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I am a secondary school English teacher with a BA in English Language and Literature, and an MA in English Literature with a speciality in poetry. I create classroom display resources, English teaching tools and revision material.
Thank you for visiting my shop!
I am a secondary school English teacher with a BA in English Language and Literature, and an MA in English Literature with a speciality in poetry. I create classroom display resources, English teaching tools and revision material.
This A4 sheet provides an overview of the requirements of AQA English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 including marks, AOs assessed, question types and time management suggestions, as well as:
- Instructions for differentiating between structure and language, and how to tackle the different questions relating them
- How to plan answers for the writing components of the exam
Hope you find it hepful!
A full set of materials to create a display in your classroom showcasing the progression of literature through the ages. I created this for my GCSE students but it would fit in any English classroomm. Simply print and arrange in a way that fits your bulletin board/ wall.
Includes:
- Full size picture of the display
- Descriptions of each time period
- Photographs of key authors, colour-coded by text-type
- Key texts and dates published, colour-coded by text-type
- Glossary and key
- An A4 version of the display that can be given to pupils as an accompanying hand out (please note: this is also sold separately in my TES store).
Key quotes for a variety of important characters in 'Macbeth', on my custom watercolour background. These posters aim to show the development of characters throughout the play, and act as a quick guide for students to refer to when writing and revising.
Key quotes for a variety of important characters in 'Blood Brothers', on my custom watercolour background. These posters aim to show the development of characters throughout the play, and act as a quick guide for students to refer to when writing and revising.
Key quotes for a variety of important characters in 'A Christmas Carol', on my custom watercolour background. These posters aim to show the development of characters throughout the novel, and act as a quick guide for students to refer to when writing and revising.
This resource is an anthology of 180 unseen poetry questions for AQA GCSE English Literature (2017).
There are 120 poems in the collection, organised by theme and with contents pages. There are 120 unseen question 1 tasks and 60 unseen question 2 tasks in the pack. The poetry is grouped into themes of:
Love (20 poems)
Family (10 poems)
Friendship (10 poems)
Nature (10 poems)
Animals (10 poems)
Childhood and Growing up (10 poems)
School (10 poems)
Characters (10 poems)
Different Cultures and Traditions (10 poems)
Loss (10 poems)
Conflict and Disaster (10 poems)
In powerpoint format for easy display and printing, or PDF if you prefer.
This resource could also be adapted for KS3 anthologies.
This lesson focuses on getting students to form opinions of Mrs Lyons at the start of the play, and introducing them to the concepts of hero, antihero and villain. Students find evidence for their opinions in the text, and are exposed to sophisticated vocabulary to describe Mrs Lyons as they read.
Included in this bundle are three fully editable resources:
- My best selling Blood Brothers knowledge/organiser, revision mat, which consolidates quotes, plot summary, key vocabulary, context, themes, and more into an A3 or A4 document (your choice!). Originally created with AQA in mind, this will work for other exam reports.
- Two A3 revision worksheets that allow pupils to demonstrate their knowledge of characters, songs, quotes and plot moments from the play.
- An A4 double-sided document that shows the each of the main characters’ key moments in the play and their associated songs (includes Sammy and Linda)
-Plot sequence in chronological order and mixed up to be used as a sort activity
All of these resources are available separately in my shop, but buy them together in this bundle and you will save 50%!
Printable bunting for your classroom! Print onto coloured paper, hole punch and hang your display.
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A fully editable knowledge organiser on Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', suitable for AQA English Literature revision. A4 size. Resource contains:
- Plot summary by act with key moments in bold
- Character list
- Contextual information
- Key techniques used by the author
- Key Quotations
- High-level vocabulary that can be used to describe the main characters/ act as topic sentence starters
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A fully editable knowledge organiser on Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet', suitable for AQA English Literature revision. A4 size. Resource contains:
- Plot summary by act with key moments in bold
- Character list
- Contextual information
- Key techniques used by the author
- Key Quotations
- High-level vocabulary that can be used to describe the main characters/ act as topic sentence starters
If you like this then please take a look at my other TES resources and follow me on twitter @MissGOToole
A complete, editable, A3 knowledge organiser for all 15 poems in the AQA English Literature Power and Conflict cluster. Each section contains:
- Name of the poem
- Name of the poet
- Key Context
- Structural features
- 5 key quotations from the poem
- Language features in each of the 5 key quotes
- Connections to themes of power and conflict
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This is a complete set of 14 lessons on ‘Blood Brothers’, designed for KS4 students preparing for AQA English Literature. The lessons are broken down by song so no matter which version of the text you have copies of, it should be easy to follow. It covers the whole play and I used these lessons as an accompaniment to reading the text for the first time.
Also included in this set is a copy of my best-selling Blood Brothers knowledge organiser, which is a great revision tool and can be used for setting homework. In addition to this, I have included my consolidation sheets for Act 1 and Act 2, which make a great independent revision activity.
Please take a look in my TES store for other Blood Brothers resources and additional standalone lessons on key topics from the play.
NOTE: this resource is different to my mega bundle - the mega bundle contains posters and standalone revision lessons as well.
I use this TEACH framework as an alternative to PEE paragraphs or other writing structures, as I find that it can be adapted for all ability levels and is more attuned to the new AQA GCSE literature mark scheme. Rather than being restrictive, it allows students to build to a more detailed analysis.
An editable version of my AQA English Literature paper 1 and paper 2 writing mats.
These writing mats provide a quick guide for pupils to help them write effective answers for AQA English Literature paper 1 and paper 2 with poetry on one side and fiction on the other. Keep them on your classroom desks, or give them to students to revise from. Each one features:
-A breakdown of each question, and suggestions of how to plan for each one,
- sentence starters,
- discourse markers,
- analysis prompts,
- poetic, structural and language technique lists.
- PREMIUM BONUS FEATURE: adverbial phrases
A3 size. Print on both sides to make them flippable!
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This resource is a handout for students that details the steps of writing an excellent Engish Lierature essay. The handout is provided in word and JPG format for your convenience. The word document will print at A5 size.
PLEASE NOTE - this handout also appears in my ‘How to Write an English Essay - Classroom Display’ resource, where it is accompanied by a full set of classroom display signage.
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