I provide resources mainly for English (IGCSE and GCSE content), but also post useful Drama resources. There are also brand new English-with-Media resources to choose from, and many materials such as assemblies and certificates that could prove useful to Head of Years. All resources are differentiated appropriately and labelled with key year groups.
I provide resources mainly for English (IGCSE and GCSE content), but also post useful Drama resources. There are also brand new English-with-Media resources to choose from, and many materials such as assemblies and certificates that could prove useful to Head of Years. All resources are differentiated appropriately and labelled with key year groups.
This sheet includes everything students will need in revising the character of Mr. Birling in AIC
Side one: Quote analysis
Side two: Contextual and thematic analysis, as well as space to find key vocabulary and write essay-openers using frames provided.
This sheet includes everything students will need in revising the character of Mrs. Birling in AIC
Side one: Quote analysis
Side two: Contextual and thematic analysis, as well as space to find key vocabulary and write essay-openers using frames provided.
This lesson focuses on tracking events in a text (excerpt from The White Tiger) in order to prepare students for answering language paper 1 question 3.
A differentiated KS3 lesson on an extract of The Maze Runner.
This 8 slide lesson focuses on:
INFERENCE SKILLS
ADVANCING STUDENT VOCABULARY
EVIDENCING UNDERSTANDING OF GENRE
LOCATING LANGUAGE AND STRUCTURAL TECHNIQUES
Two sided student resource also included.
For further instructions and teacher help, please view the preview pdf, also attached!
Lesson 1: This lesson is essentially a context lesson. To prepare Year 10 students for a mock paper (past paper 12, IGCSE 2020 June), this lesson will introduce students to the background of the play, the key events and characters, and give them the opportunity to predict and analyze some themes of the play.
Lesson 2: In this lesson, students will perform the whole of Act 1 (timed at around 33 minutes if the reading is slow), and have some time left for a starter, and a main character analysis task.
Lesson 3: This lesson gives students the chance to act out Act 2 of Dara, and answer some component 1, section A style questions in preparation for their mock exam (the June 2020 Paper 12).
Lesson 4: In this lesson, students will act out Act 3 of ‘Dara’, and answer IGCSE Section A style questions at the end. They will contemplate the staging of certain scenes, and the changing relationships between characters - in particular, the relationship between Dara and Aurangzeb.
Lesson 5: This lesson focuses on the events and key themes in Act 4 of the play Dara. After reading the act in its entirety, students will have the chance to answer some comprehension questions, and reflect on the way they would stage the execution scene.
Lesson 6: This lesson focuses on the final act of the play Dara. The students will read the play, and then answer a series of comprehension questions, and one IGCSE style long answer question. The final slide will have students reflecting on their own feelings about the ending, and the change in Aurangzeb’s character between scenes 1 and 2.
Lesson 7: This assessment prep lesson includes a link to the IGCSE past paper that the assessment will be based on, (only section A) and a preparation lesson explaining to students how to best tackle Section A questions. I’ve chosen to only test my students on Section A, but this preparation lesson could help with Section B as well. This also includes a student assessment reflection sheet for when you give back their marked work.
Lesson 8: Assessment lesson (no lesson for this, but the assessment paper is linked in the assessment prep lesson
Lesson 9: Students will receive back their graded papers, and complete the reflection sheet in purple pen (attached in assessment prep lesson)
This Jekyll and Hyde context lesson introduces the students to the idea of nature versus nurture, and applies Freudian theory (Id, ego and superego) to the story.
This Romeo and Juliet lesson focuses on the relationship between Capulet and Juliet, and how the patriarchal systems of the time served as a catalyst for the final events of the play.
Lesson 1: Intro to Dystopian Environments
Lesson 2: Dystopian Character Archetypes
Lesson 3: The Context behind Dystopia
Lesson 4: Analyzing the Setting of 1984
Lesson 5: Analyzing the Character of O’Brien in 1984
Lesson 6: The Key Dystopian Concepts of 1984
Lesson 7: Intro to A Handmaid’s Tale
Lesson 8: Horrors of Gilead – HMT
Lesson 9: Aunt Lydia Analysis - HMT
Lesson 10: Intro to the Hunger Games
Lesson 11: President Snow Analysis
Lesson 12: Revolution & Rebellion in The Hunger Games
This sheet includes everything students will need in revising the character of Eric in AIC
Side one: Quote analysis
Side two: contextual and thematic analysis, as well as space to find key vocabulary and write essay-openers using frames provided.
This lesson follows a context lesson (also available in my shop), and helps the students to analyze key techniques and ideas through specific questioning.
This lesson introduces some key themes of the poem (industrial revolution, strict rules and punishments, monotony). It also allows the students to understand a bit of the context behind the poem, and the feelings of restriction and helplessness that inspired George Elliot (or Mary Evans) to write this poem.
As Head of Year, you have probably notice that two things are often lacking in the cohort: punctuality and good manners! This assembly offers some key reminders and acts as a sort-of behaviour reset.
This lesson will teach students:
What a ‘TED Talk’ is.
How to differentiate between good and bad public speaking
How to review a TED Talk for persuasive devices
How to plan their own TED Talk
This lesson was for my intervention year 7 group, and therefore is very scaffolded. This would easily work for a year 5 or 6 class.
This lesson includes:
Introduction to connotations
Finding connotations of the word ‘romanticism’
Finding inferences in images of the Industrial Revolution, and the natural world
A fact-file activity with matching resources
This lesson will give students an understanding of subjugation as a concept, and will allow students to detect evidence of government subjugation in an extract of ‘The Hunger Games’. After they have completed some analysis questions, students will be writing their own ‘choosing ceremony’ scene, and peer-reviewing each other’s creative efforts at the end.
This sheet includes everything students will need in revising the character of Sheila in AIC
Side one: Quote analysis
Side two: contextual and thematic analysis, as well as space to find key vocabulary and write essay-openers using frames provided.
If you are currently teaching in the UAE, you might benefit from these 3 lessons on the upcoming National Day. Keep the students busy with fun activities, and a mini history lesson on the UAE, and National Day!
This teacher feedback sheet is separated into 2 sections for physicality and vocality- WWW and EBI. All you as a teacher have to do is highlight the correct sections - and the student work is marked!
This lesson can be used for mid-top set KS4, used as a double lesson or simplified/split in two for a single hour lesson. Includes how to analyse personal pronouns, concrete and abstract nouns, and Mrs Birling/The Inspector’s use of superlative adjectives. Great way to push your students to conduct some deeper analysis of the text. Lots of visual aid (videos), differentiation (challenge activities), example analysis and comparative essay sentence starters. Hope you find this useful!
