This is one of many lessons and resources that I have uploaded on Russel's Blood Brothers for the AQA Lit specification. This is a worksheet on Act 1 with a series of questions to text pupil's undersatnding.

This is one of many lessons that I have uploaded on the theme of Crime and Punishment for the GCSE course. All of the lessons can be taught together, but each covers a topic so can also be picked up separately. For ease of locating, the title stem is the same: ' Crime & Punishment - '. This is a full powerpoint lesson, ready to teach but you will want to adapt it / update it for your own context and any resources are also uploaded with it. This lesson is a mammouth revison session - but it can also be adapted and printed off as a revison booklet for your pupils.

These are the first lessons of a scheme of work that covers all areas of the AQA GCSE exam for English. Taught to pupils with low Ds who were trying to get to C, this breaks down all of the questions and teaches pupils how they should tackle them. There are more lessons saved with the same stem - but lesson 15 onwards.

Great for any English or Media Studeis teachers - a whole unti of work on newspapers.

This is a series of lessons and the overview with the assessment on Racism.

This is a full lesson with the resources at the end of it that introduces the concept of branding and provides pupils with the task of rebranding their school.

These lessons help pupils to identify a potential exam question and plan how to answer it. Also added is a list of targets that can be given to pupils after they have attempted the task.

This is anohter one of my training powerpoints that I;ve created about Assertive Mentoring. This one helps to structure to process and guides teachers / staff on what to do.

A lesson that invites pupils to become Cheryl Cole and reply to Simon's 'sacking' letter... in a formal manner. Full Powerpoint lesson with objectives and can be adapted.

This is a PP slide that has a seating plan on - move the tables and chairs so that it emulates your own room then insert your classnames in text boxes.

Comparing Language Question – How to get an A This is a full lesson PowerPoint that goes over how to get an A grade in the AQA comparing Language question on the new GCSE specification preparing for the exam.

This is one of many lessons that I have uploaded on the theme of apartheid for completeing GCSE controlled assessment. All of the lessons can be taught together but each covers a topic so can also be picked up separately. For ease of locating, the title stem is the same: ' Apartheid Controlled Ass'. This is a full powerpoint lesson, ready to teach but you will want to adapt it / update it for your own context and any resources are also uploaded with it. This lesson covers the apartheid laws.

This is one of many lessons that I have uploaded on the theme of apartheid for completeing GCSE controlled assessment. All of the lessons can be taught together but each covers a topic so can also be picked up separately. For ease of locating, the title stem is the same: ' Apartheid Controlled Ass'. This is a full powerpoint lesson, ready to teach but you will want to adapt it / update it for your own context and any resources are also uploaded with it. This lesson helps pupils to analyse why different people had different perspectives on Apartheid.

This is a full interactive lesson plan for Of Mice and Men that teaches about the Representation Of Women in the novel.

This is a scheme of work that I have revisited and updated for 2012, to include all APP frameworks, persuasive techniques and analysis of the Death Penalty. The scheme looks at murderers and results in a question about whether or not we should bring back the death penalty. Pupils end by writing a discursive essay, as if they are under controlled assessment conditions, as I am trying to prepare year 9 for their GCSE years. If you want every lesson, type in '2012 Death Penalty Lesson Miss R' and they should come up in a list. This one introduces the unit.

This is a full lesson PP with interactive team work and guided writing based on the idea of describing a house that is for sale - uses thinking skills activities. L/O: To use information processing skills to locate and collect relevant information. To enhance your vocabulary by working with unfamiliar words in descriptive writing.

This is a full lesson PP - ready to teach - although you may wish to change / differentiate to your own context on the above named topic. This lesson is one of serveral that create a scheme of lessons about Victorian Crime but all can operate as standalone lessons and I have uploaded them all with the same title stem for ease of finding. This lesson covers The Hound Of The Baskeervilles

Gruffolo Full SOW Kagan techniques Lesson PP This is one of 6 lessons that I have uploaded. I have uploaded each lesson with the appropriate resources. The full scheme was judged as Outstanding by OFSTED and I use it with level 3/4 writers. Designed to introduce Kagan structures and cooperative learning, the lessons use the context of the Gruffalo to get pupils to write their won story to Primary School Pupils. Pupils love this work!

Gruffolo Full SOW Kagan techniques Lesson PP This is one of 6 lessons that I have uploaded. I have uploaded each lesson with the appropriate resources. The full scheme was judged as Outstanding by OFSTED and I use it with level 3/4 writers. Designed to introduce Kagan structures and cooperative learning, the lessons use the context of the Gruffalo to get pupils to write their won story to Primary School Pupils. Pupils love this work!

With these resources, I get the pupils to imagine that they are one of the teachers. I give them the advice on the CV and the job advert and tell them to write a CV for the character - great for getting into the character and for functional / contextual learning.