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Two detailed lessons exploring John Keats’ ‘To Autumn’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
A 10 lesson unit comprising of a 61 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets exploring the topic of Language and Region (UK) and a summary terminology and theory sheet.
Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and concepts listed below, a worksheet (with the exception of lesson nine) and activities, and a homework task. The following theories and concepts are covered:
MLE & MBE
Howard Giles’ Matched Guise Study (1970)
Queen Mary University & The University of York Accent Bias Study (2020)
David Rosewarne – Estuary English (1984)
Peter Trudgill – Norwich Study (1972)
Overt and covert prestige
Paul Kerswill - Dialect Levelling (1999)
Watt and Gunn (HSBC) - The sound of 2066 (2016)
Howard Giles – Capital punishment study (1973)
Dixon, Mahoney and Cocks �� Accents of Guilt (2002)
Rob Drummond – MLE, MUBE and MBE (2016)
Amanda Cole – SSBE and research into MLE, RP and SSBE in London (2023)
Isogloss
General Northern English and the research of Strycharczuk, López-Ibáñez, Brown and Leemann (2020)
Urban West Yorkshire English (UWYE)
There are some references to AQA-style A Level specification questions, but you can adapt these if needs be. These can be found on slides 13, 37-38 and 51-58. Lesson 9 is based on an AQA A Level question.
This unit does not cover World Englishes and only touches briefly on Language and Ethnicity through references to MLE and MBE.
The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.
Check out my other English Language A Level resources!
Language and Gender
Language and Power and Occupation
Language and Global and World Englishes
Language Change
Language and Technology
Language and Ethnicity
Language and Social Groups
Language Discourses
Analysing Spoken Language
Child Language Acquisition - Speech
Child Language Acquisition - Reading and Writing
Two detailed lessons exploring William Blake’s ‘London’ from the Eduqas GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
A 9 lesson unit comprising of a 66 slide PowerPoint and 9 different worksheets (8 include a transcript for analysis) exploring the topic of spoken language analysis and a summary terminology and theory sheet. This unit can be used to teach A Level English Language or A Level Language and Literature and is not linked to any particular exam board.
Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and terminology listed below, a worksheet containing a transcript (or revision cards for lesson 9), and a homework task. The following theories and terminology are covered:
Discourse – Michel Foucault (1969)
Narrative Categories – William Labov (1972)
Turn taking; adjacency pairs; backchanneling
IRF Model – Sinclair and Coulthard (1975)
Charles Goodwin – Storytelling Structure (1984)
Discourse markers; tag questions; skip connectors; overlap
Speech Acts – J.R. Searle (1969)
Transactional talk; phatic talk; monitoring features
Cooperative Principle and Gricean Maxims – Paul Grice (1975)
Contraction; elision; ellipsis; interruption
Register and Context – Michael Halliday (1985)
Situational Factors Affecting Language Use – David Crystal (1995)
Assimilation; false start; filler; intonation; non-fluency features; paralinguistic features; prosodic features
Face-work - Erving Goffman (1967)
Politeness Theory - Brown and Levinson (1987)
Accommodation; colloquialisms; comment clauses; deixis; hedging -
The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.
Check out my other English Language A Level resources!
Language and Gender
Language and Region
Language and Power and Occupation
Language and Global and World Englishes
Language Change
Language and Technology
Language and Ethnicity
Language and Social Groups
Language Discourses
Child Language Acquisition - Speech
Child Language Acquisition - Reading and Writing
This bundle comprises eighteen poetry PowerPoints based on the poems from the Eduqas Poetry Anthology: ‘A Wife in London’; ‘Afternoons’; ‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’; ‘Cozy Apologia’; ‘Death of a Naturalist’; ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’; ‘Excerpt from the Prelude’; ‘Hawk Roosting’; ‘Living Space’; ‘London’; ‘Mametz Wood’; ‘Ozymandias’; ‘She Walks in Beauty’; ‘Sonnet 43’; ‘The Manhunt’; ‘The Soldier’; ‘To Autumn’; and ‘Valentine’.
Each PowerPoint contains the following:
A starter discussion activity
Contextual information
Form and structural information
Detailed annotated questions which incorporate a challenging range of poetic terminology
Consolidation questions
An optional additional lesson guiding students through an exemplar examination question
These lessons will challenge and engage your students, including the most able.
A lesson plan is included for every poem, which includes differentiation suggestions.
If you would like to check that my poetry resources are right for you, please download my free poetry resource (from the Edexcel specification), ‘Island Man’
A comprehesive 33 slide Powerpoint which takes students through all five scenes of Act III.
Included:
Contextual background to the play
Analysis and discussion questions for each scene
Modelled textual analysis
Longer exam-style questions
Extension questions for higher ability students
This resource can be used with higher ability GCSE or A Level groups.
A comprehesive 25 slide Powerpoint which takes students through both scenes of Act IV.
Included:
An Act IV Scene i ‘chunked’ resource to use as a pre-reading activity
Contextual background to the play
Analysis and discussion questions for each scene
Modelled textual analysis
Longer exam-style questions
Extension questions for higher ability students
This resource can be used with higher ability GCSE or A Level groups.
A comprehesive 46 slide Powerpoint which takes students through all nine scenes of Act II.
Included:
Contextual background to the play
Analysis and discussion questions for each scene
Modelled textual analysis
Longer exam-style questions
Extension questions for higher ability students
This resource can be used with higher ability GCSE or A Level groups.
A comprehesive 15 slide Powerpoint which takes students through both scenes of Act V.
Included:
The Merchant of Venice audit document
Contextual background to the play
Analysis and discussion questions for the scene
Modelled textual analysis
Longer exam-style questions
Extension questions for higher ability students
This resource can be used with higher ability GCSE or A Level groups.
Contains 15 short quotation cards from Lord of the Flies for student analysis. One card completed for modelling purposes. Instructions for analysis attached and the activity can take a whole lesson. These are quotations which can be easily learned for the examination.
Includes a follow up analysis grid to build on student understanding in a subsequent lesson. Lesson plan with suggestions and learning objectives included.
Suitable for Edexcel, AQA and Eduqas GCSE English Literature specifications.
Two detailed lessons exploring John Davidson’s 'In Romney Marsh’ from the Time and Place Cluster in the Edexcel GCSE English Literature poetry anthology.
The Powerpoint guides students through the poem in the first lesson with detailed annotation guidance, contextual information and detailed questions. The second lesson guides students through an analysis of the poem based on an exam-style question.
The lessons will challenge, extend and engage students. Also suitable for students targeting very high grades.
Lesson plan included!
An extract analysis booklet which contains 26 examination-length extracts from Pride and Prejudice and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract in Edexcel Paper 2, Section A (can also be used for AQA, Paper 1, Section B; Eduqas, Paper 2, Section B; or OCR, Component 1, Section B, by using the second part of the question and adapting the wording).
Also included are the accompanying questions, and a lesson plan with suggestions for usage.
This resource can be used throughout the teaching of the unit. You could use this to teach students how to analyse sections of the text closely, or as short assessment pieces. The guidance for analysis is aimed at students who are aiming for grade 5 and above, but could easily be simplified.
Five Powerpoints and accompanying resources to teach The Merchant of Venice in its entirety for GCSE with examination preparation and question resources.
Included:
The Merchant of Venice audit document
A comprehensive guide to tragedy with a terminology matching exercise
An Act IV Scene i ‘chunked’ resource to use as a pre-reading activity
Contextual background to the play
Analysis and discussion questions for the scene
Modelled textual analysis
Longer exam-style questions
Extension questions for higher ability students
15 short quotation cards from The Merchant of Venice for student analysis
An extract analysis booklet which contains 23 examination-length extracts from The Merchant of Venice and guidance as to what to look for when analysing the extract
This resource is comprised of a 32 slide Powerpoint with four lessons on Scene One from Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire.
The resource is aimed at A Level English Literature, but could also be used as a starting point for English Language and Literature.
The slides cover:
Contextual background to New Orleans at the time the play is set
Discussion of the epigraph (Hart Crane’s ‘The Broken Tower’)
Guided close analysis of key sections of the text with reference to key terminology, e.g. ‘motif’ and ‘in media res’
Teaching questions for each section of the first scene
Learning objective slides and homework tasks for each lesson
This resource will stretch and challenge more confident students and support those less confident.
It was not created with any particular exam board in mind so can be used with any specification.
A detailed A3 knowledge organiser for the GCSE English Literature text, Lord of the Flies. Useful for AQA, Edexcel and Eduqas. I have also included a blank copy for students to fill in. I would suggest giving students the blank copy before providing the populated version.
This is a quick and easy poetry worksheet resource to encourage students to focus on the effects of poetry quotations rather than just feature spotting. After an initial focus on ‘My Last Duchess’, students consider a set of quotations, one from each poem in the cluster, in response to a prompt. Lesson plan included!
A grid template which guides students through an analysis of each poem from the Power and Conflict cluster from the AQA poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3!
A grid template which allows students to make links between the 15 poems from the Power and Conflict cluster from the AQA poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3! Can be used for word links or pictures.
A grid template which allows students to make links between the 15 poems from the Time and Place cluster from the Edexcel poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3! Can be used for word links or pictures.
A grid template which guides students through an analysis of each poem from the Time and Place cluster from the Edexcel poetry anthology for GCSE English Literature.
Simply print off and copy in either A4 or A3!