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Lists Rhetorical Questions Resources
Worksheets for teaching lists and rhetorical questions as part of RUAE/close reading. I used them with S1 and S2 classes, but they could be adapted for use with other levels.
Edwin Morgan 8 Mark Question
A PowerPoint with quotes arranged by subject designed to support Nation 5 pupils this year. Each category has a quotation from Glasgow 5th March 1971 (since that's this year's poem) and two quotations from another poem.
The Polar Express Media Study
Some resources designed to help support teaching The Polar Express. Includes a short PowerPoint and some worksheets.
Shrek Media Study Film Unit
Designed for teaching the 2001 film Shrek as a critical essay text. Includes a PowerPoint designed to take pupils through the essay as well as worksheets for use beforehand. Also includes a short group talking task which can be used as an extension task. Designed for use with a fairly low ability class, but could be adapted to be used with less support.
Remote Learning Creative Writing
Creative writing resources designed to help pupils who are working from home or working with less support (these were made during the first lockdown). Includes a variety of worksheets which cover different aspects of creative writing (character, dialogue etc.) culminating in writing their own story.
A Sound of Thunder Ray Bradbury
A variety of resources designed to support the teaching of Ray Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder. Includes a PowerPoint, essay plans, example essays and th story itself. I used it to teach National 5 but it could be adapted for other levels.
Merchant of Venice Social Media Profiles
A series of worksheets with fake blank Facebook pages for main characters in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice including Shylock and Portia. Great for an extension activity.
Private Peaceful Michael Morpurgo
Resources designed to support the teaching of Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful. Includes a PowerPoint, a write-on essay and WW1 propaganda posters.
Own Words Word Choice Test
Short class test, worth 20 marks, designed to test own words and word choice skills using short passages and simple questions.
Camping Out Vernon Scannell
A unit of work designed to teach the poem Camping Out by Vernon Scannell, working towards a critical essay. Includes a PowerPoint, the poem itself and a differentiated write-on version of the essay.
Nettles Vernon Scannell
A short unit of work designed to teach the poem Nettles by Vernon Scannell, culminating in a short class test. Includes work on analysing metaphors.
RUAE Close Reading Resources
Includes a PowerPoint designed to teach own words, word choice, imagery and sentence structure questions as well as two practice papers and some short tasks which can be used in a carousel.
Coraline Film Study
A PowerPoint designed to support the teaching of the 2009 film Coraline.
Merchant of Venice Resources
Various resources designed to support the teaching of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Includes a PowerPoint and various worksheets and tasks.
Guy Fawkes
Associated resources surrounding Guy Fawkes night. Includes historical sources and scripts for the class to hold a trial as to whether Guy Fawkes was set up or whether he was guilty. Great for a wee bit of fun in the run up to December. I used it with S1 but could easily be adapted for other levels.
RUAE Close Reading Question Type Guides
Short guides on how to answer own words, word choice, sentence structure and imagery questions in RUAE. Designed for use with National 5 classes but can be adapted for use with other levels.
MacB
A PP and essay plan designed to teach the novel ‘MacB’ by Neil Arksey.
The Others (2001) Media Study
Resources designed to support the teaching of the 2001 film The Others and a related critical essay. Includes a PowerPoint (also included as a PDF file), worksheets, a talking task and a critical essay plan.
The Highwayman Alfred Noyes Poetry
A unit of work designed to teach Alfred Noyes’s The Highwayman, culminating in a critical essay. Includes a PowerPoint, the poem itself, a short task on similes and metaphors, a wanted poster and storyboard for extension activities, a critical essay plan and a write-on critical essay.
Storm Catchers Tim Bowler
Includes a PowerPoint, crtiical essay plan and a plan for an associated writing task for the novel Strom Catchers by Tim Bowler.