To Kill A Mockingbird - Chapter 1 - 9.
This booklet is designed to support a scheme as either a complementary homework booklet or for use in the classroom to aid with resourcing alongside the text.
It contains tasks for each chapter, links to resources and audio files.
It is fully interactive and can be given to a student to keep as a digital homework file.
A set of slides designed to guide the students through the acts.
Each slide includes a key quote and 4 prompts to foster thinking and aid memory recall.
The slides are also designing to help students think about the narrative from alternate perspectives.
Finally - the resource includes an aid to assist with the development of an analytical paragraph giving opportunity for self reflection and peer marking.
This resource has been designed to take students step by step through a Part B response in the Edexcel Literature paper.
This focused specifically on violence in Jekyll and Hyde but can be adapted to suit any theme very easily.
I will attach a PDF document and an editable document for you to use with your classes.
Edexcel Exam Response Practice.
Did George have a choice? Was what he did meaningful? How do we now see Curley’s wife?
These are all the questions this lesson will take you through. With a series of engaging activites including hot seating tasks, extract analysis and class discussions.
This lesson is engaging and exciting with a bid to allow students to connect to the characters on an emotional level and understand what they might really be feeing.
I have also including an element of contextual analysis - students can see how expectations on a characters response might have differed.
This is one/two lessons depending on class ability.
This resource is an interactive booklet that has been portioned out over 3 lessons.
Each lesson can be completed within the booklet either online or in lesson on paper.
Learning Aim
To be able to organise information and ideas and present confidently to an audience (AO5) English Language.
This is acheived through a fun and interactive sales pitch. Incorporating all the key elements required of the student and aiding them in the structural develop of their answers.
Jekyll and Hyde - Last Night Work Booklet
Main focus: To understand how Stevenson creates atmosphere at the start of the chapter
This is a bespoke work booklet created to guide students through ‘The Last Night’ chapter in Jekyll and Hyde.
This is based around Edexcel and their marking criteria.
The booklet is in an A4 print friendly format with areas dedicated to write.
It is also digital and can be shared with students on Google Classroom or other platforms.
The Tempest - Act 4 (Prospero Focus)
When I taught this I split it over 3 lessons due to the ability of my group.
The lesson covers a summary of the act, offers the opportunity to act it then focuses on very specific language choices made by Shakespeare.
The final lesson focuses on an evaluative question.
A breakdown of the non-fiction edexcel language paper.
This looks at:
The time students should allocate to each question
The amount of marks offered for each question
Approaches to writing and answering the questions.
An extract based example with a quote breakdown to guide the students
This lesson is designed to prepare the students to be able to confidently approach edexcel language paper - non fiction.
This can be applied to alternate extracts however a specific example is given.
A captivating lesson that explores villains over a variety of texts and films. Exploring a multitude of genres and cross examining each to understand the principals of forming an archetype.
This is a single lesson potentially two depending on ability and has several interactive tasks (Individual and group) to engage the class and get them thinking creatively.
To explore the portrayal of villains and their archetypes across a variety of texts.
This is a guide through a Dystopian story.
The guide will begin in the initial planning phase and foster the thinking of the students.
It will guide them through different perspectives on dystopian fiction and give direction to an informative video.
The booklet will then get the student’s looking at how society is developed and how in a dystopian world this construct falls apart.
Ultimatley this all comes together to give the students enough knowledge to produce an excellent, well informed piece of creative writing.
Shylock - Understanding the Villain
A sequence of lessons that guides students through the development of Shylocks character in The Merchant of Venice.
Looking at his actions throughout the play and considering different elements of social context.
The lessons will then aid the students in creating a speech from the perspective of Shylock.