Here you’ll find top-quality materials personally crafted for KS3 and KS4 students. With nine years of teaching experience, I’ve created a range of resources designed to engage and educate. My offerings include detailed lesson plans, interactive worksheets, revision guides, and assessment tools, all aligned with the latest curriculum standards.
Each resource is developed from firsthand classroom experience, ensuring they are practical, effective, and easily adaptable to suit your class needs.
Here you’ll find top-quality materials personally crafted for KS3 and KS4 students. With nine years of teaching experience, I’ve created a range of resources designed to engage and educate. My offerings include detailed lesson plans, interactive worksheets, revision guides, and assessment tools, all aligned with the latest curriculum standards.
Each resource is developed from firsthand classroom experience, ensuring they are practical, effective, and easily adaptable to suit your class needs.
A booklet designed to educate students on war poetry, particularly from World War I.
Lesson 1 – ‘Who’s for the Game?’ by Jessie Pope:
Lesson 2 – ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen:
Lesson 3 – Comparing Poetry:
Lesson 4 – ‘Suicide in the Trenches’:
Lesson 5 - ‘The Manhunt’
Lesson 6 -‘August 6, 1945’
This lesson focuses on the reading of Stave 2, including some analysis of key quotations and exploring Dickens’ intentions.
The slides include copies of the text with a glossary to support student understanding.
Please note * This lesson is focused on the reading of ACC*
This English Language Paper 1 Booklet has been created using in-depth knowledge of exam board marking criteria to develop resources that pupils can complete independently.
Aimed at helping students achieve a grade 4 pass, this booklet provides targeted exercises and practice materials that align with exam expectations, ensuring students gain the skills and confidence needed to succeed.
The booklet specifically focuses on Section A: Comprehension and Section B: Story Writing, providing structured guidance and practice for each area.
For Section A, students will find a variety of reading passages accompanied by questions that hone their analytical and interpretive skills, mirroring the types of texts and queries found in the actual exam.
For Section B, the booklet offers prompts and planning tools to help students craft compelling narratives, emphasizing essential elements such as structure, character development, and descriptive language. This dual focus ensures a comprehensive preparation, equipping students with the necessary tools to excel in both comprehension and creative writing tasks.
3 1 hour lessons that include:
-Reading of Stave 5 with some discussion activities
Srooge’s redmeption and it’s impact on other characters. This resource also explore Dickens’ intentions.
An exam style question using the units lessons to complete write up.
All lessons come with resources.
Lessons include:
-Reading of Stave 4 with activities
Explorig the themes of social and economic inequalty in Victorian London.
Scrooge’s redemption - pupils are to write a letter from the perspective of Scrooge.
All lesson are accompanied with resources
Do Now (5 mins): Discuss how a ripple effect image links to Scrooge’s transformation.
Main Activity (20 mins): Explain the impact of Scrooge’s change on characters like Bob Cratchit, Fred, and the portly gentlemen. Provide examples.
**Deep Dive **(10 mins): Read an extract and answer questions on Dickens’ intentions.
Conclusion (10 mins): Discuss Dickens’ success in promoting social change.
After extensively searching the internet for suitable, skills-based resources for Key Stage 3, I decided to create my own booklet. This comprehensive resource spans over 90 pages and includes 18 lessons, all designed to focus on essential skills while being easily adaptable to meet the diverse needs of your classes. This particular booklet focuses on the theme of gothic.
The lessons are structured in sets of three:
A fiction-based lesson emphasising comprehension skills.
A nonfiction lesson that explores a variety of non-fiction texts.
A writing lesson that complements the non-fiction study.
You can buy this separately or as a bundle. I hope this saves some poorly teachers planning time of a morning :)
In this engaging lesson, students will delve into the presentation of Macbeth’s honor and bravery as depicted in Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The lesson is designed to enhance students’ analytical skills by encouraging them to closely examine the language and imagery used by Shakespeare to portray Macbeth’s character. Ultimately, students will respond to the critical question: How is Macbeth presented in Act 1, Scene 2?
Objectives:
Analyse the portrayal of Macbeth as a brave and honorable warrior.
Explore the significance of language and imagery in shaping character perception.
Develop writing skills through structured analysis and response.
an be bought as a full SOW or separate ‘Stave’ bundles. Additionally, lessons ca be bought separately.
This scheme of work, designed to support teaching staff, provides a structured yet flexible framework for delivering 15 engaging and challenging lessons. (5/6 weeks worth of lessons).
The primary goal is to offer a rich learning experience that is adaptable for students of all abilities, ensuring inclusivity and promoting educational excellence.
The lessons are crafted to stimulate intellectual curiosity, foster critical thinking, and encourage active participation.
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Focus on understanding poverty through the Cratchit family in “A Christmas Carol.”
Do Now Activity:
Label an image of the Cratchit Christmas.
Reflect on why Dickens included the Cratchit family.
Main Task:
Examine consequences of rapid urbanisation during the Victorian Era.
Discuss how the Cratchit family’s situation reflects the realities of many working-class families.
Explore how the Cratchit family’s home reflects living conditions of the poor.
Discuss how Dickens critiques social and economic disparities through the Cratchit family.
Independent Exploration:
Study an extract from “A Christmas Carol.”
Answer questions related to the extract.
Discussion on Malthusian Views:
Overview of Thomas Malthus’ theory on population and poverty.
Link Scrooge’s attitudes towards the poor to Malthusian and social Darwinist views.
Students will analyse the representation of gender roles and expectations in J.B. Priestley’s play “An Inspector Calls.” They will examine how the characters embody and challenge the gender norms of early 20th century Britain, and how these themes contribute to the play’s overall message.
As a current EDUQAS examiner with experience marking both Paper 1 and Paper 2, I have created a comprehensive resource that includes exam tasks for Section A and Section B, along with top tips for success.
This booklet can be adapted to suit the needs of classes.
This lesson focuses on the reading of Stave 5, including exploration of quotations
The slides include copies of the text with a glossary to support student understanding.
Please note * This lesson is focused on the reading of ACC*
This lesson focuses on the reading of Stave 4, including some discussion on the Ghost.
The slides include copies of the text with a glossary to support student understanding.
Please note * This lesson is focused on the reading of ACC*
A series of lessons that focus on the folloiwng:
Reading of A Stave 3 with discussion activities
A Lesson that explores the ontext of poverty and how this applies to the Cratchit family.
Scrooge’s changing views on the poor and his transformation.
Lessons are part of a 5- 6 week Scheme of work
The attached PowerPoint lesson titled “Scrooge’s Character” delves into the characterisation of Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” Here is a brief summary:
Do Now Activity:
Students begin with defining the word “covetous” using a dictionary, exploring its etymology and synonyms.
They then use the word “covetous” in a sentence and recall quotations that exemplify Scrooge’s character.
Character Traits of Scrooge:
Students choose three adjectives (e.g., miserable, greedy, selfish) to describe Scrooge and explain their choices with supporting quotations from the text.
Dickens’ Intentions:
The lesson explains that Dickens used Scrooge to represent greed, selfishness, and the negative effects of unchecked capitalism, reflecting societal injustices of the Victorian era
Textual Analysis:
Students read and analyse an extract from the novel, highlighting quotations that reveal Scrooge’s character.
They explore Dickens’ use of similes (e.g., “solitary as an oyster”) and metaphors (e.g., “tight-fisted hand at the grindstone”) to describe Scrooge’s miserly and cold nature.
This lesson is part of an ongoing bundle. Keep a look out for other resources.
This cover booklet is dedicated to exploring themes of crime and punishment through an engaging booklet.
The fiction component emphasises crime literature from both the 19th and 21st centuries, providing students with a rich context for understanding the evolution of crime narratives.
The non-fiction section addresses significant topics from both eras, including historical cases such as Jack the Ripper and contemporary issues like violence against women.
Additionally, the writing activities are designed to inspire students to create various forms of written communication—such as articles, letters, speeches, and guides—through the lens of crime.
The curriculum comprises a total of 17 lessons, offering a comprehensive, skills based approach to the study of crime and its societal implications.
This lesson resource delves into the historical and social context of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, focusing on Dickens’ life, the theme of poverty, and the Industrial Revolution.
It includes comprehensive handouts with glossaries to aid student understanding.
This FREE resource is part of an ongoing Scheme of Work. I will attach the link to the bundles once they are all uploaded.
This of work is designed as a introductory scheme for Year 9 transition/GCSE.
The focus of the scheme is to explore various themes and start to examine key quotations. Focuses on AQA skills but could be easily adapted.
This resource guides students in independently analysing an extract focusing on the Cratchit family’s Christmas.
It is part of a comprehensive scheme of work and lesson plan, which can be accessed via the link below.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/stave-3-poverty-and-the-cratchit-s-13046960
