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.
Resources to support the revision of An Inspector Calls for new specification GCSE.
Includes:
- revision of plot, characters and themes
- revision of quotations
- retaining quotations through image association and chants
- sample exam responses
- practice questions
- opportunity for self and peer assessment
- form and structure revision
- revision of context
Fully differentiated resources to support the teaching of a wide variety of poetry forms for KS3.
- Ballads
- elegies
- sonnets
- slang and dialect poetry
- performance poetry
Resources provide opportunities for:
- speaking and listening
- peer and self assessment
- language, form and structure analysis
- context exploration
Poems covered:
- Half caste
- Ballad of Hillsboorough
- The chimney sweeoer
- This is this six oclock news
- Ballad of homeless jack
- ballad of Frankie and Johnny
- On my first sonne
Fully differentiated resources to support the teaching of 3 of Wilfred Owen's war poems.
Lessons develop skills for new specification 9-1 English literature
1. Exposure
2. The Send off
3. Dulce et decorum est
Ideal for KS3 and KS4
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore context
- Analyse language, form and structure
- Form analytical paragraphs
- self and peer assessment
- write imaginatively
3 sample assessments that have been created as a result of there being very few available for the new GCSEs.
Each paper has been created to look identical to the real thing (AQA) and has been worded in the same way too.
Marks for each question are present as well as the bullet points to focus student responses.
Perfect for mocks.
With very few sample assessment materials provided by the exam boards I have created my own.
They have been made to look exactly like the assessments that students will sit n the real 9-1 examinations and are phrased in the same ways too.
The student responses can then be marked using the relevant mark scheme for Power and conflict poetry.
Over 20 key quotations from Romeo and Juliet, each with an accompanying image.
Perfect as a starter where students use the given quote and image to write an interpretation.
Lessons to support the revision of the new specification English language paper 1 for AQA.
Perfect to use in class as a walking talking mock - whereby you guide students thorough each question and allow them the suggested time to complete each task.
Using a sample paper provide by AQA which uses an extract from 'City of beasts' the resources:
- guide students through how to tackle each question
- provide suggested timings
- provide sample answers
- provide tips and strategies for planning a response
- show the questions annotated to ensure students stick to the focus of the task
- provide opportunities to self/peer assess against the mark scheme criteria
Extract taken from: City of Beasts
Fully differentiated resources to support the teaching of chapters 1, 2 and 3 of ‘Of Mice and Men.’
Resources have been created to reflect the skills needed to access the new GCSE 9-1
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Opportunities to:
- explore context
- read actively
- explore themes including loneliness
- explore characterisation
- use the GCSE 9-1 mark scheme to self and peer assess
- write imaginatively
Revision guide included which is also useful as a homework project
Differentiated resources to support the teaching of chapter 4 of 'Of Mice and Men.'
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunities to:
- write to argue (200 word challenge)
- explore context of segregation
- explore the characterisation of Crooks
- Analyse writer's methods
- work as a group and give presentations on contextual information
- read actively
With very few sample assessment materials provided by the exam boards I have created my own.
They have been made to look exactly like the assessments that students will sit in the real 9-1 examinations and are phrased in the same ways too.
The student responses can then be marked using the relevant mark scheme for literature.
The extract in this assessment is taken from stave 3.
Differentiates lessons to support the teaching of chapter 3 of 'Of mice and Men.'
Differentiation:
purple == lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore tension
- explore characterisation
- write analytically in line with the new specification 9-1 skills
- analyse language
- explore the theme of loneliness
- read actively
Differentiated resources to support the teaching of Animal Farm chapter 4.
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
These resources provide opportunities to:
- explore context - the domino effect
- write to argue
- use structure strips to structure an effective argument
- debate
- explore characterisation
- explore theme
- analyse writer's methods
- write a newspaper report on the battle of the cowshed
- study an example argument (band 4 on mark scheme for writing)
Differentiated resources to support he teaching of chapter 2.
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue - middle
yellow - higher
Resources provide opportunities to:
- Analyse Steinbeck's presentation of character
- Self / peer assess against GCSE mark scheme
- Rag rate own performance against mark scheme criteria
- explore character and theme
- Analyse writer's methods
Lessons to support the revision of the new specification English language paper 2 for AQA.
Perfect to use in class as a walking talking mock - whereby you guide students thorough each question and allow them the suggested time to complete each task.
Using a sample paper the resources:
- guide students through how to tackle each question
- provide suggested timings
- provide sample answers
- provide tips and strategies for planning a response
- show the questions annotated to ensure students stick to the focus of the task
- provide opportunities to self/peer assess against the mark scheme criteria
- model to students how to annotate the questions
These lessons use the sample paper that AQA provided on the theme of bad weather.
A presentation that launches a new look feedback policy.
A move away from marking to quality feedback and how this may look in pupil books with examples.
A set of 24 quick questions to test students on their knowledge of Jekyll and Hyde.
Ask students approx 5 questions per day and increase over time.
There is a mixture of context based questions, chapter questions and quotation fill questions.
A lesson that encourages students to think deeply when exploring Churchill’s speech.
Students work towards answering the question: How does Churchill attempt to motivate the British people?
A revision scheme of work on Jekyll and Hyde for the 9-1 English literature course.
The scheme follows an extract booklet of 10 key extracts with lots of differentiated tasks for students to complete based on each one.
The scheme allows students to revise the text and apply the necessary skills for the exam.
Also included:
structure strips
sample exam questions
extract booklet
work sheets including tension graphs
peer/self assessment sticker template
This knowledge book has been created so that students work through it in lessons rather than using an exercise book for all activities. Exercise books are then just used for extended writing.
All key knowledge for Macbeth has been pre-determined and this booklet provides that knowledge alongside purposeful activities and tasks for each scene of the play. When complete - students then have a perfect revision guide to use as part of their exam preparation.
Included in this knowledge book:
32+ lessons covering every scene
a ‘do now’ knowledge retention activity in every lesson
a powerpoint with all knowledge quiz answers
a big and small question to guide learning and discussion
key knowledge including key terminology
embedded contextual links as part of ‘extended reading’
an appendix containing scaffolded activities
activities that also help students to work on the skills required for the language papers
opportunity for students to develop narrative and transactional writing
opportunity to develop language paper 1 and 2 skills
Also useful for students to use as a revision booklet ahead of GCSE examinations.
A scheme of work for the AQA power and conflict poetry unit.
The MTP signposts opportunities to make links to the other literature texts. The texts that are linked to are:
Romeo and Juliet
An Inspector Calls
Opportunities to develop language paper skills are also signposted.