I have been an English Literature and Language Teacher for about 10 years now. I am now a Leader of Learning in English in my current school.
I have taken several GCSE classes through and had full success.
I have a PGCE in English and MA in Applied Linguistics for Teaching English as a Second Language.
I currently teach at a secondary school as an English Teacher and Leader of Learning in English.
I have been an English Literature and Language Teacher for about 10 years now. I am now a Leader of Learning in English in my current school.
I have taken several GCSE classes through and had full success.
I have a PGCE in English and MA in Applied Linguistics for Teaching English as a Second Language.
I currently teach at a secondary school as an English Teacher and Leader of Learning in English.
Here we have two great resources which include - Responsibility theme exploration, analysis of key quotations, PEE in-depth structures and model answers. This will sure save you lesson planning time and show your students how to access those higher marks.
Finally, I’ve added one power point on the exploitation of Eva Smith which heavily links to the idea of responsibility. There are quotes linked to this theme in the slides provided.
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Here are two great big booklets to use with your classes while teaching travel writing.
The Travel Booklet includes 10 independent tasks - creative and poetry writing, collages, designing and many more.
Mix this together with the 15 page booklet for designing your own hotel in a group of 5...and you have got two time saving dreams. The Hotel Project Booklet is something you could do in the classroom and can span over 6 lessons, or is something your class could do as a group project for homework.
Whatever you choose, these two booklets are full of creative English activities to help your students learn the art of travel writing, working in a team and presenting speeches.
FREE planning sheet as well!
Finally, I have added my Speech Lesson which could be used to introduce the skills of crafting a speech using effective persuasive devices. Now, this is a lesson I usually use with students in Year 9 and 10, however it can be adapted and would be useful to feed into the speech the students are preparing in the Hotel Booklet.
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This is a great project booklet which will span over about 5-6 lessons. It is designed for students to work through the initial tasks to help their knowledge about hotels/holidays so they gain an understanding and knowledge of what they should be designing. It also helps them with web design, as they have to annotate and design their own. Once these pages are complete, your groups of five get designing, planning and speech writing, in order to create a 5-10 minute presentation to the class.
I used this as an opportunity to assessment my students on their speaking and listening skills.
This booklet is packed with activities and even a clip link for the students to see some of the top 10 Hotels in 2016. This is a great buy and can be used repeatedly.
Could be used in class or as a homework project. 15 page booklet.
What will it teach my students:
To work in a team
To create a speech/script
To learn about target audiences
To present ideas to the class in a group
To understand and design webpages and a hotel
To keep to a time limit when presenting
What does it include:
Preparation task - positives/negatives of hotel life, investigations into top hotels, persuasive language analysis, target audience, website analysis and annotations, website design.
Main Task - 5 Roles for the students to decide between themselves, with details of what they each need to prepare and design in the role they have chosen.
Time -
1/2 Lessons to prepare
1/2 Lessons to design and practise their presentation
2 Lessons for presentations - class of 30
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Here are three fantastic booklets with 10 tasks in each. They could be used as homework booklets or as an activity booklet. You could even just pick and choose what you want to use to support your teaching.
Here you have a booklet for Year 7 which includes activities that reflect their first term at secondary school.
Next, we have a booklet with 10 travel tasks all centred around that topic.
Finally, the Gothic Literature booklet has all you can want to help your students learn about Gothic Literature.
All of these booklets contain a range of tasks, such as design, creative and persuasive writing, poetry, extract analysis, and research.
This is a great package.
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I will be adding more booklets in due time - keep an eye on this space.
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Here is a fantastic Gothic Literature Booklet that can be used as a homework booklet or used in your classroom as an activities booklet. You could even just pull out activities you want from the booklet and use them as starters or main activities to teach gothic literature.
In this pack there are 10 tasks to help students research, design, identify gothic motifs from extracts, and write gothic literature themselves.
This is a fab booklet.
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Here is another one of these fabulous Activity/Homework Booklets that will make setting homework a piece of cake.
Just download this Travel Booklet resource, click print adding staples to make it into a booklet for your students to take home and you're sorted for this terms homework. Or use this little number in your lessons as a task that the students can do to get them used to writing and designing all based around travel. All 10 tasks in this booklet are linked directly to English and writing skills.
This is a good one. There are activities such as collage making, poem and creative story writing, research tasks and designing activities.
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Worrying about what you need to set for homework - well look no further...
Here is a booklet full of your homework setting dreams.
Here it is, the first of my Homework Booklet collection. This homework booklet was made to work along side a scheme of work for Year 7s who were in their first term at Secondary School. There are 10 tasks in this booklet such as letter writing, creative collage tasks, poems, cartoon strips, etc.
It can be adapted and used as one off activities in or outside the classroom, or can simply be printed out in a booklet for homework.
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This is a fantastic bundle which will take your students through a range of persuasive writing types.
Here you have some great worksheets and lesson slides, some include a lesson plan.
This large bundle will give you a well deserved break when you get back as all these lessons are ready to go. Just load up the slides and pint off the worksheets and you have yourself about 4 full lessons all about persuasive language in a range of writing types.
Now I must admit there are some similarities between the leaflet and Newspaper persuasive lessons however, there are some different resources in each to add to the effectiveness of these lessons for their different perusaisve writing types.
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Here is the perfect little bundle to get you started on 'An Inspector Calls' with your GCSE class this New Year.
It contains a lesson on Themes and Context with links and specific Capitalism and Socialism worksheets.
It also has a whole detailed lesson on the question: In what ways is Eva Smith exploited in the play?
This lesson worked a treat for my Year 10s as it got them linking the correct context to the correct characters and quotations in the play. Very useful.
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With only two sample questions from the new spec for Edexcel literature exam on 'An Inspector Calls', I thought I would create a step-by-step guide of how to answer one of these questions.
Most of my students find it hard to add context in, and now with a question focused on context the students were finding this difficult. This power point is great at showing the students where to start and how to plan for the question. All the answers come up in sections. There is even a hand written mind map to show the students how they could link all the ideas together.
My class found this very useful and have now started to understand how to link theme, context and quotations all together for this question.
This is a great lesson on the contextual and cultural links to the book Refugee Boy.
It has a great little booklet that goes with the presentation that the students can work on throughout. It also includes selected pieces of information that can be stuck around the class for the students to pick the contexts that links and put it on the outlined hand.
It worked really well with my Y8 class as it got them up and about finding out the relevant information and then moving onto using language techniques from Alem's point of view from the book.
This is like a mini project as you will probably need three lessons to complete the task and students presentation.
This lesson starts by asking the students questions that they have to think about when watching the news clips about refugees (internet access needed)
The next slide tells the students what their task is and shows them other charities that are available to refugees at the moment.
The final slide gives students a success criteria which they need to follow.
This lesson aims to show students what being a refugee is a like and how we as a country could help.
This lesson prepares students to analyse quotations comparing Coraine's two mothers from the book Coraline by Neil Gaiman. The analysis is done through the analogy of a house, as you look at the outside and explain the ideas generally, and then when you look in more detail inside the house you gain a further understanding of the language used by Neil Gaiman. There is a booklet resource that fits with the lesson to help students follow this ideas, as well as top tips.
Here is an AFOREST lesson that gets students to pick out the persuasive techniques they can see in an advert. It then goes onto analysing leaflets; for this I usually go and grab a handful of leaflets from the Tourist Information or a service station. Then you can use the middle part of the lesson and the work sheets to get students to identify and explain persuasive techniques used. This is a great lesson if your students are creating a leaflet or brochure for their assessment. It has always worked really well with Y7 and 8s.
This lesson will help students to identify AFOREST Techniques using Martin Luther King's speech and prior knowledge matching cards. As you can see above this pack includes a powerpoint lesson, MLK speech for the students to use, MLK speech annotated for the teacher, and AFOREST matching cards for the starter activity.
This lesson has worked really well with my Y8s and 9s. It could also be used for Y7.
This lesson helps students to answer a question about Candy's loneliness and friendship with his dog. It contains a model answer and PEE structure help throughout. A quick and easy PEE lesson on Chapter 3.
In this collection of resources there are two powerpoint presentations that focus on speech writing. There is also a model speech that you can use as an example of good speech writing and structure. When teaching students how to write a speech, I found that it was important that they knew what I wanted, so created this speech on Queen Elizabeth I, as seen attached. This speech goes with Analysing a Speech as it tells students what to look for and then gets them to pick apart their own speeches, identifying what is good in their own. Writing a Speech could be used as a follow up lesson or a preparation lesson before they analyse, as it helps students build a speech.
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Writing a Speech About Your Contributions to the World is a lesson that helps students prepare a speech in which they take on the role of a famous person from history, and then defend their position in an overburdened hot air balloon.
A speech, 'written by Queen Elisabeth I' is attached, that the teacher can use as an example of one of these speeches.
Analysing A Speech is a lesson that helps the student first analyse Queen Elisabeth's speech, and then each other's speeches.
Here are a few slides that will help students to understand the structure of a PEE paragraph and give them an example.
Included: Model PEE paragraph, PEE sentence starter, and PEE questions.
This power point is great for preparing your class to write an essay on The Tempest. The question that I have focused on is 'How does Shakespeare present Prospero and his relationship with one other character in the first act of ‘The Tempest’? Included are PEE questions, success criteria based on the new 9-1 scale, and a model paragraph on Prospero and Caliban. There are about three lessons in this one power point in order to prepare your students. This lesson goes really well with The Tempest Planning sheet (which can be used to plan their assessment after these lessons).
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