key Stage 3, Year 9 English SOW that has strong links to History. A full half term scheme of work, fully resourced for each week with a detailed medium term plan outlining every lesson. Key vocabulary is outlined for the scheme. A skeleton powerpoint is also provided with 38 slides of basic guidance for teachers for the first week of learning. Each week has a different focus, with key skills worked on throughout the SOW. These skills are: Reading: Comparing texts, synthesising information, analysing writer’s techniques and message and evaluating texts Writing: Using discourse markers, using ambitious punctuation, using writer’s techniques, using the correct layout and writing engaging texts. The scheme of work includes: -an analysis of the language of media looking at cases of police brutality -an exploration of how the civil rights movement started with transactional writing tasks linked to different moments within the Civil Right’s Movement, as well as source analysis -An analysis and comparison of different influential figures - includes extracts of autobiographies, speeches and articles about MLK, Malcolm X, JFK and Emmett Till. Also has a great lesson on the FBI report around Emmett Till’s murder. -Exploration of Civil Rights poetry (June Jordan, Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker -Exploring presidential campaigns and how they are created. This looks at Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and speeches and compares them to different presidents -The final two weeks give students the opportunity to create their own presidential campaign and to create a celebration of Black History Month. These weeks include lots of opportunity for written and spoken assessment, as well as collaborative projects. Each week has a blue highlighted task that can be the assessment task, or a weekly checkpoint task.

A fun, engaging P4C session using famous footballer as a stimulus to discuss respect, who earns it and why it is important. Includes the analysis of a non fiction text and paired, group and class discussion. Improves students reasoning and justification skills.

A fun, interactive P4C lesson discussing the issue of gender equality. Included in the pack is a workbooklet with a Do Now activity to encourage own opinion, two resources (including one more challenging article for top sets/stretch and challenge) and discussion points. This will help students analyse non fiction texts whilst forming their own opinion and justifying it. Great lesson to link to sexism in literature and film, as well as considering the working world and society around them.

An easy to edit certificate to award success in a variety of subjects. Suitable for Key Stage 3, Key stage 4 and primary.

A P4C lesson used alongside a Hunger Games scheme of work to discuss the topics in relevance to the real world as well as literature. Great for verbal reasoning, encouraging personal opinion and group work.

A PDF resource for teachers with annotated notes on nine of the poems included in the EDUQAS poetry anthology. Poems annotated are: The Soldier by Rupert Brook As Imperceptibly as Grief by Emily Dickinson Living Space by Imitiaz Dharker Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) London by William Blake She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron Cozy Apologia by Rita Dove. Language, tone form and imagery are all analysed and annotated for, as well as references to other texts that can link to help lesson planning. This links well to the scheme of work also available in my shop.

A complete powerpoint, including all necessary resources, learning objectives and success criteria to teach students how to use apostrophes. A useful one off lesson to ensure key skills are understood and secure. A writing task and differentiated levels are present throughout lesson.

A fun and interactive lesson teaching students how to use commas. Interactive games using the internet and various sites, as well as whiteboard games, writing tasks and quick fire questions ensure your students understand how to use a comma, and why it is important. A useful one off lesson to ensure key skills are understood and secure. A writing task and differentiated levels are present throughout lesson.

A fun and interactive lesson teaching students how to use connectives. Word searches, whiteboard games, writing tasks and quick fire questions ensure your students understand how to use a connective, and why they are important. A useful one off lesson to ensure key skills are understood and secure. A writing task and differentiated levels are present throughout lesson.

An updated entire terms lesson plans. 31 lessons planned and prepared. Links to scheme of work already uploaded. Resources available with scheme of work, and many are already within the PowerPoint. Included in this download are the three poems listed to be studied alongside the play.

An easily adapted powerpoint with a range of display ideas, form tools and fun tasks for students to do during form time. The toolkit includes: Birthday display, Achieve your Goals football goal display, ECM board display outlining what each strand is, and what is covered, Pupil of the week board template (alongside pupil of the week certificate template) Homework Pencil reminder template, A-Z classroom personality bunting task

To assist students with exam practice, exam writing style and 20th Century fiction I have created an exam style paper for Eduqas English Language Component 1 using Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Component 1 consists of: Section A (20%) – Reading Understanding of one prose extract (about 60-100 lines) of literature from the 20th century assessed through a range of structured questions Section B (20%) – Prose Writing One creative writing task selected from a choice of four titles.

A discussion lesson using Philosophy for Children, P4C, to discuss the topic of greed. Whole powerpoint is included.

A fun and engaging lesson helping students improve speaking and listening, debating, justification and reasoning skills. YouTube clip, resources and success criteria are all on powerpoint. Suitable for all ages and easily adaptable.

A p4c lesson studying social compliance and peer pressure, comparing the Milgram experiment and peer pressure and discussing the positives and negatives. Really engaging lessons- particularly effective with 11-14 year old boys.

To engage students I created a Nando's style homework menu. This one targets key stage 4 and assists teaching of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. 19th century text often studied for GCSE. There are 25 homework tasks already planned, differentiated by 'spice'. Since using these menus, where the students pick for themselves, the amount and quality of homework has improved in my classes, as well as regularity.

A set of 25 homework tasks based around Romeo and Juliet styled into a Nando's menu. An engaging way to encourage students to learn independently and take responsibility for homework. Students have a range of tasks to select, differentiated by 'Spice'.

An easily adaptable, easy to use template for the Million Pound Drop game for lessons at the end of term.

A printable revision card teaching students how to answer each question in the IGCSE Cambridge English Language exam

A fun lesson where students practice their writing skills, creating a first person narrative set in a dystopian setting. The lesson has learning objectives and success criteria clearly laid out, as well as a complete lesson with all tasks and resources in the one powerpoint. Useful for both year 8, 9 and 10. Easily adaptable.