing frames are also included.

A wide variety of starter activities and warms to get students engaged and awake. Included in this wide variety of starters and warm ups are: - optical illusions - ice breakers - Taboo games - Brain gyms - homophones - metaphors and similes - double negatives - imperatives - punctuation practice - spellings - inference - describing games and many, many more!

Lesson to support the understanding of the representation of women in Victorian England and in a modern society.

Fully differentiated (by colour) resources to support the teaching of poetry on the theme of power to KS3 or GCSE. The poems make up 8 of the poems that need covering for the AQA 9-1 poetry component. These resources could equally be used for KS3 to prepare students for GCSE poetry if a different exam board is being used for GCSE. Resources cover context, language, form and structure. Poems covered: - Tissue - Emigree - Checkin out me history - London - Ozymandias - Extract from the Prelude - My last Duchess - Storm on the island Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability

Resources to support the creating of an audio product. (Week 4) Opportunities to: - explore the importance of audio editing - audacity software - create an audio product- example given is a radio broadcast - the task requires students to bring together everything they've learned in weeks 1-3 including microphones, acoustics, purposes etc. - conduct risk assessments before recoding on location as per industry - evaluate own production work

Fully differentiated resources (by colour) to support the teaching of war poetry. Poems covered form 7 of the 15 poems that need to be covered for the AQA 9-1 English literature poetry component but can be taught in KS3 if a different exam board is being taught. The lessons will prepare students for analysing poetry at GCSE if chosen to use at KS3 these would be ideal preparation. Poems covered: - Exposure - Kamikazee - War photographer - Bayonet charge - Poppies - Charge of the light brigade - Remains Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue - middle ability yellow = higher ability

Fully differentiated (by colour) resources to support the teaching of war poetry. Poetry covered: - Exposure - August 6 1945 - The Drum - O what is that sound? - Invasion - Conscientious objector - Belfast Confetti Resources explore language, form, structure and context. Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue - middle ability yellow = higher ability

Differentiated resources to support the teaching of poetry that deals with discrimination. Poems covered: - Half Caste - race - The class game - social class - Your dad did what - Hitcher - Cousin Kate - Our Sharpeville - Parade's end Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability