I have worked within secondary education for the last twelve years. I upload a lot of lessons for KS3-KS4 students. I try to make sure all of my lessons are differentiated to help students in the best way possible.
For more lessons and videos please visit my youtube page
I have worked within secondary education for the last twelve years. I upload a lot of lessons for KS3-KS4 students. I try to make sure all of my lessons are differentiated to help students in the best way possible.
For more lessons and videos please visit my youtube page
This is a fully differentiated, fifteen slide lesson looking at paper two of the English language exam, Writer’s Viewpoints and Perspectives. The lesson has been designed to follow on from my previous lesson on education (see bundle). The lesson has example responses for Q3 and many opportunities for AFL. I have delivered this lesson both face-to-face and via on-line platforms.
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This is a fully differentiated fourteen slide PowerPoint looking at the perception of women within the play Macbeth. The lesson introduces the learners to key contextual information regarding women during the time. In addition, the lesson looks at key scenes for lady Macbeth and her development throughout the play.
This lesson is ideal for either on-line or face-to-face teaching. All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources that are uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at Macbeth and Banquo’s first encounter with the witches. The lesson has been designed to help learners revise the key points of the play, attempt exam-style questions and test their knowledge on the play as a whole. The lesson has many opportunities for AFL and has extension activities for learners who require additional revision.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at key questions of the paper 2 exam, Writer’s Viewpoints and Perspectives. The 16-slide lesson looks at the theme of education and has many opportunities for AFL.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson; then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated sixteen-slide lesson looking at the characters of Lago and Brabantio in the play Othello. The lesson looks at how Lago’s character develops and Brabantio’s reaction to his daughter’s marriage. The lesson has been designed for teaching both face-to-face and on-line and has many opportunities for AFL.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at paper one Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing. The lesson helps learners to gain a firm understanding of the key questions and how to develop their response to get high marks. The lesson includes model answers and many opportunities for AFL. This lesson also helps learners to improve their creative writing skills and improve on their response for question five.
This lesson works well both online and face-to-face and it requires no additional printing. All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at act three of Othello. The lesson focuses on the role of the character of Emilia and the subsequent plot to cause harm to the marriage of Othello and Desdemona. The lesson has several opportunities for AFL as well as a student example to help learners to consolidate their understanding.
This lesson works well both online and face-to-face and requires no additional resources. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at act three of Othello. The lesson helps learners to understand how the play has progressed from act two and the development of the relationship between Othello and Iago. The lesson has opportunities for AFL as well as an example student response. This lesson can be taught both online and face-to-face and requires no additional resources to be printed.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups, if you liked this resource then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at William Blake’s poem, A Poison Tree. The lesson helps learners understand key contextual factors and their impact on the poem. The lesson looks at the poem in-depth focusing on language, structure and form and has opportunities for AFL.
This lesson may be taught wither online or face-to-face and has been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at act two and three of Othello. The lesson helps learners to consolidate their understanding of key characters and the way they are perceived by the audience. The lesson has many opportunities for AFL and works well both online and face-to-face with no additional resources needed.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at key extracts of A Christmas Carol which helps learners to consolidate their understanding of the text and develop their ability at responding to exam-style questions.
This lesson works well for both online and face-to-face learning and has been tried and tested with my own groups.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the beginning of Act Two in the play Othello. The lesson looks at the character of Iago and his plot against the Cassio. The lesson allows learners to gain a good understanding of his plan and his power to manipulate those around him. The lesson doesn’t require and additional printing or resources and can be used both for online and face-to-face teaching. The lesson also uses a model response and a cloze passage to help learners understand how to write an exam response and consolidate their understanding.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my bundle and shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at paper one: Explorations in Creative Reading and Writing. The lesson helps learners gain a comprehensive understanding of language and structure as well as a step-by-step guide to approaching question five- creative writing using a stimulus.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups and can be taught both online and face-to-face.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the poem, The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy. The lesson has been designed to help learners gain a good understanding of the language, structure and form of the poem as well as the contextual factors that affect our interpretation of the text.
The lesson has many opportunities for AFL and class discussion as well as a comparison to the poem, A Poison Tree by William Blake (see bundle for a full lesson on Blake’s work) and how to structure a comparison.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups and can be taught both online and face-to-face. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources which are updated each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at some of the key characters and quotations from An Inspector Calls. The lesson focuses on building learner’s overall comprehension of the play and getting used to responding to exam-style questions.
Additionally, the lesson looks at the seven deadly sins and how these may be seen within the main characters of the play. The lesson has many opportunities for AFL and works well both online and face-to-face.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the second half of Lord Byron’s poem, The Destruction of Sennacherib the lesson helps learners gain a detailed understanding of the poem and to consolidate their learning from lesson one on this poem.
The lesson has many opportunities for AFL and has differentiated questions to simulate exam-style responses. This lesson works well both online and face-to-face.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the young characters within the play. The lesson looks at how Priestly has used the characters of Eric and Shelia as a device to convey a deeper meaning to the audience.
The lesson has many opportunities for AFL as well as an exam response. All of my lessons have been tried and this lesson works well both on-line and face-to-face.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the character of Piggy in, The Lord of the Flies. The lesson helps learners understand how Golding has used Piggy to convey key ideas throughout the novel. The lesson looks at a key exam-style question and includes a model response as well as the grading descriptors.
This lesson works well both online and face-to-face and requires no additional printing.
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This is a fully differentiated lesson designed to help learners to revise Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The lesson helps learners to consolidate their overall understanding of the novella and the themes Stevenson employed throughout the story.
The lesson has many opportunities for AFL and takes learners through an exam-style response focused on chapter four. This lesson works well both face-to-face and online and can be taught without any additional printing.
All of my lessons have been tried and tested with my own groups. If you liked this lesson, then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.
This is a fully differentiated lesson looking at the poem, The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron. The lesson enables learners to gain a detailed understanding of the context surrounding the battle as well as information regarding Lord Byron and the Romantic poets.
The lesson looks at key details within the poem and help learners to analyse language, structure and form. There are many opportunities for AFL as well as a exam-style question.
This works well as a remote lesson or as something to be taught face-to-face. if you liked this lesson then please check out my shop for more lessons and resources uploaded each week.