A detailed comic-style A3 poster/placemat I made to help pupils with approaching unseen poetry. Probably most useful for KS4, but would be helpful for older and younger learners as well.

<p>Here are 21 lessons I’ve made covering Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale for Edexcel’s English Literature A Level spec. These lessons are also suitable for other exam boards covering the novel. They have been designed with Sixth-Formers in mind, but they may be able to be used in GCSE lessons with some adaptation and streamlining of the more advanced concepts covered.</p> <p>Hopefully these lesson activities will provide a useful starting point for teachers taking their students through this novel. The final 5 lessons pertain to comparing The Handmaid’s Tale with Frankenstein: I have included these lessons in case that is the text other centres have paired The Handmaid’s Tale with, but obviously they could be adapted to accommodate a different comparison text. I’ve also included an essay planner template I’ve made for students.</p> <p>I have not provided a written scheme of work on a separate document, but the titles of the Powerpoints and the activities on each one should make it clear how I have structured the content.</p>

<p>These lessons cover the films Un Chien Andalou and l’Age d’Or for the OCR Film Studies ‘European Cinema History’ unit as part of the Film History paper.</p> <p>The early lessons also cover more generally some of the history of the Surrealist movement.</p> <p>Each lesson contains student activities and discussion questions revolving around key sequences from the film being studied.</p>

<p>Here are 17 lessons I’ve made covering Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein for Edexcel’s English Literature A Level spec. These lessons are also suitable for other exam boards covering the novel. They have been designed with Sixth-Formers in mind, but they may be able to be used in GCSE lessons with some adaptation and streamlining of the more advanced concepts covered.</p> <p>Hopefully these lesson activities will provide a useful starting point for teachers taking their students through this novel. The final 5 lessons pertain to comparing Frankenstein with The Handmaid’s Tale: I have included these lessons in case that is the text other centres have paired Frankenstein with, but obviously they could be adapted to accommodate a different comparison text. I’ve also included an essay planner template I’ve made for students.</p> <p>I have not provided a written scheme of work on a separate document, but the titles of the Powerpoints and the activities on each one should make it clear how I have structured the content.</p>

<p>These lessons cover the documentary Stories We Tell for the OCR Film Studies Documentary unit. The first 5 lessons are films about the history of documentary and would be useful to Film Studies teachers who have chosen a different film from the specification.</p> <p>Each lesson contains student activities and discussion questions revolving around key sequences from the film.</p>

<p>These lessons cover the films Ex Machina and The Hunger Games (and comparison of the two) for the OCR Film Studies ‘British and U.S. Film’ unit as part of the Critical Approaches paper.</p> <p>Each lesson contains student activities and discussion questions revolving around key sequences from the two films.</p>

<p>Here are 20 lessons I’ve made covering Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night for an A Level class. They were designed for students of Edexcel’s A Level Literature course, but other than the wording of the essay practice questions they would also be appropriate for other exam boards (though lessons 17-19 do pertain specifically to Edexcel’s Twelfth Night critical anthology). Hopefully these lesson activities will provide a useful starting point for teachers taking their students through this play.</p> <p>I have not provided a written scheme of work on a separate document, but the titles of the Powerpoints and the activities on each one should make it clear how I have structured the content.</p> <p>The majority of these lessons (3-15) are designed to be taught while reading/watching the play chronologically, with lessons broken up between reading/watching and the activities. All of the time-stamps in the Powerpoints correspond to the (amazing) Globe production of the play with Stephen Fry as Malvolio and Mark Rylance as Olivia. This recording can be purchased and downloaded from The Globe theatre’s website, and it’s highly recommended because it’s a stellar production and the students always love it.</p> <p>Also included are some other resources that might be useful, including various revision tasks (presentation 21) which can be set as homework activities or as general end-of year revision work. I’ve also included an essay planner template I’ve made for students.</p>

<p>Here are 21 lessons I’ve made covering the ‘Poems of the Decade’ anthology poems for Edexcel’s English Literature A Level spec. Hopefully these lesson activities will provide a useful starting point for teachers taking their students through each of these poems.</p> <p>I have not provided a written scheme of work on a separate document, but the titles of the Powerpoints and the activities on each one should make it clear how I have structured the content.</p> <p>Also included are some other resources that might be useful, including some unseen poems to pair the set poems with for practice comparative essays. I’ve also included an essay planner template I’ve made for students.</p>

<p>These 26 lessons are designed for teaching Brian Friel’s Translations to A Level students of English Language and Literature. They are based on the Edexcel specification, but they could be applicable to other exam boards (and other English courses).</p> <p>There are a variety of resources and tasks, and also practice essay questions with corresponding extracts from the play. The lessons are designed to be used alongside the RTE radio performance of the play, found here:</p> <p><a href="https://soundcloud.com/andrewxlam/brian-friel-translations-rte" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://soundcloud.com/andrewxlam/brian-friel-translations-rte</a></p>

<p>These lessons cover the films Moonrise Kingdom, Room and A Separation (and comparison of the three) for the OCR Film Studies Ideology unit, from the Critical Approaches paper.</p> <p>Each lesson contains student activities and discussion questions revolving around key sequences from the three films.</p> <p>The early lessons cover the concept of ideology more generally.</p>

<p>20 high-quality lesson Powerpoints for John Keats’s poetry, plus a bespoke anthology Word doc containing all the poems on the Edexcel spec with student-friendly summaries and glossaries (to be printed or shared digitally with students). The lesson Powerpoints are very detailed and designed to double as revision resources.</p> <p>Though the selection of poems is catering to Edexcel’s selection of 14, these resources would be appropriate to any English Literature A Level or GCSE lesson on Keats. Lessons provided are as follows:</p> <ol> <li>Intro - Keats bio</li> <li>Intro - Poetic Form</li> <li>‘O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell’</li> <li>On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer</li> <li>On the Sea</li> <li>‘In drear-nighted December’</li> <li>On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again</li> <li>‘When I have fears that I may cease to be’</li> <li>The Eve of St Agnes (lesson 1)</li> <li>The Eve of St Agnes (lesson 2)</li> <li>The Eve of St Agnes (lesson 3)</li> <li>To Sleep</li> <li>Ode to Psyche</li> <li>Ode on a Grecian Urn</li> <li>Ode to a Nightingale</li> <li>Ode on Melancholy</li> <li>‘Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art’</li> <li>To Autumn</li> <li>Recap - themes</li> <li>Recap - form</li> </ol> <p>Lesson preview: Ode on a Grecian Urn: <a href="https://imgur.com/hNDO3ld" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/hNDO3ld</a><br /> Lesson preview: ‘When I have Fears’: <a href="https://imgur.com/a/mec01jn" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/mec01jn</a><br /> Lesson preview: Poetic Form: <a href="https://imgur.com/a/KiQyJPU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/KiQyJPU</a></p>

A detailed comic-style A3 poster/placemat I made to help pupils with approaching unseen poetry. Probably most useful for KS4, but would be helpful for older and younger learners as well.

<p>These lessons cover the films E.T., Citizen Kane and The Gold Rush (and comparison of the three) for the OCR Film Studies ‘U.S. Film History’ unit.</p> <p>Each lesson contains student activities and discussion questions revolving around key sequences from the three films.</p>

Lesson plan which explores some interesting and complex persuasive devices for A-Level classes, and a worksheet activity where students have to try to identify the device used in each quote.

<p>These 8 lessons are intended as a two week ‘induction period’ introducing A Level students to the topic of language analysis in written texts. They are designed to be useful for either English Language or English Language &amp; Literature courses, and they are not exam-board specific (though the AOs in the final lesson may need to be adjusted).</p> <p>The main aim for these lessons is to introduce students to the bulk of terminology they will need for analysis of written texts. They cover topics of lexis, syntax, semantics, structural features, imagery, context and ‘genre/audience/purpose’. The final lesson contains a long Kahoot testing the students on the terminology they’ve hopefully learnt, and some exam practice with modelled answers.</p> <p>These lessons are designed to be completely ‘from scratch’ as I intend to be using them at the very start of term with my classes, so they do not anticipate any prior knowledge (though their complexity means that they are probably a little too in-depth for GCSE learners).</p> <p>For this SOW you will need to disseminate the copy of ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’ I have attached, and the extract from Nigel Slater’s memoir.</p>

<p>Here are 50 separate Creative Writing sessions I have made, designed for a lunchtime or after school club. They have been made with Sixth Formers in mind, but most of the activities are accessible enough for younger (GCSE-age) students as well, though teacher discretion is advised as some of the literary extracts and film clips are more suitable for the older students.</p> <p>Each session contains some preliminary stimulus materials to read and watch (extracts from novels, poems, film scenes, paintings, photographs, etc.) and then related writing activities for the second half of the session. Obviously the extracts and scenes I have selected are very much catered to my own tastes, and teachers may want to adapt these materials by replacing extracts or clips with their own favourite examples of great writing.</p> <p>The sessions cover a wide range of topics. I like to constantly vary the genre and form of writing to challenge the students to try writing outside of their usual comfort zones. Here are some of the topics covered:</p> <ul> <li>Novel conventions and structure</li> <li>Narrative elements (characters, settings, premises)</li> <li>Poetry, and the conventions of specific poetic forms</li> <li>Genre conventions</li> <li>Retellings of classic myths and folklore</li> <li>Screenwriting and dialogue writing for plays/films</li> <li>Wordplay challenges (such as lipograms in PPT 39)</li> <li>A few slightly wacky sessions (fixing the bad prose of The Da Vinci Code in PPT 45!)</li> </ul> <p>Also included are various Word documents with extracts corresponding to some of the sessions.</p> <p>Hopefully this will provide a useful starting point for any teacher thinking of running a school or college creative writing club.</p>

<p>15 detailed and well-presented lessons on A Streetcar Named Desire, suitable for A Level English Literature students. The lessons take students scene-by-scene through the play, with discussion of context and literary analysis.</p> <p>The lessons can be used in conjunction with the Young Vic production of the play (with Gillian Anderson as Blanche) if you have access to that via National Theatre Live.</p> <p>Some slide previews here:<br /> <a href="https://imgur.com/a/pXu3Y6E" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/pXu3Y6E</a></p>

<p>These lessons cover the film The 400 Blows for the OCR Film Studies ‘European Cinema History’ unit as part of the Film History paper.</p> <p>The early lessons also cover more generally some of the history of European cinema and the context of the French New Wave movement.</p> <p>Each lesson contains student activities and discussion questions revolving around key sequences from the film.</p>

<p>I wanted to make some essay plan templates that guide students in a clear way through the process of planning a ‘PEA’ or (for comparison) ‘PEA-EA’ essay. When the student has filled the template out, it should be useful for being able to visualise the structure that their essay ought to have. I’ve designed these so that they can either be completed by students digitally or physically.</p> <p>Though I’ve made the templates for specific texts in Edexcel’s KS5 Lit and Lang-lit specs and OCR’s KS5 film spec, they can easily be adapted for use with other texts in other specs, and would work just as well for KS4.</p> <p>Obviously the Assessment Objectives would have to be altered depending on your exam board/unit, but the general essay structure would remain the same: just use and adapt the one that is closest to the sort of essay question you are working on (either a single-text question or a comparative question). Much of the advice for students about how to write the essay shouldn’t need to be changed.</p>

Two posters for revising The Great Gatsby - one is a break-down of the main characters and the other is a collection of 'key quotes'. These are designed to look eye-catching when printed and pinned to a wall.

<p>These 20 lessons cover the entirety of Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest and the first 10 chapters of his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. They are designed for use with an A Level class who are comparing these texts as part of their coursework for Edexcel’s English Literature course. The lessons would however be suitable to adapt for a different exam board covering these texts, though please bear in mind that only the first 10 chapters (half) of Dorian Gray is covered here.</p> <p>The lessons are structured to alternate between the play and the novel, teaching them concurrently rather than one at a time. The final 3 lessons contain some activities for general comparison between the texts.</p>