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I am a secondary school English teacher, teaching KS3 and KS4. My lessons are all differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme. Please leave a review - I would love to hear your feedback :)

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I am a secondary school English teacher, teaching KS3 and KS4. My lessons are all differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme. Please leave a review - I would love to hear your feedback :)
Macbeth Plot Card Sort Activity
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Macbeth Plot Card Sort Activity

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A card sorting activity using Simpsons images to test students knowledge of the plot. Students should cut the cards out and sort them into the correct order.
Set of 5 homework activities for AQA Language Paper 1 Question 5.
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Set of 5 homework activities for AQA Language Paper 1 Question 5.

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5 homework sheets aimed at helping students develop their skills in planning an answer for Language Paper 1 Question 5. Each sheet asks students to plan a list of powerful vocabulary (challenge to find synonyms to improve their vocab choices), a list of language devices and a list of the senses. Planning sheets can then be used to write up a full practice answer to Paper 1 Question 5. Please leave a review. I love your feedback :)
AQA Power & Conflict Poetry - Comparing the poems 'Poppies' and 'Remains.'
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AQA Power & Conflict Poetry - Comparing the poems 'Poppies' and 'Remains.'

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Lesson is differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme. Tasks and questions are differentiated throughout and there is a help sheet to support lower ability students with structuring their answer. Lesson uses the poems ‘Poppies’ and ‘Remains’ and students are asked to think about the key themes, similarities and differences and then eventually answer a differentiated exam style question (3 question choices.) Please leave a review. I’d love your feedback.
SPAG Help Sheet
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SPAG Help Sheet

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A SPAG help sheet that I designed to put on the front or back cover of students’ books to help them with basic SPAG skills.
Persuasive Writing -Do They Know It's Christmas Time? Bob Geldof Live Aid/Comic Relief AFOREST
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Persuasive Writing -Do They Know It's Christmas Time? Bob Geldof Live Aid/Comic Relief AFOREST

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Persuasive writing lesson based on Live Aid and Comic Relief. Differentiated using the GCSE mark scheme. Students read an extract from Bob Geldof’s diary which sparked the song 'Do They Know It’s Christmas Time?, discuss the impact of the song and how persuasive writing techniques have been used. Students will eventually create their own piece of persuasive writing. Lesson planned using the TEEP structure.
Christmas Market descriptive writing lesson (verbs, adverbs, adjectives and language devices)
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Christmas Market descriptive writing lesson (verbs, adverbs, adjectives and language devices)

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A Christmas creative writing lesson based around describing a Christmas market. Lesson is scaffolded with a video, pictures and planning tasks for students to gather their ideas. WAGOLL answers are included for students to assess/discuss. Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme. This lesson is aimed at KS3 but can easily be adapted for older year groups.
GCSE 4 Poem bundle (lesson, annotations, context, language analysis task.)
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GCSE 4 Poem bundle (lesson, annotations, context, language analysis task.)

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Lessons for the GCSE poems: Bayonet Charge, War Photographer, Exposure and Ozymandias. Lessons include the poems context, annotations on the poems, language/structure/meaning/context challenge questions and a language analysis task on each poem. Differentiated using aim/challenge/super challenge and the GCSE mark scheme.