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!
This resource was designed to support form time reading.
It contains:
Pre reading activity
Lesson on context
Comprehension questions and answers for each chapter
Final activity- ‘To what extent do you agree?’
This resource was designed to support form time reading.
It contains:
Pre reading activity
Lesson on context
Comprehension questions and answers for each chapter (multiple choice)
Final activity- ‘To what extent do you agree?’
This resource was designed to support form time reading.
It contains:
Pre reading activity
Lesson on context
Comprehension questions for each chapter
Final activity- ‘To what extent do you agree?’
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.
Full and extensive SOW for Poetry from other cultures. Includes introduction to each poem, annotated poems, analysis, comprehension questions, homework activities and diamond ranking activities. Can be taught across KS3 as builds up to an assessment on Island Man or Nothing’s changed, or can be used as unseen poetry practice in KS4. There is an alternative assessment comparing 2 poems which can be used for very high ability pupils. The full SOW is aimed at middle ability pupils, but I have taught to both lower and higher and there are resources included for both.
Lessons include:
Lesson 1,2,3-Introduction to culture- What is culture? Analysis of Melting Pot by Benjamin Zephaniah.
Lesson 4-Poetic techniques.
Lesson 5-Island Man- introduction.
Lesson 6- Island Man- analysis.
Lesson 7- Island Man- diamond ranking- identity.
Lesson 8- Island Man- diamond ranking- protest. Includes comprehension worksheet for homework.
Lesson 9- Limbo introduction, analysis.
Lesson 10-Limbo comprehension questions.
Lesson 11-Nothing’s changed annotations, analysis and PEEDL.
Lesson 12-Presents from my Aunt in Pakistan- introduction, annotation and analysis.
Lesson 13-Presents from my Aunt in Pakistan- outstanding observation lesson.
Lesson 14-Scavengers. Intro and analysis.
Lesson 15-Search for my tongue. Intro and analysis.
Lesson 16, 17, 18- Lessons on Vultures- intro, analysis and PEEDL.
Lesson 19-Night of the scorpion. Introduction.
Lesson 20, 21- Mind-mapping Night of the scorpion.
Lesson 22- Planning an essay.
Lesson 23-25- Comparative poetry essay.
Lesson 26- Final comparative essay.
Everything you need to teach Poetry from Other Cultures!
2 excellent workbooks addressing Literacy. Can be used as homework over a term, or as class starters. Total of 88 pages!
Includes activities on:
Vocabulary
Spellings
Synonyms and antonyms
Reading comprehension activities
Nouns/Pronouns
Verbs
Commas and subordinate clauses
Sentences types
Apostrophes
Homophones
Dictionary work
Past, present, future tense
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 scheme of work on persuasive speeches. Designed for a middle ability KS3 class, but has differentiated slides so can be used with a lower ability class.
Contains lessons on:
Lesson 1- Representations of America- American History.
Lesson 2-Go down Moses- slavery roots.
Lesson 3- Martin Luther King speech- persuasive devices.
Lesson 4-Martin Luther King- PEED paragraphs.
Lesson 5-Comparing Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela speeches.
Lesson 6-Sojourner Truth speech- 'Aint I a woman? Persuasive devices and PEED paragraphs.
Lesson 7-Obama Speech- PEED paragraphs.
Lesson 8- Planning and writing your own persuasive speech.
Lesson 9-11- Presenting your own persuasive speech- a Presedential campaign.
Includes teacher models, writing frames and homework opportunities.
Complete scheme of work for Stone Cold. Aimed at middle ability KS3 classes.
Series of 14 lessons.
Includes tasks on: discursive writing tasks, PEED paragraphs, narrative style and voice, dual narrative, dramatic irony, speaking and listening, persuasive writing, creating a leaflet, empathetic writing, non fiction, creating and predicting tension, foreshadowing and prediction, character analysis, newspaper writing, and debates.
Includes models and writing frames for differentiation. Two lessons have also been fully differentiated for lower ability classes.
Series of four lessons to celebrate Roald Dahl day on 13th September.
Lesson 1- To use descriptive and persuasive language to create and design your own chocolate bar.
Lesson 2-To develop imaginative writing skills to create a new horrid winner of a golden ticket.
Lesson 3-To become a witchophile and create a poster to warn people about witches.
Lesson 4- To prepare an interview for the BBC between a news reporter and a witchophile.
Whole school quiz and whole school competition activities also included.
Complete Gothic writing SOW includes 26 lessons and 51 resources in total! Everything you need for teaching Gothic reading and writing skills to KS3 and KS4 pupils.
The SOW includes:
1. Assessment on horror posters- focusing on language and presentational devices.
2. Features of horror writing- extracts of texts which pupils analyse and then use to create their own.
3. Horror openings- extracts of openings which pupils analyse and then use to create their own.
4. The Man with the Yellow Face- series of 4 lessons looking at: The opening and narrative hooks, sentence length to create tension, and how Horowitz uses devices to create tension.
5. The Monkey’s Paw- series of 4 lessons looking at: Tension and structure in the opening, sentence length and devices to create tension and comprehension questions. All building up to a reading assessment.
6. 2 creative writing lessons looking at using devices, narrative hooks and sentences to create tension. Applying and consolidating everything learnt so far.
7. The Tell Tale Heart- 4 lessons looking at how Poe uses language, sentence structure, senses and punctuation to create tension. Reading assessment provided with peer assessment.
8. 4 lessons on The Red Room looking at character, plot and tension. Consolidates all learning so far.
A really comprehensive SOW that is all you need to teach Gothic Horror!
Full SOW for the new AQA Media GCSE ].
Broken down into two half terms of teaching: Term 1- Compare two adverts and Term 2- Create your own advert.
Series of 14 lessons for Term 1 and 10 lessons for Term 2.
Term 1- Compare two adverts (Apple billboard advert and Apple online advert) - leads pupils through how to analyse two adverts using correct media terminology with exemplar answers. Looks in detail at: Colour in branding, branding, logos, power of advertising, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Apple profile, synergy, and linking adverts across two platforms. Leads up to a controlled assessment analysis of 2 Apple adverts.
Term 2- Creating adverts for a new app or mobile phone- Looks in detail at: billboard rules, differentiating billboards, creating and producing your billboard, camera angles and editing, sound in film, and storyboarding. Leads up to a controlled assessment of creating and evaluating a billboard and TV campaign.
Each lesson comes with a PowerPoint and resources.
I have also uploaded Unit 1: Media Languages (Print) 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.
Complete scheme of work focusing on crime fiction. 14 lessons in total. Includes: reading and writing assessment, homework tasks, stretch and challenge and differentiation.
Takes pupils through:
Poetry analysis of Simon Armitage’s poem, about his person- inference and deduction skills.
The Speckled Band, Sherlock Holmes- pathetic fallacy, character analysis of Helen Stoner, Dr. Roylott and Sherlock Holmes- PEEDL analysis skills (reading assessment), how to write an effective description (writing assessment), tracking tension graphs, features of Victorian writing lesson and a comparison between 2 Sherlock Holmes texts.
Also includes 3 lessons on Hound of the Baskervilles and a study booklet on The Silver Blaze.
Everything you need for a complete half term of crime fiction!
Full SOW for the new AQA Media GCSE .
Broken down into three half terms of teaching: Term 1- Planning and research (pre-production) Term 2- Post production and Term 3- Evaluation.
Series of 8 lessons for Term 1 and 3 lessons for Term 2 and 2 lessons for Term 3.
Term 1- Planning and research (horror film genre) Includes lessons on: History of horror, sub-genres, camera angles and movement, mise-en-scene, early horror films, media language, narrative in trailers, creating a trailer and questionnaires. Leads up to a controlled assessment research of horror film trailers.
Term 2- Post production - Looks in detail at: Editing a film trailer and creating a storyboard. Leads up to controlled assessment of horror film trailer on Ipads.
Term 3- Evaluation- Looks in detail at how to evaluate a final moving image product.
Each lesson comes with a PowerPoint and resources.
I have also uploaded Unit 1: Introduction to Media Languages and Unit 2: Cross-Media Study (Advertising and Marketing)
Full scheme of work for Much Ado about Nothing.
Series of lessons, all with resources and full PowerPoint’s.
Lessons include:
1. Introduction to The Globe.
2 and 3. Introduction to plot and characters.
4 and 5. Act 1 Scene 1. Character analysis on Beatrice and Benedick. PEEDL. Includes success criteria and model.
6. Act 1 Scene 1. Claudio and Hero character analysis. Comparison of their relationship to Beatrice and Benedick. PEEDL.
7. Act 1 Scene 3. Don John character analysis.
8 ands 9. Act 2 Scene 1. The masked ball. Includes extension lesson on making masks.
10. Act 2 Scene 3. Focus on Benedick and trickery and deception.
11. Act 3 Scene 1. More trickery and deception. Theme homework.
12 and 13. Act 4 Scene 1. Assessment- 2 PowerPoint’s on Claudio and Hero and Beatrice and Benedick.
14. Act 4 Scene 1. Empathetic writing task- Hero. Assessing SPAG.
Builds to an assessment question on:
‘Explore how Shakespeare presents attitudes towards women in Much Ado About Nothing . Write about: what Claudio says about Hero and how Shakespeare presents attitudes towards women in the play as a whole’
Also includes homework project and lots of other resources such as a ‘Take me Out’ lesson and lesson for creating display work.
Everything you will ever need to teach Much Ado.
A 64 page revision booklet designed to help students with all aspects of the new AQA GCSE Literature and Language.
Contains details of the exam, writing frames, models, revision tips, mark schemes and annotated answers.
Everything you need to assist your students with their new GCSE!