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KS4 Creative Writing Pack
A series of lessons and resources that all work towards making KS4 students better creative writers.
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AQA English Literature Paper 2 Bundle: Modern Texts and Poetry (version 1)
Simply put, a collection of schemes and resources to aid in the teaching of this specific paper. This one focuses on the teaching of DNA and provides a mini scheme of work for the Conflict and Power unit.
AQA English Literature: Unseen Poetry pack
So, this unseen poetry section is quite scary isn't it? This was my way of attacking it with my KS4 students. I used song lyrics to start with, but also looked at some trickier poetic forms . The songs and poems you'll need to independently download are embedded in the lessons .
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Creative Writing Bundle
A whole mash of creative writing resources - some paid, some not - all in one place!
AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A Mock Exam - Compass and Torch
I've found another use for all that knowledge we have about the old AQA English Lit anthology (The Sunlight on The Grass anthology). I have started to turn them into English Language Paper 1 Section A Mock Exams!
This is one of them. There is no mark scheme, but if you use the Paper 1 mark scheme from the AQA website you should be fine.
This one uses sections from Compass and Torch - I've stitched together two sections and omitted the bit about the horses (for those who remember) so that the extract focuses only on the relationship between the boy and the man.
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AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A Mock Exam Pack
A collection of Mock Exams relating to the AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A. Funny that, given the title and all...
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AQA English Literature Paper 2 Bundle: Modern Texts and Poetry (version 2)
Three complete units of work that go through the teaching of An Inspector Calls, all 15 of the Conflict and Power poems AND a selection of Unseen Poems. I've included a version of the poetry anthology I've created that lends itself to annotating and revising better than the AQA version too - bit of a beast that. Also, you will find attached a spreadsheet that allows you to track the scores for all of these components.
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AQA English Literature - Complete approach
All of my AQA English Literature resources at GCSE level in one bundle. Covers the following texts:
DNA
An Inspector Calls
Jekyll and Hyde
A Christmas Carol
Conflict and Power poetry
Unseen poetry
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
The bundle also includes a tracking spreadsheet for GCSE Literature.
AQA A-Level English Language and Literature: Othello - Lesson 7-8 (Technical Expression and Testing)
One lesson that focuses on getting the students to use more technical vocabulary. Another lesson that tests their understanding and hits them with an exam question at the end.
All material is based upon the AQA terminology guide (not included in this pack).
Year 9 Preparation for GCSE Scheme of Work: Writing from around the world
A resource dump for my first attempt at preparing a middle set year 9 class for the rigours of the new GCSE - some success, but the class dynamic was more of a problem than the lesson resources themselves. Some editing may be required, but if you are wondering about how to approach the Section B parts of the exams, this covers a lot of bases.
KS3: Introduction to the Media - Travel Brochure Project
A unit designed to be taught to Year 7. It introduces them to the basics of the Media and gets them writing creatively - a Travel Brochure. Includes resources and articles.
Universal Key Stage 3 English Spreadsheet
A simple spreadsheet that is designed to track the progress of an entire KS3 cohort from Year 7 to the end of Year 9.
I have LOCKED each of the TABS of the spreadsheet using the NAME OF THE TAB itself (minus the spaces and as it appears with capital letters and numbers). This will stop any of the codes being deleted accidentally.
Hope this saves people some time.
AQA English Literature DNA resources
There doesn't seem to be much out there for DNA, which is a shame really as it's a great text to study. Attached are ALL of the DNA resources I have created; hopefully this will give you a few different ideas and starting points.
This is a mish-mash of resources from three years of teaching this text across two schools. Some organising and sifting-through is needed here.
Exploring Political Speeches (based around the old AQA English Language Spoken Language criteria)
I had SO much fun with this unit of work! It helped that the TA in my class went on to become a local MP for Labour (still is as far as I can tell...). Essentially, this series of 5 lessons - which, by the way, totally went over the 5 lessons I gave myself to teach this - explores a number of different political speeches. Included in the pack are a number of transcripts - Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, Alex Ferguson's farewell speech, Bush's post-911 address to the nation and the transcripts of Clegg, Cameron and Brown from the First Televised General Election Debates (heavy stuff).
I was a little tentative at teaching this to a bottom set year 9 class, but they totally got on board with the debates (they tore shreds out of Brown...) and engaged well with the controlled assessment task at the end.
I know that the controlled assessments are now null and void (a shame really), but the exploration of speeches might be useful to someone out there in the teaching ether...
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Speaking and Listening Bundle
A few resources I've cobbled together to help teach speaking and listening across the year groups.
KS3: Exploring the theme of "otherness" in Shakespeare
A unit of work I did not design, but these are the lessons I created to teach it. The lessons focus on The Tempest and Othello. These lessons were designed to be taught to a bottom set Year 9 class with more interest in staring out of the window than exploring the linguistic delights of the Bard. However, once I started to Story Woosh the plays, the analytical lessons became much more productive.
KS3 Conflict Poetry complete unit of work (differentiated lessons for high, mid and low ability)
A complete unit of work including source poems, videos and mp3 versions of poets reading their poems. Differentiated for higher, middle and lower ability classes (each lesson back ground has a slightly different colour for an easy visual guide), this is a unit of work I designed with my Head of Key Stage 3 hat on at my last school - an entire year group was successfully taught this unit. A real success.
AQA Conflict and Power Poetry Revision (mini-scheme of work)
5 Lessons and supporting resources that assist with the revision of this particular unit of the AQA English Literature Examination.
I cover the following poems (my students identified these ones as the toughies):
The Prelude
Exposure
Remains
The Emigree
Kamikaze
Each poem has a revision style lesson (it assumes prior knowledge of the poem on the part of the student, but they also make good starting points if you are cracking through the poems at a fair old pace). Each poem also has a revision card attached - we use these as tools in their own right, and I will be creating one for each of the poems soon enough.
The unit finishes on a GCSE style question where they have to compare Ozymandias to one of the poems they have studied. Hopefully you’ll find this useful.