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.
An exemplar essay on Journey's End, considering how the theme of camaraderie is presented. This resource was written by a teacher to demonstrate how to meet the Assessment Criteria. This is particularly aimed at KS5 but could be adapted for use with KS4 students.
Fully annotated copies of teacher's poems with detailed analysis. This will make your teaching of this anthology so much easier. This resource is designed to complement the complete SOW and resources that I have produced for teaching Feminine Gospels over 40 lessons., aimed at A-Level standard for the NEW AQA-A specification.
Save time with this unique resource!
Poems annotated:
The Long Queen
Beautiful
The Map-Woman
The Diet,
The Woman who Shopped
Work
Tall
Loud
History
Sub
The Cord,
The Light-Gatherer
Wish
Death and the Moon
North-West.
A handy resource that students can use in lessons or as revision to help them plan out their paragraph content. This resource remind students of the need to incorporate material that meets all of the AOs to help them secure top marks.
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.
Applies to all texts being taught as the comparative texts on Paper 1 Section C of the AQA A course - the only thing you would need to change is the title of the document!
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.
Applies to all Shakespeare texts being taught as the core text on Paper 1 of the AQA A course - the only thing you would need to change is the title of the document!
A planning tool for teachers. With the removal of coursework and the majority of our focus on the end exam, there is the need to assess students regularly through timed essay practise. This resource models a way of dividing assessments across Year 12 to check students' progress throughout the year as they tackle the units from the AQA A English Literature specification.
A list of exam questions that focus on many of the different thematic issues that are covered in this anthology. All questions have been worded to imitate the wording of the NEW AQA A-Level English Literature specification.
A one-off lesson to be delivered to Year 11 students who have chosen to undertake English Literature at A-Level. All resources are included. This focuses students on key issues that will arise out of their study at A-Level for Paper 2: WW1 and its Aftermath as well as enabling them to practise key skills which will be assessed at A-Level.
A handy resource for when you are teaching a large collection of poems to students. After students have annotated their copies of the poem, they can complete one of these poetry logs for homework, so to help them revise before the exam.
A resource to hand out to students giving them pointers on what aspects of form, structure and language they could comment on, when analysing a drama text. This will enable students to meet the assessment criteria for AO2 at both GCSE and A-Level.
A one-off lesson with all resources to deliver to Year 11 students who have chosen to study English Literature to A-Level. This lesson introduces them to WW1 texts and gets them thinking about key issues and areas for study which will face them in September.
A lesson by lesson scheme of work with resources that helps you to teach A Doll's House and introduce students to A-Level. Lessons are detailed and objective based, to help students develop their skills across all assessed Assessment Objectives.
A booklet to hand out to students at the beginning of the A-Level course to reinforce the importance of AO5 in the new A-Level specifications. Students need to incorporate and engage with critical views and this booklet is the perfect place for them to record and log the research and wider reading they have completed, making it easier for them to write their bibliographies for the NEA and revise for the other exam components.
A great resource to help you set your expectations of the students from the beginning of the course and to help ensure that students engage with the critical material.
A full, detailed lesson by lesson scheme of work with resources to help introduce students to how to analyse films so that they can write a film review. Lessons are learning objective based and help students develop a range of writing skills so they can master this style.
This is a 12 lesson scheme of work which aims to fully introduce students to the new AQA A A-Level Literature course. However, it could easily be amended to be appropriate for all new exam boards without a lot of effort required! This SOW would be ideal for teaching in the first few weeks with your new Year 12 students.
Lesson plans are full and detailed, with all required resources included, enabling you to introduce students to the new Assessment Objectives and clearly teach them how to structure their written work, including teaching them how to construct and shape an argument - all skills which represent a step-up from GCSE. These lessons provide students with a clear strategy for how to tackle the different elements of the course and will ensure that they produce A-Level standard work from Day 1 - success rate from teaching this, this year has been very high with all students feeling confident at producing written work from the beginning! Exemplar work for Paper 2 is included to help students understand the standard they are aiming for, from the beginning, enabling you to set the standard high!
This scheme of work culminates in students producing an essay response to put into practise the skills they have learnt, allowing you to gauge from the beginning their ability to write A-Level standard responses and intervene with students where necessary.
There is nothing else like this available on the Internet!