I am an experienced teacher and currently Head of English and Media in a large secondary school. I am also an examiner for EDUQAS English Language GCSE. I have a range of resources available on TES. Some of my resources are quite old, from when I first started out, and I am currently working in my spare time to update my resources. There are a range of resources from displays, schemes of work, revision booklets, mock exam papers and lessons available.
I am an experienced teacher and currently Head of English and Media in a large secondary school. I am also an examiner for EDUQAS English Language GCSE. I have a range of resources available on TES. Some of my resources are quite old, from when I first started out, and I am currently working in my spare time to update my resources. There are a range of resources from displays, schemes of work, revision booklets, mock exam papers and lessons available.
A very detailed workbook or revision book for William Shakespeare's Macbeth. The workbook includes: all the key scenes broken down with key questions throughout, all key soliloquys with key questions, a range of essay questions, short language questions, analysis of theme, character and purpose. A wide range of activities to help students revise Macbeth and succeed in their exams. 36 pages of tasks and analysis opportunities. Students could use this in conjunction with the Macbeth and Lady Macbeth quote revision cards also available through my shop.
A selection of 5 lessons, all focused on a different feature, technique or punctuation mark, to improve basic spelling, punctuation and grammar within writing. Perfect for Key Stage 3 or low ability Key Stage 4. It is a fun and interactive set of lessons with lots of whiteboard work and games. This bundle is saving you 60% of the usual price!
key Stage 3, Year 9 English SOW that has strong links to History.
A full half term scheme of work, fully resourced for each week with a detailed medium term plan outlining every lesson. Key vocabulary is outlined for the scheme. A skeleton powerpoint is also provided with 38 slides of basic guidance for teachers for the first week of learning. Each week has a different focus, with key skills worked on throughout the SOW. These skills are:
Reading:
Comparing texts, synthesising information, analysing writer’s techniques and message and evaluating texts
Writing:
Using discourse markers, using ambitious punctuation, using writer’s techniques, using the correct layout and writing engaging texts.
The scheme of work includes:
-an analysis of the language of media looking at cases of police brutality
-an exploration of how the civil rights movement started with transactional writing tasks linked to different moments within the Civil Right’s Movement, as well as source analysis
-An analysis and comparison of different influential figures - includes extracts of autobiographies, speeches and articles about MLK, Malcolm X, JFK and Emmett Till. Also has a great lesson on the FBI report around Emmett Till’s murder.
-Exploration of Civil Rights poetry (June Jordan, Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker
-Exploring presidential campaigns and how they are created. This looks at Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and speeches and compares them to different presidents
-The final two weeks give students the opportunity to create their own presidential campaign and to create a celebration of Black History Month. These weeks include lots of opportunity for written and spoken assessment, as well as collaborative projects.
Each week has a blue highlighted task that can be the assessment task, or a weekly checkpoint task.
A useful starter kit for anyone who is due to teach P4C but has not had much experience teaching it. P4C is a great way of getting students discussing key issues and is useful in many subjects across the curriculum. This starter kit gives you:
-useful posters
-blank powerpoint slide format
-5 example P4C lesson plans / powerpoints in full
-resources needed for each lesson
- 'helpful hints' worksheet or poster for students to improve their conversational speech
I have compiled together a bank of homework menus for texts that are often studied. This means in one purchase you will get homework menus for:
Romeo and Juliet
A Christmas Carol
Macbeth
The Boy in the Striped Pyjama's
Lord of the Flies
and
The Creative Writing homework menu
Each of these homework menu's has 25 separate homework tasks that can be completed to assist students with the understanding of the text, and they can each be easily adapted to be easily set cover work for classes.
An updated entire terms lesson plans. 31 lessons planned and prepared. Links to scheme of work already uploaded. Resources available with scheme of work, and many are already within the PowerPoint. Included in this download are the three poems listed to be studied alongside the play.
A range of resources to enable students to access, understand and enjoy Hound of the Baskervilles. A selection of worksheets, whole lessons and short tasks to enable understanding and appreciation of Arthur Conan Doyle's writing. Also very beneficial for the structure of the Eduqas English GCSE and skills needed.
A fully resources scheme of work looking at sonnets and soliloquies, comparing them to popular music - mainly rap and hip hop. This is created for year 8, but could be used in any year of KS3.
This is a lively and engaging scheme of work that looks at the similarities between rap, hip-hop and Shakespeare’s writing. The student have opportunities to learn about the structure and creation of sonnets and soliloquies, with soliloquies from Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Macbeth as well as Sonnet 18, Sonnet 55 and Ozymandias (Shelley).
As part of the package, you get:
A full MTP document with detailed outline of each lesson, tasks, assessment points, LOs and SCs and optional homework. It also has links to any web pages needed.
All resources for each week, including assessment resources and grading for speaking and listening assessment opportunities.
Resources for each week
A full skeleton powerpoint for the whole term. This gives basic guidance through each lesson, with LOs and SCs already outlined. All you need to do is tweak it for your classes/add any photos or images you would like.
A handy pack of Eduqas style component 1 papers to help students with exam practice, exam writing style and understanding 20th Century fiction. Texts include Great Gatsby, Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest and more.
There are 6 exam style papers in the set, with 6 different 20th century text extracts and 24 different Prose creative writing task titles.
Component 1 consists of:
Section A (20%) – Reading Understanding of one prose extract (about 60-100 lines) of literature from the 20th century assessed through a range of structured questions
Section B (20%) – Prose Writing One creative writing task selected from a choice of four titles.
A handy pack of Eduqas style component 2 papers to help students with exam practice, exam writing style and understanding 19th and 21st Century non fiction. Inserts include non fiction texts on prison life, child labour, advertising and hospital conditions.
There are 5 exam style papers in the set, with 5 different sets of 19th and 21st century articles/adverts/letters and 10 transactional writing tasks, all set out exactly like the Eduqas exam paper.
A bank of 10 complete lesson resources, powerpoints and worksheets to link with any novel that covers the theme of crime and punishment. A wide range of issues are up for discussion including:
Greed, Tolerance, Equality, Freedom of Speech and Riots, Greed, Media, Youth Crime...
I have also included an end of term lesson where students can utilize the speaking and listening skills they have practiced and discuss which character should be allowed to survive a boat crash.
Every lesson has Learning Objectives, Success Criteria, resources and a planned powerpoint so you will not need to do any editing. All lessons have at least one stimulus prepared; either a poem, article, video clip or song.
A collection of five exam style paper comparing unseen poems. The selection includes: Emily Dickenson, Sylvia Plath, William Ernest Henley, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Christina Rossetti, Dylan Thomas, Roger McGough and more! Included in each resource is: the exam question; two unseen poems; teacher notes including assessment objectives and mark scheme; student notes (including a key terminology tick list and a breakdown of what is needed to get maximum marks when answering the question). A great revision tool and an excellent way of helping the students get to grips with expectations in the exam.
A range of exam papers, mark schemes and inserts to help prepare students for their English Language Component 1 GCSE exam paper. Included in the bundle are the following papers:
Animal Farm
Great Gatsby
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lord of the Flies
Beloved
A Handmaid's Tale
Invisible Man
To Kill a Mockingbird.
Also included are mark scheme's tailored to assist marking of all 8 papers as well as a step by step walk through lesson with handy revision print outs for students to practice the skills and improve their analysis.
This bundle includes; homework menus providing 25 tasks for Blood Brothers, A Christmas Carol; creative writing and Macbeth (which can be used as revision guides); lessons on component 1 and 2 of the language component and how to answer them; a created paper to mimic the style of both papers; poetry anthology work. All resources made from scratch and very beneficial to the learning of GCSE students. Reduced by 54%
A bundle of fully planned lessons, homework booklets, revision tools and exam papers to practice for the Anthology Literature exam for the WJEC/EDUQAS exam board. This includes a complete scheme of work as well as a handy links between poems poster to help students compare and contrast. If bought individually, these resources, if all bought separately, would cost £46, however the bundle price is saving you 61%.
Normally costing £47 when all bought separately, I am releasing an 'A Christmas Carol' teaching bundle that includes: literature exam preparation, analysis lessons and a wide variety of resources including a homework menu with 25 varied tasks including essays, contextual research, creative tasks and more. Also included is a fun pairs game to match up key quotes in a Christmas carol and a full revision booklet with abridged versions of each stave, essay questions, quick quiz questions and more! All resources are tried and tested and very successful, helping students engage in the text and make rapid progress.