A resource with guided activities (inspired by Anne of Green Gables) and tips on how to help your students ‘show, not tell’ in their creative writing.
Designed for 11+, but relevant for 13+/KS3.
2.5 pages of notes analysing ‘A Valediction of Weeping’ by John Donne (summary, technical terms, title, structure, five important quotes, context).
Designed for A-Level English Edexcel Metaphysical Poetry.
A festive themed past-paper style passage followed by comprehension questions, and a choice of two creative writing prompts.
Questions are a mixture of short-answer (testing understanding of the passage), vocabulary,
Passage taken from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
Would be suitable for 13+ entrance practice, or high-level 11+ entrance/scholarship practice.
15 slide powerpoint covering Unit 2: Life after death. Explains key terms and gives points for discussion on the following: Christian beliefs on life after death, non-religious reasons for believing in life after death, why some do not believe in life after death, abortion (discusses different Christian attitudes and the film ‘Juno’), euthanasia (types, moral issues, Christian responses), should the media critique religious views on life after death, poverty and Christian Aid.
Short powerpoints covering types of adaptation, environmental change factors, obtaining data on ecology, natural selection, classification, extinction, speciation.
Designed for B8+9 of the AQA GCSE Biology Dual Award specification.
13 page powerpoint on nuclear physics (covers: plum pudding model, atomic structure, radioactive decay, types of radiation, uses and dangers, decay equations, nuclear fission, star life cycle, nuclear fusion). Designed to cover P5 of the AQA GCSE Dual Award Physics specification.
11-slide powerpoint on heating processes (kinetic theory, specific heat capacity, specific latent heat, boiling points, conduction, convection, IR radiation, evaporation, efficiency, heating and insulating buildings). Designed for P3 on the AQA GCSE Physics Dual Award specification.
3.5 pages of notes analysing ‘Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass’ (Simon Armitage), from ‘Poems of the Decade’ for the A-Level Edexcel English Literature syllabus.