This is a PPT with 2 whole lessons about the first encounter with Lady Macbeth in Act 1, scene 5, while reading Macbeth's letter, wishing to make pupils anticipate possible courses of action from that point, but also choose one of them and develop her response. The action taken will be a reply letter, focusing on English Language skills (Purpose, Audience, Form and Tone).

This is a PPT of 69 slides on The DEATH OF A NATURALIST by Seamus Heaney with lessons on Context, Structure and Analysis. At the end of each lesson there is a homework piece, too. It would be great if you can teach this poem after BLACKBERRY PICKING by the same poet, as the Context lesson is built on that... (see my PPT on Blackberry Picking). A compare/contrast assessment can be done, for which I will put a new PPT online soon. This poem can be taught at both KS3 (year 8 - Nature Poetry/Growing Up) or KS4...

AQA GCSE - Poetry - Power and Conflict cluster. This is a 15 slides ppt tackling the Context of the poem Kamikaze by Beatrice Garland. 1 lesson worth. I will add the following lessons (power & conflict + analysis) later on.

JEKYLL & HYDE - Chapter 9 - Dr. Lanyon. This is a lesson building a strategy in steps for EAL & Cognition and Learning pupils, that can be used with bottom sets, as well. The strategy has 9 steps, but through practice this can be decreased to 6 and later to 4 (in the actual exam). Pupils are asked to build up a strategy of work and later will practice on different extracts from Chapter 9 of Jekyll and Hyde.

This is a lesson on Chapter 6 from Jekyll and Hyde novel, containing essay style questions for which pupils have the chance to answer and peer-assess.

This PPT contains a Draft lesson, as well as the Assessment Lesson with an Argumentative essay based on the Block Method for a Newspapers module than can run with either year 8 or year 9. We are currently testing this assessment on year 8 at our school and I have to say that at least my classes have been successful in completing the argumentative essay. Attached are also two articles reporting on the same story (a tabloid and a broadsheet). Pupils need to be able to spot similarities, but also differences and write a 5 paragraphs essay with at least 3 analytical paragraphs. You can run the assessment over at least 2-3 lessons, although I am not surprised if you will have pupils finishing it in their first lesson. I hope you will find it useful.

This is a powerpoint lined up with AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 (Writing) exam, containing various pictures advertising The Secret Life of Snails as stimulus for descriptive writing activities, but also practice of the 7 story opening techniques. A worksheet to help develop the descriptive skills and other tasks are included. This can run over 4 lessons and can even develop into a story.There is now a video included to help them observe the movements and obstacles encountered in their adventures... It can be used for KS3 all years, depending on their levels.

This is a creative writing lesson for KS3 or KS4, on the topic of Snow, following the first snow falling of the year 2018 during a week of The Beast from The East blizzard. Pupils have to work with pictures, AQA GCSE style. You have a series of images to pick from, a worksheet, as well as guidance for how to add Passing of Time techniques, as well Story Opening techniques, if they are choose to do a story and not a description.

These are 2 lessons on The Charge of The Light Brigade poem from Edexcel CONFLICT cluster, focusing on CONTEXT and ANALYSIS. I hope you like them.

These are 2 ppt for Act 1, scene 5 of MACBETH, where we meet Lady Macbeth. You can spread this in 2-3 lessons, depending on the ability of your class. You have the various extracts to print embedded in the powerpoints. I hope you’ll like it.

These are 3 ppt that can be taught in 3-4 lessons, depending on the class ability: Context & Structure, Language Analysis and Power and Conflict ideas. There is one extra ppt slide for homework. Unfortunately, I could not save my annotations, as we are using Clevertouch boards here, but I’m sure the pupils will find these straight forward. I hope you’ll like them, too.

This homework booklet has 15 tasks on the following topics: Victorian Literature Horror Writing A Christmas Carol It has been created for year 8, but can be used for upper years, too, as some tasks have a high degree of difficulty, therefore challenging.

This is a PPT helping KS4 students to write a Compare & Contrast type of essay (eg. for poetry). There is a preparatory lesson to understand what types of essay can be used for this Compare & Contrast task, with an explanatory video, but also with the acknowledgement of the Block Method using the Temple of Knowledge formula (from 5 paragraphs, downgraded for KS3 to only 4). The second lesson, they will have to start focusing on completing a Venn diagram, which will then be reflected in their PEEL paragraphs, following the Block Method. I hope you will find it useful.You can spend a number of 3-4 lessons using this PPT for writing the essay.

This is a 5 lessons ppt (52 slides) showcasing the Reading Skills for AQA exam on English Language, focused around AO1 - AO4. The main topic is applied to is BUGS, like snails. Two of the lessons have opportunity for Reading Assessment. You can run these lessons with year 10, as a first encounter with AQA style of questions. If you want a Writing Assessment around the topic of bugs, like snails, please see my Snails creative writing ppt in the shop.

These are 2 full lessons (28 slides) introducing the exam with several examples of speeches embedded in the slides, as well as exam examples applied to the mark scheme.

This is a bundle for the poem DEATH OF A NATURALIST by Seamus Heaney, with separate powerpoints for Context, Structure and Analysis. Death of a Naturalist (context) - 21 slides Death of a Naturalist (structure) - 24 sides Death of a Naturalist (analysis) - 22 slides You can use this lessons as part of Nature Poetry modules or as an unseen GCSE poem to analyse, etc.

This is a lesson that goes hand in hand with my Narrative Perspective lesson, as the students work with the same picture stimulus. I would do this lesson before the Narrative Perspective lesson.

This is a lesson focused on Second Person Narrative, as this is the most challenging for pupils to create for their creative writing task of GCSE exam. This is a 10 slides ppt and there is an extract attached, which is one short story written in second person. Pupils have a short exercise to change the narrative voice, then analyse the use of some interesting devices, then an application to a picture, which for this example is from An Inspector Calls.

This folder contains a complete SOW for the module ORIGINS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE targeted at KS3 year 7 & 8. There are 20 complete lessons with PPT, worksheets and video files, as well as a Reading Assessment in lesson 11 (Middle English) and a Creative Writing assessment, which the pupils will really enjoy. I have run these lesson as part of our online learning time during lockdown 2020 and they are created to keep the students focused all the time, with short tasks expanding into longer ones… The content of the lessons will go from the Evolution of English Language to Middle English and a focus of a few lessons on Chaucer, as well as the Reading Assessment, and later to Michael Rosen and Language Evolution, as well as Semantics, Idiolect, Sociolect, Degrees of Formality, and Accents and Dialects. I hope you will find them useful, if you are teaching this module.

AQA GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 1 Reading (from September 201 5 onwards - linear exam). This is a SOW & Power Point with all lessons done. Further resources for this paper are published on AQA’s website (Paper 1: Explorations in Creative Writing and Descriptive pdf file with lessons plans done, containing a few extracts for Story Openings, Transition points and endings, Presenting people, places and action, as well as a Complete Story). This was the first resource published after the exam qualification changes in 2015. It was as guidance about the exam and this PPT will be updated soon. However, for all the other resources mentioned, I do not hold the copyright, therefore a little research you might need to do. There are lessons plans provided by AQA with their booklets of extracts, but these have not been yet translated into PPTs…