I am an A Level tutor who teaches Film Studies A Level & G.C.S.E., Sociology A Level, E.P.Q., English Language G.C.S.E.
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I complete schemes of work for each of my courses and aim to upload as many resources as I can in the near future. If you like my work and would like to request a resource, please let me know and I will produce what you need.
I produce video resources here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC31WbZO2OQW3Ul108I0QUmw
I am an A Level tutor who teaches Film Studies A Level & G.C.S.E., Sociology A Level, E.P.Q., English Language G.C.S.E.
*PLEASE REVIEW*
I complete schemes of work for each of my courses and aim to upload as many resources as I can in the near future. If you like my work and would like to request a resource, please let me know and I will produce what you need.
I produce video resources here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC31WbZO2OQW3Ul108I0QUmw
This pack contains:
1 PowerPoint Quiz - 31 questions [and answers]
1 - picture round - 20 questions
1 - student handout to record answers/scores
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All resources are editable**
This is a fun way to end the term!
These English G.C.S.E. resources have been designed for the AQA speciation.
This PAPER 1 SECTION A session follows this format:
1 – Starter tasks: VOCAB expansion: learning, defining, and finding synonyms for new words
2 – SPAG Focus: Using apostrophes
3 – Text: Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo’s Calling
4 – Questions 1,2,3 and 4 are broken down and simplified.
5 – The text is explored, analysed, evaluated using each of the four questions
6- Assessment activities
7 – Plenary activities
Each lesson is accompanied by a work-booklet and additional handouts for the SPAG activities.
These English G.C.S.E. resources have been designed for the AQA speciation.
This PAPER 1 SECTION A session follows this format:
1 – Starter tasks: VOCAB expansion: learning, defining, and finding synonyms for new words
2 – SPAG Focus:COMMAS
3 – Text: The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
4 – Questions 1,2,3 and 4 are broken down and simplified.
5 – The text is explored, analysed, evaluated using each of the four questions
6- Assessment activities
7 – Plenary activities
Each lesson is accompanied by a work-booklet and additional handouts for the SPAG activities.
These English G.C.S.E. resources have been designed for the AQA speciation.
This PAPER 1 SECTION B session follows this format:
1 – Starter tasks: VOCAB expansion: learning, defining, and finding synonyms for new words
2 – SPAG Focus: adjectives and adverbs
3 –** Questions 5-** break down and discussion
4 – Exam focus activities: Planning a response (5 mini activities using stimulus materials)
5 – Exam technique: Flashbacks
6 – Task/assessment activities: Story writing / descriptions
7 – Plenary activities: vocab test
Each lesson is accompanied by a work-booklet and additional handouts for the SPAG activities.
These English G.C.S.E. resources have been designed for the AQA speciation.
This PAPER 1 SECTION A session follows this format:
1 – Starter tasks: VOCAB expansion: learning, defining, and finding synonyms for new words
2 – SPAG Focus: Parts of speech: nouns and prepositions
3 – Text: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
By Robert Louis Stevenson
4 – Questions 1,2,3 and 4 are broken down and simplified.
5 – The text is explored, analysed, evaluated using each of the four questions
6- Assessment activities
7 – Plenary activities
Each lesson is accompanied by a work-booklet and additional handouts for the SPAG activities.
These English G.C.S.E. resources have been designed for the AQA speciation.
This PAPER 1 SECTION B session follows this format:
1 – Starter tasks: VOCAB expansion: learning, defining, and finding synonyms for new words
2 – SPAG Focus: Using question marks
4 – Questions 5- break down and discussion
5 – Exam focus activities: Planning a response (5 mini activities using stimulus materials)
7 – Task/assessment activities: Story writing / descriptions
8 – Plenary activities: vocab test
Each lesson is accompanied by a work-booklet and additional handouts for the SPAG activities.
This pack contains a 33 slide PowerPoint presentation and accompanying student booklet that covers the following:
This lesson will show students how to analyse Beasts of the Southern Wild whilst applying theories of spectatorship. The lesson is structured to help students ‘build an A Level response’ to several spectatorship/ideology questions.
Starter:
Key term re-cap (key terms with missing vowels = student must identify the term then define it)
Example questions
Preferred reading - group task
Detailed feedback on PowerPoint
Students to list technical approaches that encourage a preferred reading of the film
Detailed feedback on PowerPoint
IDEOLOGY: - introduce the importance of ideology in driving response
Define and explore: Libeterianism and Anarchism
Tentants of Anarchism explored
Group task: students find examples of anarchistic principles found in the film
feedback
Scene analysis - opening scene (recognition / driving the preferred response
Detailed analysis of intro scenes (including ‘community party’ sequences)
Address The Levee = anti-corporate/capitalistic ideologies
Detailed feedback on PowerPoint
ACTIVE RESPONSE - discussion: What does the Auroch represent?
Negotiated response
Detailed feedback on PowerPoint
FEMA/Hospital scene analysis
Detailed feedback on PowerPoint
Oppositional response
Detailed feedback on PowerPoint
‘Beast It’ scene analysis
Bell Hook’s response to the film
NEW CONTENT: viewing BOTSW from a 2024conservative perspective: oppositional responses in 2024
Detailed feedback on PowerPoint
Assessment: planning time and assessment included [optional use]
**This pack contains 7 lessons designed for AQA’s English Language Paper 1 **
Each lesson comes with:
- PowerPoint presentation
- Tasks handout
- Digital copies of the text that is used in the session
Each lesson follows the same format, which is outlined below:
Starter Task: definitions and synonyms (students to define words, find synonyms and then write one sentence using as many of their new words as they can)
SP&G focus: short task based around ONE SP&G area:
- Lesson 1- Using Commas
- Lesson 2 - Using apostrophes
- Lesson 3 - Using capital letters
- Lesson 4 - Parts of Speech: nouns and prepositions
- Lesson 5 - Parts of Speech: verbs and pronouns
- Lesson 6 - Parts of Speech: positioning the reader
- Lesson 7- Parts of Speech: homophones
Each SP&G focus section contains a video, task and consolidation activity
Paper 1 - question 1 practice
The sample tests covered in these 7 lessons are:
The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Strange Case of Mr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Paper 1 - question 2 practice - analysis
- The question is discussed and then a series of tasks are available. How to answer the question, how to structure responses, how to break down the text, task, assessment.
Paper 1 - question 3 practice
The question is discussed and then a series of tasks are available. How to answer the question, how to structure responses, how to break down the text, task, assessment.
Paper 1 - question 4 practice
The question is discussed and then a series of tasks are available. How to answer the question, how to structure responses, how to break down the text, task, assessment.
Plenary Tasks -
reflection on the session. Target setting for next session.
This pack contains the 7 lessons covering AQA’s English Language GCSE Paper 1, Section B.
Each lesson in this pack follows the same structure and contains:
Power-Point lesson
Handouts for relevant sessions.
Each lesson follows the following structure and addressed the following skills/approaches:
Starter task
-definitions of 5 words, students find synonyms, then they write a sentence using as many of their new words as they can
SP&G focus:
Lesson 1- Sentence openers
Lesson 2 - Speech Marks
Lesson 3 - Using Dashes
Lesson 4 - similes and Metaphors
Lesson 5 - Adjectives & Adverbs
Lesson 6 - Irregular Verbs
Lesson 7 -
Question 5 - How to understand, prepare for and answer the question
Part 1 -What the exam will look like: a breakdown of what the exam question will look like.
Part 2 - planning - students are given an image then various tasks to help them plan their narrative/descriptive writing tasks.
Part 3 - writing
Part 4 - self review and submission.
Plenary - reflection and target setting