Students analyse two adverts for Coca Cola. Students must explore how each text was shaped by its context.
They think about attitudes to women in the 1950s compared to attitudes to women in the 21st century and think about how these are reflected in the advert.
This always engages students.
English Language Paper 1 Section A. An anthology of 20 printable fiction extracts and put together to form a printable anthology. Each extract contains some context about the extract and 1-3 Eduqas style 10 mark questions.
Lessons and resources looking at key extracts to prepare Year 9 students for studying prose at GCSE. Also includes context and revision lessons.
The areas of the novel I particular focus on are as follows
Curley meets Lennie (foreshadowing)
Curley’s wife meets Lennie (foreshadowing)
fight between Lennie and Curley (violence)
Crooks (character)
Setting in Chapter 6
Death of Curley’s Wife
Lesson On Curley
Lesson on Slim in Chapter 2
Lesson on Curley’s Wife in Chapter 2
20 question multiple choice quiz
PowerPoint covering 4 lessons on Stave 1.
Lesson 1: Prepare for assessment on Scrooge in Stave 1 using GCSE style extract and help sheets.
Lesson 2: Complete assessment
Lesson 3: Respond to feedback using model essay to help. Differentiated.
Lesson 4: Test on 28 key quotations from Stave 1.
A series of lessons based around producing a piece of creative writing inspired by images of Hiroshima.
All lessons include differentiation and learning objectives. There is also a model response to annotate.
Also includes a lesson that looks at high grade exemplars of a lighthouse description.
6 lessons building towards an assessment comparing two literary texts:
Touching the Void and Red Dust by Ma Jian.
Focus on the author’s perspectives on survival. Lots of differentiated embedded into the lessons.
Lessona 1 and 2. Analyse Red Dust
Lessons 3 and 4. Analyse Touching the Void
Lesson 5. Prepare for comparative assessment through the learning journey.
Lesson 6. Complete assessment
Using this marking code will speed up your marking without compromising the quality and specificity of your marking because it moves the time-consuming job of writing the targets from you to the students.
Your marking will look something like this:
WWW
1.
3.
7.
EBI
4.
10.
15.
Read the work and select 3 ways they have met the generic success criteria (WWW) and 3 ways they can improve further (EBI). The students have to then write out the target before trying to meet the target. The 20 criteria start with the basics of using P.E.E. to more advanced targets such as exploring more than one interpretation and commenting on the overall structure of the text. They should work with any text.
PowerPoint for a walking talking mock exam on the Eduqas English Literature May 2017 Paper 1 exam.
The text used for Section A is Romeo and Juliet.
The named poem in Section B was Sonnet 43.
This has been used successfully with a whole year group.
This popular pack offers great value. It contains various worksheets to support with the teaching of A Christmas Carol for 2022 AQA GCSE examinations.
The pack includes plans to help students respond to various AQA style examination questions.
There is also a comprehensive list of the key quotations from stanzas 1 to 5.
There is also a list of possible AQA style questions and a list of key context points.
There are also helpsheets to structure responses on the character of Scrooge.
PowerPoint for a week of lessons on using the super 7 approach to plan and write a speech. There is also a student booklet to accompany the PowerPoint.
Super 7
1. Generating ideas
2. Organising ideas
3. paragraphing
4. vocabulary
5. sentence construction
6. punctuation
7. spelling
Originally, the speech is about defending the town of Middlesbrough from prejudice in the media. This can be changed to any town or city.
Suitable for introducing Shakespeare to KS2/3 students.
Task 1: Quiz (with sound effects) asking students to recognise the difference between Shakespearean English and modern English.
Task 2: Write parodies of some of Shakespeare’s most famous lines.
Task 3: Have a go at some Shakespearean insults.