I have been teaching English for 21 years in various teaching establishments including mainstream, private and SEN; both abroad and in the UK. I enjoy making student centred, fun resources to enable all students to access great literature.
I have been teaching English for 21 years in various teaching establishments including mainstream, private and SEN; both abroad and in the UK. I enjoy making student centred, fun resources to enable all students to access great literature.
Original and Innovative Macbeth Cluedo game. Rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted for discovery based learning.
To introduce students to the theme of Tragedy, Murder, Suspicion,
Motive and Revenge in Macbeth.
To familiarise students to the main characters, language, setting and plot.
To enable discovery-based learning within small groups.
To lead to further discussion of character roles and motivation, based on exploration of quotations.
Once this resource has been downloaded and laminated it can be used time and time again in a variety of ways.
Resource includes:
PPT with embedded Macbeth trailer and Cluedo Board/ Player's Counters and Room and Character Cards downloads.
Macbeth Snap
Full Lesson Plan
Worksheets (differentiated)
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GCSE Literature (AQA, WJEC, Edexcel, OCR: full set of lessons and lesson plans to cover the teaching and context of An Inspector Calls. Original and innovative An Inspector Calls resources, including board game and role play for full understanding of the historical, social and cultural background to the text and character culpability. Rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted for discovery based learning. The resource leads to an exam style question and planning sheets.
Resource includes:
* Lesson Plans
Board Game
Role Play and activities
Worksheets
Essay planning sheets
Character Cards downloads.
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Original and Innovative Macbeth Cluedo game. Rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted for discovery based learning.
Resource includes Learning Objectives, Rules, Crime scene Investigation Report, Cluedo Board, Character cards, Quotation cards, Room cards, player chart and differentiation ideas.
To introduce students to the theme of Tragedy, Murder, Suspicion,
Motive and Revenge in Macbeth.
To familiarise students to the main characters, language, setting and plot.
To enable discovery-based learning within small groups.
To lead to further discussion of character roles and motivation, based on exploration of quotations.
Once this resource has been downloaded and laminated it can be used time and time again in a variety of ways.
Resource includes:
PPT with embedded Macbeth trailer and Cluedo Board/ Player's Counters and Room and Character Cards downloads.
Macbeth Snap
Full Lesson Plan
Worksheets (differentiated)
.
Use this fun, fully differentiated, interactive resource to introduce your pupils to the Real Meaning of Easter. Pupils play the Easter Egg Hunt Game, collecting eggs which can be traded for picture cards of Easter. They then discover the real meaning of these picture with reference to symbolic relevance to the Easter Story.
This is an ideal Easter Topic to cover lessons approaching Easter holidays.
Aspects of the curriculum covered:
Literacy: read and follow instructions, match pictures to words. Extension: understand the meaning of symbols and recognise their importance with reference to Easter.
To write the right word to the picture. Extension: to write an explanation for the symbol.
Numeracy: To count numbers on a spinner and count on numbers to reach target.
R.E: to understand the story of Easter and understand the relevance of the Symbols we see at Easter time, with reference to Jesus.
Art: to create own Easter pictures and or Symbols of Easter with an attached meaning.
Fully Differentiated Resource includes:
Lesson PPT
Game Board
Counter and Spinner
Matching cards and Pictures game (Stage 1, 2 and 3)
Chart to describe picture, word, meaning and Symbol (Stage 1, 2 and 3)
Art Gallery pictures and symbols (Stage 1, 2 and 3)
Full Lesson Plan
Last updated Mar 3, 2016, created Mar 3, 2016
A complete set of lessons based on the theme of bravery and cowardice in Macbeth. Fits both OCR and AQA Shakespeare component; cumulating in a GCSE modal question based on Fight or Flight, can be used as formal assessment or as a mock exam question. Resource also incorporates my popular Macbeth Cluedo game as an interactive resource, designed to get your students engaged in the motives behind the characters at the scene of the crime.
Resource includes embedded video trailer of the forthcoming Macbeth Film (2015)
Youtube Mabeth Trailer 2015
Resource can be easily differentiated according to ability:
Includes:
Full Lesson Plan (for 6 Learning Episodes)
Macbeth Snap (differentiated) as a starter activity
PPT Fight and Flight
PPT Macbeth Cluedo
Worksheet for Cluedo game (differentiated)
Worksheet - P.E.E Fight or Flight
Note making worksheet for the Essay
Resource designed to focus pupils on the character of Romeo. Could be used as a starter activity, as an introduction to Romeo and Juliet or a closer analysis of Romeo's character. To aid OCR and AQA English GCSE (final year) controlled assessment and examination for the following years..
Bundle Including:
The Macbeth Cluedo game (updated):
Rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted for discovery based learning.
Resource includes Learning Objectives, Rules, Crime scene Investigation Report, Cluedo Board, Character cards, Quotation cards, Room cards, player chart and differentiation ideas.
To introduce students to the theme of Tragedy, Murder, Suspicion,
Motive and Revenge in Macbeth.
To familiarise students to the main characters, language, setting and plot.
To enable discovery-based learning within small groups.
To lead to further discussion of character roles and motivation, based on exploration of quotations.
Once this resource has been downloaded and laminated it can be used time and time again in a variety of ways
Also including Macbeth Snap game.
The Romeo and Juliet Board Game and Role Play.
Exciting and innovative resource. Starts with Board Game, pupils collect 'Gansta' card (which will decide whether they are in the Capulet or Montague gang) and quotation cards on the way around the board. They finish with a Prince question card. This will then lead to a matching activity, character with quotation. Differentiated cards allow for progression and allowing the more able students to be challenged.
Activity leads onto a class discussion and role play as to each characters' responsibility for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.
Learning Aims:
To introduce students to the theme of Tragedy, Revenge, the ‘Butterfly effect’ and characterisation and motivation.
To familiarise students to the main characters, language, setting and plot.
To enable discovery-based learning within small groups.
To lead to further discussion of character roles and responsibility towards Romeo and Juliet’s deaths, based on exploration of quotations. Prince holds court with questioning suspects.
Resource includes:
Game Board
Heart Counters
'Gangsta' cards.
Quotation cards
Differentiated quotation cards
Police question cards
Pupil chart to complete at end of task
Shakespeare Bundle:
Macbeth Cluedo (updated)
Macbeth Snap
Romeo and Juliet Board Game and Role Play
A fun and engaging set of lessons to aid the understanding and context of the characters in An Inspector Calls and their responsibility for the death of Eva Smith. The resource includes a class, paired and small group role-play activity, a follow up worksheet which incorporates a P.E.E activity and a planning sheet for an exam style question.
Resources brimming with fun filled activities to engage and aid the learner of 'An Inspector Calls'. This resource can be used to revise key themes, characterisation, quotations and context, as well as to introduce these topics. GCSE English Literature: AQA, WJEC, EDEXCEL, OCR.
Resource includes:
Differentiated Bingo game
Game Boards
Character cards
Quotation cards
Context game PPT
Role play PPT
Fun resource to test your pupils SPAG knowledge. Pupils have to decide whether the sentences are accurate and then bid for the sentence.
Resource includes:
PPT
Sentence auction worksheet
Fake money.
Exciting and innovative resource. Starts with Board Game, pupils collect 'Gansta' card (which will decide whether they are in the Capulet or Montague gang) and quotation cards on the way around the board. They finish with a Prince question card. This will then lead to a matching activity, character with quotation. Differentiated cards allow for progression and allowing the more able students to be challenged.
Activity leads onto a class discussion and role play as to each characters' responsibility for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.
Learning Aims:
To introduce students to the theme of Tragedy, Revenge, the ‘Butterfly effect’ and characterisation and motivation.
To familiarise students to the main characters, language, setting and plot.
To enable discovery-based learning within small groups.
To lead to further discussion of character roles and responsibility towards Romeo and Juliet’s deaths, based on exploration of quotations. Prince holds court with questioning suspects.
Resource includes:
Game Board
Heart Counters
'Gangsta' cards.
Quotation cards
Differentiated quotation cards
Police question cards
Pupil chart to complete at end of task
This fun, student centred resource is a complete set of lessons to enable students to be prepared for the Shakespeare aspect of GCSE English Literature for both AQA and OCR. It fulfils the Speaking and Listening component and can be used as an example of Real Life Context. Rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted for discovery based learning.
The learning objectives are for
• Students to use prior knowledge of text to demonstrate understanding of characters to answer the questions posed in depth
• Students to be able to use Speaking and Listening skills in RLC
• Students to be able to demonstrate use of quotation to justify answers
• Students to demonstrate understanding of context to answer the question:
Romeo and Juliet: Romantic Tragedy or Tragedy of Circumstance?? Discuss.
This can be used as a formal assessment for a mock examination for the literature Shakespeare paper, or a controlled assessment.
A in depth lesson plan demonstrates the best use of the resources, which included differentiated worksheets to accommodate a range of abilities within once class.
Resource includes:
* PPT presentation
* Character cards
* Prosecutor questions to be used for role play
* Guilty or not guilty Worksheets (differentiated)
* Full lesson plans
* Character Supportive Quotes Worksheet.
Includes youtube clip: Judge Judy Best Bits.
Is ideal to use with my other resource: Romeo and Juliet Game Board as a follow up activity.
This fun, student centred resource is a complete set of lessons to enable students to use prior knowledge and understanding of Romeo and Juliet to complete a role play and complete a worksheet and essay using supportive quotation.
The learning objectives are for
• Students to use prior knowledge of text to demonstrate understanding of characters to answer the questions posed in depth
• Students to be able to use Speaking and Listening skills in RLC
• Students to be able to demonstrate use of quotation to justify answers
• Students to demonstrate understanding of context to answer the question:
Romeo and Juliet: Romantic Tragedy or Tragedy of Circumstance?? Discuss.
This can be used as a formal assessment for a mock examination for the literature Shakespeare paper, or a controlled assessment.
A in depth lesson plan demonstrates the best use of the resources, which included differentiated worksheets to accommodate a range of abilities within once class.
Resource includes:
* PPT presentation
* Character cards
* Prosecutor questions to be used for role play
* Guilty or not guilty Worksheets (differentiated)
* Full lesson plans
* Character Supportive Quotes Worksheet.
Includes youtube clip: Judge Judy Best Bits
A fun Christmas SPAG resource, follows an entertaining Christmas story. Pupils have to decide whether the SPAG is accurate on each sentence and bid for the sentence with Christmas money.
Resource includes:
PPT activity.
Sentence worksheets.
Christmas money.
Exciting and innovative resource. Starts with Board Game, pupils collect 'Gansta' card (which will decide whether they are in the Capulet or Montague gang) and quotation cards on the way around the board. They finish with a Prince question card. This will then lead to a matching activity, character with quotation. Differentiated cards allow for progression and allowing the more able students to be challenged.
Activity leads onto a class discussion and role play as to each characters' responsibility for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.
Learning Aims:
To introduce students to the theme of Tragedy, Revenge, the ‘Butterfly effect’ and characterisation and motivation.
To familiarise students to the main characters, language, setting and plot.
To enable discovery-based learning within small groups.
To lead to further discussion of character roles and responsibility towards Romeo and Juliet’s deaths, based on exploration of quotations. Prince holds court with questioning suspects.
Resource includes:
Game Board
Heart Counters
'Gangsta' cards.
Quotation cards
Differentiated quotation cards
Police question cards
Pupil chart to complete at end of task
Macbeth Snap: introduces pupils to the characters and quotations around the murder of King Duncan. Resource also include differentiated cards, where pupils have to match the quote to character using prior knowledge of the text.
Great as a lesson starter and goes particularly well with my other resource MACBETH CLUEDO, where these characters and quotes are used to find where the characters were located at the time of the murder, as well as possible motives. Both games are fun tools to familiarise students with the theme, plot, setting and characterisation. It has proved successful when trying to demonstrate discovery based learning.