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My shop is full of literary surprises: with a degree in Creative Writing and English I have some fantastic resources on creative writing, poetry and Literature Texts. I aim to offer resources on the less common texts and also cover a range of resources from the International GCSEs....welcome, come in and feel free to browse...buy, don't buy, follow, don't follow....just don't spend every weekend working....be kind to yourself!

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My shop is full of literary surprises: with a degree in Creative Writing and English I have some fantastic resources on creative writing, poetry and Literature Texts. I aim to offer resources on the less common texts and also cover a range of resources from the International GCSEs....welcome, come in and feel free to browse...buy, don't buy, follow, don't follow....just don't spend every weekend working....be kind to yourself!
GCSE (9-1) War of The Worlds by H G Wells: Book 2 Chapters 7-10
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GCSE (9-1) War of The Worlds by H G Wells: Book 2 Chapters 7-10

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This lesson is the final lesson in the series of individual lessons and draws on engaging activities to nurture both independence and enquiry in learners. This resource includes a 'leading' extract questionnaire to support students who find this text challenging alongside stretch and challenge tasks. This resource also includes extract and essay tasks in line with examination style questions. At the end of the powerpoint are a number of activities based on the whole text to ensure students have both a clear overview and the opportunity to create substantial revision resources. Available as part of a 'Book 2' bundle and a 'Whole Text' bundle.
GCSE (9-1) War of The Worlds by H G Wells Book 2 Chapters 3-6
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GCSE (9-1) War of The Worlds by H G Wells Book 2 Chapters 3-6

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This resource covers Book 2, Chapters 3-6 of the narrative and includes a range of inclusive and challenge activities to ensure students are engaged and stretched. This lesson includes reference to theories relating to the text to enable students to access the grades 8 and 9 together with more accessible and relatable activities for lower ability.
Big Quiz Bundle
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Big Quiz Bundle

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This bundle includes: a Dingbats Quiz, Who am I Quiz? Film Quiz and a Slogan Quiz. These are accessible for all secondary students and went down really well with my students. These work well as an end of term treat of as a weekly starter/team building competition for use in tutor time.
KS3 Study of a Modern Play: Our Day Out by Willy Russell
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KS3 Study of a Modern Play: Our Day Out by Willy Russell

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An extensive powerpoint that works through the entire play including contextual information, activities and assessment tasks that are aligned with the GCSE (9-1) specifications. This is a detailed unit of work that supports KS3 students through the study of a play text and has proved to be an excellent training ground for GCSE studies.
GCSE (9-1) War of The Worlds by H G Wells Chapters 10-17
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GCSE (9-1) War of The Worlds by H G Wells Chapters 10-17

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This powerpoint covers the latter chapters of Book 1 of this new GCSE text. The powerpoint contains a number of engaging activities to ensure full comprehension of the text as you read and activities to begin to construct revision pages on the themes contained in this text. It also includes a 9-1 exam style 'exploding question' in which extract skills are taught in a supported way before setting up a full essay question.
Brain Training Theories: Learning Quotations for GCSEs
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Brain Training Theories: Learning Quotations for GCSEs

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This lesson takes you through a theory based lesson using music to learn quotations from texts. This lesson has proved to be a highly enjoyable, alternative and effective approach to last minute quotation learning, even for students who struggle to retain information. Using this method of learning quotations, students are able to write more sustained responses and in turn access higher grades. If you find this useful please do leave a review. More Brain Training lessons to follow.
Writing V Tone (GCSE Skills: Transactional Writing)
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Writing V Tone (GCSE Skills: Transactional Writing)

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This lesson starts with an engaging visual activity that engages students with the concept of tone in art before then asking them to apply this thinking to some literary extracts. The lesson continues to draw on the DIRT strategy to improve and assess work and establish success criteria for using the right tone when writing an article. This is an excellent revision lesson to refine techniques for writing Transactional Writing pieces for the GCSE exams.
KS3 Identity Poetry: Limbo by Edward Kamau Brathwaite
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KS3 Identity Poetry: Limbo by Edward Kamau Brathwaite

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This lesson includes a range of tasks to engage students, including information on context and interpretations of the poem. The lesson includes extension activities, grading criteria and DIRT tasks. This is a really effective lesson to use when studying poetry at KS3 level to gently introduce students to the strengthened demands of the GCSE (9-1) syllabus.
Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy (AQA/EDEXCEL)
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Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy (AQA/EDEXCEL)

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Suitable for use with both the AQA 2017 specification or the Edexcel 2017 specification, this set of resources takes students through this poem step by step, the collection of resources includes an alphabetised version of the poem, contextual information, challenge activities, language activities and higher order questioning on language, structure and form before providing a stanza by stanza analysis. This is everything you need to teach this poem.
A Complaint by William Wordsworth
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A Complaint by William Wordsworth

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This resource is designed to take GCSE students through a detailed analysis of William Wordsworth’s poem in line with the new GCSE (9-1) specifications. It covers context, form, language and structure. This lesson incorporates a number of differentiated activities, in particular stretch and challenge, for the very top end using the Venus and Adonis Myth to secure a grade 8/9.
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare: Act One
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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare: Act One

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This powerpoint is designed to support students studying Shakespeare as a complete text at GCSE level. This resource covers Act One in detail and is one of five resources on this text. It draws on a range of varied activities to hook students and nurture a love of Shakespeare: dramatic exercises, creative exercises, matching and challenge activities and activities that make Shakespeare more realatable to the 21st century student. This resource is tailored for 6-8 hours of teaching and includes character studies, analysis of language, form and structure. It is everything you would need to ensure students fully engage with this play, beyond the narrative alone.
Edexcel English Language GCSE (9-1 ) Revision Pack
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Edexcel English Language GCSE (9-1 ) Revision Pack

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This bundle includes a 19th century fiction paper and a 20th/21st century non fiction paper with mark schemes and indicative content, so useful for parents and teachers alike. I have also included a guide to answering the more challenging question 7 on Paper 2 here. This is heavily discounted to allow for anyone who has purchased one of these individually to still feel they are getting good value.
Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy (Edexcel Relationship Poetry)
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Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy (Edexcel Relationship Poetry)

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These resources offer a fully differentiated lesson on this classic poem and engages students by drawing on contemporary tasks involving music and technology. This lesson introduces complex technical vocabulary in a way that makes it enjoyable for all during the learning process. The lesson is cyclical in nature and returns to the starter activity to evidence progression and engagement. This lesson is available individually or as part of a bundle on the link below. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/relationships-poetry-bundle-11607210 If, however, you would like a bespoke bundle, follow me on twitter @jomarsh1 and message me there...other bundles can be provided on request.
Silas Marner by George Eliot Bundle: Chapters 1-10
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Silas Marner by George Eliot Bundle: Chapters 1-10

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This bundles includes a variety of interesting activities to engage readers with this 19th century text. These lessons take students through character studies, themes, it touches on context and also the use of language and structural devices within these chapters. I have applied a generous discount to allow for anyone who has already purchased one of these resources separately. Follow me here or on Twitter @jomarsh1 for the release of further resources on this text.
Silas Marner by George Eliot: Chapters 4 and 5
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Silas Marner by George Eliot: Chapters 4 and 5

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This resource offers a range of engaging and differentiated tasks on this text to support comprehension, thematic and character studies. Teacher instruction for a mathematically relevant activity is included in the powerpoint and ensures that numeracy is included within the lesson. This resource forms part of a collection of resources and can be bought individually and as part of a bundle (at a significantly discounted price) from my TES shop @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/joannammarsh If interested in further resources please follow me here and on Twitter @jomarsh1
Poetry Comparison: 'Neutral Tones' V 'My Last Duchess'
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Poetry Comparison: 'Neutral Tones' V 'My Last Duchess'

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This lesson teaches students the STILT(s) acronym for poetry comparison, this could be used to teach comparison skills as well as teaching specific comparison points on these two poems from the Edexcel Relationship Collection. The lesson is challenging and aims to take students grades to the top levels. It includes engaging 'thunks', activities, guidance, exemplar paragraphs and guided questions and processes that could be applied to other pairs of poems. More comparison lessons to follow shortly, so if you like this follow me here or on Twitter @jomarsh1.