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 21 slide PowerPoint lesson analysing Zephaniah’s poem ‘The British’ - includes thought-provoking questions, engaging video clips and tasks for students to complete in response to the poem.
Easily adaptable and suitable for KS2/KS3!
Includes a 15 slide PowerPoint on Duffy’s poem ‘Havisham’. Includes detailed annotation of the poem as well as key themes and questions for students to complete as independent study. Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem.
Engaging and thought-provoking lessons for KS3 and KS4. Easily adaptable for ability!
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!
A 16 slide PowerPoint on Robert Frost’s poem ‘Out Out’ with differentiated questions for pupils to respond to and full analysis and annotation of the poem. Easily adaptable for different abilities, this lesson is challenging, engaging and thought provoking!
Suitable for KS3/KS4.
An 18 slide PowerPoint lesson with corresponding resources on the poem ‘Give’ by Simon Armitage. 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 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.
An 18 slide PowerPoint exploring The Knight’s Tale in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales.
Includes:
A summary of the story
Character analysis including the knight himself
Key tasks exploring character and plot
Key questions to provoke thought and reflection on the story
Engaging lesson on creative writing in which the students create a message in a bottle. Includes snippets of other writing to analyse for linguistic/structural techniques used for effect and to engage a reader.
Includes interesting adjectives list and model written piece with questions for students to analyse.
Suitable for KS2-KS3!
A 10 slide PowerPoint exploring ‘An Easy Passage’ by Julia Copus. Focus on language, structure and key themes.
Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem.
Suitable for Edexcel ‘Poems of the Decade’ collection. (AS/A-level poetry prep)
A 12 slide PowerPoint exploring the ingredients of a solid speech and tips for writing and presenting your own speech with model speech examples for analysis.
Attached: sample mark scheme
Suitable for all ages.
An analysis lesson for Imtiaz Dharker’s famous poem ‘Tissue’. Includes differentiated tasks and full annotations. Also includes a poetry analysis checklist and revision material for how to analyse a poem.
Easily adaptable, challenging and engaging for pupils of KS3 and KS4!
An 18 slide fully differentiated PowerPoint on Duffy’s ‘Medusa’ with annotation and analysis. Includes unseen poetry analysis checklist and question for students to respond to.
Engaging and suitable for KS3/KS4.
The 'Newspaper Article Bundle' includes:
1)Writing a successful newspaper article - A Word document detailing the key ingredients of a successful article and includes a sample article for students to identify the WHAT WHY WHEN WHO WHERE and HOW.
2)Newspapers & Target Audiences - 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).
3) Newspaper Article Writing - A 12 slide PowerPoint on the features for writing a newspaper article and explicitly, the 5 'W's.
Includes:
The key features of a newspaper article.
The 5 'W's.
An activity allowing students to write their own newspaper article surrounding being abandoned on a desert island with their classmates.
A peer assessment activity with suggested success criteria.
A plenary consolidating learning from the lesson.
4) Sentence Types - An 11 slide PowerPoint introducing different sentence types and features of imagery as aids for improving creative writing.
Includes:
Compound and complex sentence examples and exploration.
Features of imagery and its effectiveness.
Key vocabulary: olfactory, tactile, etc for imagery.
Activity for students to complete brief descriptive creative piece using both varied sentence types and features of imagery.
A free resource allowing students to both design their own book cover and blurb or also help to create a poster on a favourite book of their choice - Perfect for World Book Day or a Reading Week display!
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.
A lesson introducing analytical writing with questions on Andy Mulligan’s ‘Trash’, model paragraphs and success criteria.
Also includes ingredients sheet for PEE style analysis and a vocab sheet for the text.
An introductory lesson to Andy Mulligan’s book ‘Trash’ -
Includes a vocabulary list to help students describe both the setting of the text and the central character of Raphael.
Lesson opens with a ‘Thunk’ activity but includes an alternative starter activity.
Easily accessible for KS3 and both engaging and challenging - easily editable and can be adapted for different levels of challenge.
