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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.

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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.
Language Paper 1 Question 2 Lesson: The Kite Runner
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Language Paper 1 Question 2 Lesson: The Kite Runner

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This lesson is the fourth in a scheme of work on GCSE skills - however, it can easily stand alone. This lesson allows students to study a section of The Kite Runner, and analyse any techniques they find. At the end, students will produce a question 2 style response.
GCSE Skills: Language Paper 1 Question 1 Lesson
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GCSE Skills: Language Paper 1 Question 1 Lesson

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This lesson introduces students to Paper 1, Question 1. This lesson also allows students to practice their identification and creative writing skills, as they write their own sample Question Ones (complete with sources) for each other.
Drama (Devising): Tragedy
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Drama (Devising): Tragedy

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In this lesson, students will be planning a tragic piece of theatre, using art as a stimulus. This lesson involves freezeframing, inference skills, and planning not only plot, but set design.
Call of The Wild Chapter 4 Lesson
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Call of The Wild Chapter 4 Lesson

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This lesson includes interesting discussions about ancestry and heritage, a character tracking table, comprehension questions, a creative writing task, and an option for a reflective purple pen plenary.
Commedia Dell'Arte Lesson: Practice
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Commedia Dell'Arte Lesson: Practice

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This lesson should come after an initial introduction to comedy, and Commedia Dell’Arte. This lesson explores the four key character types of Commedia, with a key focus on the ‘master’ and the ‘servant’. Students will analyse their physicality, and then attempt to emulate it in an improvised performance.
Drama Devising Lesson: Perspective
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Drama Devising Lesson: Perspective

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This lesson focuses on how perspective can alter scriptwriting. Students will learn key terms, practice freeze-frames and scriptwriting, and perform in front of the class. At the end, students will have a chance to review their own work.
Frankenstein and Transgression
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Frankenstein and Transgression

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Topic: Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’, cultural anxieties and how they affect literature, transgressive science. Lesson including resource, word of the week (transgression), key concepts and structured analysis.
Analysing an Essay Lesson
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Analysing an Essay Lesson

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An excellent, high level lesson on critical analysis, with a focus on Albert Camus’ ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’. Perfect for a non-fiction SOW. Key concepts include: Existentialsm, futility, absurdism and nihilism. Key technique focused on: Extended metaphor
Researching Articles Lesson
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Researching Articles Lesson

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This lesson is for KS4 students preparing to write their own analytical response in essay form. However, this gives them even more freedom and independence by asking them to find their sources, and formulate their own essay questions.
Conversational Writing Lesson
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Conversational Writing Lesson

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Topic: Debates in Science - how far is too far? Resource: A conversation between two female scientists about the ethics of ‘designer babies’ Task: Construct a conversational piece, using the resource as inspiration. Resources included
Dystopian verb choices (worksheet)
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Dystopian verb choices (worksheet)

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Using this worksheet the class will be able to prepare for creating a Dystopian world of their own (search creating a dystopia worksheet) by collecting and practicing using ‘dystopian verbs’. Suitable for KS3, low-mid ability.
Wellbeing PSHE Bundle (4 sessions)
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Wellbeing PSHE Bundle (4 sessions)

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4 PSHE lessons on wellbeing. The focus is mental health, becoming mindful, learning how to identify and control emotions, and learning how to deal with cyberbullying.
10 Lesson Dystopia SOW (With 2 HW sheets)
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10 Lesson Dystopia SOW (With 2 HW sheets)

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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 Homework Sheet 1: Creating a Dystopia Worksheet Homework Sheet 2: Dystopian Verbs
Drama: 'Dara' Context and Act 1-2
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Drama: 'Dara' Context and Act 1-2

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These 3 lessons allow students to understand the context behind the play ‘Dara’, and act out the first two scenes of play. Students will also be trained to answer GCSE style questions/complete analysis tasks in order to prepare for a component 1 paper (the 2020 Cambridge IGCSE past paper).