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
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 10-15 minute whole school assembly focused on ordinary people who made a difference.
Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks as well as comment on the story behind Hairspray.
This is a thought-provoking assembly with questions to encourage students to consider who an ordinary person can stand up, speak out and challenge prejudice and injustice and make a real difference.
A PowerPoint exploring the poetic voice, including annotation key themes and emotion within the poem 'Inheritance' by Evan Boland. Also includes student tasks to promote independent thought and analysis and some information on the poet. Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem.
For AS and A level English Literature.
A 15 minute assembly on Internet Safety exploring facts and statistics behind child internet safety and ways to prevent cyber bullying. Includes how to report cyber bullying on key social media sites and general internet safety tips for children!
Suitable for all ages!
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 10-15 minute (allowing for student reflection and Q&A) assembly on the importance of good behaviour, its impact on yourself and those around you and getting rid of the excuses we use for behaving badly.
Lots of interesting quotes, scenarios and a clip to keep students engaged!
How to alleviate exam stress!
Through sensible planning and revision and positive thinking, this 14 slide (15-20)min assembly on alleviating exam stress re-instills optimism and confidence in students of all ages just before nerve-wracking exams!
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.
A 14 slide PowerPoint on Instruction Texts and imperatives.
Includes:
Activities surrounding the ingredients of an Instruction Text.
Defining the term "imperative".
Analysing exemplar Instruction Texts.
Creating our own Instruction Text.
Peer-assessing in pairs using success criteria.
Self-assessing our own understanding of Instruction Texts and imperatives.
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 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.
8 posters containing engaging wordplay and punny-business demonstrating the FUN that can be have with the English language!
Eye-catching and thought-provoking for English students of all ages!
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
A 9 slide PowerPoint on 'Eat Me' by Patience Agbabi exploring language, structure and key themes.
Includes annotation of the poem too.
Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem.
A wonderful poem.
A 10 slide PowerPoint analysing language, symbolism and key themes within Armitage’s ‘Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass’.
Includes questions to inspire independent analysis and thought. Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem.
Suitable for AS and A level Literature.
An 11 slide PowerPoint on ‘The Gun’ by Vicki Feaver focusing on the poet herself, structure, language and tone as well as deeper meaning within the poem. Also includes a poetry study checklist and advice on how to approach reading a poem.
For A/AS-level Edexcel - Poems of the Decade collection
A standalone Literacy mini scheme of work (10 lessons) with topics of:
1) Introduction to using a word bank 2) Adjectives & Adverbs 3) 5 senses 4) Sentence types 5) Story Openings 6) Narrative Perspective 7)Punctuating for effect 8) Writing from a springboard text 9)Showing not telling 10)Writing to grade criteria
This SOW does not provide powerpoints or external resources but all extracts are within the Word document itself for students to use. Easily adaptable and accessible for students of differing ability.
