A medium term plan (scheme of work) for Of Mice and Men to be taught at KS3. This medium term plan signposts opportunities to embed skills for the new specification GCSE 9-1 skills. The scheme lasts 7 weeks and within each week is an assessment. Each week's assessment is either a literature or language paper based assessment.

9 pages of revision activities that would be useful for preparation for assessments, as homework activities or as in class intervention. Revision activities included: knowledge matching activity word class practice using an extract figurative language matching activity & practice using language rhetorical language matching activity & practice using language Ethos, logos, pathos revision (Aristotelian triad) Understanding - practice using short extracts to elicit information Three language analysis revision activities that begin scaffolded Grammar revision with focus on 'there, their. they’re and apostrophes

A presentation used for staff CPD around strategies for increasing the ratio. Active engagement versus thinking. The presentation is rooted in educational research from Doug Lemov and Tom Sherrington. The presentation: sets out expectations of all students in our classrooms explains the ratio spectrum with examples of actions that would place students in varying positions on the ratio graph emphasises the importance of ‘no opt out’ with strategies for ensuring this explores the concept of active observation and how it an be used to increase the ratio explores how the ratio can be increased through writing, questioning and discussion simultaneously - in detail considers the difference between formative and summative writing incorporates a section where the CPD leader models a process for increasing the ratio through writing, questioning and discussion using the teachers as students - participants consider the question “What makes a good lesson?”

A Walking talking mock that uses the AQA examiner feedback from summer 2023 to guide students through a process of planning and then writing answers/essays in response to Romeo and Juliet. Power point (42 slides) and student work booklet included. This resource focuses on helping students to: plan their response consider the text chronologically embed context rather than bolt it on at the end consider how themes can be context rather than just Historical events create thesis statements consider the texts as constructs Exam question used in this resource: relationships between older and younger characters Model answers included.

A Walking talking mock that uses the AQA examiner feedback from the summer exams to guide students through a process of planning and then writing answers to English language paper 1. Power point (81 slides) and student work booklet included. This resource focuses on helping students to: plan their responses to the questions consider the order in which to answer the questions explore methods and their effect concisely improve responses through model answers consider ‘mood’ as a central concept in all of the tasks on the paper develop their imaginative writing Source material: Daphne De Maurier ‘Don’t look now’ Model answers included.

A series of lessons exploring the lyrical ballad ‘Goody Blake and Harry Gill’ for Key stage 3. In these lessons students will: summarise differences analyse use of language write a persuasive letter explore the context of lyrical ballads develop inference skills

A CPD journal template. The idea behind this is to front load a term/half term with the relevant reading that will be the basis for CPD to allow staff to read and engage ahead of a CPD session. The reading included is based around the school priorities and ensures that CPD is research based. Space is provided for staff to reflect on each CPD session and prioritise their actions.

Over 10 lessons worth of resources to support the teaching of spoken language. All lessons are meticulously planned and fully differentiated by colour. These lessons are ready to go and are numbered for ease of use. Ideal for use in KS3 given the removal of this component as part of GCSE. Differentiation: purple - lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability These resources allow students to identify and analyse the following spoken language techniques: - face threatening acts - jargon - accent and dialect - formal and informal talk - Adjacency pairs - back channel features - Fillers and hedges - Holding the floor - turn taking - overlapping speech - standard English - spontaneous speech Students will explore spoken language taken from the following sources: - Catharine Tate as Lauren in the UK sitcom - Jeremy Paxman interview with Russell Brand - Ali G interview with Tony Benn - Jonathan Ross interview with Lady Gaga - Board room conversations taken from the Junior apprentice - Classroom talk taken from Highgate Wood school - Transcripts of students talking with teachers Links provided for YouTube video clips to allow students to observe the spoken language before analysing Planning sheets, card sort of techniques, homework tasks and analysis writing frames are also included.

Revision booklet for Macbeth with activities to help students revise character, theme, context etc. This booklet would be useful for students after studying or to complete as they study the play or complete as a homework project.

2 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of 19th century extracts taken from Jane Eyre and Nicholas Nickleby. The focus of these lessons is school life and students will consider the presentation of school in the 19th century and compare this to school life in the 21st century. Opportunities to compare the two 19th century texts. Extracts are taken from the AQA new specification 9-1, 19th century texts booklet and is included in this resource pack. Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability

3 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of 19th century England context. Useful ahead of studying a 19th century text or extract with KS3. Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability Resources cover: London social class gender divide rich and poor children Technology Education Children Welfare support Hygiene Difference between rich and poor Opportunities to: - write imaginatively - analyse gender divide - explore social class

8 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of act 2 of An Inspector Calls Differentiation: purple = lower blue = middle yellow = higher Resources provide opportunities to: - explore context 1912 and 1945 - explore Gerald's and Mrs Birling's involvement - analyse language and structure - structure exam responses - compare the responsibility of different character - write imaginatively - write a speech

7 differentiated resources to support the teaching of Stone Cold the play. Resources cover act 1 scene 7 through to scene 16. Differentiation: purple = lower blue = middle yellow - higher Resources provide opportunities to: - role play - including hot seating - explore and write monologues - write imaginatively - language paper 1 skill developed - compare the novel and play - explore ideals - explore the context of the big issue - explore the theme of friendship - compare perspectives (language paper 1 skill developed) - create character profiles

5 differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of the skills for English language question 4 on the new specification (9-1) paper 1. Students read extracts taken from fiction and develop skills in evaluating effectiveness. The resource uses an extract from 'Transmission.' Extract included. Resources provide opportunities to: - explore how writer's structure texts - analyse the use of structure in engaging reader interest - use sample answers - use mark schemes Differentiation: purple = lower blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability

A resource to support students in the comparison of The Emigree to one other poem from the power and conflict collection Differentiation: purple = lower blue = middle yellow = higher Resource provides opportunities for: - exploration of the mark scheme - identifying points of comparison between The Emigree and other poems - self/peer assessment - guiding students through an effective analytical paragraph structure

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. This paper uses The Emigree as the printed poem. The student responses can then be marked using the relevant mark scheme for Power and conflict poetry.

Two fully differentiated (by colour) lessons that cover chapters 1 of Jekyll and Hyde and meet the requirements of the new GCSE 9-1 specification. All lessons are fully differentiated by colour Purple = lower ability Blue = middle ability Yellow = higher ability Red = most able

Fully differentiated lessons to support the teaching of 'Charge of the light brigade' by Alfred Lord Tennyson. 3 lessons that include pupil talk tasks, assessment, outcomes and cover: - context of the poem - language analysis - form and structure exploration - interleaved content - obedience in the poem and in Romeo & Juliet and An Inspector Calls - imaginative writing and upgrading sentences Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow - higher ability