Whole lesson for teaching Tissue including:
Starter activity for pupils to consider the significance of paper
Key contextual information about Dharker
Word cloud to aid summary of the poem
Copy of the poem for annotation
Summary of the poem and references to key themes
References to language and structural techniques
Review to identify key quotations that fit the key themes of the poem.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Whole lesson for teaching The Prelude including:
Starter activity to encourage inference/deduction about the poem. Another starter (quiz) for second lesson on the poem to test knowledge.
Key contextual information about Wordsworth (spots of time, the sublime, Wordsworth’s life)
A clear summary of the poem and introduction to the epic tradition (form)
References to language and structural techniques.
Review to identify key quotations that fit the key themes of the poem.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Whole lesson for teaching Bayonet Charge including:
Starter activity to introduce the poem and encourage links to key themes.
Slides to support summary of each stanza followed by poem summary.
Key contextual information
Identified language and structural techniques
Review activity to encourage students to succinctly summarise the poem
Detailed analysis of structure/language techniques with supporting quotations to model to students.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Whole lesson for teaching Poppies including:
Starter activity based around a quote from Jane Weir (link with Duffy’s poetic ideals as she commissioned the poem). The starter also includes a challenge and prompts pupils to consider the significance that Weir’s textile business may have in relation to the poem.
Key contextual information about Armistice and Weir
Key themes and summary of the poem.
References to language and structural techniques.
Review activity to consolidate understanding.
Review to identify key quotations that fit the key themes of the poem.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Key information about Jerome Bruner’s theory of social interaction, including key terms and the 3 modes of representation
Information about how to apply Bruner’s theory to an examination question
Key information about Michael Tomasello’s theory, including key information about intention reading and pattern finding
This resource will allow pupils to thoroughly revise the plot and narrative framing of Frankenstein. Easily differentiated.
The PowerPoint includes the following activities:
Starter with a fill in the gaps activity for key quotations from the novel. Answers included in notes section.
A detailed plot sort activity (including summaries which can be printed) of the whole novel
A quotation hunt activity
A fill in the gaps activity about the narrative framing of the novel
Key quotations about the narrative framing from the novel which has been adapted as a fill in the blanks activity. Answers included in notes section.
Narrative framing consolodation questions
Exam style question about how Shelley uses narrative framing in the novel
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Whole lesson for teaching Checking Out Me History including:
Starter activity to introduce the poem through the use of images and a key quotation from John Agard.
Questions to enable students to summarise content of the poem, followed by poem summary.
Key contextual information
Identified language and structural techniques
Twist to fit activity for key themes to encourage students to select one or more key quotes to fit each of the themes.
Review to summarise the deeper meaning of the poem.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Whole lesson for teaching Storm on the Island including:
Starter activity with key images and a quote from Seamus Heaney to promote discussion about the content of the poem and to challenge pupils to consider the hidden metaphorical meanings.
Quiz on language/structural techniques (used in Storm on the Island). Another starter that tests pupils knowledge of other poems in the cluster
Slide to encourage pupils to infer what the poem is about based on key themes.
Clear mind-map slide for annotations for summary
Poem dictionary for unfamiliar words in the poem
Key contextual information about Heaney and Ireland
References to language and structural techniques.
Review to identify key quotations that fit the key themes of the poem.
Homework tasks for pupils to annotate another Seamus Heaney poem for unseen poetry practice.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Whole lesson for teaching Kamikaze including:
Starter activity to introduce ‘kamikaze’ with a quote from a pilot that allows a route into the poem.
Key contextual information about Kamikaze pilots and Japanese society.
A clear summary of the poem and its key themes
Identified language and structural techniques
A review activity to stretch and challenge pupils about the presentation of the father.
Review to identify key quotations that fit the key themes of the poem.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Introductory activity relating to key aspects of cognitive theory
Introduction to Piaget’s theory of cognitivism: Slides outline Piaget’s 4 stages of development and a video showing a child that has not yet mastered object permanence relating to Piaget’s theory
Introduction to Vygotsky’s theory of the Zone of Proximal Development and the More Knowledgeable Other
Video to aid discussion and identification of cognitivism and key aspects of the theory in a parent-child interaction, with the parent acting as the MKO
Key review of Halliday’s 7 functions of language
Whole lesson for teaching Exposure including:
Starter activity to introduce the poem and encourage links to abstract meaning. Quotes from Wilfred Owen can also be used to support discussion.
Another starter activity to test knowledge of other poems in the cluster.
Key contextual information with a main focus on Owen’s life.
Detailed summary
Identified language and structural techniques - break down of language techniques in each stanza to aid class annotations.
Twist to fit activity for key themes to encourage students to select one or more key quotes to fit each of the themes.
Review to summarise the deeper meaning of the poem.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Whole lesson for teaching The Emigree including:
Starter activity to encourage pupils to remember a place from their childhood - introduces the main ideas of the poem and involves SMSC; a quote from Rumens about her views on poetry can also be used to aid initial discussion around the poem.
Another starter with key quotations that asks pupils to identify the poem.
Link to a syrian refugee story to build contextual understanding
Key contextual information about Rumens
References to language and structural techniques. Also includes a name the technique slide for revision of the poem.
SMILE mnemonic for revision/Unseen poetry.
2 x homework activity: One to summarise the poem and one to write a creative piece about a place visited to support Eng Lang Paper 1 Q 5.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Introductory discussion activity - child language profile
Pre-birth overview
The stages of language development - table to print
Activities based on the holophrastic stage and holophrastic utterances when a child moves beyond the pre-verbal stage
Whole lesson for teaching War Photographer including:
Starter activity to consider the role of a war photographer with quotations from Duffy to support discussion
Slide to encourage pupils to summarise the poem and identify key themes.
Slide with summary and key themes
Key contextual information about Duffy with quotes from and about her; information on Nick Ut’s ‘Napalm Girl’ and quotations from war photographers to enhance understanding about the nature of the job.
References to language and structural techniques.
Review to identify key quotations that fit the key themes of the poem.
Homework activity
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Introductory discussion activity
Key ideas associated with Nativism, including video, such as Universal Grammar and Poverty of the Stimulus
Key supporting study: Nicaraguan sign language study
Short transcript activity to apply and consider whether Chomsky’s theory can be applied
Review activity where students are asked to define key terms associated with the theory in their own words
Introduction to definition of Child Directed Speech
Key features of Child Directed Speech: Phonology, grammar & syntax, lexis and pragmatics
Slides 5-8 ask students to identify what features of CDS are present in the example utterances
Clarke Stewart’s theory of CDS
Criticism of CDS e.g. Papa New Guinea, Somoa and recent research into the benefits of CDS
Introduction to the concept of scaffolding used in CDS
Whole lesson for teaching Remains including:
Starter activity to consider the connotations of the poem’s title and quotes from Armitage to prompt discussion.
Another starter activity that challenges pupils to identify other poems in the cluster through clues.
Link to Channel 4 doc on YouTube
Homework activity (Unseen poetry practice - Section C) for Mother Any Distance (Love and Relationships cluster)
Key contextual information
Poem summary
References to language and structural techniques.
Review to identify key quotations that fit the key themes of the poem.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Resource to support beginnings of teaching Child Language Acquisition, providing
Mehler - French babies
Fitzpatrick - Biological effects of language
Pre-verbal language development stages
Desmond Morris - Babbling Stage (6-12 months)
Proto-Words
Halliday’s functions
Match-up activity - match up the proto-words to the appropriate contextual information
Match up activity - match up the contextual information to Halliday’s functions
Introductory discussion activity to promote thinking about how lack of interaction can impact children - linking to feral children
Lenneberg’s Critical Period theory information
Information and video about the case of Genie (‘feral’ child) from the 1970s in America, including key ideas and questions relating this to Lenneberg’s theory
Hart & Risley’s theory (1995) of academic progress of children from different socioeconomic backgrounds
Nature vs nurture information slide
For Behaviourism:
Information and videos about Pavlov’s dogs and the Watson & Rayner ‘Little Albert’ study
Key theoretical information about B/F Skinner’s theory of operant conditioning
Final slides includes criticism of Skinner’s theory
Whole lesson for teaching My Last Duchess including:
Starter activity to introduce My Last Duchess with a link to a news story to introduce the key themes of the poem. This is accompanied by quotes from Browning to promote thinking.
Key contextual information about Robert Browning and Renaissance Italy.
A poem dictionary.
A clear summary of the poem and its key themes.
Identified language and structural techniques
Review to identify key quotations that fit the key themes of the poem.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.