Two fully annotated lessons on Storm on the Island. I currently use this with my top set year 10/11, but I have also attached a differentiated version which I have used with a bottom set year 9/10.
Includes: starter activities, information on the poet/context, fully annotated, to grade 9, poem, SMILE analysis comparison sheet, AQA grade descriptors, teacher model, writing frame and self or peer assessment plenary. Also includes a table comparing SOI and Exposure that pupils can use to structure their own analysis.
Everything you need to teach Storm on the Island, AQA Literature Paper 2- Power and conflict.
Two fully annotated lessons on Ozymandias. I currently use this with my top set year 10/11, but I have also attached a differentiated version which I have used with a bottom set year 9/10.
Includes: starter activities, information on the poet/context, fully annotated, to grade 9, poem, SMILE analysis comparison sheet, AQA grade descriptors, writing frame and self or peer assessment plenary.
Everything you need to teach Ozymandias, AQA Literature Paper 2- Power and conflict.
This resource was designed to support form time reading.
It contains:
Pre reading activity
Lesson on context and author
Comprehension questions and answers for each chapter
Final activity- DIscuss this statement…
Two fully annotated lessons on Checking out Me History by John Agard. I currently use this with my top set year 10/11, but I have also attached a differentiated version which I have used with a bottom set year 9/10.
Includes: starter activities, information on the poet/context, fully annotated, to grade 9, poem, SMILE analysis comparison sheet, AQA grade descriptors, writing frame and self or peer assessment plenary.
Everything you need to teach Checking out me History, AQA Literature Paper 2- Power and conflict.
Complete scheme of work covering the entire play of Macbeth. I use this with my KS3 class, but can also be used with KS4 as it builds up to an AQA GCSE style assessment question on Lady Macbeth.
Lesson 1- Context carousel.
Lesson 2- Act 1 Scene 1 Witches.
Lesson 3- Act 1 Scene 2 The character of Macbeth.
Lesson 4- Act 1 Scene 3 Macbeth meets the witches.
Lesson 5- Act 1 Scene 4/4 Lady Macbeth.
Lesson 6- Act 1 Scene 6 Dramatic irony.
Lesson 7- Act 1 Scene 1 Dagger of the mind.
Lesson 8- Act 2 Scene 2 The murder.
Lesson 9-Act 3 Scene 4 The banquet.
Lesson 10- Act 5 Scene 1 Lady Macbeth.
Lesson 11- Act 5 Scene 5. Macbeth’s final soliloquy.
Extra lessons- Plot, Act 2 Scene 2, Act 3 Scene 1.
Includes a takeaway homework.
Full SOW for the new AQA Media GCSE .
Broken down into two half terms of teaching: Term 1- Analysing Magazines and Term 2- Creating Magazines.
Series of 15 lessons for Term 1 and 11 lessons for Term 2.
Term 1- Analysing Magazines- leads pupils through how to analyse magazine front covers using correct media terminology with exemplar answers. Looks in detail at: Anchoring and Bias, camera angles, signifiers and connotations, narrative theory, connotation and denotation, typography, target audiences, media institutions and sub-generic conventions. Leads up to a controlled assessment analysis of 2 magazine covers.
Term 2- Creating Magazines- Looks in detail at: magazine appeal, readers and advertisers, mode of address, media language, representation and stereotypes, visual codes and conventions, magazine composition and mastheads. Leads up to a controlled assessment of creating and evaluating a magazine cover.
Each lesson comes with a PowerPoint and resources.
I have also uploaded Unit 2: Cross-Media Study (Advertising and Marketing) and Unit 3: Practical Production and Evaluation (Moving Image) , but have kept them separate as you might want to teach something different from the list of choices.
An extensive, full scheme of work for ‘An Inspector Calls’ tailored to fit the new AQA GCSE specification. 59 resources including 14 whole lessons, supporting resources and homework activities to run over a 7 week term.
The SOW includes a series of 14 lessons and additional resources leading up to an exam style question at the end of the scheme. Each character is analysed in detail as well as key themes and issues as well as the social and historical context.
Each lesson has a lesson plan and homework activities as well as tasks for extension and differentiation. Also included is information on how to achieve the AOs when tackling an exam question, exemplars and detailed success criteria teaching up to level 9. Everything you need for teaching the text ‘An Inspector Calls’.
Full moving image scheme of work. Includes 8 lessons which can easily run over 12 if you include making their own film poster and film storyboard.
Includes:
Lesson 1- Genre
Lesson 2-Signifiers and connotations
Lesson 3-Analysing film posters
Lesson 4-Camera shots and storyboard
Lesson 5-Mise-en-scene
Lesson 6-Props, sound and lighting
Lesson 7- Antagonists vs. protagonists
Lesson 8-Screenwriting.
Lessons 1-3 are based on a wide selection of films to introduce students to different genres. Lesson 4 onwards has a focus on Slumdog Millionaire, using camera shots from the film.
I have used this SOW with both a lower year 8 class and higher year 9 class, as resources can be easily accessed and differentiated.
Series of 26 extensive lessons covering A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Includes worksheets, hand-outs, quotes sheets, reading and writing tasks, PEEDL tasks, S&L drama activities, and a homework project that covers the whole term. Can be used for a top or bottom set (I have both and planned it as such) as there are lots of differentiated resources. Can also be used as an access into the text at GCSE as addresses the new grades system. Comes with an end of term assessment on ‘Moral significance’, but this SOW can also be used to explore Scrooge’s characterisation.
Lesson 1- A very Victorian Christmas.
Lesson 2- Context and Dickens’ life.
Lesson 3- What Christmas means to me.
Lesson 4- Analysing Scrooge Stave 1.
Lesson 5- Higher level reading targets.
Lesson 6- Scrooge characterisation.
Lesson 7- Scrooge Stave 1.
Lesson 8- Extra lesson- Scrooge’s character.
Lesson 9-Writing to persuade (Stave 1)
Lesson 10- Marley’s ghost techniques.
Lesson 11- Marley’s ghost pathetic fallacy.
Lesson 12- Marley’s ghost drama.
Lesson 13- Scrooge in Stave 2.
Lesson 14- Tension graph Marley’s ghost.
Lesson 15- End Stave 1 recap.
Lesson 16- Stave 2.
Lesson 17- Stave 2 continued.
Lesson 18- PEEDL Crachit Stave 3.
Lesson 19-Stave 3- the ghosts.
Lesson 20-Stave 3- Ignorance Vs. Want.
Lesson 21- Servants.
Lesson 22- Servants/ Scrooge characterisation.
Lesson 23- Assessment- Moral significance in A Christmas Carol.
Extra lessons x 3- Hot seating, character names and setting.
Two fully annotated lessons on Charge of the Light Brigade. I currently use this with my top set year 10/11, but I have also attached a differentiated version which I have used with a bottom set year 9/10.
Includes: starter activities, information on the poet/context, fully annotated, to grade 9, poem, SMILE analysis comparison sheet, AQA grade descriptors, teacher model, writing frame and self or peer assessment plenary.
Everything you need to teach Charge of the Light Brigade, AQA Literature Paper 2- Power and conflict.
Two fully annotated lessons on War Photographer. I currently use this with my top set year 10/11, but I have also attached a differentiated version which I have used with a bottom set year 9/10.
Includes: starter activities, information on the poet/context, fully annotated, to grade 9, poem, SMILE analysis comparison sheet, AQA grade descriptors, teacher model, writing frame and self or peer assessment plenary.
Everything you need to teach War Photographer, AQA Literature Paper 2- Power and conflict.
Two fully annotated lessons on Exposure by Wilfred Owen. I currently use this with my top set year 10/11, but I have also attached a differentiated version which I have used with a bottom set year 9/10.
Includes: starter activities, information on the poet/context, fully annotated, to grade 9, poem, SMILE analysis comparison sheet, AQA grade descriptors, writing frame and self or peer assessment plenary.
Everything you need to teach Exposure, AQA Literature Paper 2- Power and conflict.
A one off revision lesson on the complex character of Gerald in An Inspector Calls.
Starts off with discussion questions about Gerald and a piece of writing about his character that they have to evaluate.
2 pages of quotations with analysis are provided which allow pupils to write up an essay style response exploring how and if he takes responsibility.
Included a hypothesis statement to start off their essay response.
Full Scheme of work for Unseen poetry- targeted towards the new AQA specification.
Includes lessons on:
Introduction to poetic terms with snowball starter.
The moment annotation and analysis
3 What lips annotation and analysis
4 Ninetieth birthday compared to My Grandmother annotation and analysis
Home compared to *Emigree
Nettles compared to Poison Tree annotation and analysis
7 Still I Rise compared to The Rose that Grew from Concrete*
7 lessons which can be taught over 11/12 lessons.
Each lesson has the poem with questions to encourage analysis and annotations. Model answers using the SMILE technique and opportunities for peer and self assessment are included. Resources allow students to achieve higher grade 8/9, and differentiated writing frames allow lower ability pupils to access the poems effectively.
Two fully annotated lessons on Poppies. I currently use this with my top set year 10/11, but I have also attached a differentiated version which I have used with a bottom set year 9/10.
Includes: starter activities, information on the poet/context, fully annotated, to grade 9, poem, SMILE analysis comparison sheet, AQA grade descriptors, teacher model, writing frame and self or peer assessment plenary.
Everything you need to teach Poppies, AQA Literature Paper 2- Power and conflict.
Two fully annotated lessons on Emigree. I currently use this with my top set year 10/11, but I have also attached a differentiated version which I have used with a bottom set year 9/10.
Includes: starter activities, information on the poet/context, fully annotated, to grade 9, poem, SMILE analysis comparison sheet, AQA grade descriptors, writing frame and self or peer assessment plenary.
Everything you need to teach Emigree, AQA Literature Paper 2- Power and conflict.
Each PPT is a lesson itself, and follows the same format:
Listen to a chapter from the book on BBC Sounds, then:
Answer comprehension questions.
Complete a vocabulary challenge using words from that chapter of the text.
Activity designed around that chapter, for example, in The Wind in the Willows, Grahame uses lots of literary devices to describe the river, pupils have to copy his style and produce their own piece of writing.
Answers and models provided.
As an English teacher, I have designed these for other faculties to teach during their Literacy lessons, so they are extremely easy to follow.
Texts include (in order of difficulty)
The Wind in the Willows
Alice in Wonderland
The Railway Children
Everyday use
The Thirty Nine Steps
The Hound of the Baskervilles
War of the Worlds
Frankenstein
This resource was designed to support form time reading.
It contains:
Pre reading activity
Lesson on context and author
Comprehension questions and answers for each chapter (multiple choice)
Final activity-
“Orwell’s main message in Animal Farm is that power corrupts, even when idealism is at play.” I agree/disagree with this statement because……
75 slides long.
Bundle of 5 revision lessons which can be used in school or emailed out to pupils. Covers context of AIC
Mrs Birling as a likeable character
How Priestley uses the character of the Inspector to suggest the ways in which society could be improved
How Priestley explores social class in An Inspector Calls
How Priestley presents the older and younger generation.
1 lesson on revision of context and context, and 4 lessons on exam questions. They include the exam question, quotes to use, model paragraphs and writing frames. Everything you need for your AIC revision!