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.
These resources cover Act 2, act 3, act 4 and act 5 of Romeo and Juliet and meet the requirements of the new GCSE 9-1 specification.
19lessons included that are meticulously planned, fully differentiated and numbered for ease of use with a wide range of activities included that prepare students for language as well as literature.
These lessons can be downloaded and taught right away.
All lessons are fully differentiated by colour
Purple = lower ability
Blue = middle ability
Yellow = higher ability
Red = most able
These resources cover the following areas of act 1:
- Context
- Imagery analysis
- Analysis of sonnet form
- Language, form and structure analysis
- Opportunity for role play/speaking and listening
- Analysis development and practice
- Teacher, self and peer assessment opportunities
- Character and theme presentation
- Soliloquy analysis and comparison
- Homework tasks
Resources to support the teaching of act 1 are also available and are all meticulously planned and fully differentiated.
A revision timetable template that takes students from January until the end of June with dates so that they can:
- write in when exams are
- schedule their revision effectively around their exams
All 10 chapters fully differentiated (by colour)
Purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
All resources are planned in line with the new specification and cover:
- writer's methods
- extract to whole -
- context
Also embedded are several skills to enable students to access the language papers. Activities included to help students work on:
- evaluating
- comparing
- writing
- selecting and retrieving
A sample preliminary material to give students ahead of their next mock examination on the theme of TV game shows.
The mock exam itself is also included and has been created to replicate the real exam - 4 questions each worth 15 marks with one task being a creative design task.
Resources to support the teaching of imaginative writing for low ability KS3 pupils. This resource was planned to provide 4 lessons and was planned to allow students to create a short story to enter in the BBC radio 2 500 words competition.
Covers:
- story openings
- plot development
- descriptive writing
- show not tell
- character development
Each question on paper 1 annotated to guide students through what to do on each question. Useful for exam revision or to use when guiding students through a walking-talking mock.
Annotations include:
- planning tips
- suggested timings
- How to structure the response
- using the bullet points
SAMS2 is the paper I have used for this - the paper that uses the Brighton Rock source.
- focus of the question
2 differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of chapter 10 of Animal Farm for the new linear specification (9-1)
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources are planned around the new specification and provide opportunities to:
- explore context
- explore character presentations
- discuss interpretations
The whole of act 1 fully differentiated (by colour) for the new specification English literature 9-1 course.
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources cover:
- context
- writer's methods
- character and theme exploration
Fully differentiated resources (by colour) to support the teaching of Romeo and Juliet for the new GCSE 9-1 specification. (Whole of act 3)
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources fully cover:
- language, form and structure
- context
- character and theme exploration
5 fully differentiated (by colour) resources to support the revision of TV Game show audiences for the May 2017 exam.
Purple = lower
Blue = middle
Yellow = higher
Resources cover:
- Audience gratifications
- Blumler and Katz
- Sub genres
- 4Cs Young and Rubican
7 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of writing skills for paper 1 - descriptive and narrative
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources provide example responses and activities to allow students to develop the following:
- Language - linguistic devices
- tone
- style
- register
- vocabulary
- structure
- perspective
- narrative writing
- descriptive writing
- show not tell
- importance of planning
- technical accuracy
Sample narratives and descriptions included
Fully differentiated lessons to support the teaching of the new specification AQA English language paper 1 - reading and writing. Lessons are numbered for ease of use.
Differentiation by colour:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
All texts for study are included as are:
- sample exam questions
- sample responses
- medium term plans
Lessons allow students to develop skills in:
- Listing information from texts
- Language analysis
- Structure analysis
- Evaluation - agree/disagree
- Narrative writing
- Descriptive writing
Fully differentiated resources (by colour) to support the teaching of Romeo and Juliet for the new GCSE 9-1 specification. (Whole of Act 2)
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources fully cover:
- language, form and structure
- context
- character and theme exploration
A sample preliminary material to give students ahead of their next mock examination on the theme of serial drama.
The mock exam itself is also included and has been created to replicate the real exam - 4 questions each worth 15 marks with one task being a creative design task.
2 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of the 'The Drum' by John Scott.
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunities for students to develop skills for 9-1 poetry exam including language and structure analysis and context exploration.
2 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of synthesis (writing a summary of differences)
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources use modern and 19th century non fiction texts on prisons and tattoos to guide students in responding to the synthesis task on the new specification language paper.
Texts included
3 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of comparison between 2 non fiction texts - one modern and one from the 19th century.
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Texts -
Why we shouldn't wrap our children in cotton wool and The watercress girl
The supermarket's dark stores and 19th century markets for the poor
Students will compare the ideas and perspectives of the writers.
6 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of language analysis for new specification AQA paper 2 - (non fiction texts)
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources use a range of modern non fiction and 19th century non fiction texts to guide students through answering Q3 - language analysis.
Model answers included and opportunities for students to improve model answers,
Text on super markets - girl of the period and a letter from a student.
Texts included
