A detailed series of lessons (9 lessons over 33 slides) that cover the Roman Home and family section of the OCR exam. A lesson on the Paterfamilias, independent work on Roman education and an active dinner party set up where pupils each take a role (we took this further by bringing in a guitar for music and having some food). Also detailed analysis on Pliny 2.6 with questions to answer plus my board annotations to utilise. Then analysis of Horace 2.8 with analysis questions for the pupils to do in groups and feedback. Fishbowl discussion at the end. This all leads to a 15 mark literature question on dinner parties. Pepperd with Myth and religion recall A total of 9 lessons

A GCSE revision ppt that covers all of the Greek god with images that can be used to test knowledge- after identification, infomation about each God is presented with iconography and terminology., The lesson also contains numerous past paper one/two mark questions to practise and there are two past paper 15 markers at the end with planning/ ideas to help pupils begin a response.

An essay or creative writing marking matrix that is developed to mark for Literacy. It focuses on 5 areas giving a total mark out of 20. Created using GCSE Language marking criteria in English and combining with the QWC across 15 academic subjects. Can be used to mark pupils literacy and provide next steps to get to the next level. Room for actions and targets.

A series of Literacy lessons aimed at KS3 pupils to reaffirm their KS2 Literacy teaching. 12 lessons with relevant worksheets. The first two of these lessons can be viewed/ downloaded on my shop for free to give you a taste of how they work for you in the classroom- if they work then save yourself some time and purchase the bundle… Topics covered: Sentence types and composition Clauses and phrases Tenses fullstops, capital, questions and exclamations ellipsis commas and inverted commas apostrophes colons and semi-colons hyphens and dashes parenthsis nouns and pronouns verbs and modal verbs

50 questions/ slides that make up a jolly chirstmas quiz. Four rounds: Film, trivia, music and secret celebrity santa. The preview page has a few snippets of the questions but they are a true mix with something for everyone one- historical facts, recall of information and sing along embedded christmas tunes that link to questions. Edit to make shorter, longer or turn it into a kahoot or blooket. This took a long time to put together, so save yourself some time and purchase a ready to go Christmas quiz lesson in full! Answers also supplied. Enjoy!

This is lesson 13 from my ‘A Christmas Carol teaching unit’ which covers the whole text for GCSE teaching purposes. It is based on GCSE AQA specifications, but can be adapted for any year group or exam board- page numbers will need to be edited to your copy. This lesson is a taster of what you can expect from my set of 24 lessons which can be purchased as a bundle- though I am offering a few lessons for free and a few for £1 purchase. There is also a revision/ task booklet avaliable and a revision bundle. There is a video attached to the description/ preview page so you can see the whole unit of work with the many resources avaliable should you wish to have more information. This lesson specifically focuses on the characters presented in Stave 2 (Fezziwig, Little Fan and Belle) and asks pupils to discuss which is the most influential to Scrooge’s development at this stage in the text. There are a mixture of activities with hot-seating, persuasive speech writing, debates and discussion.

This ‘A Christmas Carol’ revision workbook is a 28 page booklet that uses small extracts from the text and questions to allow pupils to develop their understanding of the text and begin to form analytical responses. There are 5/6 pages of work for each stave. The first page of the booklet is a modelled response to develop high expectations for the work and the rest of the booklet has questions… please see preview for the first few pages of work from the booklet- a clear example of what to expect. Instructions for pupils: work through this booklet for the first 15 minutes of every English lesson (could also be used for homework or revision lessons). The booklet is designed to help you: Remember the events and key quotes of A Christmas Carol Develop your analysis of and response to the novel-meaning your ability to explain what quotes suggest about characters, why a character/place/event is important in the story etc. Consider context-Victorian life in 1843, and Dickens’ inspirations and intentions in writing the novel.

A revision lesson for the Universal Hero unit. To be delivered in class with a 15 mark and a 8 mark to discuss and plan at the end related to Hercules. Information covered with links to videos (not mine- free online) that pupils can access for additional revision about the individual metopes. Best used to cover in class and set for revision for the pupils

A bundle of revision videos for Pliny’s satires that pupils can watch/ use in class or for prep. These videos take the pupils through all of the letters with one giving a bit of history on Pliny. You can view my video of ‘Degredation at a dinner Party’ under my free resources to give you sample of what this bundle will include/ look like.

A revision lesson for the Universal Hero unit for OCR Heracles/ Hercules. Information provided in slides with additional links to videos (not mine) that can be found online for pupils to watch and talk them through the metopes/literary sources. An example 8 mark and 15 mark at the end to plan as a class

A revision lesson on the Foundations stories unit of Myth and Religion. Taking the pupils through detailed work on Aeneas with line of Alban Kings. Then Foundation stories links to videos (not mine but free) so they can cover the Kylix and the Birth of Athena. 8 marker planning provided and 15 mark questions you can plan together as a class.

A revision lesson for pupils on Roman Home and Family and Society Taking pupils through the Paterfamilas, Roman edcucation, Roman society, slaves, freedmen and Tomb of Naevolia Tyche. This is a lecture style lesson which I used for revision before the exam so mainly information but all information put together for you so you can add some extra tasks should you so wish. Could also be given to the students to revise from a few days before

A two part video of Petronius’ dinner with Trimalchio. Starts with a bit of history on Petronius and then goes on to two videos talking through the resrouce to help pupils understand the text. The resource is displayed on the screen so pupils could annotate from the recording if they want (I don not actively annotate on the screen) The two parts together are 38 minutes so quite a lot of detail here. This was created for my pupils and they are using it for revision. It could also be used for homework/ teaching/ cover lesson.

This is lesson 1 from my ‘A Christmas Carol teaching unit’ which covers the whole text for GCSE teaching purposes. It is based on GCSE AQA specifications, but can be adapted for any year group or exam board- oage numbers will need to be edited to your copy. This lesson is a taster of what you can expect from my set of 24 lessons which can be purchased as a bundle- though I am offering a few lessons for free and a few for £1 purchase. There is also a revision/ task booklet avaliable and a revision bundle. There is a video attached to the description/ oreview page so you can see the whole unit of work with the many resources avaliable should you wish to have more information. This particular lesson asks pupils to recap their prior knowledge about Charles Dickens, links to a short video about Dickens’ childhood and early life and gets pupils to explore different pictures from the Victorian era to see the problems with Victorian society that led to Dickens’ pesual of social reform. Top tip: Click on the Christmas tree on the starter activity of each lesson and it will link you to a chrictmas carol/ song that can play as your pupils enter the room- a great, fun start that has a clear time limit for the starter activity to be completed- or for the class to settle down ready to learn :)

This is lesson 2B from my ‘A Christmas Carol teaching unit’ which covers the whole text for GCSE teaching purposes. It is based on GCSE AQA specifications, but can be adapted for any year group or exam board- page numbers will need to be edited to your copy. This lesson is a taster of what you can expect from my set of 24 lessons which can be purchased as a bundle- though I am offering a few lessons for free and a few for £1 purchase. There is also a revision/ task booklet avaliable and a revision bundle. There is a video attached to the description/ preview page so you can see the whole unit of work with the many resources avaliable should you wish to have more information. This particular lesson focuses on the intial depcition of Scrooge, analysing the language used by Dickens, modelling a paragraph of writing in response to a question and then leading pupils to write their own response.

A lesson on the AQA GCSE mark scheme, criteria and expectations in relation to the AOs. Analysis prompts and essay prompts allow students to create a fully developed essay in another lesson or for homework.

A video recorded for my pupils that covers Roman City Life Satire. This video talks through ‘discrimination at a dinner party’ by Pliny and then goes on to talk about Pliny’s life and history. I do have a cold in it so a little muffled on occasion, but it covers the text fully and provides a nice audio/ visual resources for revision to get pupils to annotate and discuss in lessons. Only 7 mintues. I have completed videos for all of the Pliny Satires, as well as Horace, Juvenal and Petronius - these are in paid resources, so, if this works well for you, please do pop me a review and feel free to purchase the others.