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The Laughter of Stafford Girls' High - Feminine Gospels
Hugely detailed and lengthy PowerPoint that includes an overview of key ideas in the poem, annotations of the whole poem and a range of tasks to help students explore the ideas in the poem. Tasks encourage students to explore authorial methods, historicism, and feminist critics. Also guides students towards completing an exam question looking at the position of the poem within the collection as a whole.
Reading Comprehension: Spiderman
Part of a series of superhero-themed comprehension worksheets from a reading intervention I ran with Year 6 and Year 7, this text focuses on Iron Man’s origins from the Marvel franchise.
Students read the 500 word text and answer the comprehension questions. The answers are included.
Death of a Naturalist
Line by line detailed annotations for Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney to assist with revision for Eduqas poetry.
Motif of fire A Christmas Carol
A revision sheet exploring the motif of fire with 13 carefully selected quotations allowing students to trace how the motif is used by Dickens to convey his authorial messages about poverty, isolation, kindness, family and the transformative power of redemption.
Also includes a blank student version to encourage students to explore the impact of the quotations themselves.
The Virgin's Memo - Feminine Gospels
Lesson introducing this unusual poem from the Feminine Gospels collection. Includes detailed annotations and some extension tasks. It is not as detailed as my other lessons on Feminine Gospels - hence the lower price.
Cousin Kate
Revision sheet for Cousin Kate for the Edexcel conflict anthology contains 10 exploratory questions and 10 thoughtful and detailed answers to the questions to support revising this challenging poem by Christina Rosetti.
My most popular resource on Edexcel conflict poetry, which puts together all my resources into one booklet, is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/edexcel-conflict-poetry-revision-booklet-12955594
Lady Macbeth Quiz
30 question multiple choice quiz on the character of Lady Macbeth. Ideal for testing direct knowledge. Includes the answer sheet.
Julius Caesar Plot Storyboard
Simple plot storyboard to help students learn the basics of the plot in Julius Caesar.
Macbeth Context
A context sheet for Macbeth. It explores the contextual knowledge relevant to the study of Macbeth at GCSE. It covers James I, witchcraft, divine right of kings, chain of being, gunpowder plot and the role of women in the Jacobean era.
Also contains revision cards for exploring Macbeth’s character from 8 different critical perspectives.
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Reading Intervention Booklet
A 6 week reading intervention module focused on building reading fluency and comprehension aimed at supporting students in Year 6 and Year 7 whose reading age is slightly below their chronological age.
The theme of the booklet is superheroes. In each session, students read a 500 word text about a superhero and complete fluency activities before ending the session with comprehension questions. Full details are included on how the sessions can be delivered.
Also contains an answer booklet for the comprehension questions.
The superheroes covered are Iron Man, Superman, Hulk, Captain Marvel, Captain America and Spiderman.
At the start and end of the unit, I recommend assessing students against Rasinski’s fluency rubric.
Jekyll and Hyde Character Revision
A revision sheet revising 5 key quotations for the 6 main characters in Jekyll and Hyde. Also includes a blank version without the analysis of the quotations so that students can have a go at analysing the quotations themselves. Alternatively, the blank template can be used to check how much they can recall.
Also includes a context revision sheet.
Macbeth Revision Clock Lesson
In this fast paced Macbeth revision lesson, students look at 12 key scenes from the play and quickly jot down the key ideas and significance of each scene onto the revision clock. Ideal for a revision lesson or an intervention session.
War Photographer Carole Satyamurti
Revision activity/revision sheet containing 10 analytical questions on the poem with 10 high level developed responses to the questions. Created for a revision booklet on the Edexcel Conflict anthology.
Also contains a model response comparing how powerful images are presented in War Photographer and What were they like?
Reading comprehension: Superman
Part of a series of superhero-themed comprehension worksheets from a reading intervention I ran with Year 6 and Year 7, this text focuses on Captain Marvel’s origins from the Marvel franchise.
Students read the 500 word text and answer the comprehension questions. The answers are included.
Appositive Phrases in Romeo and Juliet
Using appositive phrases in your English literature responses will improve the sophistication of your writing. If used correctly, they will impress your examiner. Here are some examples on how to use appositive phrases when writing about the 6 main characters in Romeo and Juliet.
Romeo and Juliet context
A handy A3 context sheet aimed at helping students understand how the Elizabethan context enriches our understanding of the play. Ideal as a starting point for helping students move outside of the text to address A03.
Extending Similes to describe the weather
Detailed lesson looking how to extend similes to describe the weather by making the comparisons more precise and intricate.
Includes a vocabulary sheet to help with creating interesting similes.
Includes modelled examples.
Includes a test on identifying the tone of similes.
Includes examples of similes for each season.
The Woman who Shopped - Feminine Gospels
A 17 slide PowerPoint that includes debate questions, detailed annotations on each stanza, exemplar paragraphs, big ideas in the poem and an extension task. A useful introduction to the poem especially for those teachers who have not taught it before.
Mitch Revision Sheet A Streetcar Named Desire
A revision sheet for Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire with detailed and insightful analysis of 8 key Mitch quotations.
AQA Language Paper 1 Question 5 2023 3x model answers
3 high grade 500-700 word responses to the AQA 2023 Language Paper 1 Question 5.
Story 1 features an unnamed creature
Story 2 features an eagle
Story 3 features a wolf.
All have been written in an attempt to try and hit the top band of the mark scheme.