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.

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 fully comprehensive unit of work, which should cover approximately 7-8 weeks worth of lessons (based on 5 hours a week). It aims to introduce students to the four theoretical frameworks of the AQA A Level Media Studies course. It also covers a brief introduction to different media forms that the students will need to be familiar with. There are exemplar answers, exam questions and a homework booklet covering a range of iconic media products designed to supplement students’ learning. This unit aims to introduce students to every theory that the exam board requires them to know about and has a specific focus on unseen media language, unseen media theory question and questions 5.1 and 5,2. The aim would be to give students an understanding of the different theories and frameworks prior to studying any products in depth. The selected products are considered iconic too, which will help students to link to wider examples from the media industry.

This resource includes 16 lessons (254 slides) covering in-depth the video game Horizon Forbidden West (new for exams in 2024). It covers all areas of the frameworks including: narrative, genre, representation, audiences, contexts and industry. Each framework has at least one dedicated lesson and there are 10 hwk tasks included which are designed to heighten students’ knowledge of interesting texts related to video games or to help students interleave their paper 1 and paper 2 skills. All theories that are in the AQA CSP booklet are included plus a focus on post modernism too. Each lesson is fully resourced with a range of activities supplied including starter and plenary tasks.

A full SOW looking at the Voice online. Directs through all frameworks - including examples from the site (from 2022). There are exam questions included and all relevent theory and context is explored here, including the Notting Hill Carnival and the relation to the online paper.

This a SOW for co teaching of the advertising products Maybelline and Score. Includes lots of contextual information about advertising in the 60s compared to now. Also includes a range of exam questions on ares such as post modernism, semiotics, etc so that students can practise their skills. Comprehensive sow containing 12 lessons. Tried and tested with Year 13 students and worked effectively.

SOW for Teen Vogue online - covering all frameworks, theory and an exam question. Screen shots from the website and social media in 2022 too.

Over 20 lessons covering the entire Paper 2 topic, also includes an interleaving booklet to test Paper 1 skills as hwk activities. Some further reading suggestions and Super-curriculum tasks too. Includes lessons on discursive essays, question 3 and opinion articles (relevant examples are included for discursive and opinion articles). Includes a theory booklet to help students revise these. Also looks at gender in music, non fiction, fiction, TV shows such as the Apprentice, Love Island, comedy, the Depp/Heard trial, etc. Sexist language and gender neutral language is included here too. Detailed focus on the 3 models: deficit, difference and dominance, alongside other relevant gender theories. Relevant articles are included too.

Fully comprehensive SOW for Zendaya - looking at her use of social media across platforms. Each lesson contains a starter activity, and plenary - the resource contains all relevant frameworks and theories identified by AQA in the most recent CSP booklet. There is 120 slides of material, a homework booklet - CSP tracker document, Cornell notes summary sheet and some assessment questions. The ppt also has a screen recording of Zendaya’s Facebook, Instagram and Twitter contained within to help combat school web filtering systems of social media sites. There are opportunities for further reading contained with reference to relevant newspaper articles.

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.

A full sow covering the occupation topic for Paper 2 English Language. Includes a range of case studies into: legal language, education, police, comedy, exercise, small talk, etc. Also includes relevant theories and a homework booklet which interleaves Paper 1 ‘meanings and representations’ questions. There are lessons on all assessment styles contained too.

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.

Comprehensive SOW for The Guardian newspaper (new for 2024 examination cohort). Includes lessons, resources and homework for all frameworks studied for this topic. Also includes a range of interleaving activites as starters or homework tasks designed to help students to prepare for unseen questions on Media One and Media Two. The interleaving tasks try to focus on key events that Media students should be aware of to encourage a wider understanding of the industry. Relevant articles are included, there is an exam question at the end of the resource. All relevant research on The Guardian is included and each lesson focuses on an area relevant to one of the frameworks of study.

A comprehensive sow for the new CSP Sephora Black Beauty and existing Score Hair Cream (1967). Including interleaving tasks and homework for the entire unit. All relevant theories are inlcuded such as: post-colonialism, feminism, post modernism and some extra ones. Relevant contextual adverts and information about the evolution of advertising is included too.

This is a comprehensive SOW (196 slides - 13 lessons) which covers all the in-depth frameworks for The Responder BBC. It has lessons covering each framework, which include a range of activities relating the the frameworks; there are hwk tasks included too - 9 in total which are designed to either consolidate the lesson, link to a wider contextual news story or another product that could further their understanding of The Responder. Furtermore, there are interleaving hwk tasks which link to other media genres that the students will study - some are included as unseen products.