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Thank you for visiting my shop. My aim is to provide high quality teaching resources that reduce the
need for hours of planning and help learners to achieve their potential in English and English Literature.
Please feel free to email me at sdenglish18@gmail.com with any queries, requests or comments.
A PPT that teaches ‘My Last Duchess’ from the Power and Conflict Anthology. It covers:
The contextual background
What is a dramatic monologue?
The poem, broken down into manageable chunks and annotated.
A series of questions for group work.
Suitable for upper-middle ability learners.
An alternative lesson for the same poem is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/my-last-duchess-11933556
A lesson on ‘The Prelude’ for lower ability learners. It includes:
Multiple choice starter based on the Romantic Movement
What is ‘The Prelude’?
Context sheet + tasks
Suggested annotations for lower ability learners
True or false to test understanding
Comparison task with ‘Storm on the Island’
Review
This is a newly-differentiated version of the following resource:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-annotated-act-one-11875448
This lower-ability version contains:
The full text of Act 1, translated (same as original)
Several key extracts for study
Scene summaries for Scenes 2-7
A range of activities to develop understanding.
Simplified contextual notes with a corresponding worksheet
Key information with corresponding worksheet.
This resource is aimed at lower-middle ability learners.
A lesson on Imtiaz Dharker’s ‘Tissue’ for lower ability learners. It includes:
Do Now Task (see cover image)
Keywords Task: architect, transparent, monolith and sepia. Learners look at a six images and suggest which keyword they represent. This worksheet is best printed in colour or at least projected at the time of use.
Contextual information with ‘How far do you agree with these statements?’ worksheet
Storyboarding the poem worksheet (learners insert quotes)
Analysing three quotations task
Comparison with ‘Ozymandias’ table
Learning Review
A lesson on John Agard’s ‘Checking Out Me History’ aimed at lower ability learners. It includes:
Do Now task (shown on cover slide)
Contextual information regarding the historical figures and events referenced in the poem, with corresponding worksheet.
Link to relevant video + the meaning of ‘Eurocentric’
Quotation Hunt + Challenge Task
Imagery in the poem worksheet
Comparison table to complete with ‘My Last Duchess’ in terms of the presentation of the abuse of power.
Review learning with challenge question.
Aimed at middle-upper ability GCSE groups, this PowerPoint teaches the layout and language of a formal letter. It is oriented towards AQA 8700/2/Question 5 but could be adapted for other boards.
In order, the PowerPoint contents are:
A multiple-choice entry task
AQA advice on features of format
A sample AQA-style question. Students identify PAF and reflect on the importance of being mindful of PAF in relation to Question 5. Extension task included.
The layout of a formal letter, which students copy. Extension questions included.
Notes regarding the formal greeting and formal sign-off
A re-cap on the features of formal and informal language. Students cut the features out, organise them under two headings and stick them into their books.
An example response to the given question. Students read and identify different features (differentiated)
An opportunity for independent writing, with success criteria provided.
Peer assessment and self-reflection.
These files were last saved in Office 2010.
This is a ‘crash course’ in Act Five aimed at lower ability learners who need to get through the text quite quickly. It includes:
An overview of Act 5 (see cover image) with tasks.
Scene summaries for Scenes 1, 5 and 8.
A storyboard for learners to fill in for Scenes 1 and 8. On a basic level, they can use the scene summaries to create captions for each scene, although you can increase the challenge by removing the quotations as well.
An activity which encourages learners to contrast the presentation of Lady Macbeth in Acts 1-3 with the sleepwalking scene.
A focus on Macbeth’s ‘Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow’ speech. Learners number the images according to when they appear in the speech.
These resources were created for low-ability learners who only had a limited amount of time in which to approach Act 5. However, you could use these as starters or revision tasks for more able learners.
A ready-to-go lesson on ‘Remains’ in the P&C Anthology. It is aimed at low ability learners whose primary goal is understanding the poem.
The lesson includes:
A starter that encourages learners to think about PTSD and how they might advise someone who is showing symptoms of PTSD
Feedback slide
What is trauma? What events could be considered traumatic? Discuss in pairs.
Feedback slide with link to YouTube video
A storyboarding activity in which learners read the poem and then label the nine scenes with quotations from the poem. This comes with two additional challenge tasks.
A straightforward comparison table with ‘Poppies’, by Jane Weir, on the subject of internal conflict.
Review.
A free lesson on ‘Poppies’ can be found here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/poppies-for-lower-ability-12073600
You may wish to undertake this lesson before moving onto ‘Remains’.
Following on from this introduction to speech writing…
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-introduction-to-speech-writing-for-ks3-12049010
This is a speech-writing lesson based on the issue of social media. It includes:
Starter/Do Now task - learners examine a range of images and suggest what they all have in common (the answer is they represent the dangers of social media in some way)
Feedback slide
Social media dangers true or false with teacher answers.
Feedback slide
Paired discussion: is social media good for our society?
Key points in the social media debate with mind-mapping activity
Sample GCSE question (AQA style) with speech planning sheet task
Writing time
Peer assessment and review
This lesson is aimed at lower-middle ability learners and should take about two hours.
Information/statistics correct as of 30/3/19
A two-page guide to writing a discursive essay. The topics covered are:
The purpose and content of the introduction
The role of topic sentences
Different forms of evidence
Concluding sentences
The use of counterargument
The content and purpose of the conclusion
This revision sheet is suitable for upper-ability learners at GCSE.
This lesson focuses on the creation of interesting and believable characters. It is aimed at lower ability KS3 and follows on from the ‘Developing Skills in Creative Writing’ series:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/developing-skills-in-creative-writing-12079150
However, it can stand alone.
Lesson Structure:
Do Now Task - see cover image
Feedback slide
How many of the following statements in relation to fictional characters do you think are true or false?
Feedback slide
The importance of creative interesting and believable characters, with two examples.
The major ‘Do’s’ and ‘Do Not’s’ of character creation
Character planning worksheet task
Tell a friend about your character
Write an extract from your character’s story, with WAGOLL. The WAGOLL is about a penguin who has never learnt to swim.
Peer Assessment
Review
A double-sided, detailed context sheet for ‘A Christmas Carol’.
As this doesn’t seem to show on the preview, the reverse side of the sheet contains a section on working conditions in the Victorian age and the ideas of Thomas Malthus.
There is an accompanying worksheet on which students can write their notes.
If preferred, these resources can be purchased as part of a larger unit of work on Stave One:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-christmas-carol-stave-one-11996048
A PowerPoint that covers leaflet writing for GCSE. It is aimed at middle-ability learners working towards an extended response to a task such as ‘Write the text of a leaflet for…’
The lesson covers
the purpose and structure of a leaflet
Persuasive language features (FOREST)
Modal and imperative verbs.
Leaflets with a multi purpose.
There is an extended writing task at the end where learners have to work out the purpose and audience for themselves.
These files were last saved in Office 2016.
An alternative to this lesson is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/leaflet-writing-for-gcse-public-transport-safety-12002132
This PPT enables an exploration of ‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen, part of the AQA Power and Conflict Anthology. It is aimed at lower ability learners whose primary objective is understanding and basic comparisons.
It includes:
Starter: Infer the meaning of the word exposure by examining the three images (sun exposure, exposure to the elements, exposure to harmful gases in the air)
Learners then look at an image of WW1 soldiers in the trenches and link it to their understanding of the word exposure.
There is a context sheet which explains some of the background to the poem e.g. the Western Front and conditions for soldiers in the trenches. Learners then work through relevant tasks e.g. label the Western Front on a blank map of Europe.
Poem synopsis with 4 comprehension questions.
The poem translated into reasonably simply English + reduction task.
Suggested annotations for lower ability learners.
A comparison table for completion (presentation of effects of war with ‘Remains’.
Review.
This lesson enables learners to explore ‘Kamikaze’ by Beatrice Garland. It includes:
Lesson Starter (see cover image)
An image of the sinking US Arizona with the question, ‘When do you think this photograph was taken’? Learners discuss and then feedback.
A context sheet contained a simplified explanation of the Pearl Harbour attack and the rise of Kamikaze pilots. There is a corresponding worksheet for this.
A link to a BBC interview with a surviving Kamikaze pilot with three questions to answer.
A sheet of questions to prompt annotation of the poem.
The lesson is aimed at lower ability learners whose primary goal is understanding.
This lesson on ‘The Emigree’ is aimed at lower ability learners and includes:
Do Now Task: Learners reflect on a range of scenarios which encourage them to think about how they would react if they were living under a totalitarian regime.
Feedback slide
Context sheet that focuses on Rumens’ interest in the poetry of Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam
Quotation Hunt
Focus on Imagery worksheet
Feedback slides
Learners then reflect on the presentation of power and conflict in the poem, with worksheet
Comparison with Blake’s ‘London’ Venn diagram activity in terms of the presentation of place
Feedback slide
Review Learning