A highly experienced English HOD with 11 years of experience teaching ages 11-18, specialising in English Literature at A-Level. Innovative and thorough, I enjoy creating materials that ensure students understand exactly how to get the top marks in each specification and ensure that teachers have all the materials they need to deliver outstanding lessons that guarantee outstanding results.
A highly experienced English HOD with 11 years of experience teaching ages 11-18, specialising in English Literature at A-Level. Innovative and thorough, I enjoy creating materials that ensure students understand exactly how to get the top marks in each specification and ensure that teachers have all the materials they need to deliver outstanding lessons that guarantee outstanding results.
A handy copy of the mark sheet for each component of the NEW A-Level AQA English Literature course. This mark sheet can be attached to the front of any student's piece of work and contains a space for teachers / other students to write their feedback. It also contains a space for student to act upon the advice they have been given to show them making immediate progress and responding to your marking and feedback - a clear Ofsted priority at the moment.
Handy resources that include clear instructions for how students should shape and structure their paragraphs when writing an A-Level essay to ensure that they meet all of the AO criteria.
A handy step-by-step resource that enables students to understand the process they need to go through to include evaluation in their A-Level essay paragraphs.
This skill is vital if they are to hit the top band criteria for AO1 and AO5.
A lesson-by-lesson, learning objective based scheme of work with all resources attached. This unit introduces students to the Non Exam Assessment element of the A-Level and uses Dracula as one of the texts for comparison. Dracula covers the pre-1900 component of the NEA and this unit sets students up so that they are guided in their choices of their second text.
A lesson-by-lesson scheme of work with all attached resources included for delivery of the pre-1900 Prose text on the new AQA A English Literature specification. This resource fully delivers the teaching of Jane Eyre and sets students up so that they are enabled to develop comparisons with the later poetry text, in preparation for comparing the two texts in Section C of the Love through the Ages exam paper.
The departmental handbook for my English Department. This handbook outlines all of the policies of my department and contains all the relevant advice for any teacher working within my department. This resource is comprehensive and approved by Ofsted and is guiding and starting point for any HOD looking to write / overhaul their own departmental handbook.
This can easily be amended and customised to meet the demands of your school.
A complete lesson to be taught as an introduction to English Literature at A-Level. This gets students thinking about the Literary Canon and their reasons for wanting to take on the A-Level. Students will also be required to put to the test, many of the skills they will need to be successful A-Level students.
A lesson-by-lesson scheme of work with all attached resources for teaching the first Harry Potter novel to less able KS3 or KS2 students. The unit is objective-based and teaches students a variety of reading and writing skills in a guided way, that supports their learning and development.
A full, detailed lesson by lesson scheme of work to teach Journey's End. The scheme of work is objective-led for the archive AQA course but can easily be adapted to the new curriculum for teaching as a core text for Paper 2 of the new A-Level.
A collection of booklets that cover different aspects of love. Each booklet contains a series of extracts taken from across the Literary Canon, to help students improve their contextual understanding of how love has been presented throughout time, to enable them to meet the criteria for AO4 in the new A-Level Love through the Ages Paper 1 Exam.
These resources would easily be customisable for the needs of your students but save you the time of finding the resources!
As a HOD / teacher, promote the sharing of good practise by ensuring that your department is observing each other. Use this proforma to collect peoples' reflections and as the basis for ensuring that evaluative conversations take place within your department. This could easily be added into your school's / department's policy for appraisal!
A full, detailed lesson by lesson scheme of work to teach Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy. This unit comprises 40 lessons, covering the entire anthology and preparing students for answering Paper 2 Section A. Exemplar work is included in this scheme of work, including revision materials and work preparing students for a variety of different essay questions in preparation for the exam. All lessons are objective based, with differentiated success criteria, linked to the new AQA specification.
There is nothing of this quality on the Internet for this text!
A lesson-by-lesson scheme of work including all resources that introduces students to the basics of analysing a moving image text. The unit uses the movie "Stardust" as its base text and through their study, students are taught a range of reading and writing skills to support their development towards KS3 and future GCSE objectives.
A lesson-by-lesson scheme of work with all attached resources. This unit teaches students about the roots of the English Language and introduces them to the stories of Chaucer. All lessons are objective-based and teach students a variety of reading skills.
A great collection of resources which provide students with handy step-by-step instructions for how to write the perfect A-Level essay.
These resources contain guides to writing fantastic introductions, how to structure paragraphs, templates to help students plan their paragraphs, guides to help them incorporate each AO at top band standard as well as a step-by-step strategy for each of the exam questions on the NEW AQA A specification, showing students how to tackle each question.
There is nothing else like these set of resources elsewhere online!
A great collection of resources which provide students with handy step-by-step instructions for how to write the perfect A-Level essay.
These resources contain guides to writing fantastic introductions, how to structure paragraphs, templates to help students plan their paragraphs, guides to help them incorporate each AO at top band standard as well as a step-by-step strategy for each of the exam questions on the NEW AQA A specification, showing students how to tackle each question.
There is nothing else like these set of resources elsewhere online!
A 5 week scheme of work, fully resourced with both medium and short term plans, that works as an induction unit at the start of Year 12.
This unit uses ‘Dracula’ as a base text which students are asked to read over the summer in advance of starting the A-Level. This induction unit then introduces students to 4 different critical perspectives (Feminism, Marxism, Post-Colonialism, Canon Theory) from AQA’s Critical Anthology and teaches students how to explore a text from this literary perspective. The unit culminates in an assessment where students write a magazine article (in the style of e-magazine) exploring a critical reading of the text in more depth.
The unit has been written as an introduction to the AQA B English Literature specification but could easily be used as it is for any specification where the teaching of critical theory is relevant.
A handy resource that outlines a foolproof exam strategy for students so they know how to use their planning time in the exam to craft and shape a top band essay response.
