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When We Two Parted - Lord Byron - Love/ Relationships Poetry
This lesson enables students to build their knowledge of the content, language, and structure of Lord Byron’s classic love/relationships poem ‘When We Two Parted.’ In particular, students learn how the poet’s use of vocabulary, rhyme, and repetition influence the mood and tone of the poem.
Students learn through a logical and step-by-step learning journey, including:
-Understanding key contextual information about the poet and his life;
-Defining key terms and vocabulary from the poem;
-Reading and interpreting the poem;
-Understanding the poem, with a particular emphasis upon the content, language, and structural features;
-Writing an extended analysis piece based upon how Byron gets across the themes of sadness and forbidden love in the poem, through the use of language and structure;
-Peer assessing each other's learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and substantial; (including hyperlink to a reading of the poem)
- Copy of poem;
- Key questions worksheet, with model answers;
- Analysis template with in-built success criteria for creating well-structured responses;
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. This was originally taught to middle-ability year 9/10 groups, but can easily be differentiated for groups of different ages and abilities.
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Pride and Prejudice - Elizabeth Bennet
In this engaging and informative lesson, students are enabled to make clear and insightful interpretations of Elizabeth Bennet – the chief protagonist in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. In particular, students learn about her key characteristics- such as her strong ideas, wit, intelligence, grace, and good humour – and relate these to ideas of societal expectations of the time.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which students learn through:
- Playing a fun and interactive quiz to determine the key events and family life of Elizabeth Bennet;
- Establishing her characteristics and traits, utilising textual evidence;
- Analysing Elizabeth's character in relation to the expectations of society in the Regency Era;
- Creating clear and creative diary entries, using an in-depth understanding of Elizabeth's character;
- Peer assessing each other's learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- 'Character Traits of Elizabeth' task resources - with teacher answer sheet;
- 'Elizabeth in Context' task resources - with teacher answer sheet;
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. These resources were originally taught to GCSE students, but with subtle adaptations they have also been used with both younger and older (up to A Level) students.
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Pride and Prejudice - Mr Darcy
In this engaging and informative lesson, students are enabled to make sustained and developed interpretations regarding the introduction and development of the character of Mr Darcy in 'Pride and Prejudice.' In particular, students learn about how he at first appears solely proud and aloof, before studying the events through which the more subtle aspects of his character emerge.
The lesson follows a step-by-step learning journey, in which students learn through:
- Establishing how Darcy fits the criteria of the 'Romantic Hero;'
- Reading and understanding how Darcy is introduced in the novel, using relevant textual evidence;
- Tracking how his character develops through the notable events of the novel;
- Analysing how Austen introduces and develops Darcy's character through plot events and Elizabeth's thoughts;
- Peer assessing each other's learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and comprehensive;
- Extract from Chapter 3;
- 'Development of Darcy' task resources - with teacher answer sheet;
- Supportive and clear essay template;
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. These resources were originally taught to GCSE students, but with subtle adaptations they have also been used with both younger and older (up to A Level) students.
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In Paris With You - James Fenton - Love and Relationships Poetry
This lesson enables students to build their knowledge of the content, language, and structure of James Fenton’s modern relationships poem ‘In Paris With You.’ In particular, students learn how word play, colloquial language, rhyme, and poetic structure can influence the mood and tone of a poem.
Students learn through a logical and step-by-step learning journey, including:
-Understanding the location described in the poem (Paris) and how it is commonly viewed;
-Understanding key information about James Fentons' life;
-Reading and interpreting the poem;
-Understanding the poem, with a particular emphasis upon the content, language, and structural features;
-Writing an extended analysis piece based upon how Sheers gets across the narrator's feelings in the poem, through the use of language and structure;
-Peer assessing each other's learning attempts.
Included is:
- Whole lesson PowerPoint - colourful and substantial; (including hyperlink to a reading of the poem)
- Copy of poem;
- Structural devices worksheet
- Analysis template with in-built success criteria for creating well-structured responses;
- Comprehensive lesson plan.
There are also opportunities for group learning, peer assessment, and whole class discussion. This was originally taught to middle-ability year 9/10 groups, but can easily be differentiated for groups of different ages and abilities.
All images are licensed for commercial use, and image rights are listed on the last page of the presentation.
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KS2 Comprehension Activities Big Booklet Bundle! (aligned with the New Curriculum)
These resource booklets contain a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use in guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the Year 3 through to Year 6 comprehension expectations within the new National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They are also generic enough to ensure that they are appropriate for use with all texts.
The Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, and Year 6 Booklets (normally 2 pounds each) are all included. I've also thrown in a literacy writing mat for free!
Examples of activities within the booklets include:
- Word Tennis - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: 'Discuss their understanding of new words, and explore the meaning of words in context'
- Conventions Bingo - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: 'Identify and discuss themes and conventions in writing.'
- Rap Battle - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: 'Read aloud poems, and perform playscripts.'
-Court Case: Defending a Text - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: 'Provide reasoned justifications for your views, Explain and discuss and understanding of what has been read, including through presentations and debates, maintaining a focus on topic.''
Plus many, many more activities (each booklet is around 20 pages in length!)
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Media Studies: Unit 2 Assignments Resource Bundle!
Here I have collated each of the resources and templates that I have used throughout the year to enable my students to complete the Media Studies Unit 2 assignments. There are around 20 resources here. Each of the resources are clear, concise and appropriate to the requirements of the assignments. Included are resources on:
- Introduction to Media Studies (a number of tasks and templates that I used prior to the first assignment)
- Assignment 1: Intro to Media (DVD Covers)
- Assignment 2: Cross-Media Study (Advertising and Marketing)
- Assignment 3: Practical Production and Evaluation (Film Trailers)
If you only need resources for one of the assignments, I am making the resources for the individual assignments available for £1.
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Upper KS2 Comprehension Activities Booklets Bundle! (aligned with the New Curriculum)
These resource booklets contain a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful comprehension activities for use in guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the Year 5 and Year 6 expectations within the new National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate. They are also generic enough to ensure that they are appropriate for use with all texts.
Both the Year 5 Booklet and the Year 6 Booklet (normally 2 pounds each) are included. I've also thrown in a literacy writing mat for free!
Examples of activities within the booklets include:
- Word Tennis - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: 'Discuss their understanding of new words, and explore the meaning of words in context'
- Conventions Bingo - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: 'Identify and discuss themes and conventions in writing.'
- Rap Battle - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: 'Read aloud poems, and perform playscripts.'
-Court Case: Defending a Text - to enable students to demonstrate that they can: 'Provide reasoned justifications for your views, Explain and discuss and understanding of what has been read, including through presentations and debates, maintaining a focus on topic.''
Plus many, many more activities (each booklet is around 20 pages in length!)
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AQA Love/ Relationships Poetry Lesson Bundle!
These engaging, varied, and informative lessons have been designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the content, language, and structure features of a range of Love and Relationships poems from the new AQA poetry anthology:
- Simon Armitage - Mother, Any Distance
- Lord Byron - When We Two Parted
- Carol Ann Duffy - Before You Were Mine
- Percy Bysshe Shelley - Love's Philosophy
- Thomas Hardy - Neutral Tones
In addition to this, the lesson on comparing poems is also included - essential for exam technique!
Students will vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings poems, understanding the writer's ideas within poems, understanding the social and historical contexts of poems, and analysing features of content, language, and structure.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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A View from the Bridge Lesson Bundle!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Arthur Miller’s play ‘A View from the Bridge.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, understanding dramatic and language devices, and relating the text to its social and historical context.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Travel Writing Lesson Bundle!
These engaging and detailed resources have been designed to make the teaching and learning of Travel Writing exciting, interesting, and easily accessible for all children. Throughout each lesson, students consider a different element of their writing (content, language, and structure) in order to produce imaginative and appropriate travel writing texts. Each lesson contains a comprehensive whole lesson PowerPoint, all the resources that you will need, and a lesson plan.
Included are the following lessons:
1. Travel Writing: Crafting Imaginative Content
2. Travel Writing: Constructing Imaginative Language;
3. Travel Writing: Creating Imaginative Structures
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Writing for Different Forms Big Bundle!
These engaging, varied, and informative lessons are designed to help students build their skills at writing for a number of different forms, through utilising a range of sophisticated and original language ideas, tasks, and techniques.
Included in this bundle are lessons focusing on:
- Diary Writing;
- Recount Writing;
- Writing Autobiographies;
- Writing Newspaper Articles;
- Writing Reviews.
Also included are helpsheets for students to use when writing for a wide range of purposes (e.g. inform, explain, etc.)
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided - there is everything included that you need to teach!
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Edexcel Conflict Poetry Lesson Bundle!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain a valuable understanding of the content, language, and structure features of a number of conflict poems, each of which are studied as a part of Edexcel’s new English Literature syllabus.
Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings poems, understanding the writer’s ideas within poems, understanding the social and historical contexts of the different wars/conflicts, and analysing features of content, language, and structure. Included are lessons on:
- The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Poppies - Jane Weir
- War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy
- What Were They Like? - Denise Levertov
- PLUS A lesson on how to compare poems!
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Popular Fiction KS2 Comprehension Activity Booklets Big Bundle!
This bundle contains 7 fantastic comprehension activity booklets - each is over 20 pages in length, and focuses upon a different popular classic text.
The resource booklets contain a wide range of age-appropriate, engaging, and meaningful activities - perfect for use throughout class reading of texts or equally in guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of children towards meeting the KS2 comprehension expectations within the National Curriculum framework. Children love learning from these resources, whilst they are also of great use to teachers, as there is explicit information within each task regarding which comprehension strands the task is designed to demonstrate.
There are booklets included for the following texts:
- The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien
- A Series of Unfortunate Events -The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket
- Billionaire Boy - David Walliams
- Charlotte’s Web - E.B White
- Holes - Louis Sachar
- Skellig - David Almond
- The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe - C.S Lewis
There are a huge range of activities! A PDF of each booklet is also provided, to prevent formatting issues.
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Resources Bundle!
These varied and engaging resources have been designed to enhance the learning of John Boyne’s ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.’ They are perfect for aiding and developing comprehension, and also gaining a secure understanding of the social and historical context of the novel.
Included in this resources bundle are:
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Comprehension Activities Booklet - 21 pages of comprehension activities aligned with the text;
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Holocaust Lesson - Enabling students to link the text to its social and historical context;
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Pointless Game - A fun and interactive way of securing understanding of the text.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Knowledge Organiser/ Revision Mat - An hugely detailed resource aiding revision of all aspects of the novel!
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Much Ado About Nothing: Lesson Bundle! (All Lessons, Resources, Plans, Everything!)
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of William Shakespeare’s tragedy ‘Much Ado About Nothing.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, understanding dramatic and language devices, and relating the text to its social and historical context.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Much Ado About Nothing Big Bundle! (All Lessons, Resources, Plans, Everything!)
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE ‘MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING’ LESSONS, PLUS THE COMPREHENSION BOOKLETS (for both KS3 and KS4) AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of William Shakespeare’s tragedy ‘Much Ado About Nothing.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, identifying the traits of key characters, settings, and themes, understanding dramatic and language devices, and relating the text to its social and historical context.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided. There is a 20 page comprehension booklet, and also a fun ‘Pointless’ Game included, to enhance your students’ knowledge of the text!
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Pride and Prejudice Huge Bundle!
THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE PRIDE AND PREJUDICE LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION ACTIVITY BOOKLET, THE KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER AND THE POINTLESS GAME!
This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice.’ Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer’s ideas within the text, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Austen’s use of language.
Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Engaging
- Defining/ Understanding
- Identifying/Remembering
- Analysing/ Creating
- Peer or self evaluating.
All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Whole-lesson PowerPoints, activity resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy - Bundle!
These resources are designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Carol Ann Duffy’s contemporary ‘Power and Conflict’ poem: ‘War Photographer.’ Students will complete this learning having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the poem, understanding the poet’s meaning/ideas within the poem, analysing the features of form and structure, considering settings and themes, and understanding Weir’s language devices.
The bundle contains:
-The comprehensive and engaging lesson;
-The 16-page comprehension booklet;
-The visually-appealing and informative knowledge organiser/ revision mat;
-A range of resources to prepare your students for critically comparing poems;
The lessons included are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Mother, Any Distance Poetry Bundle!
These resources are designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Simon Armitage’s love/relationships poem: Mother, Any Distance… Students will complete this learning having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the poem, understanding the poet’s ideas within the poem, analysing the features of form and structure, considering settings and themes, and understanding Shelley’s language devices.
The bundle contains:
The comprehensive and engaging lesson,
The visually-appealing and informative knowledge organiser/ revision mat,
The 16 page comprehension booklet;
A range of resources to prepare your students for critically comparing poems.
The lessons included are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.
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Before You Were Mine Poem Bundle!
These resources are designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of Carol Ann Duffy’s love/relationships poem: Before You Were Mine. Students will complete this learning having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the poem, understanding the poet’s ideas within the poem, analysing the features of form and structure, considering settings and themes, and understanding Shelley’s language devices.
The bundle contains:
The comprehensive and engaging lesson,
The visually-appealing and informative knowledge organiser/ revision mat,
The 16 page comprehension booklet;
A range of resources to prepare your students for critically comparing poems.
The lessons included are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.