I am an English teacher and SENDCo in my 9th year of teaching. I am an English and American Literature and Creative Writing specialist but have taught across a range of areas within English, Media Studies and SEND. I also have my MissC YouTube channel for English revision videos for students!
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I am an English teacher and SENDCo in my 9th year of teaching. I am an English and American Literature and Creative Writing specialist but have taught across a range of areas within English, Media Studies and SEND. I also have my MissC YouTube channel for English revision videos for students!
Please subscribe and support. Feel free to message me directly with any video or resource requests!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ0s1bwC0V6qohf-YBtWyvw
A 17 slide PowerPoint exploring how broadsheet and tabloid newspapers use language devices to engage their specific target audiences.
Includes:
Exemplar newspaper articles for analysis.
Brainstorming to consolidate prior knowledge.
Activities for students to work in groups analysing sample articles.
Activity for students to create their own newspaper article that appeals to a specific target audience.
Homework: To bring in their own broadsheet/tabloid newspaper article for next lesson (editable).
A 14 slide PowerPoint identifying the DAFOREST persuasive techniques and their effectiveness in persuasive and argument writing. There is a print-off of Emma Watson's HeforShe UN speech for students to identify the techniques in a sample text as well as statements for students to create their own piece of persuasive writing in response.
This also includes a DAFOREST techniques checklist that can be printed out and stuck into students' books as a revision resources or for classroom display.
This bundle includes the PowerPoint, lesson plan for a top ability year 10 group and the resources for an Ofsted graded 'Outstanding' lesson aimed at helping students understand the criteria for attaining a Grade A and B at GCSE in Of Mice and Men (Controlled assessment 3a).
It allows the teacher to act as a facilitator to the independent learning of students and is ideal for a KS4 class!
Comparative Poetry Essay Writing
With structure and template
Structure, tone, form and language comment examples
Using quotes for reference
Choosing a thesis statement
MITSL strategy
Conflict and Character & Voice for reference (AQA syllabus)
An 11 slide PowerPoint exploring deeper meaning and language/structural techniques for each line in the poem including questions to promote students’ independent learning.
Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem.
For AS/A Level Post-2000 poetry
Three lesson on Poe's 'The Black Cat' with focus on characters setting and themes within the horror genre.
Included: a focus on linguistic and structural devices used within the story.
Thunk and Do Now activity for each lesson included.
9 slide Room 101 Persuasive writing activity encouraging students to complete a persuasive piece using DAFOREST techniques. Including plenary self-reflective activity.
Includes hand-out list of techniques for revision and reference during the lesson.
Includes worksheet for peer assessment - tick sheet exercise recognising DAFOREST techniques in use for Room 101 presentations.
A 14 slide PowerPoint on sensory descriptive gore writing, selecting effective vocabulary and describing in detail while avoiding cliched horror writing.
Includes model gory paragraph and opportunity for peer assessment!
(nothing too horrific, don’t worry!)
An Ofsted graded 'Outstanding' lesson on the opening chapter of TRASH by Andy Mulligan. This lesson encourages students to work independently, exploring language employed by the writer.
A 20 slide PowerPoint exploring Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Standing Female Nude’ - key themes, language and structure with thought-provoking questions for students to respond.
Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem.
Suitable for GCSE, AS level/A-level!
A 15 slide analysis lesson for Auden’s ‘Funeral Blues’, better known as ‘Stop all the Clocks’.
Suitable for KS3/KS4/KS5 and easily amended for different abilities.
A 13 slide PowerPoint lesson aiding students in writing mystery stories. With key mystery writing vocabulary and success criteria as well as examples of famous ‘real-life’ mysteries for students to discuss, this is an engaging lesson for KS3 or can be easily amended for other abilities!
A 30 slide PowerPoint on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet summarising the plot and central characters with the intention that they will create a storyboard for the play.
Engaging images to aid students’ memory and for revision purposes!
198 slide Unit of Work on John Boyne's novel 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'.
This pack includes 17 lessons and 1 bonus lesson analysing book covers!
Lessons are also colour coordinated with Hyperlink Contents Page for ease of access!
Includes:
Bonus Lesson – Analysing Book Covers
Lesson 1 – Context
Lesson 2 – John Boyne – Getting to know the Author
Lesson 3 – Key Characters
Lesson 4 – Setting
Lesson 5 – Through the Window
Lesson 6 – Clothing as a theme
Lesson 7 – The relationship between Bruno & Shmuel
Lesson 8 – Division and Distance (The Fence Imagery and Symbolism)
Lesson 9 – Storyboarding Lesson
Lesson 10 – Key Scenes Roleplay Lesson
Lesson 11 - Key Quotes Revision
Lesson 12 – PEA practice
Lesson 13 - Understanding an essay question and Planning Response
Lesson 14 – Writing an essay
Lesson 15 – Peer assessment & Understanding the Success Criteria
Lesson 16 – The Importance of Redrafting
Lesson 17 – Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Quiz
All lessons help students to deduce, infer and analyse language in depth. Also includes how to structure an essay and advice with redrafting.
Engaging, easily adaptable and educational for KS3 and KS4!
Based on Katherine Braun Mankin’s ‘Gorilla Track’, this lesson advises students on how to approach a question on a non-fiction text requiring you to explain thoughts and feelings of the writer. This 12 slide PowerPoint analyses the text line by line and includes thought-provoking question to promote independent thought. Students then approach the question by themselves with a success criteria checklist.
An analysis lesson of Marcia Douglas’ poem ‘Electricity comes to Cocoa Bottom’. Includes line by line annotation and discussion opportunities surrounding the genre of Magical Realism. Also includes a model response to an analysis question on personification and an ‘over to you’ opportunity for independent student response to the poem.
Easily adaptable and suitable for KS3/KS4!
An 11 slide PowerPoint on Moniza Alvi’s poem ‘An Unknown Girl’, it explores the poet’s background, includes full annotation and differentiated questions for students to respond to the poem.
Easily adaptable and suitable for KS3 and KS4!
A 14 slide PowerPoint lesson with corresponding resources on the poem ‘The Kiss’ by Siegfried Sassoon. Includes information on the poet himself, analysis of tone, structure and language within the poem and a stanza by stanza annotation. Also includes differentiated learning objectives and questions to promote students’ independent study.
-includes the poem itself and key poetic devices resources for students to improve their analytical skill.
A 21 slide detailed character analysis lesson for 'An Inspector Calls' by J.B. Priestley. This lesson encourages students to closely analyse Priestley's characters, his intentions as a socialist playwright, the role of key characters within the play and their relationships with one another.
Also includes a key quotes sheet for key characters.