I provide high quality, tried and tested materials, developed over 17 years of teaching KS3-5. There is material to support G3/4 students as well as material to push for G8 and G9s.
I provide high quality, tried and tested materials, developed over 17 years of teaching KS3-5. There is material to support G3/4 students as well as material to push for G8 and G9s.
This scheme of work focuses on The Handmaid’s Tale at A-level. It contains 28 lessons that allow slow progression through the text, allowing opportunities for analysis and critical thinking. It is fully resourced and comes with worksheets, videos, notes, example essays and critical articles. It is particularly in depth for high achieving students, looking at post-modern concepts such as metafiction and the unreliable narrator. Each lesson focuses on different aspects of the text such as:
why Gilead could come true
the epigraphs
identity
feminist arguments
the irony of Serena Joy
class hierarchy
rebellion
oppression
the role of the mother in society
the female body
use of colour imagery
masculinity
the role of religion
Everything you need to revise Unseen Poetry at KS4. This unit of work is focused on AQA Paper 2 for English Literature. It includes 12 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, exemplar answers, IWB interactive resources using SMART Notebook, quizzes, activities to exploit drama and examiner advice. This unit is best if you have already taught the skills for Unseen Poetry and are revising just before the exam.
Lesson 1: Analysing a Child’s Sleep by Carol Ann Duffy
Lesson 2: Comparing A Child’s Sleep with The Night Feed by Evan Bolan
Lesson 3: Analysing Rejection by Jenny Sullivan
Lesson 4: Comparing Rejection with Years Ago by Elizabeth Jennings
Lesson 5: Analysing Tramp by Rupert Loydell
Lesson 6: Comparing Tramp with Decomposition by Zulfikar Ghose
Lesson 7: Analysing I See You Dancing, Father
Lesson 8: Comparing I See You Dancing with Coat
Lesson 9: Analysing Woman Work by Maya Angelou
Lesson 10: Comparing Woman Work with County Sligo by Gillian Clarke
Lesson 11: Analysing Yew Tree Guest House by Phoebe Hesketh
Lesson 12: Comparing Yew Tree with Goodwill Store by Ted Kooser
This unit of work has been designed to support students who are preparing for their AQA individual speaking and listening presentation. There are 12 lessons which take students through the brainstorming, structure, planning, writing and speaking stage. There is an emphasis on stress and intonation so students speak naturally, use sophisticated language and access the ‘distinction’ band.
Lesson 1: An introduction to public speaking
Lesson 2: How to grade a speech: pass, merit or distinction?
Lesson 3: How to plan your speech
Lesson 4: Online research
Lesson 5: How to write an introduction
Lesson 6: How to write the main body of the speech
Lesson 7: Editing the main body of the speech
Lesson 8: How to end with a BANG!
Lesson 9: Using body language, stress and intonation
Lesson 10: Using cue cards
Lesson 11: Practising and giving peer to peer feedback
Lesson 12: Delivering your speech to the class
Ideally for KS3 students, this unit of work has been designed to teach students the skills to analyse a variety of texts, and form an opinion on different topics that affect teenagers. There are 16 lessons which allow students to explore topics such as: perceptions of teenagers, graffiti, school shootings, anti social behaviour orders, gang violence, computer games and negative press coverage. It is fully resourced with ppts, articles, podcasts, storyboards and assessment opportunities.
Lesson 1: Perceptions of youth culture
Lesson 2: Is graffiti a form of art?
Lesson 3: School shootings
Lesson 4: anti social behaviour orders - do they work?
Lesson 5: gang violence
Lesson 6: the influence of computer games
Lesson 7: fighting back through charity work
Lesson 8: negative stereotypes in the press
Lesson 9: YouTube challenge
Lesson 10: writing a speech on knife or gun crime
Lesson 11: Fallout
Lesson 12: an open letter by Lennie James to stop the violence
Lesson 13: Gang violence in The Outsiders
Lesson 14: Designing an anti violence poster
Lesson 15: Writing your commentary
Lesson 16: Panorama video reward
This unit is designed to give Year 9 students an introduction to Charles Dickens and other Victorian Writers at KS3. It includes extracts from Dombey and Son, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and more. This is perfect for introducing KS3 students to the skills they will need for their GCSE course and the context for Victorian Literature. The 14 lessons are fully resourced with extracts, contextual information, quizzes, gap fills and exemplar answers.
Lesson 1: The plot of Dombey and Son
Lesson 2: Analysing an extract
Lesson 3: Formative assessment
Lesson 4: Language to describe Victorian London
Lesson 5: The Dining Hall in Oliver Twist
Lesson 6: Victorian Women
Lesson 7: Lowood in Jane Eyre
Lesson 8: Miss Temple from Jane Eyre
Lesson 9: Mr Creakle from David Copperfield
Lesson 10: Describing characters
Lesson 11: Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights
Lesson 12: Comparing childhoods in Wuthering Heights and David Copperfield
Lesson 13: Comparing teachers in Jane Eyre and David Copperfield
Lesson 14: Assessment
Encourage students to stand up for their rights, using their language skills to influence the world.
This unit is ideally for KS3 students. It has been designed to teach the skills to write a formal letter of complaint by opposing the development of a theme park in the local area. There are 17 lessons which examine the layout of a letter as well as formal phrases to use. It is fully resourced with PowerPoints, brochures, theme park maps, persuasive adverts and debate cards.
Lesson 1: Language to advertise
Lesson 2: Holiday brochures
Lesson 3: Advertising theme parks
Lesson 4: Descriptive Writing
Lesson 5: Online holiday webquest
Lesson 6: Holidays gone wrong!
Lesson 7: Writing a letter of complaint
Lesson 8: Writing an application letter
Lesson 9: Evaluating a theme park leaflet
Lesson 10: Evaluating a website
Lesson 11: Designing a theme park
Lesson 12: Theme park debate
Lesson 13: Theme park poetry
Lesson 14: Theme park letter of complaint
Lesson 15: Theme park TV advert
Lesson 16: Plan your assessment
Lesson 17: Write your assessment
This unit contains everything you need to teach War Poetry at KS3. It gives a balanced view of patriotic poems that glorify war (Brooke and Pope) with more realistic poems from the front line (Sassoon and Owen). This unit of work is focused on preparing students for a final poetry assessment, whilst fostering a love of poetry. It includes 17 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar material, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, original redrafts and opportunities for online research.
Lesson 1: Context reading
Lesson 2: Poet online research
Lesson 3: Rhythm and rhyme in poetry
Lesson 4: Poetic techniques
Lesson 5: Techniques review
Lesson 6: Write your own war poem
Lesson 7: Anthem for Doomed Youth
Lesson 8: The Charge of the Light Brigade
Lesson 9: Base Details
Lesson 10: A Remembrance Tale
Lesson 11: Dulce et Decorum Est
Lesson 12: The Hero
Lesson 13: Who’s for the game?
Lesson 14: The Soldier
Lesson 15: Explosure
Lesson 16: Assessment Preparation
Lesson 17: Write your assessment
Do you need your students to have an overview of English Literature canon? From Beowulf to The Bard?
This unit of work is dedicated to the progress of language from Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare and The Romantics to modern day speakers like Muhammad Ali and Malala Jusef . This unit works well with mid to high ability KS3 students, and could serve as a basic introduction to language change. It is fully resourced with extracts, gap fills, cartoon strips, timeline sorts, games and drag and drop activities.
Lesson 1: Timeline of English Literature
Lesson 2: The origins of English
Lesson 3: English pronunciation
Lesson 4: The Romantics
Lesson 5-7: Beowulf
Lesson 8: The Magna Carta
Lesson 9: The Wife of Bath by Chaucer
Lesson 10: Write your own Canterbury Tale
Lesson 11: Shakespearean Language
Lesson 12: The Witches in Macbeth
Lesson 13: The Great Fire of London
Lesson 14: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Lesson 15: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Lesson 16: JFK speeches
Lesson 17: Muhammad Ali speeches
Lesson 18: I am Malala
Lesson 19: Emma Watson’s speech on feminism
This scheme of work uses the superhero genre to engage lower achieving students, culminating in writing a formal film review. It works well with low to mid ability KS3 students and could appeal to boy heavy groups. The 14 lesson unit looks at the content and structure of a film review and supports their writing in the final assessment. It is fully resourced with superhero review exemplars, jigsaw readings, quizzes, crosswords and essay frames.
Lesson 1: Designing your own superhero
Lesson 2: Turning this into a comic strip
Lesson 3: Making a superhero movie using online software
Lesson 4: Superhero Origins
Lesson 5: Designing a poster for your film
Lesson 6: Film pitch planning
Lesson 7: Pitching your film to the critics
Lesson 8: Fantastic 4 Review
Lesson 9: X-men review
Lesson 10: Pirates of the Caribbean review
Lesson 11-12: Watching and evaluating a superhero film
Lesson 13: Writing your film review
Lesson 14: Top Trumps
This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to help students who need extra support at KS3 with their grammar. It gives an overview of the skills needed to access the curriculum. Each lesson is specialised to target a specific area such as grammar, language or context. This unit works well with small support groups and comes with an easy-to-follow workbook.
Lesson 1: Using apostrophes
Lesson 2: Being ambitious with vocabulary
Lesson 3: Describing an alien planet
Lesson 4: Using your imagination
Lesson 5: Narrative hooks
Lesson 6: Punctuation
Lesson 7: Holiday writing
This Literacy Support unit has been created to support students who need extra help at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3, such as creating characters and structuring stories. Each unit of work comes with 6 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups.
Lesson 1: Captain Murderer by Charles Dickens
Lesson 2: Creating an original voice
Lesson 3: How writers set the scene
Lesson 4: Zooming in and out in descriptive writing
Lesson 5: Using metaphor and similes
Lesson 6: Creating original characters
This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3. Each unit of work is specialised to target a specific area of the KS3 curriculum such as writing to persuade, advise and argue. Each unit of work comes with 6 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups.
Lesson 1: Creating characters with depth
Lesson 2: Writing to argue
Lesson 3: Writing a film review
Lesson 4: Writing a letter of complaint
Lesson 5: How to structure a story
Lesson 6: Writing to advise
This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3 with Romeo and Juliet. It gives an overview of the skills and themes needed to access Shakespeare. Each unit of work is specialised to target a specific area of the KS3 curriculum such as Shakespearean language and context. Each unit of work comes with 8 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups.
Lesson 1: Accessing Shakespeare’s language
Lesson 2: Costume design
Lesson 3: Plot and key quotes
Lesson 4: Exploring parent and child relationships
Lesson 5: Writing a magazine article on the Capulet Ball
Lesson 6: Evaluating who is to blame
Lesson 7: Plot quiz
Lesson 8: Grammar
This Literacy Support unit has been created to support students’ spelling and grammar at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills needed to be successful at KS3. Each unit of work comes with 6 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups.
Lesson 1: Using capital letters
Lesson 2: Writing a summary
Lesson 3: Improving your vocabulary
Lesson 4: Similes and metaphors
Lesson 5: Using persuasive devices
Lesson 6: Writing to argue
This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3. This unit of work is specialised to target travel articles and diaries, with both reading and writing skills, and works well with small support groups.
This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support with poetry at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills and themes needed, such as writer’s use of language and voice, poetic techniques and rhythm. Each unit of work comes with 6 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups.
Lesson 1: Poetic techniques
Lesson 2: Synonyms in Autumn by John Keats
Lesson 3: Rhythm in Sonny’s Lettah by Linton Kwesi Johnson
Lesson 4: Voice in Hitcher by Simon Armitage
Lesson 5: Style in Kid by Simon Armitage
Lesson 6: Originality in Talking Turkeys by Benjamin Zephaniah
This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3 with Shakespearean language. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3, such as the writer’s use of language and structure, an introduction to famous plays and extract analysis. Each unit of work comes with 7 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups.
Lesson 1: How to embed context
Lesson 2: Attitudes in Taming of the Shrew
Lesson 3: Analysing staging on Othello
Lesson 4: Form, rhythm and rhyme in Sonnet 130
Lesson 5: Rhythm in Macbeth
Lesson 6: Forming a hypothesis in Hamlet
Lesson 7: Analysing persuasive devices in Henry V
This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3 with Victorian Literature. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3, such as writer’s use of language and structure, extract analysis and embedding context. There is a workbook for the students to use alongside the lesson PowerPoints.
Lesson 1: How to create characters with depth
Lesson 2: Narrative Voice in Sherlock Holmes
Lesson 3: Planning and writing a detective story
Lesson 4: How the writer creates mood and atmosphere in Hard Times
Lesson 5: Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times
Lesson 6: Victorian context webquest
Lesson 7: The Ghosts in Christmas Carol
This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3, such as writer’s use of language and structure, how to open a story, narrative tenses and scanning for detail. It contains a workbook for students to work thought alongside the lesson PowerPoints.
Lesson 1: Unique voice in Captain Murderer by Charles Dickens
Lesson 2: Creative writing using a unique voice
Lesson 3: How to write an effective opening
Lesson 4: Verb changes in Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Lesson 5: Skimming and Scanning
Lesson 6: Show don’t tell
Lesson 7: How to create characters
Lesson 8: How to start your descriptive sentences
A unit of work dedicated to poetry that explores the natural world. It includes 19 lessons with activities to help students comment on the effect of language techniques, comparison and contextual research opportunities on the British poets. It is fully resourced with fun facts, quizzes, support notes, essay frames and creative writing opportunities. The lessons cover a range of subjects such as poetic techniques, rhythm and rhyme in conjunction with with poems by: Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Lord Tennyson, William Blake and many more.
Lesson 1: Poetic techniques
Lesson 2: Poetic techniques review
Lesson 3: How poets use rhythm
Lesson 4: The Eagle by Tennyson
Lesson 5: The Jaguar by Ted Hughes
Lesson 6: The Tyger by William Blake
Lesson 7: The Hyena by Edwin Morgan
Lesson 8: View of a Pig by Ted Hughes
Lesson 9: Sonnet by John Clare
Lesson 10: Spring by Hopkins
Lesson 11: Daffodils by William Wordsworth
Lesson 12: Inversnaid by Hopkins
Lesson 13: Little Trotty Wagtail by John Clare
Lesson 14: Seamus Heaney research
Lesson 15: Death of a Naturalist by Heaney
Lesson 16: Blackberry Picking by Heaney
Lesson 17: Planning your assessment
Lesson 18: Writing your assessment
Lesson 19: Assessment feedback