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 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 full, detailed lesson by lesson scheme of work with all relevant resources to teach students to be able to write in the travel writing style. Lessons are objective based and help them develop a range of reading and writing skills. Assessments are included within the scheme.
A detailed and full lesson by lesson scheme of work with all resources to help A-Level teachers introduce the Literary Canon, so A-Level students develop necessary skills which will help them meet the AO3 and AO4 Assessment Criteria.
A full, detailed lesson by lesson scheme of work with all relevant resources to teach students the art of writing persuasively. Students will engage with a range of topics, asking them to take a stance but will discover the art of constructing a persuasive argument through objective focused lesson plans that help them to develop this key writing skill in preparation for their GCSE.
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.
A full, detailed lesson by lesson scheme of work for teaching The Accrington Pals as a text for comparison on Paper 2 of the new A-Level. Lessons are objective-led, to meet the archive A-Level but can easily be updated for the new curriculum.
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 lesson by lesson scheme of work with resources for delivering Birdsong as a core text for Paper 2 on the new AQA English Literature specification, for the WW1 and its aftermath option.
A lesson-by-lesson scheme of work with resources for teaching this pre-1900 text to GCSE or A-Level students. All lessons are objective-led and help students to develop a range of reading skills to meet the A-Level Assessment Criteria.
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 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.
A full, detailed lesson by lesson scheme of work with all resources for teaching the second 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.
A full, detailed lesson by lesson scheme of work with all resources for teaching the final 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.
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!
A lesson-by-lesson scheme of work with all attached resources included. The scheme of work leads students towards writing a detailed analysis of a scene but could easily be adapted for teaching this text to a different outcome.
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!
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!