This detailed powerpoint explains how to organise a linear debate, using the example debate topic ‘Which is better, book or movie?’. This debate style allows every member of the class to participate in the debate, not needing the class to be divided into smaller groups; this makes assessment of debate participation simple as each student speaks individually, but allows team group work to prepare arguments and rebuttals. This activity can easily be modified to any text or topic.

Assessed Oral Presentation This resource includes a PowerPoint explaining to students how to structure their 3-5 minute presentation and the feedback sheet used by the teacher to assess their presentations out of 20 points.

Year 5 - 9, introduces class to Victorian school system using context quiz and diary worksheets, good for starting a scheme with differentiated resources for mixed level classes

Students take a questionnaire to determine whether they would be a Roundhead or Cavalier during the English Civil War - good starter activity

Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Chapter Assessments for chapters 1 to 11 Includes a workbook with introductory activities

Henry VIII Biography Profile

Students travel around England during the Black Death, writing a diary entry after reading how several different towns react to the plague. Using health cards, they can possibly catch the plague, and must add increasingly severe symptoms to their diary entries. After completing the activity, they write an assessed essay choosing one town.

Powerpoint explaining how to analyse poetry using a mind-map to introduce analytical questions which students use to support independent analysis of poetry.

Students listen to the song ‘Castle on the Hill’ and complete a gap-fill activity focussing on vocabulary. There are grammar and vocabulary activities linked to the gap-fill included on the next page.

Students listen to song Wolves by Selena Gomez and add missing words from vocabulary box. There are activites on grammar and vocabulary on the next page.

Students complete worksheet on key terms and years from the English Civil War in order to revise

Student can watch a short youtube clip (link to video on worksheet) or use words in vocabulary box to fill in gaps in transcript of how to fire a Civil War era musket.

Timecat - Chapter assessments and activities

Black Death Pop Quiz

Multiple choice Pop Quiz on the Black Death

Quick pop quiz on James I - good starter activity

Student read several primary sources and answer questions

Medicine in Medieval Britain - Vocabulary Activity

Crusaders Revision Crib Sheet

Student workbook with teacher powerpoint (answers to workbook questions included on Powerpoint). Workbook covers : Conventions of the Gothic Genre, writing, characters and Modern Gothic Genre Language Analysis : Personification, Similes and metaphors, Pathetic Fallacy Folklore - The Gytrash Frankenstein Dracula Edgar Allan Poe – The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven The Demon Bench The Deserted House - Poem Analysis The Yellow Wallpaper Gothic Convention - Pastiche