I'm currently the head of English and raising standards leader at a secondary school in Birmingham. I'm passionate about my subject and passionate about ensuring that the young people we serve leave education with a high competency in English.
Prior to teaching I worked in the radio industry as a presenter for 7 years and so when I became a teacher I enjoyed the opportunity to teach Media studies.
You'll find hundreds of English and Media studies resources.
I'm currently the head of English and raising standards leader at a secondary school in Birmingham. I'm passionate about my subject and passionate about ensuring that the young people we serve leave education with a high competency in English.
Prior to teaching I worked in the radio industry as a presenter for 7 years and so when I became a teacher I enjoyed the opportunity to teach Media studies.
You'll find hundreds of English and Media studies resources.
This bundle includes a medium term plan (scheme of work) written in line with new specification AQA literature 9-1.
The medium term plan also signposts homework tasks and opportunities to embed skills needed for the language papers.
I have also included GCSE exam questions that have been written for An Inspector Calls that can be used to assess the literature component but also the language writing assessment objectives.
GCSE assessment questions that are included:
1. Inspector Calls character question
2. Inspector Calls theme question
3. Inspector Calls imaginative writing question (language exam skills)
4. Inspector Calls Non fiction and literary non fiction question (lang)
5. Inspector Calls transactional writing question (lang)
Three revision power points also included.
Also available as separate bundles are:
- Fully differentiated resources to support this MTP
- Revision activities to embed character, theme and context understanding
These resources help students to revise the characters, themes and context of the play.
The context resources can be used as a carousel activity.
The resources on themes and characters guide students through the process of answering an exam question, using success criteria and timings. Model answers are also included aimed at middle ability.
Lesson power points and activities to support the teaching of The Curious incident of the dog in the night time.
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore context
- explore and analyse characters and themes
- write police reports
- explore and analyse language
- write descriptively and persuasively
- develop inference skills
TEACHING RESOURCES Including power point presentations and activities to support the teaching of imaginative writing.
Resources include opportunities to:
- develop characterisation
- explorer tabloid and broadsheet
- create tabloid and broadsheet
Fully differentiated (by colour) resources to support the teaching of 'Of Mice and Men' for KS3/GCSE.
Ideal resources for year 8/9 students. These lessons are meticulously planned and embed skills needed for GCSE English language and literature. These lessons are ready to. Download and teach!
Lessons support:
- reading of the novel
- analysis of Steinbeck's language
- character analysis
- theme analysis
- context exploration and analysis
- revision of characters and themes
- begin to structure exam responses
- modelled exam paragraphs
Differentiation:
purple= lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
19 fully differentiated lessons (by colour) that enable students to explore a wide variety of non-fiction texts and create their own.
These resources are meticulously planned and are ready to go. Simply download and teach.
Analysis of the following texts:
- leaflets - theme of holidays and attractions
- articles - theme of legal driving age
- reports
- adverts
- newspapers - range of broadsheet and tabloid
- posters - NSPCC
- social media
- tv news
- autobiography
- letters - ban mobile phones
Differentiation by colour:
yellow = higher ability
blue - middle ability
purple = lower ability
These resources provide opportunities to:
- Analyse language, form and structure of non fiction texts
- analyse the use of persuasive language
- write persuasively
- create a wide variety of non fiction texts
- explore texts from a variety of sources and media
- explore relevant topics for young people
- develop speaking and listening skills
Ideal for KS3 ahead of GCSE 9-1
These fully differentiated (by colour) resources support the teaching of the entire novel 'Two weeks with the Queen.' Medium term plan also included along with homework tasks and assessment opportunities.
Over 25 lessons ready to go! Download and teach.
The medium term plan signposts opportunities to develop language and literature skills for 9-1 GCSE.
Differentiation:
Purple = low ability
Blue = middle ability
Yellow = higher ability
These lessons are ready to go - download and teach straight away.
Resources provide opportunities to:
- Read for pleasure
- Analyse language and structure
- Analyse pathetic fallacy
- Analyse character and theme
- Writing opportunities including persuasive writing, diary entry,news reports, writing to advise, formal letter writing, leaflet writing
- Develop literacy skills including sentence forms, direct speech
- Analyse non fiction texts
- Build skills for the new 9-1 GCSE English language and literature specifications
This bundle contains resources for the entirety of the novel. (Chapters 1-10)
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunity to develop skills for GCSE 9-1.
Also included:
- 2 lots of exam revision for the literature exam
- Quotations with images to aide revision
- a revision guide
- structure strips to allow students to structure better responses
Power point resources to support the teaching of the following poems from the new specification AQA power and conflict poetry collection:
1. Storm on the island
2. War photographer
3. Extract from Prelude
4. My last Duchess
5. Checkin out me history
16 outstanding lessons that are meticulously planned, fully differentiated and numbered for ease of use with activities included.
Homework tasks included.
Download and teach right away!
All resources are fully differentiated by colour. (Purple = low ability, blue = mid ability, yellow = higher ability)
There are 2 to 3 power point presentations per poem which cover context, language, form and structure and contain assessment opportunities in line with new specification.
Comparison lessons also included.
A Differentiated resources to support the exploration of gun culture following the recent attack in Las Vegas. (October 2017)
Resource provides opportunities to:
- compare gun culture statistics in UK and USA
- compare Obama's speech on gun culture with Trump's election campaign speech
- explore the events in Las Vegas
- write a formal letter of argument on the subject
- Analyse the effectiveness of Obama's speech
- Analyse language
- Use 'what, how, why?' instead of PEE
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher