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 14 slide lesson on Imagery with definitions, examples and tasks for students. Whole lesson with beautiful images and engaging writing samples.
Suitable for KS3-KS5!
A 15-20 minute assembly or tutor-time presentation on positivity. Focus is on positive thinking and positive self-talking and the benefits of being an optimist.
Suitable for all ages! :)
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!
Back to School Behavior Management - Classroom Display Posters. 25 beautiful black and white posters to save your voice and your sanity. Use for classroom management. Simply print out, laminate, trim (easy to attach to a paint stirrer or wooden craft stick with a staple or two or mount in appropriate places in your room/stand upright- also nice printed onto coloured paper/card).
Includes 25 printable behaviour signs - easily adaptable where required! Enjoy!
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.
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!
An 11 slide PowerPoint on atmospheric writing including key ingredients and tasks for students to complete. Includes opportunity and instruction for peer assessment as well as self reflection to ensure progress in creative writing.
Also includes a separate checklist to print for students to tick off and ensure they have ingredients for a successful atmospheric piece.
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 19 slide PowerPoint including context surrounding World War II and the Holocaust, as well as plot, character and setting for the novel itself.
Suitable for all ages!
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
Engaging lesson on creative writing in which the students describe a journey into space. 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 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 detailed 15-20 minute assembly or tutor-time presentation (also suitable for Life Skills) on How to prepare for interview and structuring a C.V. Includes helpful tips on the before, middle and after mental and physical preparation for interview and how to follow up whether you are successful or not.
Suitable for KS3-KS6 and easily adaptable!
A 23 slide PowerPoint exploring the role of the witches within Shakespeare’s Macbeth. It includes excerpts from the script, contextual information about King James I and superstition in the 17th century, both comprehension and inference questions and is suitable for all ages!
Engaging and informative for all!
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!
An 18 slide fully differentiated PowerPoint lesson on Carol Ann Duffy’s poem Valentine with line by line analysis and exploration of key themes and ideas such as the moon metaphor.
Engaging lesson with activities for students and thought provoking questions to end.
Suitable for KS3!