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.
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 lesson on ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ for lower ability learners.
It includes:
Starter multiple choice question
Context sheet and storyboard activity
Suggested annotations for lower ability learners
Discussion: how is this a power and/or conflict poem?
Article writing task
A lesson on Jane Weir’s ‘Poppies’ in the AQA Power and Conflict Anthology. It is aimed at a lower ability set and includes:
A true or false starter about the important of the poppy (answers provided)
A double-sided activity worksheet to enable comprehension
Role on the wall activity
Letter-writing extension task
Review Learning
Expected time: 1.5 - 2 hours
A PPT that enables an exploration of ‘War Photographer’ by Carol Ann Duffy. It includes:
Lesson starter that encourages learners to think about the role of the war photographer
Feedback slide
Basic contextual information
Suggested annotations aimed at lower ability learners
A summary sheet and worksheet
Comparison task with ‘Remains’
Review
An introduction to unseen poetry for middle ability learners working towards AQA English Literature 8702/2.
The Do Now task is a series of multiple choice questions focusing on Tupac’s ‘The Rose that Grew from Concrete’. This is self-assessed.
After this, learners examine the requirements of the AQA 870 Literature course in order to determine how and where unseen poetry fits in.
This is followed by a return to Tupac’s poem and a focus on some of the poetic methods used. The methods are pre-identified so that learners need only consider the effects.
After feedback, there is the opportunity to review learning.
Estimated time = one hour
I created a storyboard version of ‘A Christmas Carol’ for lower ability learners. However, it could also be used as a revision tool for middle-upper ability learners as well.
This resource contains 5 storyboards: 1 for each stave of the novella.
Just a simple look at shared themes in the Power and Conflict Poetry. Could be used as a starting point for group work in terms of creating points and finding relevant quotes.
This is a newly differentiated version of this resource:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-annotated-act-two-11875453
This lower ability version contains:
The full text of Act 2, translated (same as original)
Scene summaries for Scenes 1-4
Scene 2 (the immediate aftermath) full text with corresponding questions
5 Worksheets to be carried out alongside the reading of Act 2.
This unit contains fewer resources than the corresponding unit for Act 1, but this reflected in the price. It was created with the issue of time pressure in mind.
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.
I’ve endeavoured to create a mark scheme for the Power and Conflict poetry with indicative content, similar to the Language papers for AQA 8700/1 + 2. I’m not an examiner for this course so would be grateful for any constructive feedback.
This is a ‘crash course’ that teaches the main events in Act 3. Could be used as revision or to promote understanding in lower ability learners.
There are three scene summary files:
Scenes 1 and 2
Scenes 3 and 4
Scenes 5 and 6
These should be read before undertaking the activities:
Activity 1 = storyboard (learners describe what is happening in each square based on the image and the quotes)
Activity 2 = extended storyboard (some missing descriptions, some missing quotes)
Activity 3: Focus on Lennox’s speech.
A lesson that follows on from this introduction to speech writing for KS3:
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 arming teachers, similar to the US. It includes:
Starter - learners examine four related images and say how they are similar and different
A keywords match-up task with extension
A link to a relevant article which serves as useful research/pre-reading
A summary of the main arguments and some key statistics about gun crime in the US versus the UK
Sample GCSE question (AQA-style)
WAGOLL
Writing time
Peer assessment and review
This lesson is aimed at lower-middle ability learners and should take about two hours.
If you like this lesson, please consider other lessons in the KS3 speech writing series, as and when they are published. For example:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-speech-writing-the-plastics-debate-12058293
UPDATE: Corrections made to Teacher/Pupil Keywords sheets.
A way of teaching how to link inferences to quotations. Use in conjunction with a reading text from which quotations need to be derived. Students should write the question in the central circle and then find up to six relevant quotations.
These are Level 4-5 WAGOLLS for the November re-sit for AQA English Language 8700/1 and 8700/2.
In order to access the reading inserts, you will need to go onto E-AQA and download them. Please ensure that you have access to E-AQA before downloading.
‘An Inspector Calls’ Acts 1, 2 and 3 complete course of study complete with differentiated tasks and sample answers to a range of questions. 267 PPT slides in total. Aimed at middle-upper ability GCSE groups.
A 527-slide PowerPoint bundle that provides the full text of Macbeth’, translated and annotated. The PPTs use layered text boxes with translations appearing first in blue, followed by analysis and critical commentary in different colours. The annotations include:
AO3 detailed contextual background information and its relationship with the text (e.g. features of Greek tragedy, biblical allusions, cultural expectations of women, fear of witches etc.)
Analysis of writer’s methods
Analysis of effects of structural devices
There are a series of comprehension and analysis activities to work through and the PPTs will indicate when these should be undertaken.
With the appropriate school licence, this bundle could be uploaded onto a network and accessed by students for revision.
A sample essay in response to the following question:
Read the following passage from Chronicles 16:9. How does it relate to 'Jekyll and Hyde'?
'For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. You have done a foolish thing, and from now on you will be at war.'
The response is available on an Active Inspire flipchart and as a Word document.
Aimed at higher-attaining Year 11s.