Pretty much ready to print (just change due day/date) and you have a comprehensive collection of spellings suitable for all secondary age students. Students need to write the words into sentences too to prove they have learnt the words.
Simple but effective H.W!
Revision lesson for less able students on ‘The Carew Murder Case’ from Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde. Includes opportunities to revise previous chapters, close language analysis and discuss Victorian attitudes to Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.
Cloze Chapters 1-4 summaries (sold separately for £1) included when purchasing Powerpoint for this lesson.
By using Dharker’s poem ‘Blessing’ (printed on sheet provided), students can identify, discuss and write about structural techniques in poetry. Can be adapted and used from 11-16 as a revision tool before any assessment based on poetry.
Used as a H/W task with my second set Year Ten class after discovering that a majority of them had developed the bad habit of 'quotation bombing.'
The model examples and practice points and quotations can be easily adapted to suit any text; I have used the AQA 'Women in Prison' source materials from a specimen Paper Two.
A straightforward lesson analysing some of Lady Macbeth’s language in this scene (when she reads Macbeth’s letter) - offering sentence starters for a PEEZ activity as well as an interesting creative writing task. Could be useful as a cover lesson or even for H/W. Used with a mixed ability Year 9 group. If you want to watch the scene on link provided, you’ll find it at 20 minutes and 30 seconds.
Complete assessment bundle on the theme of conflict. Includes an extract from Act 3, Scene One of ‘Romeo and Juliet’, an exam style question and lots of support that could be easily tweaked for different abilities. Worked a treat with my weaker year nines,and comes with specific conflict related quotations that can be memorised to help prepare for GCSE Literature exam.
All in a Word document.
A-Z fun activity after reading or watching an adaptation of the play plus a cloze activity on a comprehensive summary of the whole play to help revise plot, character names and themes.
Used with middle/low Year 10 group after they watched a theatre production for the first time.
A lesson starter/main activity to start a unit of work on Shakespeare’s play ‘The Tempest’. Encourages students to consider how new discoveries were being brought back to England at the time the play was set.
Some stimulus material to help students decide who would play the roles of Curley and Curley's wife in a brand new, big budget film production of &'Of Mice and Men.&';
Edited Metro article used within a Year Eight SoW about rants. Worksheet provides simple language analysis tasks as well as a selection of writing challenges.