I'm a passionate secondary English and History teacher and am the main planner of resources for my department; as such, I thought I would start sharing them here with the wider community of teachers and professionals. I am Australian trained, but currently teaching GCSE and A- Level (AQA specifications). All lessons are very visually engaging, with images, clips and a variety of activities. You won't find any boring/blank resources here!
I'm a passionate secondary English and History teacher and am the main planner of resources for my department; as such, I thought I would start sharing them here with the wider community of teachers and professionals. I am Australian trained, but currently teaching GCSE and A- Level (AQA specifications). All lessons are very visually engaging, with images, clips and a variety of activities. You won't find any boring/blank resources here!
A fun 2-3 lessons that introduce students to the structure and form of feature articles. Builds to a task where they write their own feature article as Lois Lane, on the topic of Does the world really need superman?
Included in this pack is an original model text of a feature article, written by yours truly :)
My class had a lot of fun with this. Enjoy!
A lesson for a mixed ability KS3 class, analysing the short story form and Hemingway’s application of the “Icerbeg Theory”.
Activities include:
Key words
Information about Hemingway and summaries
Introduction to iceberg theory
Applying iceberg theory to creative writing
Reading, comprehending and analysing the short story “Cat in the Rain”
There is individual, paired, and whole-class activities included.
Enjoy!
A useful lesson for revising how to compare poems in the Power & Conflict poetry cluster, for AQA’s GCSE. I recommend this resource if you have already taught the entire unit. A few skills that the lesson covers are:
Detailed revision and analysis of poetic form
Revision of contextual influences and the importance of these
How to structure a comparison paragraph
Activity sheets for printing are included in the PP.
A great crib sheet with lots of structured explanations for how students can begin to:
Write critical paragraphs analysing language, structure and form
Craft a creative story.
I am using this currently as a guided revision tool for my year 7 class.
I taught this lesson as for a unit on how to write historical fiction, however you can adapt this resource for any creative writing unit.
Focus of the lesson:
Developing depth in characterisation
Understanding the scales of characterisation to create interesting characters
Worksheets included in PP
Differentiated extension tasks with student voice and choice at the end
Note that students will need either their own computers or some device to conduct a bit of research and to complete the Jigsaw activity (three videos to watch). Right click the videos on the photos on the PP to access them (the links are embedded).
I’m very proud to share with you my 12 week unit of work on Macbeth. This unit is aimed at a high ability class and includes 12 weeks worth of lessons, power-points, worksheets, resources, homework etc. The first few weeks focuses primarily on contextual details, followed by elements of tragedy, higher order terminology, and skills pertaining to form, genre, language and structure.
Furthermore, this unit is designed as a flipped-model project. Students should read the play at home and focus on discussion and writing skills in class. I’ve included the 12 week program I wrote for my students, that details the breakdown of lessons, key terms for each week and required readings prior to each lesson. Feel free to adapt this to suit your own schedules. My students really engaged with the program and the flipped-model fosters independence, study skills, and student autonomy.
Enjoy!
Please note that character profile sheets are based on the Schmoop resources.
Find included a scheme of work with all activities, power-points and resources for teaching a broad introduction to Shakespeare, geared at KS3.
Part one includes a "Why Study Shakespeare?" lesson, plus four other lessons on context, the Globe and genres. Part two includes three lessons on the Comedies (Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night and Taming of the Shrew). Part three comprises the histories (Richard III, Henry V and Julius Ceasar) and also the tragedies (Romeo & Juliet and Antony & Cleopatra) .
Key skills: plot and character overviews, introductions into Shakespeare's language (looking at extracts) plus creative activities.
A one off lesson (could be taught for either KS3 or KS4 depending on class ability) defining charactonyms. The focus is on the character of Minerva McGonagall, with an extract from "The Deathly Hallows", some language analysis and finally, a creative activity.
I've designed this lesson and posted it as a free resource so as to showcase my work in resource planning/creation. If you like this lesson, please check out my other resources which span KS3-5.
