Dreams in Of Mice and Men: essay planning sheet

A series of 2 lessons which use the elements from Bernstein’s Mambo as a stimulus for a performance and composition task (original music also provided). All instrumental parts and composition tasks are differentiated. PowerPoints for the lessons are available with differentiated and push your thinking tasks.

Lesson analysing key quotations to annotate from Chapter 2 of Lord of the Flies.

Turn the story of Pandora’s Box into a storyboard.

4 unseen poems to analyse

EdExcel Relationships. Annotations on a PowerPoint

Differentiated literacy worksheets to support the teaching of Samson and Delilah. Includes: Copy of the story Bronze, Silver, Gold storyboard activity Differentiated inference carousel questions about Delilah, Samson, Israelites and Philistines

A listening test full of classical music to be used as a end of topic assessment for KS3. Musical language is used throughout.

The template for a simple but highly effective differentiated starter activity to teach students new vocabulary. Simply insert key words into each box and you are ready to go.

A music glossary for classical and romantic music techniques with 3 levels of differentiation. A music glossary for twentieth century music technique with 3 levels of differentiation. Suitable for cover work or as homework to revise for a listening test.

Much ado about nothing plot summary cloze activity.

Havisham by Carol Ann Duffy 2 Worksheets

Lesson on newspaper headline techniques and tabloid broadsheet differences

A simple but engaging revision game to revise 10 key quotations from each scene. Start and scene 1 and roll the dice. The students can advance if they can analyse the quotation they land on. You can differentiate it easily by asking for two inferences per quotation and asking for links to specific A0s. Dice not included.

A helpsheet containing 10 generic ways that students can improve their sentences in a second draft of a piece of narrative or descriptive writing. Ideal for Key Stage 2/3 or for low ability students at Key Stage 4. Examples are included. The 10 strategies are differentiated in order of difficulty and are designed to help students in a mixed ability class to respond to feedback on narrative writing by selecting the methods to help them improve.

Questions on Edexcel Relationships poems

A worksheet detailing all terminology and definitions for students to revise from for the area of study ‘Rhythm and Metre’. A powerpoint is also available which explains all terms with musical terminology and musical examples.

Structured worksheets based on the short story by Angela Carter. 2 worksheets focusing on how the structure builds tension.

A differentiated activity to get students to engage with the grade 8/9 assessment criteria for the new AQA 1-9 English Literature Paper 2 GCSE. Modern texts. Bronze level: students look for the meanings of difficult vocabulary. Silver level: students convert the criteria into student speak. Gold level: students write advice for how to meet the criteria for A01, 2 and 3.

A complete ready to teach lesson that includes a differentiated starter, detailed line by line animated annotations of the full scene following by comprehension questions to text students’ understanding of the annotations.