I'm a passionate secondary English and History teacher and am the main planner of resources for my department; as such, I thought I would start sharing them here with the wider community of teachers and professionals. I am Australian trained, but currently teaching GCSE and A- Level (AQA specifications). All lessons are very visually engaging, with images, clips and a variety of activities. You won't find any boring/blank resources here!
I'm a passionate secondary English and History teacher and am the main planner of resources for my department; as such, I thought I would start sharing them here with the wider community of teachers and professionals. I am Australian trained, but currently teaching GCSE and A- Level (AQA specifications). All lessons are very visually engaging, with images, clips and a variety of activities. You won't find any boring/blank resources here!
I teach a rowdy but bright year 7 boys class once a week (the classes are split on our timetable between teachers, annoyingly). I decided to do a creative writing module with them, focusing on dystopian literature.
Included in this pack are 10 (or more, depending on pace) lessons that:
Introduce dystopian fiction and its conventions
Analyse extracts from famous dystopias
Build creative writing skills
Build planning, structuring, drafting and editing skills
Activities are varied, with some introductory links to Language Paper 1 skills for the GCSE.
Enjoy :)
A great crib sheet with lots of structured explanations for how students can begin to:
Write critical paragraphs analysing language, structure and form
Craft a creative story.
I am using this currently as a guided revision tool for my year 7 class.
A fun 2-3 lessons that introduce students to the structure and form of feature articles. Builds to a task where they write their own feature article as Lois Lane, on the topic of Does the world really need superman?
Included in this pack is an original model text of a feature article, written by yours truly :)
My class had a lot of fun with this. Enjoy!
A lesson for a mixed ability KS3 class, analysing the short story form and Hemingway’s application of the “Icerbeg Theory”.
Activities include:
Key words
Information about Hemingway and summaries
Introduction to iceberg theory
Applying iceberg theory to creative writing
Reading, comprehending and analysing the short story “Cat in the Rain”
There is individual, paired, and whole-class activities included.
Enjoy!
This unit of work is designed for AQA’s A Level “Love through the Ages”, looking at Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening.”
All content is what I taught over the course of two terms. Find enclosed
- Whole lessons covering plot, context of creole culture etc
- Worksheets
- Critical theory (particularly philosophy of Descartes, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre and de Beauvoir)
Enjoy!
An introduction scheme of work (all powerpoints and worksheets for lessons included) to print and visual media for KS3. Activities/topics covered include: Newspaper articles, camera angles, lighting, advertisements and sexism in the media.
A one off lesson for revision with year 11 classes, focusing on question 5 of language paper 1. Can be taught however for any exam set. Model text included; enjoy!
1/2 lessons that introduce students to extracts from various Gothic texts, such as The Woman in Black, Interview with the Vampire and two short stories from The Bloody Chamber. Creative writing activity at the end.
GCSE skills and related questions: Language Paper 1, Q1, 2, 5
Text: Ready Player One
Skills: Extended critical writing, language analysis, self-marking
Designed for GSCE Language Q4, but can be taught as it is for any Dystopian unit.
Suitable for higher ability classes, these 3-4 lessons cover:
- An introduction to the short story form
- Recap of form, language and structure
- An analysis of the short story “The Flowers” by Alice Walker
- Creative writing
- Self and peer marking activities
Enjoy :)
For the GCSE paper Language Paper 2 (Non-fiction), this lesson facilitates students' development of summary writing skills (Q2 of the exam).
Ideal for a weaker class- visual clips of Wonderwoman and Guardians of the Galaxy make the material more accessible, with other written non-fiction texts the focus for the latter part of the lesson.
Updated and improved from last year, my new Crime & Punishment unit!
The unit looks and fiction and non-fiction texts, and teaches all the skills required for student success with the AQA English Language Papers 1 and 2.
This is a whole scope and sequence, covering well over a term’s worth of lessons. Included also is a social justice mini-unit, for getting students involved in Amnesty International’s Write for Rights annual campaign.
Resources span all manner of activities: mixed ability, plenty of differentiation, stretch and challenge, project-based activities, collaborative learning etc. Some of the new additions are: focalisation of narrative, importance of place in crime fiction, Victorian language, crafting compelling villains, and the role of justice in crime.
Formative assessments included, as are student friendly marking criteria and feedback sheets.
I’ve loved sculpting and teaching this unit. Please enjoy!
