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CHRISTMAS THEMED DESCRIPTIVE WRITING TASKS 4 LESSONS 3 HOMEWORKS & DIRT ACTIVITIES KS3 & 4 ENGLISH
This resource contains 4 x complete lessons using a variety of recent High Street Store Christmas adverts as stimulus. It also contains 3 x home learning tasks with corresponding 10 minute DIRT / follow-up class activities for peer marking. Merry Christmas!
NARRATIVE WRITING ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER 1 SECTION B EXAMPLE AND PLANNING TWO LESSONS
This two lesson resource gives students an example of a story, for which they can discuss what the candidate has done well and what could be improved. Following this they can use the mark scheme included (from the new spec AQA) to award a level / mark.
Using this knowledge of what makes a good narrative, the remaining slides give some prompts and advice about how to go about planning and writing a narrative. Planning sheet and suggested titles is included for students to plan according to what they have learned. The actual story could be written by way of extension.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER 1 KS4 - 1 TO 2 LESSONS LOOKING AT DESCRIPTIVE WRITING TECHNIQUES
This lesson starts with an introduction to stock characters and a wide range of other descriptive writing techniques using a written description of a scene in a doctor's waiting room. Students answer a set of questions which ask them to identify the writer's techniques and explain the effects. Next, students plan their own descriptive writing using given planning sheets, a range of prompts and some images of a fairground.
AQA ENGLISH LITERATURE EXAM QUESTION - HOW IS LADY MACBETH PRESENTED AS A POWERFUL FIGURE?
A Powerpoint presentation consisting of a variety of tasks relating to Lady Macbeth. Main focus is working through the exam question, beginning with the given extract. Aimed at low to mid ability.
MEDUSA BY CAROL ANN DUFFY - KS5 POETRY - ENGLISH LITERATURE - A LEVEL
Lesson on Medusa by Carol Ann Duffy. Includes set of questions and discussion points. Copy of poem provided.
GUN CRIME ARTICLES AND QUESTIONS - PAPER 2 STYLE QUESTIONS - KS3 & 4 ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Three articles, article-based questions and tasks on the topic of gun crime. Suitable for KS3 or 4. Might engage boys.
LESSONS 1-7 A CHRISTMAS CAROL DICKENS KS4 - CONTEXT AND STAVE ONE - AQA ENGLISH LITERATURE
Seven lessons (the first three of which look at the context for the story) covering up to the end of Stave 1. Aimed at MA but contains tasks for all abilities. Easily differentiated.
SHAKESPEARE'S SPEECHES FOR KS3 - INTRODUCTORY SHORT SCHEME - MUCH ADO, MACBETH, TWELFTH NIGHT ETC
Aimed at Y7 and 8, this short scheme aims to introduce KS3 pupils to 6 of Shakespeare’s famous characters/speeches. Ideal for introducing Shakespeare or one of his plays. Students are guided to act out conversations or deliver monologues. All resources included. Would probably take 3 1 x hour lessons in total. Could be extended. Includes Beatrice & Benedick, Malvolio, Lady Macbeth, Don John, Seven Ages of Man and Romeo and Juliet.
MUCH ADO SHAKESPEARE BEATRICE BENEDICK WORK BOOKLET KEY SCENES + ASSESSMENT Q KS3 ENGLISH
This is a booklet that can be used to analyse the characters of Beatrice and Benedick in the following key scenes of Much Ado About Nothing:
Act 1 Scene 1
Act 2 Scene 1 & 3
Act 3 Scene 1
Act 4 Scene 1
Act 5 Scene 2 & 4
Each Act’s tasks should take approximately two lessons, giving around 10 hours of tasks to complete. Thorough investigation into their characters through extracts from key scenes and related tasks. Possible assessment question provided, taken from an AQA’s English Literature Paper 2.
USE OF NATURE IN WOMEN'S POETRY OF WW1 - KS3 ENGLISH LIT - FALLING LEAVES & A GIRL'S SONG
Two female poems looking at the use of Nature in poetry of WW1 to contrast perspective. Falling Leaves looks at the futility of war and A Girl’s Song looks at how difficult it can be to accept a loved one has died. Both poets deliver these ideas by personifying nature. Starter is a fill in the blanks activity then looking at Cole’s actual language choices. Then, look at A Girl’s Song using a table to infer how natural imagery shows the poets ideas. Plenary is a paragraph comparing their use of nature to show attitudes towards death in war.
KS3 & 4 DESCRIBING CHARACTERS MIX OF READING AND WRITING TASKS TO DEVELOP DESCRIPTIVE TECHNIQUES
This booklet uses a variety of extracts (easily available on the internet) which, in some cases have been simplified e.g. the Dickens Great Expectations extract, and short structured comprehension and written tasks that are linked to the extracts. Each extract and set of tasks aim to focus on a particular technique including vocabulary choices, considering connotations, simile, pathetic fallacy, personification. There is also some focus on sentence variety including using lists and varying sentence openers. The final task asks pupils to try to use all the skills covered in the activities. Would suggest aimed at low ability for KS4 students. Easily adaptable.
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DESCRIBING CHARACTERS FOR KS3 & 4 ENGLISH LANGUAGE READING & WRITING SKILLS INDEPENDENT LEARNING
This bundle contains 4 x single worksheets based on famous fictional characters - Dr No (James Bond), Gollum, Mrs Pratchett and The Witches. Each contains an extract from which pupils have to identify the writer’s techniques. Then, pupils can plan their own description using a themed given image. Planning boxes are provided to help. They can then self assess, looking for the skills they identified earlier in their own descriptions. Can be used one worksheet at a time or printed off as a booklet.
The second resource in this bundle is a work booklet which offers a range of structured tasks based on several fictional extracts with the purpose being to identify and be able to use the following skills: interesting vocabulary, simile, lists,adjectives, metaphor, short sentences, pathetic fallacy, opening sentences with a simile & personification. Easy to print off as a booklet and work through the tasks.
KS3 MISSING PERSON DRAMA SCHEME - EIGHT STRUCTURED LESSONS WITH RESOURCES
Aimed at KS3, this scheme takes you through the morning after a girl called Ellie disappears from her home in the night. There is a village meeting, a bag found at the station containing items that Ellie has lost (giving possible clues to her disappearance), a group effort to put up missing posters, mime to the Beatles’ track She’s Leaving home and much more. Students really enjoy this scheme. Hope you do too!
ENGLISH LANGUAGE Q 2 AND 3 STEP BY STEP LESSONS REBECCA DAPHNE DU MAURIER
Two lessons:
Q2: ‘How does the writer use language here to descibe Nature?’ Focus on Du Maurier’s choices of personification, adjectives and simile for this question. Plus a focus on subordinate clauses followed by students identifying these in the extract with a view to including an idea in their practise response.
Q3: ‘How does the writer structure the text to interest the reader?’ Reminder of structural features, useable examiner tips on what to include / not to include in a Q3 response. Slides provide points of note-taking and discussion, leading up to students having a go responding to the question themselves.
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KS3 POETRY THEMED BY NATURE / NATURAL WORLD
A range of poems introducing students to poetic techniques and form.
In this selection of poems, nature is used to convey a range of ideas such as happiness, change and loss.
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KS4 ENGLISH LANGUAGE BUNDLE AQA
A range of tasks for KS4 to prepare for Paper 1 and 2. Mainly Section B but one lesson on Paper 2 Q 2 & 3 style questions.
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MACBETH IN 10 KEY QUOTATIONS REVISION AID DISPLAY EXAM ENGLISH LITERATURE
Ten slides containing carefully selected evidence from the play that students can learn and apply to a variety of potential exam questions. Each slide puts the quotation into context and contains a brief analysis with relevant methods and terminology in bold. Easily editable to remove explanations for just the quotation and image for display.
The same resource is available for An Inspector Calls, Blood Brothers and A Christmas Carol in my shop.
AN INSPECTOR CALLS IN 10 KEY QUOTATIONS - REVISION AID DISPLAY GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE
Wondering which quotations your students should learn for the exam? This display resource contains 10 key quotes that track the play, carefully chosen to provide students with potential evidence to use in a range of essay questions. Each key quotation is accompanied by an explanation, a colourful image to aid recall and a list of suggested essay themes to go with it. I have also made the same resource for A Christmas Carol, Macbeth and Blood Brothers, all available in my shop.
KS3 POETRY BROTHERS BY ANDREW FORSTER
AIMED AT MIDDLE TO LOW ABILITY KS3, THIS COMPLETE LESSON USES EMOJIS TO LOOK AT HOW THE POET CREATES MOOD. THE LESSON ALSO LOOKS AT THE POET'S USE OF TECHNIQUES AND CONSTRUCTING A SHORT RESPONSE USING PETAL.
KS3 POETRY STEAM SHOVEL BY CHARLES MALAM
AIMED AT MIDDLE TO LOW ABILITY, THIS COMPLETE LESSON LOOKS AT THE POET'S USE OF PERSONIFICATION AND METAPHOR. INCLUDES WORKSHEET WITH QUESTIONS AS AN EXTENSION TASK.