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Thank you for visiting my shop. My aim is to provide high quality teaching resources that reduce the
need for hours of planning and help learners to achieve their potential in English and English Literature.
Please feel free to email me at sdenglish18@gmail.com with any queries, requests or comments.
A lesson ‘Storm on the Island’ for lower ability learners. It includes:
Do Now task: learners examine an image of storm in a coastal area, identifying how it represents power and conflict.
Context sheet with corresponding tasks
Quotation hunt
Comparison with Exposure in terms of 1) power and 2) conflict
Review
A PPT that enables an exploration of Blake’s ‘London’. It is aimed at lower ability learners whose primary focus is understanding with some analysis of language and contextual ideas.
The starter/Do Now task is a multiple-choice, general knowledge quiz about London as a city.
Learners then read a context sheet for the poem and respond to the associated tasks.
They then read a translation of the poem and annotate their copies in their anthology. Suggested annotations included.
After this, they compare ‘London’ with ‘Tissue’ in terms of the presentation of human power.
The PPT concludes with a learning review.
Estimated time required: 1.5 hours.
This lesson on ‘The Emigree’ is aimed at lower ability learners and includes:
Do Now Task: Learners reflect on a range of scenarios which encourage them to think about how they would react if they were living under a totalitarian regime.
Feedback slide
Context sheet that focuses on Rumens’ interest in the poetry of Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam
Quotation Hunt
Focus on Imagery worksheet
Feedback slides
Learners then reflect on the presentation of power and conflict in the poem, with worksheet
Comparison with Blake’s ‘London’ Venn diagram activity in terms of the presentation of place
Feedback slide
Review Learning
A lesson on Browning's 'My Last Duchess' aimed at lower ability learners. It includes:
Do Now Task: Learners read four context-related questions and say to what extent they agree and why.
Feedback slide
A conxtext sheet with accompanying true or false activity (answers included)
A summary of the poem + storyboarding activity
Link to YouTube video of the poem being performed
The poem broken down into eleven slides with suggested translation and annotations
Comparison with Ozymandias table to complete
Learning Review
A 12-slide powerpoint that guides an exploration of ‘Kamikaze’ by Beatrice Garland in the AQA P&C anthology.
After thinking about the meaning of the word ‘Kamikaze’, learners explore the historical context of the poem using a context notes sheet and accompanying worksheet. Learners explore the poem using a range of questions for each stanza. This could be done in pairs, groups or individually.
The exploration of the poem is followed by a GCSE-style question that encourages learners to think about how ‘Kamikaze’ compares with ‘Remains’ in terms of the impact of conflict. There is a comparison table for learners to fill in (teacher answers provided) and then learners undertake the question. The lesson concludes with peer assessment using a mark scheme with indicative content for each lesson.
The whole session should take approximately 2 hours.
The lesson is aimed at middle-upper ability learners.
If you choose to purchase this resource, please also ensure that you also download my free Power and Conflict Mark Scheme that is based on the AQA original:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/power-and-conflict-mark-scheme-11931715
A lesson that follows on from this introduction to speech writing for KS3:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-introduction-to-speech-writing-for-ks3-12049010
This is a speech-writing lesson based on the issue of gender equality. It includes:
Starter - learners say to what extent they agree with a series of statements relating to men and women.
Feedback slide
Key Facts about Gender Equality sheet
Links to Emma Watson’s HeForShe speech
Planning sheet task
Sample GCSE question (AQA-style)
Writing time
Peer assessment and review
This lesson is aimed at lower-middle ability learners and should take about two hours.
**UPDATE: WAGOLL now included and Slide 9 question corrected. **
Following on from this introduction to speech writing…
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-introduction-to-speech-writing-for-ks3-12049010
This is a speech-writing lesson based on the issue of social media. It includes:
Starter/Do Now task - learners examine a range of images and suggest what they all have in common (the answer is they represent the dangers of social media in some way)
Feedback slide
Social media dangers true or false with teacher answers.
Feedback slide
Paired discussion: is social media good for our society?
Key points in the social media debate with mind-mapping activity
Sample GCSE question (AQA style) with speech planning sheet task
Writing time
Peer assessment and review
This lesson is aimed at lower-middle ability learners and should take about two hours.
Information/statistics correct as of 30/3/19
This PPT enables an exploration of ‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen, part of the AQA Power and Conflict Anthology. It is aimed at lower ability learners whose primary objective is understanding and basic comparisons.
It includes:
Starter: Infer the meaning of the word exposure by examining the three images (sun exposure, exposure to the elements, exposure to harmful gases in the air)
Learners then look at an image of WW1 soldiers in the trenches and link it to their understanding of the word exposure.
There is a context sheet which explains some of the background to the poem e.g. the Western Front and conditions for soldiers in the trenches. Learners then work through relevant tasks e.g. label the Western Front on a blank map of Europe.
Poem synopsis with 4 comprehension questions.
The poem translated into reasonably simply English + reduction task.
Suggested annotations for lower ability learners.
A comparison table for completion (presentation of effects of war with ‘Remains’.
Review.
This assessment tracker uses the 2023 grade boundaries for AQA 8702 Paper 1 and 2 (English Literature).
It will generate a grade for individual sections, each paper and the overall course.
Please email me using the address on my store front if you would like any adjustments made to your tracker, e.g. additional columns. A small charge may be incurred depending on how long the work will take. However, simply amendments will be made for free.
Please do not send any pupil data when requesting adjustments.
This is a newly-differentiated version of the following resource:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-annotated-act-one-11875448
This lower-ability version contains:
The full text of Act 1, translated (same as original)
Several key extracts for study
Scene summaries for Scenes 2-7
A range of activities to develop understanding.
Simplified contextual notes with a corresponding worksheet
Key information with corresponding worksheet.
This resource is aimed at lower-middle ability learners.
An extended lesson that follows on from this introduction to speech writing for KS3:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-introduction-to-speech-writing-for-ks3-12049010
This lesson can stand alone but assumes some pre-teaching of AFOREST.
A starter tasks invites learners to examine a range of images relating to plastic waste (see cover image).
They then examine a list of keywords and attempt to match them to the correct definition. This is accompanied by a challenge task for more able learners, in which learners attempt to make connections between the keywords. The answers to the definitions tasks are provided.
After this, learners discuss in pairs whether there is a need to ban plastics in the UK. A YouTube video link on the ‘plastic problem’ is also provided but optional.
Learners then read the arguments for and against a plastic ban and transform these onto a summary sheet of six boxes. The aim is for each box to contain one point, one relevant image and one piece of evidence.
They go on to thinking about how they could apply their knowledge of AFOREST to this debate.
There is a sample GCSE question (AQA style) with a WAGOLL for annotation according to 5 success criteria.
Learners then write their own speech in relation to the plastics debate.
The lesson ends with learners peer assessing each other’s work.
The material is aimed at middle-ability KS3 but could be used with KS4 with some tailoring.
Translated mark schemes for AQA Language 8700, papers 1 and 2.
They are intended to demonstrate the standard at each level (of the mark scheme) and provide more pupil-friendly criteria for self and peer assessment.
The example responses are based on the following texts:
Paper 1, Question 2: Jekyll and Hyde
Paper 1, Question 3: The Black Cat (Poe)
Paper 1, Question 4: The Black Cat (Poe)
Paper 1, Question 5: Write the opening of a story entitled ‘The End’.
Paper 2, Questions 1-4: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-8700-paper-2-homelessness-texts-11997752
Paper 2, Question 5: an article on the subject of social media.
An extended lesson on writing a discursive essay, aimed at middle-upper-ability GCSE. It covers:
The assessment objectives for writing (learners should put these in their own words)
What is a discursive essay?
Planning in full and planning in the exam
A planning activity to carry out in pairs, followed by feedback
The structure of a discursive essay
Different ways to start a discursive essay
An example introduction, internal paragraph and conclusion
The importance of linking paragraphs
The importance of using evidence and different forms of evidence
A final writing task
Self-reflection
The whole powerpoint is likely to last over an hour. The sample paragraphs are also included on a separate sheet so learners can annotate them.
There is reference to AQA 8700/2/Question 5 but it could be adapted to other boards.
These files were last saved in Office 2016.
This is a lesson on ‘Ozymandias’ in the Power and Conflict Anthology. It is aimed at lower ability learners and includes:
Do Now Task: Learners look at a photo of an Egyptian pharaoh and respond to three questions
Feedback slide
Learners read a sheet detailing the poem’s contextual background and use it to complete a mind map
Suggested annotations for lower ability learners
An essay on how the poem reflects Shelley’s feelings about power
Comparison with ‘The Prelude’ table to complete
Review
Estimated completion time: 1.5 hours
An introduction to simple, compound and complex sentences with activities at the end. Suitable for KS2 or lower KS3 groups.
Update:
I have created an alternative to this lesson, found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/lower-ability-ks3-sentence-types-12057647
An extended lesson on writing the text of a persuasive speech, aimed at middle-upper ability GCSE groups. The lesson covers:
The purpose of a speech
AFOREST techniques inc. a cut-up, match and stick activity
Links to example speeches (differentiated for ability)
A speech-writing task (differentiated for ability)
I would set aside about 2 hours for these activities in total, with approximately 45 minutes dedicated to independent writing.
This lesson is not tailored towards any particular board but provides learners with an understanding of what is required when writing a persuasive speech.
These files were last saved in Office 2016.
A knowledge organiser for AQA Paper 1, Question 4 (the evaluation question).
It is based on a past paper, so please take this into account if you are using it for a mock.
The WAGOLLs on the reverse side demonstrate Levels 3, 5 and 7.
Full colour and black and white copies included.
A way of teaching how to link inferences to quotations. Use in conjunction with a reading text from which quotations need to be derived. Students should write the question in the central circle and then find up to six relevant quotations.