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!
Apologies for having to break this into two parts, TES has size limits.
I designed this SOW (all power-points and worksheets included) for the GCSE study of Mice & Men (Lit paper). Power-points work through the text scene by scene and investigate language, build analysis skills and connections made between text and context.
In Pt2, essay writing skills and a summative assessment are included.
Find enclosed all resources required for teaching an entire scheme of work for "The Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" (AQA GCSE).
- All lessons and activities covering themes, plot, characters, language, context and critical theory
- Formative "Hot Task" assessment
- Worksheets
- Termly homework grid
- How to write an essay- two part lessons for surmising the unit.
25-30 lessons of content in total.
I am teaching this currently- enjoy!
A scheme of work (all lesson power-points and worksheets included) investigating poetry from other cultures. Some of the poets covered include Imtiaz Dharker, Benjamin Zephaniah and more. Comparison lessons are also included (aimed at introducing KS3 to the skills required for GCSE Lit and Lang), plus a few other creative lessons.
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.
These 11 power-points and resources cover an entire term of lessons. Find included lessons, activities, worksheets etc covering the skills required for success with answering questions 1-5 for the AQA GCSE Language Paper 1, unseen fiction texts.
Texts included for study in this unit are:
- The Bloody Chamber
- Dracula
- Frankenstein
- Stardust
- Ready Player One
- The Secret Garden
- Heart of Darkness
Enjoy :)
This power-point is designed to be taught over a term/two terms for the GCSE topic in the literature paper. Find included all resources on themes, context, investigation of language and stagecraft and everything else you need for teaching this play. A01-3 are covered in complex detail, and there are about 25-30 lessons of content included altogether.
I designed this resource for my higher ability year 10 class, who have just started their GCSE course.
Parts 1-3 combined into this bundle. Find included all power-points, lessons and worksheets for every scene within each act. Some things included:
- Strong focus on AO1 and AO2
- Model texts (such as essays)
- Talk for Writing pedagogic strategies
- Creative writing and other creative activities
- Essay writing skills
- A lesson on iambic pentameter
- Diagnostic, formative and summative assesments.
I'd recommend the Justin Kurzel film to complement some of the lessons, though it is not 100% accurate to the storyline so only to be used sparingly!
25-30 lessons of material in total.
This power-point covers all content for teaching "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding for the AQA GCSE specification.
25-30 lessons (all power-points and activities are included) explore A01-3 in depth; themes, language and context. A few lessons are dedicated to the examination of critical theory (Plato's Republic and Social Contract Theory), and additionally essay writing projects, creative writing, formative assessments and a summative quiz are included.
Enjoy!
Pitched at: Year 11 Standard
**Context: Students are studying different fiction genres and culminating product is writing a narrative fiction in a genre of their choice.
Lesson sequence:
Introdution and goal setting
Student get to know you/diagnostic
What is genre?
Recap of form, structure, language
The Gothic Genre (several lessons, looking at extracts from Dracula, Frankenstein, The Werewolf by Angela Carter.
The Fantasy Genre (looking at Tolkien, WOT, world-building etc)
The Dystopian genre
What is narrative structure?
How to write critical paragraphs analysing language
How to structure a creative response
Show, don’t tell workshop
Resources included:
Main power-point
Model creatives and critical paragraphs
Worlshop power-points on structure and narratology, symbolism, types of fantasy worlds
All extracts
Worksheets
Peer marking activities
Updated and improved from last year, my new Crime & Punishment unit!
The unit looks and fiction and non-fiction texts, and teaches all the skills required for student success with the AQA English Language Papers 1 and 2.
This is a whole scope and sequence, covering well over a term’s worth of lessons. Included also is a social justice mini-unit, for getting students involved in Amnesty International’s Write for Rights annual campaign.
Resources span all manner of activities: mixed ability, plenty of differentiation, stretch and challenge, project-based activities, collaborative learning etc. Some of the new additions are: focalisation of narrative, importance of place in crime fiction, Victorian language, crafting compelling villains, and the role of justice in crime.
Formative assessments included, as are student friendly marking criteria and feedback sheets.
I’ve loved sculpting and teaching this unit. Please enjoy!
All five acts, power-points and all lessons combined into one. (Previously sold separately per act) Find included:
- Worksheets and activities covering themes, language devices and context
- All power-points for lessons on each scene in each act
- Strong focus on A01 and A02
- Diagnostic, formative and summative assessments included
- Essay writing skills lessons
- Model texts (including a whole model essay)
- Creative writing and other activities
Some lessons require viewings of Baz Luhrmann's film, so make sure you have a copy :)
25-30 lessons of content included in total. Enjoy!