A full comprehensive sow for Old Town Road (specification change for examinations in 2024 - teaching from 2022). This is a complete sow including all relevant theories, all areas of the framework are included too. There are comprehensive sections focusing on semiotics, post modernism, post colonialism (which could be used to teach the theories the first time). Recap sections on the Media Effects theories. A hwk booklet is included and all the resources are too. The newspaper articles are included to help with context for the product. There is also an optional exam question with mark scheme too. Each lesson connects to one of the frameworks. Interleaving tasks are included as some starters and hwk tasks to recap unseen and application of theory skills.
A full SOW covering the Sims Freeplay.
All aspects of this in-depth CSP are included.
Lessons cover each area that students are required to know for their exam.
Full SOW including a range of relevant theory for WOW CSP.
Includes full comprehensive lessons, some homework tasks and also some exam questions to check students’ understanding at the end of the unit. Lessons take into consideration aspects of interleaving too in many starter activites. Easily 6 weeks work if not slightly more.
This is a comprehensive SOW covering all of the frameworks required for A level (AQA) Media Studies. It includes key information about the product that students are required to know.
There are scaffolds to help students with structuring their responses too; a range of information about the industry; a CSP tracker which can be used for students to keep track of their notes, etc.
Full ppt with resources too.
Full SOW for accent and dialect - this would usually take 6-8 weeks, taught 3 hours a week, with assessment time included. Covers all skills and terminology required for students. There is a homework booklet attached too and we usually get students to complete article review homework tasks as additional homework tasks to allow them to recognise the style of writing that they need to adopt for opinion articles (the articles themselves aren’t included but the review sheet is). This SOW covers case studies on a range of accents/dialects such as geordie, Yorkshire, Scottish dialects, Standard English. There are scaffolds to help to support students with writing in all 3 question styles and a range of exemplars to exemplify the appropriate writing style too.
There are a range of video clips to help students to recognise the different dialects and the way they sound.
Mini tasks based on language change and accent and dialect, which could be used as hwk tasks or starter activities/ revision tasks to help to consolidate students’ understanding, also works well as interleaving tasks.
Used with students to recap Paper One terminology. Each task is broken down into simple steps/ tasks as weekly homework tasks, but could be easily adapted.
Examples included.
Works best as a workbook.
Includes scaffolds to help students with their answers too.
A range of theories covered in depth, including Media Effects, Reception and Semiotics.
Range of lessons covering each theory with theory hand outs and homework tasks to accompany the resources.
Interleaving evident in the starter activities.
Could be used as a introduction to some of the media theory for students before they start learning about the CSPs.
Lessons and scaffolds covering a range of poems from the Power and Conflict section of the anthology. Used with middle and low ability students to help to support their understanding of poetry. Some exemplars included too and key quotes. Could be used as revision or homework tasks too.
Full SOW based on Paper 2 English Language. Differentiation included for each question and a range of interleaving activities to help to consolidate skills from English Language papers.
Works well as an introduction for both mid and low ability students, could be extended for high ability too.
These are scaffolds used with both mid ability and low ability GCSE classes to help to explore key quotes in the poems and also to check students’ rudimentary understanding of the main parts of the poems.
Could also be used as independent revision resources.
Key quotations
Key themes
Essay Plan
Revision mat that students can use to help to revise for AIC.
Could be used for homework or as a revision task/ cover lesson.
Comprehensive SOW covering skills for Paper One and Paper Two.
Approx. 12 weeks worth of lessons here (2/3 hours per week).
Covering the main terminology from lang change, theory.
It covers a range of change such as historical to contemporary changes and covers all question styles from Paper One Meanings and Representations to Paper Two Discursive, Question 3 and Opinion Articles.
Created after examining Paper Two to help consolidate students’ skills in LC.
Comprehensive pack covering A Level English Language - Paper 1 and 2. Includes scaffolds, some exemplar answers and mark schemes. Opportunities for students to self review, could also be used as homework booklets.
This is an introductory unit for Year 12 English Language, which covers all frameworks such as: graphology, lexis and semantics, grammar and syntax, phonetics and phonology, discourse, pragmatics, as well as an introduction to genre, audience, purpose, representation and context. There are lessons for each framework and a homework booklet which corresponds with the lessons too. Could be used as the first unit in Year 12 and encourages students to see the bigger picture to improve context through some of the text choices.
This is a lesson to support students with their first few lessons of the NEA focusing on the Language Investigation. It goes through what it is and ideas for further research, plus topic suggestions. Informs students how to set out their investigation and gives some exemplars from previous students.
This is a comprehensive document to help support students through the English Language NEA Investigation. It includes a range of advice on how to get started and suggestions for students of topics. It tells students how it should be set out and gives advice for each section. There are also some good examples of some sections included to demonstrate how to write the investigation too. The resource could be printed for students to use and it has proven beneficial to those students embarking on their NEA for the first time.
Paper 2 revision pack for A Level English Language. A range of questions focusing on all Paper 2 topics such as: World Englishes, Accent and Dialect, Social Groups, Gender, Occupation, Language Change, Ethnicity. The pack has 43 questions in total including a range of Section A discursive questions, also question 3 and question 4 questions across the range of Paper 2 topics. There are also self-review/ reflection activities at the start for students to review their progress. The pack also includes a range of scaffolds for each question, including the AQA mark schemes for students to self review.
Focusing on Section A of Paper One, ten different resources to use in lessons or could be used as a homework resource. Multiple pairs included, one historical text and one contemporary, across a variety of different topics. Included are also scaffolds for each question to help to support the analysis process; these have been used in lessons with my A Level students and have proven successful. Mark schemes are also included and there is a progress check for students to use to support their learning as well as an essay tracker.
15 questions focusing on spoken and written essay questions, some past exam-style questions. Some exemplar paragraphs are included, with scaffolds to help support students. Could be used as assessment questions or for students to use as a revision resource. Includes mark schemes to. Some sections for students to complete as a theory knowledge organiser too. Could be used as a homework booklet too.