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’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.
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.
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.
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.
An Active Inspire mind map that explores the presentation of women in ‘Jekyll and Hyde’.
UPDATE: this Active Inspire file and the other Jekyll and Hyde mind maps are available as screenshots on PowerPoint and as PDFs. If this is a more convenient software choice for you, please download/purchase this resource/bundle and then email me using the address on my store front. Just click on ‘More about this author’.
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.
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.
A lesson aimed at KS4 pupils that focuses mainly on comprehension and inference-making.
The text is a 19th century letter describing entry into the Wolstanton & Burslem Union Workhouse at Chell.
Please feel free to use either as a remote learning task or literacy for students coming into school during this difficult time.
An unseen poetry lesson that looks at the lyrics of Bob Dylan’s ‘The Times they are A-Changin’. It includes:
A poetic methods multiple choice quiz with answers
A short bio of Dylan with comprehension tasks
Annotation task
Learning Review