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A Head of English, Examiner my resources span 26 years of teaching.

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A Head of English, Examiner my resources span 26 years of teaching.
Mortal Engines complete unit for teaching late key stage 2 or key stage 3
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Mortal Engines complete unit for teaching late key stage 2 or key stage 3

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This is a complete unit on the engaging text of ‘Mortal Engines’ for late primary or early secondary students. There are 260 slides here which is ideal for online learning with tasks and sample student answers to refer to. Students are encouraged to do both creative writing tasks, grammar and spelling tasks throughout and alongside the close reading of the book. Characterisation, setting, report writing, diary writing, letter writing, close analysis, writing a guide for the hunting ground, writing a scapheap challenge for making the Jenny Haniver…just some of the tasks. There is a lot of work here and should keep a class busy for at least six weeks, covering a great variety of English skills and targets.
Othello essay question with annotated text: presentation of the jealous husband
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Othello essay question with annotated text: presentation of the jealous husband

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Written for the AQA Literature A spec but suitable for other A Level study of ‘Othello’ an essay question on: Read the passage from Othello, provided below, and respond to the following: • ‘Othello is too easy to pity, too hard to like’. • In light of this view, discuss the presentation of Othello as the jealous husband, here and elsewhere in the play. With an annotated text version for teaching close analysis to the class.
Writing speeches
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Writing speeches

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Everything you need for a complete unit on speech writing suitable for any GCSE transactional writing requirement. This includes all clips to speeches, such as Ghandi, James Cordon, Obama etc and analyses the techniques in those speeches and provides suggested titles for students to write their own speeches and a step by step framework to follow, supporting them as they write.
A Level Dracula unit chapters 5-12  contexts, themes, exemplars, lessons
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A Level Dracula unit chapters 5-12 contexts, themes, exemplars, lessons

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This is the second of a set of presentations covering the whole of Dracula for teaching it to A level for the Edexcel spec. It includes questions, exemplars, contexts, themes and builds across a total of 169 slides (see my other 3 in the set. Also, please see my Dorian Gray unit produced in the same way and the comparative essay plans which I have put together as a bundle.
Travel Writing complete unit
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Travel Writing complete unit

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Everything you need for teaching travel writing. 90 slides that should take a class a month to complete - maybe longer, depending on your group. A comprehensive unit which builds all the necessary non-fiction skills for students approaching the new GCSE courses. Both modern and early 20th century travel writing texts are included. This unit covers traditional travel writing, complaints, comedy, journalism, television and online forums.This was written for year 9 but could slot in at any point in Key Stage 3. Writers included: Shackleton, Callahan, Palin, Bryson, Ffyona Campbell, Tony Hawks, and more. Includes 90 slides Students will analyse in detail how humour is created, critique the use of persuasive language to engage consumers, write creatively, imaginatively and produce complaint reviews.
Unseen Poetry Love Through the Ages 7 paired poems with questions AQA
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Unseen Poetry Love Through the Ages 7 paired poems with questions AQA

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All you need to teach a unit on unseen poetry. I have put this presentation together which includes AQA spec A type questions for the new syllabus Love Through the Ages Unseen Poetry. However, the tasks would work for any A Level unseen poetry work. I have tried to cover a range of literary periods and include brief bios on poets and key words to prompt students with each poem.
Key Stage 2 & 3 Prose study The Land of Neverendings
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Key Stage 2 & 3 Prose study The Land of Neverendings

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This is a brilliant book covering lots of thoughtful issues around friendship, grief and it is also utterly magical and enchanting. This unit of work contains over 170 slides covering comprehension skills, reading implicit meaning, punctuation, report writing, descriptive writing, speech writing to name a few. It was used for year 8 students but could be used for top primary as well as early secondary. Lots of consolidated work here, fun and enough to keep students busy for at least a term.
Key Stage 3 Poetry full unit
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Key Stage 3 Poetry full unit

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Everything you need to teach a detailed unit of poetry at Key Stage 3. Texts range from Beowulf to contemporary poetry from today: covering War poems, Ballads, sonnets, Romantic…this is a really comprehensive unit with sections on caesura, enjambement, plosives, etc…
Jane Eyre - background, analysis and assessment
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Jane Eyre - background, analysis and assessment

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A background presentation on Bronte, a contexts presentation, close analysis and chapter by chapter close textual analysis throughout the central Thornfield chapters plus other helpful banded answers
Dorian Gray complete unit A level
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Dorian Gray complete unit A level

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A series of A Level lessons on Wilde’s ‘Dorian Gray’ including the quotations and analysis from the text, covering such themes as Influence/gothic/Art and Aesthetics/doubles, dopplegangers and splitting/hereditry/flowers, colour and decadence/ context/women and gender. Some of these themes may be in the first two chapters or may be in subsequent chapters. Some lessons also include essay frameworks. This was written for the Edexcel new spec but is generic enough for any A level course.
Tissue AQA
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Tissue AQA

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This is a detailed analysis of the poem with alternate readings. There are also slides with notes on the analysis of techniques.
Women in 'A View from the Bridge'
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Women in 'A View from the Bridge'

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Very detailed slides on Miller’s presentation of both Catherine and Beatrice in ‘A View from the Bridge’. These were written to teach the iGCSE coursework essay but would be suitable for any GCSE - Note, there are not any references to context in these slides as the iGCSE coursework did not require it but all of the quotations and ideas are there.
AQA Othello: essay title 'women as helpless victims' including annotated extract
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AQA Othello: essay title 'women as helpless victims' including annotated extract

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An essay title written for the AQA spec A Love Through the Ages paper 1 section A with a question onRead the passage from Othello, provided below, and respond to the following: • ‘In Othello, love makes women helpless victims’. • In light of this view, discuss whether Shakespeare presents women as victims in this passage and elsewhere in the play. • [25 marks] This includes an annotated extract to support teaching.
Lord of the Flies - two essay titles with the appropriate quotations
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Lord of the Flies - two essay titles with the appropriate quotations

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Two essay titles with all the appropriate quotations gathered together for students to analyse: Why do you think it is important that Golding portrays the natural world as a character with malevolent characteristics? How does Golding establish a contrast between the two boys in the first five pages?