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 student's essay completed in timed conditions. An excellent resource to use with your class to help them understand how to meet the assessment criteria. You could easily incorporate this into a lesson whereby students work to improve this response, therefore showing and demonstrating their understanding of the mark scheme.
A full, detailed lesson by lesson scheme of work with all resources for teaching the first third of the Oxford Book of War Poetry in preparation for Section B of Paper 2. Lessons are all objective led but in relation to the archive specification which is currently outgoing. The resource could easily be adapted for the new assessment objectives, simply by changing the numbers of the AOs. All material is still very much current.
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.
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.
This resource could easily be incorporated into your scheme of work!
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 core text on Paper 2 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 texts being taught as the companion texts on Paper 2 of the AQA A course - the only thing you would need to change is the title of the document!
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 handy booklet to support A-Level students with their wider reading. In the requirements for AO4 to make wider connections, students need to be reading widely around their core texts. This booklet makes those expectations clear to students from the beginning of the course and provides them with a convenient place for them to log what they have been reading and to reflect on the ways in which they can use their wider reading in comparison to their set texts.
A great resource to hand out to students at the beginning of the course!
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 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 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.
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 three lesson scheme of work, fully resourced and with powerpoints that work as the introduction to the genre of tragedy. Suitable for AQA B English Literature A-Level specification.
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.
