I am a teacher of English, English Literature, Moving Image Arts - and when I'm really lucky, History as well! I have been teaching in N. Ireland since 2006 and am particularly familiar with the CCEA curriculum from KS3-KS5. I have worked with CCEA for over a decade and have been employed to create resources for KS5 English Literature. I also ran my own Tutoring company and have a real passion for creating user friendly resources.
Contact me at - mcttresourcesni@gmail.com
I am a teacher of English, English Literature, Moving Image Arts - and when I'm really lucky, History as well! I have been teaching in N. Ireland since 2006 and am particularly familiar with the CCEA curriculum from KS3-KS5. I have worked with CCEA for over a decade and have been employed to create resources for KS5 English Literature. I also ran my own Tutoring company and have a real passion for creating user friendly resources.
Contact me at - mcttresourcesni@gmail.com
Student and Teacher Booklets covering a full range of John Donne’s love, death and God-themed poems.
The following poems are analysed in this resource with both a student and a teacher booklet provided FOR EACH poem:
The Flea
The Good-Morrow
The Sun Rising
The Canonization
The Anniversary
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
The Ecstasy
The Relic
Elegy XIX: To his Mistress going to bed
Loves Deity
Good Friday 1613: Riding Westward
Holy Sonnet VII: At the round Earth’s
Holy Sonnet X: Death be not Proud
Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter my Heart
Each poem comes with:
A blank Student Booklet
A completed Teacher Booklet
A pdf of Narrative Annotations to explain the poem
A pdf of Poetic Technique Annotations to explain the poem
Also included in this resource:
Pre-Tasks: Timeline of John Donne, specfic themes to research
** John Donne - Blank Poem Booklet** (x14 poems)
John Donne - Context Booklet (x19 pages) Student (blank) and Teacher (completed) booklet
John Donne - Exam Booklet - Past Paper and Theme questions (x11). Guidance on how to write an essay; several helpful tables dividing poems into ‘Love’ and ‘God’ poems; Love topics; God and Death topics and matching poems
John Donne - Essay Planning Booklet (x23 pages)
6.** Love poems** - questions for each poem; language work (x18 pages)
The Flea- sample paragraphs and guided work
John Donne + Love - copy of excellent article (referenced); example essay paragraphs for Love poems; example introductions for Love poems
John Donne + God - notes; three essay plans provided
Also available as part of Unit 4 Bundle https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-ccea-unit-4-exam-task-2-comparing-texts-12446799
Student instruction booklet for Unit 4, Task 1: Personal and Creative Writing
26-page document.
User and Teacher friendly
Used in class as a thorough REVISION booklet. (Even more comprehensive version available in early 2021)
Includes:
Review of Past Paper topics
Checklist of topics for Personal Writing
Student to complete common Personal Writing themes
Student to complete of more thoughtful Personal Writing themes
Student to complete quick descriptive practice
Helpful overview of how to approach Personal and Creative Writing - including how to open and conclude
Student to complete 11 Personal Writing Topics - short, engaging introductions supplied as an example for how to begin each question theme.
Example response upleveled - three attempts with three feedback and guidance for approval - students will see the increasing competence as each attempt improves.
Example creative response ‘Description of place’
Example creative response - looking at connotation affecting storyline and word choice
5 guided Student responses to Creative Images (all sourced via Google Images)
8 further Creative Images to be used at teacher’s discretion
3 story arc outline tasks supplied to aid response to 3 further creative images
Personal Writing mat - brings together all writing advice, and example questions.
An introduction to Diary writing, along with some diary writing exercises.
Includes:
Key words
Key features
Date and Time activities
First Person activities
Personal thoughts and feelings activities
Past tense activities
Chronological Order activities
Time connectives activities
Informal activities
Introduction and conclusion activities
Annotated diary, diary to annotate
A day in the life - cat and dog
Anne Frank exercises
References to ‘Zlata’s Diary’
Creative piece inspired by The Literacy Shed’s material on ‘The Clock Tower’
Assessment piece to be completed at the end of the Unit
nine weeks of daily personal topics to be completed in student’s own time.
You may also be interested in my Unit 1 Bundle:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12446833
Three Student booklet bringing together everything you need to complete CCEA’s GCSE English Unit 4.
Includes:
Task 1 Personal and Creative Writing Student booklet - advice, examples and exercises
Task 2 Comparative Texts Student booklet - advice, LOTs of examples of comparative text, guided exercises, and example responses
Task 3 + 4 Reading Non-Fiction Student booklet - advice, example text response examples and exercises to complete.
Unit 4, Task 1
Student instruction booklet for Unit 4, Task 1: Personal and Creative Writing
Trialled in class as a thorough REVISION booklet. (Even more comprehensive version available in early 2021)
Provides:
• Review of Past Paper topics
• Checklist of topics for Personal Writing
• Student to complete common Personal Writing themes
• Student to complete of more thoughtful Personal Writing themes
• Student to complete quick descriptive practice
• Helpful overview of how to approach Personal and Creative Writing - including how to open and conclude
• Student to complete 11 Personal Writing Topics - short, engaging introductions supplied as an example for how to begin each question theme.
• Example response upleveled - three attempts with three feedback and guidance for approval - students will see the increasing competence as each attempt improves.
• Example creative response ‘Description of place’
• Example creative response - looking at connotation affecting storyline and word choice
• 5 guided Student responses to Creative Images (all sourced via Google Images)
• 8 further Creative Images to be used at teacher’s discretion
• 3 story arc outline tasks supplied to aid response to 3 further creative images
• Personal Writing mat - brings together all writing advice, and example questions.
Unit 4, Task 2
A fully comprehensive student booklet covering a wide range of comparative fiction. Utilising content from the current CCEA publications as well as pre 2010 specification.
Provides:
• Tried and tested Exam Advice and ‘Basics’
• Writer’s Craft
• Example paragraphs
• Language analysis examples
• Full story analysis
• Examples taken from CCEA Textbook, Revision Book and Work Book
• Advice for Character work - including structured comprehension questions
• Advice for Setting and Atmosphere - including accessible questions
• Advice for Tension - including multiple comprehensions
• Multiple single and paired exercises for various areas of writer’s craft
• Annotation of Specimen Comparison provided by CCEA with accompanying tips and example paragraphs.
Unit 4, Tasks 3+4
A complete pupil booklet, with accompanying teacher answer booklet to teach Unit 4, Tasks 3 and 4, Reading Non-Fiction
Tried and tested in the classroom.
Provides:
• Comprehensive and developed list of writer’s craft techniques
• Paragraph layout advice - suggested by CCEA, built upon by writer
• Non-Fiction example articles adapted from Non-Fiction Past Papers, pre 2017 spec, made suitable for new Task 3 and Task 4
• Sample tasks to accompany example articles, guide students to make pertinent comments
• Tasks could be used as practice or for mocks.
• Teacher booklet offers some example answers, and sample paragraphs to be built upon
Two booklets - one for the STUDENT and one with answers for the TEACHER.
Excellent preparation for the Unseen section of CCEA GCSE Unit 1 English Literature.
Tried and tested in the classroom.
Try our free sample to get a taste of what’s included…
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/sample-ccea-gcse-unseen-student-booklet-12478647
63 Page Student Booklet
64 Page Teacher Booklet
Includes:
Exam basics
Full explanation of the question layout and advice for how to answer
Detailed advice for how to form your response - with unique and useful mnemonic memory guide
CCEA advice
Research into popular C19th authors and the times in which they lived
Link to BBC’s excellent selection of free audio ‘Classic Stories’
Close focus, example responses and exercises covering: Setting, Tone, Atmosphere, Mood, Plot, Narration and Character.
Close reading of C19th language style with four developed examples
Plot work on extracts
Guided reading and exercises to assess Setting and Atmosphere
Narrative voice notes, exercises and assessment of Tone in writing
Character notes on C19th expectations
Six exercises to practice Close reading and analysis of Character
Five practice papers with notes to assist student completion
This resource is an accessible and informative presentation of comparison between the characters of Animal Farm (images taken from the film) and their counterparts in the real Russian Revolution.
Each pairing of images is followed by historical information, accurately explaining the real character and their historical behaviour.
See also the free resource https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/animal-farm-characters-russian-sticers-12366420 where the pairings can be printed out as stickers.
Pupil Booklet designed to introduce and consolidate the choice and use of media techniques.
Excellent starter for KS3, to prepare them for Reading Media Texts at GCSE.
Includes:
Types of media
Target audience
Text conventions
Colour
Font
Formatting
Logo
Pictures - literal and metaphorical
Layout
Slogans
Quotations
Headings and subheadings
Captions
Facts and Opinions
Persuasive devices
Also included - a KS3 exam to be used at the end of the unit to assess learning.
Answer booklet available on request at extra cost
George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’
This resource offers analysis of three of Squealer’s speeches, indicating his methods of manipulative propaganda.
A copy of all ecamples when Squealer speaks
An exercise to put the true events of the Battle of the Cowshed into correct order.
A labelled first example from Chapter 3
A pupil copy of his first Chapter 5 speech
An answer sheet for the first Chapter 5 speech
A pupil copy of his second Chapter 5 speech, without answers
Also available as part of my full Unit 1 BUNDLE of all 5 tasks.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12446833
A complete pupil booklet covering all aspects of Tasks 4 and 5 with help from three CCEA GCSE publications: textbook, revision book and resource booklet.
60+ page Booklet
80+ slide Power Point
Includes:
Two booklets and one PowerPoint
A Student booklet to be completed
A Teacher Answer booklet to assist with completion of student booklet, with student responses, teacher notes and teacher answers.
A Task 5 PowerPoint to assist teaching of Student booklet, with pertinent notes, sample answers and advice
Exam guidance
Worked answers
Reference to CCEA examples - current and past paper
Variety of examples to have pupils cover multiple scenarios
Four Student booklets bringing together everything you need to complete CCEA’s GCSE English Unit 1.
All five Unit 1 Tasks - combined teacher and student user- friendly booklet Power Point and Teacher Answer booklets covering the course in detail.
Task 1: Writing for Purpose
Task 2: Reading Non-Fiction
Task 3: Reading Non-Fiction
Task 4+5: Reading Media Texts
Task 1
Student instruction booklet for Unit 1, Task 1: Writing for Purpose
45-page document
User friendly for both teacher and student.
Tried and tested in the classroom as a thorough REVISION booklet.
Provides:
Exam basics and advice
Typical topics
Legacy and current spec Questions
Fully comprehensive list of possible questions - 25 possible themes gathered to be analysed - with over 100 questions divided variously among them - to stimulate debate, research, essays etc
Advice basics about WHAT and to WHOM you are writing
Four pages of advice for WRITING EFFECTIVELY including handy Essay Layout
Exercises to complete: compiling similar questions and reacting to thought provoking questions
Separate planning pages for controversial topics: smoking/abortion/drugs etc
Highly effective STUDENT SCAFFOLD for full Essay Layout - has been used for every topic in the classroom
Three example essay titles with developed answers and guidance for completion: Organ Donation/Tolerance/Tattoos and Piercings
Student research of 12 separate topics - for and against points - gathered collaboratively - comprehensive and easy to use as stimulus for completion of essays.
Task 2
A complete 31-page pupil booklet covering all aspects of Task 2, taking some inspiration from CCEA GCSE publications and past papers from different boards.
Sample Teacher annotation and paragraphs have been provided for the majority of the work – please note, in most cases the same article has been annotated up to three different ways to accommodate the ability level of the class, therefore the sample answers range from basic to advanced.
This resource provides:
• A 31-page pupil booklet
• 11 separate documents of Teacher answers matching the tasks of the booklet – for a variety of pupil ability.
• This booklet carries the student through from easy to harder tasks, assisting in the building up of confidence as they grow accustomed to the task styles.
• Guidance for what to expect, and how to approach the task
• Worked example layout guiding the student through expected responses
• Exam guidance and annotation of past paper layout
• What to look for when analysing a variety of techniques
• Five short tasks where students annotate for key term
• Seven longer tasks where students annotate for named techniques and work through the accompanying tasks
• Seven practice articles to be worked on independently
Task 3
A complete pupil booklet covering all aspects of Tasks 3 with help from three CCEA GCSE publications: textbook, revision book and resource booklet.
37-page document
A matching Teacher answer booklet to accompany and aid completion of Student work - every piece of student work is answered in the Teacher Booklet.
User and teacher friendly.
Provides:
guidance for what to expect, and how to approach the task
example layout guiding the student through expected responses
activity to aid deduction of implicit and explicit writing
five structured activities to aid the correct choosing of quotations
six structured activities to aid appropriate summarising of the author’s argument
ten exam practice tasks, imitating the correct styling of the exam
inclusion of past papers questions (four to date) and the specimen question
Teacher booklet provides suggestions and example paragraphs for ALL tasks, including exam practice tasks.
Tasks 4+5
A complete pupil booklet covering all aspects of Tasks 4 and 5 with help from three CCEA GCSE publications: textbook, revision book and resource booklet.
60+ page Booklet
80+ slide Power Point
Includes:
Two booklets and one PowerPoint
A Student booklet to be completed
A Teacher Answer booklet to assist with completion of student booklet, with student responses, teacher notes and teacher answers.
A Task 5 PowerPoint to assist teaching of Student booklet, with pertinent notes, sample answers and advice
Exam guidance
Worked answers
Reference to CCEA examples - current and past paper
Variety of examples to have pupils cover multiple scenarios
A complete Unit of work for both student and teacher - engaging and original.
There are many options for close reading comprehensions for “Private Peaceful”, but this unit offers thoughtful, engaging and skill-enhancing work for each chapter. The student is encouraged to critique and explain the development of character; or writer’s craft, creating PEE paragraphs and PETE paragraphs - with the inclusion of TECHNIQUE, among other challenges…
All excepts are copyright of Michael Murpurgo.
In my classroom,** “Private Peaceful”** is taught in tandem with “War Poetry” and there are several occasions when overlap is made - check out my complete Student and Teacher Booklets, as well as some free samples below:
War Poetry Booklets + PP
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12375733
Wildred Owen’s “Dolce” - free
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12366844
Jessie Pope’s “Who’s for the Game” - free
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12366846
“The Target” Essay Analysis
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12506386
Included here:
Chapter 1 - notes and tasks
Chapter 2 - description of mother, example supplied; character analysis of Big Joe - mix and match creation of PETE paragraphs; close analysis of Grandma Wolf using BARSCAP - all with answers.
Chapter 3 - close analysis of entire chapter - close reading, technique spotting and explanations - annotated chapter included - with answers.
Chapter 4 - tasks including PETE development, creation of newspaper article - all with answers and samples
Chapter 5 - tasks including the development of Charlie and Molly’s relationship, creation of Love Letter between them - guidance and sample pupil example provided - with answers.
Chapter 6 - tasks including Big Joe’s disappearance and close analysis of negative and positive atmosphere - how it is created - all with answers
Chapter 7 - tasks including close reading, differentiated work for the Seargant Major’s speech, propaganda work (linked to “War Poetry” resource - all with answers
Chapter 8 - tasks including close reading, scaffolding of PETE paragraphs, BARSCAP analysis of Sergeant Hanley - with answers
Chapter 9 - tasks including reality of life in the trenches - notes and table supplied; PETE paragraph work for Tension; PEE and technique work; links to ‘The Target’ - with answers
Chapter 10 - three options for close analysis - scaffolded and guided analysis using PEE/PETE; a look at colloquial language and Tommo’s changing feelings - with answers
Chapter 11 - thorough questions of the whole chapter - could be used as an assessment - close references to ‘Dulce’; Letter home from Tommo with notes to assist - with answers
Chapter 12 - key questions to aid understanding of what happened and why - looking again at Hanley (add to BARSCAP from Chapter 8); notes to aid creation of the courtroom dialogue - with answers
Chapter 13 + Postscript - analysis of Charlie’s last moments, and questions
Teacher and Student Booklets
All work to assist with the delivery of the current 12 Heaney and 12 Frost poems specificed for CCEA GCE AS Poetry, AS 1.
Heaney:
Personal Helicon
The Forge
The Peninsula
The Wife’s Tale
Bogland
The Harvest Bow
The Railway Children
The Summer of Lost Rachel
Postscript
‘Had I Not Been Awake’
The Conway Stewart
The Baler
Frost
Into My Own
Mowing
Going for Water
Mending Wall
After Apple Picking
The Road Not Taken
Birches
“Out, Out-”
For Once, Then, Something
Gathering Leaves
Acquainted with the Night
Desert Places
12 page Student Booklet to be completed - ‘Heaney and Frost Introduction Booklet’ - includes information on Assessment Objectives, key literary terms, space for further biographical information, and possible poem pairings for themes.
24 PP Slides - (Image) Visual representation for each poem
Comprehensive 24 page booklet for Student/Teacher to assist learning about/ teaching of Robert Frost poems - notes for each poem detailing information on narrative, context, message, form and structure, language, tone and themes
Comprehensive 20 page booklet for Student/Teacher to assist learning about/ teaching of each Seamus Heaney poems - notes for each poem detailing information on narrative, context, message, form and structure, language, tone and themes
24 pdfs - each providing a fully annotated version of the named poem - annotated to account for choices of language and imagery - all techniques are abbreviated and present in short form, inside a circle. e.g. ‘M’ inside a circle = metaphor, ‘Sib’ = sibilance etc
Checklist for poems for both poets (24 in total - 12 each)
Blank Summary document - for Student revision purposes
This resource is the second in a series of GCSE pupil booklets designed to be user friendly and cover all aspects of the novel and writer’s technique.
These pupil booklets have been created by a seasoned teacher and examiner for English Literature, have been tried and tested in the classroom, and cover all aspects of the curriculum.
Teacher booklet provided offers possible responses for every question, and suggestions of quotations for Chapter work.
Currently available:
*Of Mice and Men: Background https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ccea-of-mice-and-men-background-context-12366444
*Of Mice and Men: Chapter by Chapter
*Of Mice and Men: Characters
*Of Mice and Men: Themes
*Of Mice and Men: Writer’s Technique
Two booklets covering the character of Crooks in ‘Of Mice and Men’
Student Booklet - to be completed - 16 pages
Teacher Booklet - with suggested answers - 16 pages
Booklet covers:
Introduction and guidance for how to complete a Character Essay
Sample Paragraph Layout with suggested terminology/phrases
Key words to describe Crooks
Overview of Themes: Racism, Prejudice, Strength, Weaknesses
Key Experiences
Close analysis of Possessions
Evidence/Quotes - analysed with techniques and explanations
Example paragraphs with clear layout
Area for summarising learning under mnemonic ‘BARSCAP’
FULL BOOKLET with all CHARACTERS will be AVAILABLE SOON
Also available as part of Unit 4 Bundle https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-ccea-unit-4-exam-task-2-comparing-texts-12446799
A complete pupil booklet, with accompanying teacher answer booklet to teach Unit 4, Tasks 3 and 4, Reading Non-Fiction
Tried and tested in the classroom.
Provides:
Comprehensive and developed list of writer’s craft techniques
Paragraph layout advice - suggested by CCEA, built upon by writer
Non-Fiction example articles adapted from Non-Fiction Past Papers, pre 2017 spec, made suitable for new Task 3 and Task 4
Sample tasks to accompany example articles, guide students to make pertinent comments
Tasks could be used as practice or for mocks.
Teacher booklet offers some example answers, and sample paragraphs to be built upon
Also available as part of my full Unit 1 BUNDLE of all 5 tasks.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12446833
Student instruction booklet for Unit 1, Task 1: Functional Writing
45-page document
User friendly for both teacher and student.
Tried and tested in the classroom as a thorough REVISION booklet. (Even more comprehensive version available in early 2021)
Provides:
Exam basics and advice
Typical topics
Legacy and current spec Questions
Fully comprehensive list of possible questions - 25 possible themes gathered to be analysed - with over 100 questions divided variously among them - to stimulate debate, research, essays etc
Advice basics about WHAT and to WHOM you are writing
Four pages of advice for WRITING EFFECTIVELY including handy Essay Layout
Exercises to complete: compiling similar questions and reacting to thought provoking questions
Separate planning pages for controversial topics: smoking/abortion/drugs etc
Highly effective STUDENT SCAFFOLD for full Essay Layout - has been used for every topic in the classroom
Three example essay titles with developed answers and guidance for completion: Organ Donation/Tolerance/Tattoos and Piercings
Student research of 12 separate topics - for and against points - gathered collaboratively - comprehensive and easy to use as stimulus for completion of essays.
Also available as part of my full Unit 1 BUNDLE of all 5 tasks.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12446833
A complete pupil booklet covering all aspects of Tasks 3 with help from three CCEA GCSE publications: textbook, revision book and resource booklet.
37-page document
A matching Teacher answer booklet to accompany and aid completion of Student work. All Student work is answered int he teacher booklet.
User and teacher friendly.
Provides:
guidance for what to expect, and how to approach the task
example layout guiding the student through expected responses
activity to aid deduction of implicit and explicit writing
five structured activities to aid the correct choosing of quotations
six structured activities to aid appropriate summarising of the author’s argument
ten exam practice tasks, imitating the correct styling of the exam
inclusion of past papers questions (four to date) and the specimen question
Teacher booklet provides suggestions and example paragraphs for all tasks, including exam practice tasks.
Enjoy these free samples of UNSEEN PROSE for CCEA GCSE English Literature Unit 1.
For more, click on the link below to buy the complete 63 page STUDENT BOOKLET and 64 page TEACHER BOOKLET complete with answers.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ccea-gcse-unseen-prose-english-literature-12478637
Thank you!
Simple PowerPoint looking at Point, Evidence, Explanation and how to apply it to a question from ‘Holes’.
The burger reference is always very useful in the classroom!