I strive to make my resources fully teachable from the moment you download them. We are in a very busy profession and sometimes just need to able to able to access something that we can trust and use right away!
I've been a fully qualified secondary school teacher for four years and began my teaching career at a challenging, although rewarding, mixed non-selective school in a grammar area. I now work as head of KS3 English at a high achieving boys grammar school.
I strive to make my resources fully teachable from the moment you download them. We are in a very busy profession and sometimes just need to able to able to access something that we can trust and use right away!
I've been a fully qualified secondary school teacher for four years and began my teaching career at a challenging, although rewarding, mixed non-selective school in a grammar area. I now work as head of KS3 English at a high achieving boys grammar school.
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This resource takes students through some of the techniques used in Gothic writing (e.g. pathetic fallacy, descriptions of monsters) and uses notable Gothic texts to model. It also demonstrates how to hook a reader by inviting students to analyse a series of Gothic openings, and to write their own.
This quiz can be used for a whole lesson after the study of 'Of Mice and Men.' It includes a number of different rounds including picture rounds, character questions and quote-based questions too. It is varied, fun and my class loved it! Team sheets also included.
Sets of lessons organised into themes to teach ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ as stand-alone text or as part of dystopian coursework.
Originally taught to A Level Literature students for their coursework on Dystopian Literture, this unit of around 25 lessons covers the following themes in ready to teach powerpoints:
Contextual background of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
Contextual background of the dystopian genre
Alienation, isolation and the lack of power in the novel
Exploration of the structure of the novel
The language of oppression
Otherness (as concept, linked to the novel and with critical essays)
The themes of children and marriage in the novel
Feminism in ‘The Handmaid ’s Tale’
Flower imagery and other language studies
A range of critical essays and articles to go alongside the teaching of the text
Read-to-teach lessons in Powerpoints with all accompanying worksheets/links included.
*Ready to teach lessons*
*All worksheets included*
This resource was originally created for a high-ability year 9 group, but I have been able to adapt many times to suit others and am currently teaching a version to a high-ability group of Year 8s. Lessons deal with the core themes of the text, close language and character analysis mixed with some creative tasks and the teaching of the contextual/social context in terms of analysing this story from a feminist perspective.
*Ready to teach lessons*
*All worksheets included*
This resource provides a series of lessons focused on the Gothic tale 'The Red Room' including a range of activities from close language analysis, to exploration of theme to creative tasks. Originally this resource was taught to a group of high ability year 9s, but I have adapted it myself to suit high ability year 8s. It could also suit KS4 Gothic study as the tasks are stretching and can be added to.
This set of ready-to-teach lessons covers scenes 6 and 7 of ‘Streetcar’ in detail, including an assessment opportunity and lots of close analysis of key quotes. This in depth set of lessons is a comprehensive study of these scenes ready for teachers to use to launch into analysis and detailed discussion.
You can teach straight from these PowerPoints with no amending required!*
Gain top levels for your students - includes many tasks to stretch skills in thinking, analysis, debate and evaluation
READY TO TEACH LESSON BY LESSON
Bundle of all Frankenstein lessons from beginning to end of novel available in my shop
Previously taught to 3 different year 10 classes where grades were raised from Grade 4 up to Grade 8+ by the end of the unit. My lesson-by-lesson PowerPoints are designed for higher ability but can be adapted for lower by simply removing some of the higher level contextual material available to stretch students. It takes students through Shelley’s Frankenstein step-by-step including activities to teach and engage students on a deep level with context, intertextuality/allusion, close language analysis and includes regular assessments, debates and thinking tasks as well as guided reading with questions for each chapter covered.
Each lesson has a core focus on a chapter, character, plot point or theme. Lessons can be taught without amending and were designed originally for the new Grades 1 - 9 GCSE assessment without levels and designed to allow students to achieve grade 9. School this resource was designed for teaches AQA spec, but suits any specification which uses ‘Frankenstein’ as a core text. All worksheets included too. Video clip links are found in the ‘notes’ section of the relevant slide.
Also adaptable for A Level due to high level of stretch provided.
You can teach straight from these PowerPoints with no amending required!*
Gain top levels for your students - includes many tasks to stretch skills in thinking, analysis, debate and evaluation
READY TO TEACH LESSON BY LESSON
Bundle of all Frankenstein lessons from beginning to end of novel available in my shop
Previously taught to 3 different year 10 classes where grades were raised from Grade 4 up to Grade 8+ by the end of the unit. My lesson-by-lesson PowerPoints are designed for higher ability but can be adapted for lower by simply removing some of the higher level contextual material available to stretch students. It takes students through Shelley’s Frankenstein step-by-step including activities to teach and engage students on a deep level with context, intertextuality/allusion, close language analysis and includes regular assessments, debates and thinking tasks as well as guided reading with questions for each chapter covered.
Each lesson has a core focus on a chapter, character, plot point or theme. Lessons can be taught without amending and were designed originally for the new Grades 1 - 9 GCSE assessment without levels and designed to allow students to achieve grade 9. School this resource was designed for teaches AQA spec, but suits any specification which uses ‘Frankenstein’ as a core text. All worksheets included too. Video clip links are found in the ‘notes’ section of the relevant slide.
Also adaptable for A Level due to high level of stretch provided.
Every lesson of the 8 week SOW is provided in a powerpoint and completely ready to teach; the lessons are stretching but have been proven to engage students with Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet.' No need to amend - just teach straight from the powerpoints! All worksheets included.
The SOW begins with drama activities to engage the class and get them used to the language/character names. As the weeks progress, the class are challenged to analyse the imagery, structure and meaning within the text. This was originally taught to a high ability Year 8 class, but could easily be used for Year 9 and even adapted for lower ability KS4.
Proven to engage students with Shakespeare and raise levels.
These ready-to-teach lessons teach students key advertising and media terminology and include lessons on how to analyse adverts, features of advertising and persuasive language. Students also explore the connotations of colour in advertising, and are required to create their own advert using the concepts and features they have explored (checklist included - this can also be used to peer-assess adverts created).
Originally used with HA Year 9 students. The shock advertising lessons demonstrate the extreme methods advertisers will go to, and demonstrate other uses of advertising in the world today (e.g. charities/raising awareness of key issues). Students are encouraged to be creative as well as to think maturely and to discuss the effects/purpose of the adverts. Debate on whether advertising like this should be banned, or whether it hinders freedom of speech stretches most able.
*Full 6 week version (all 10 chapters) available in my shop*
*Study of Gothic artwork and context to prepare for ideas within text*
*Ready to teach straight from the Powerpoint with worksheets included*
The first week of this unit covers the context and artwork in the 19th Century to give students an insight into the ideas present in 19th Century society. Further context is explored as more chapters are read in the later weeks (these PowerPoints are available in my shop).
High ability and suited to GCSE study of the text, or even very high ability Year 9.
*Ready to teach lessons straight from the PowerPoint*
*Thorough, detailed textual study including context, concepts and symbolism*
*Suitable to stretch at GCSE study, or even high ability Year 9*
*All worksheets included*
*Taster week available in my shop*
Stretching lessons taking students through all 10 chapters of Jekyll and Hyde. Discussion questions, analysis questions, lots of high-level terminology spanning from Freudian concepts to thematic exploration to character symbolism in 19th Century society.
All lessons ready to teach from the PowerPoint with a minimum of 6 weeks' worth of material.
*All lessons are ready-to-teach straight from the PowerPoints.*
This 2 week taster suits anyone who wants some new ideas about how to start a Shakespeare play and gives an idea of the quality of the lessons available for the 8 week version.
On 'my shop' I have uploaded the full 8 week SOW for this 'Romeo and Juliet' unit.
Context worksheet and character role-play cards included. Proven to engage students with Shakespeare and raise reading levels.
*Stories are subject to copyright and so not included. Can be bought very cheaply from Amazon or may be something your school covers as part of their SOW.*
This complete 6 week SOW was originally intended for a mid-low ability Year 8 group. It covers a range of Anthony Horowitz horror stories from the collection 'Horowitz Horror 2' including 'The Lift,' 'Burnt,' 'The Phone Goes Dead' and 'The Hitchhiker.' The powerpoints are ready formed individual lessons with L/Os, complete lesson activities and include engaging images. Worksheets referenced in the lessons are all included.
*Taster lessons. Full SOW for 8+weeks of Of Mice and Men available in my shop if you like these lessons.*
These lessons are ready to teach straight from the PowerPoint. The lessons cover the 1920s, the Great Depression, the opening of the story and more. It was originally taught to a set of mixed ability Year 10 students, but can easily be used/adapted for KS3 classes.
*Ready to teach lessons straight from PowerPoint*
*All worksheets included*
*Context, lesson 1 and quiz also available separately as taster. See my shop.*
This 8 week+ SOW covers Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men' thoroughly. The lessons include class reading in small sections with focused tasks, creative tasks, language analysis activities and contextual links too. Can be taught to older/high ability KS3. Originally designed for mixed ability Year 10 GCSE set.
*Powerpoint includes 6 lessons which can be taught straight from the resource. No amending necessary*
*All worksheets included or provided in hyperlink on slide*
This 6 lesson course takes KS3 students through every element of how to write a gothic story leading up to an assessment where they write their own complete gothic story. Starting with the gothic conventions lesson, one lesson at a time students focus on creating setting, character, using techniques and creating tension to suit a gothic story. Enjoyable, engaging and proven to raise writing levels.
This paper suits the mark scheme for AQA Paper 1 Creative Reading. It uses an extract from Chapter 3 of 'Dracula' as the focus and requires students to pick 4 details (Q.1.), analyse the language (Q.2), analyse the structure (Q.3) and then answer the 20 mark overall statement question (Q.4). This paper is my own creation (as there is only 1 example specimen for the new AQA spec.). The mark scheme can be found under the specimen paper mark scheme on the AQA website for Paper 1.
Ready-to-teach and thoroughly researched PowerPoint lessons for ALL TEN STORIES in the Angela Carter collection 'The Bloody Chamber.'
Each PowerPoint contains numerous lessons for each story, with directed questions, worksheets and critical essays (included) and stretching concepts and critical theories with links to the original tales, psychoanalytical theories about fairy-tales, and quotes from Carter herself. This covers all assessment objectives in detail.
Taught to high ability KS5 Year 12 students and revised at Year 13, this resource will save you hours of research time and is everything you could ever need to secure high A Level grades for 'The Bloody Chamber'.
Originally designed for OCR spec to be compared with Wilde's 'Dorian Gray', but would suit any specification that requires an in-depth study of Carter and her tales.
Ready-to-teach full lessons with critical opinions and all worksheets to teach 'The Bloody Chamber' short story. High level, stretching material that will save you hours of research!
Also available in my shop - The Bloody Chamber COLLECTION (includes all stories in the collection plus all worksheets and essays).
Originally taught to Year 12 (and revised in Year 13) to suit the OCR specification, this comprehensive study of Angela Carter's context, critics and the short story 'The Bloody Chamber' would suit any A Level specification. The PowerPoint provides ready-to-teach lessons that provide thorough insight and research into 'The Bloody Chamber' story including suitable critical essays, insights and psychoanalytical interpretations.
