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Resources are meticulously crafted to align with the UK's educational standards. You can trust that they are created with your students' needs in mind. 🎓
🔎 Explore the collection and discover engaging worksheets, interactive presentations, and creative activity packs that will captivate your students' imaginations while supporting their learning journey. 🌈🔬
David Lodge Nice Work Essay Exemplar
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‘If a literary text does something to its readers, it also simultaneously reveals something about them.’ – Wolfgang Iser
Discuss the relationship between a text and its reader(s) in ONE of the literary texts you have studied over the course of the module. You should reference at least TWO of the critical texts to make your arguments.
Does Food Advertising Encourage Healthy or Unhealthy Eating? Is it Always Truthful and Ethical?
Example of students speaking and listening presentation
Includes presentation notes
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Inspector Calls Sheila Exam question exemplar response - PDF download
Ideal for students to critic for revision
Includes extract from Inspector Calls
Question - Write about Sheila Birling and how she is presented at different points in the play. In your response
you should:
refer to the extract and the play as a whole.
show your understanding of characters and events in the play.
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Overview
New Criticism
Flashforward to T. S. Eliot
Flashback to I. A. Richards (and the Russian Formalists)
Against Paraphrase
Total Meaning
Irony
Democracy, Reality, Ambiguity
Walt Whitman, Song of Myself (1892)
Close Reading
Agrarianism and New Criticism
The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism
New Criticism: Literary Modernism and Social Change
John Crowe Ransom vs. Shakespeare
Rereading Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Sonnet XXXIII
After the New Criticism
Resource 1 - Word Document Download - Student Exemplar for descriptive writing - Graveyard - Ideal for students to critic
Resource 2 - PDF Download - Worksheet: Peer Assessing Descriptive Writing
Instructions:
In this worksheet, you will practice peer assessing descriptive writing. Follow the instructions for each activity carefully, and use the provided questions to guide your assessment. Remember to provide constructive feedback to your peers. Read the reflection questions at the end to think about your own learning and growth.
Materials Needed:
• Pen or pencil
• Descriptive writing samples from your classmates/examples provided
Resource 3 - PDF Download - A DESCRIPTION OF BEAUTIFUL SCENERY Handlout contains adjectives, focusing on the 5 senses and similes and metaphors
Report Writing Lesson
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Ideal for lower ability students
Covers the following:
Non- chronological report texts
Report Genres
Purpose and Needs of report writing
Audience
Planning and organising reports
Report Language features
Generalised Language and Technical Language
Alternative note taking frameworks
Examplar of report writing (Butterflies)
Step-by-step planning process.
Writing Instructions
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Topics covered:
What is an instruction text?
Types of Instruction Texts
Instruction Text – Needs and Purpose
Instruction Writing – Audience
How to plan instruction writing
Organising instruction texts
Instruction language features
Third person instructions
Alternative note taking frameworks
Instruction Example - Papier Mache Bowl
Overview of planning – Papier Mache Bowl
Writing to Persuade
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Topics covered:
What is a persuasive text?
Types of persuasive texts
Persuasive texts needs and purpose
Persuasive Writing – Audience
Planning Persuasive Writing
Elaborating a point
Persuasive Language Features
AFOREST
Alternative note-taking frameworks
Example - Mary Queen of Scots
Analysis of the planning for Mary Queen of Scots exemplar
Ideal for low ability students
Sonnet 43 Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Covers the following topics:
Who is Elizabeth Barrett Browning?
What is Sonnet 43 about?
Elizabeth and Robert Barrett Browning
What defines a sonnet?
Publication
Structure
Themes
The Speaker
Full Poem Analysis
Symbolism
Exam style Question
Macbeth Act One
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Designed for lower ability students - Macbeth introduction
Topics covered -
Introduction to Macbeth
Act 1 Plot Summary
Shakespearean Language
Characters in Act One
Three Witches
Macbeth’s character development in Act One
Characters: Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
Themes: Ambition and Power
Language and Imagery
Symbolism: Blood
Setting: Scotland
Motifs: Sleep
Conflict: Macbeth and Macduff
Conclusion
London - William Blake
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Topics Covered
Who is William Blake
London 18th Century vs Modern London
What is the poem ‘London’ about?
Publication
Context – The French Revolution
Structure of the Poem ‘London’
Analysis – Stanza One
Stanza One - Summary
Analysis – Stanza Two
Stanza Two - Summary
What is capitalisation
Analysis - Stanza Three
Summary of Stanza Three
Analysis - Stanza Four
Summary of Stanza Four
Themes
Exam Style Question
Writing to explain lesson
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Topics covered:
What is an explanation text?
Examples of explanation texts
Needs and Purposes of explanation texts
The Audience
Planning and organizing explanation texts
Language features
Impersonal Writing
Alternative Frameworks
Example of explanation writing
Uses diagrams as visual aids
Ideal for lower ability students
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Ideal for cover lessons
A Journeys End
Variety of tasks and questions
Answer sheet provided for easy marking
Understanding of the character of Stanhope in the play A Journeys End by R.C Sherriff Worksheet
Exploring the Character of Osborne in A Journeys End by R.C Sherriff worksheet
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Ideal for cover lessons
A Journeys End
Variety of tasks and questions
Answer sheet provided for easy marking
Exploring the Character of Raleigh in A Journeys End worksheet
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Ideal for cover lessons
A Journeys End
Variety of tasks and questions
Answer sheet provided for easy marking
Exploring the Character of Eric Birling in “Inspector Calls” worksheets
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Ideal for cover lessons
Inspector Calls
Variety of tasks and questions
Answer sheet provided for easy marking
Exploring the Character of Sheila Birling in Inspector Calls worksheet
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Ideal for cover lessons
Inspector Calls
Variety of tasks and questions
Answer sheet provided for easy marking