I have published a few podcasts to help students revise ‘Doctor Faustus’: Marlowe and the original story: https://sophietoovey.podbean.com/e/faustus-lesson-part-1-original-legend-and-marlowe/ The Reformation and religious context: https://sophietoovey.podbean.com/e/faustus-lesson-part-2-the-reformation/ Greek tragedy: https://sophietoovey.podbean.com/e/faustus-lesson-part-3-greek-tragedy/ These are on my channel https://sophietoovey.podbean.com - students can download them for free.

I’m preparing to teach North and South for the first time and creating podcasts and study vlogs which hopefully students will find useful. The podcast series has chapter-by-chapter commentaries and a few topical podcasts about the Victorian era and Margaret as a subversive heroine. https://sophietoovey.podbean.com/ The study vlog starts by looking at Patsy Stoneman’s feminist reading of the novel, looking at the intersection of class and gender. I’ve also uploaded a document about the Victorian crisis of faith (to accompany the podcast) and a compilation of past paper questions with mark scheme comments from the chief examiner.

I am using Podbean to post revision podcasts for my GCSE Literature class; it is free to use and free to download. Topics include: -Racism, prejudice and justice Character essays with Scout as a worked example How to plan an essay Religion Boo Radley Context Chapter summaries [https://sophietoovey.podbean.com/] https://sophietoovey.podbean.com/

These are resources I created for my Year7 class to teach them how to summarise and then give them a scaffolded persuasive ‘real life’ writing task of writing a letter to a soft drink company to persuade them to support the Deposit Return Scheme of plastic bottles. There is an article about companies lobbying the Government to delay the DRS which students summarise in sections.

This PowerPoint contains extracts from websites with details of contextual significance to To Kill a Mockingbird, explaining why lynch mobs were common in relation to sexual crimes in the South. It also contains extracts from the text and Chapter 15, where the potential lynch mob arrive at Maycomb jail, for analysis of the Gothic parody and the increase in tension.

An article about the ‘Critics’ Club’ with a summarise and explain question, then a choice of three writing tasks. Suits candidates aiming for A-A*. Accompanying PPT to help.

Created using a school template for use with my Year 10 class to reflect upon what they have learned across lessons that week.

A sheet to introduce reading a bar chart and practising GCSE style find and locate questions, explain, and text purpose.

This resource is a ‘how’ question for GCSE students and I actually used it with a class who were only sitting Language, but reading one of the Literature texts alongside the course. The Powerpoint breaks down how to annotate and then use P.E.E to build an answer, and includes self assessment.

Two articles, one about getting people interested in National Parks, the other a teacher’s blog post about an outdoor pursuits school trip. There are a range of GCSE style questions, including find and locate information, verbal reasoning, explain, how and comparison. Accompanying Powerpoint with one model answer ‘explain’ and a table to help students prepare for the comparison. Peer/self assessment with GCSE style marking criteria.

This is a short unit of work aimed at Year 7 (Level 4-5). There is a bank of proofreading tasks which work as starters, and a Powerpoint which goes through reading and annotating the article before students write about how the text makes cadets attractive to young people using a P.E.E. grid, paragraph scaffold and then independently. There is also a short version of the article for those working at Level 3. I have also included in the Powerpoint some DIRT work, a differentiated spelling list, and a vocabulary extension task.

Two extracts from ‘The Bourne Identity’ , each with a ‘How does the writer create tension’ question, and an accompanying Powerpoint to help students annotate and look for devices.

This is a simple idea for a classroom/corridor display to inspire secondary school reading. I’ve collected images of book covers onto a Word document to be printed in colour then cut down to size, mounted and laminated for display, in a layered effect. I’ve included children’s classics, adult classics, YA fiction, Middle-grade fiction, and tried to reflect a wide range of genres.

Work out which numbers represent which letters and learn about Shakespeare, the Globe theatre and key facts about the famous playwright. Includes pictures and an extract from Bill Bryson’s ‘Shakespeare’.

This is a one-page tip sheet for students to give them pointers on how to revise for GCSE Literature. Includes things such as learning quotes, going back over classwork, making essay plans, being familiar with Assessment Objectives.

These proof-reading starters were created by a MAT Year 7 group. They were each given a section of ‘Treasure Island’ chapter 3 and asked to create 10 errors, then list at the bottom a key for what to look for eg. 3x spelling errors, 1x full stop. I have used these as starters for Key Stage 3 classes.

I created this for a Year 9 group to start preparing them for GCSE style comparison questions. The ‘David Copperfield’ extracts have questions which require them to use P.E.E. and inference, to answer in developed paragraphs. The extract from ‘Holes’ can then be introduced for comparison purposes.

I created this mock examination based on WJEC GCSE Literature syllabus for a MAT Year 10 group. The unit includes the mock, and then two PPTs which give an ideal template for giving whole class feedback afterwards, and two student sample paragraphs to ‘close the gap’ on their use of AO2. I have also included an annotated version of the extract for going through with the class after the mock, and a student’s 10/10 extract response.

This is a bundle of resources created for a GCSE English Language class. The topic is sport and has a particular focus on women in sport. There are two articles to use for synthesis practice (Jasmin Paris and the Montane spine race and Female sports stars should earn the same) with an accompanying PPT. There is a writing stimulus with an article about JD sports sexism row, with a writing task of a ‘lively article’. There are GCSE style questions and two contrasting texts which discuss the upcoming Olympics in Tokyo 2020, for comparison work. And there is a mock-style paper about women in sport with two texts, some practise questions, and an accompanying mark scheme.

Created by students, each slide gives key points and quotes exploring a theme in Doctor Faustus. Themes include magic and the supernatural, blood, salvation, good vs evil, social status.