Full scheme of work based on Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful. Used with Y8 students mixed ability but can be used with Y7 higher ability students or adapted for a range of abilities. Lessons include chapter questions, discussion topics, creative writing tasks, key words, speaking and listening activities, writing tasks and many more!

A Media Studies coursework checklist and guidance for marking coursework (this can be shared with students to help them know what they need to create). This is for WJEC Media Studies Unit 3.

Poetry revision booklet for students to fill in. This focuses on key themes, context, structure, imagery, interesting language, poetic devices, key quotations and analysis points and example exam questions. This can be used as an in class task or or students to use for their revision. This is based on CIE iGCSE 0475 Paper 1 - Songs of Ourselves Volume 1 but can be adapted to fit any poetry anthology used (just change exam questions).

Full scheme of work for To Kill A Mockingbird GCSE students. Literature and Language skills explored in the scheme. Key words for each chapter, questions for each chapter, key points to discuss and explore and activities for students to work on.

Scheme of work for WJEC Media Studies Unit 2 Hollywood Film. The scheme includes key terminology for students to learn, techniques needed, theoretical perspectives, industry information and exam requirements. Activities include research tasks, exploration of trailers and posters, exploration of film scenes, exam questions and discussions. This is based on Spider-Man No Way Home but can be adapted to focus on any chosen film.

Full scheme of work for Songs Of Ourselves Volume 1 Poetry Anthology for CIE iGCSE. Activities include exploring poetic techniques, the SMILE approach to poetry, guided questions for poems, context information for each poem, structue and themes for each poem, exam questions for each poem and example responses, links to unseen poetry skills and group tasks. Annotations for the poems are also included.

Scheme of work based on unseen poetry and prose. A range of texts and exam questions are included to discuss and analyse. This is based on CIE iGCSE 0475 Paper 4 but can be adapted for other exam boards. Texts include extracts from novels, poems and Taylor Swift songs.

A lesson on writing an interview for KS4 students based around 9/11. YouTube documentary link is included to give students information about 9/11. Useful tips for interview writing shared to discuss with students. Ideas surrounding the topic can be discussed before or after watching the video. Example Cambridge iGCSE 0500 question (paper 1 question 3) for students to work on after watching the documentary.

This is a PowerPoint based on chapters 1-4 of Purple Hibiscus. It includes: chapter summaries, questions for chapters, various tasks to work on, key words and translations of words they may not know. The lesson also has an example exam question for chapter 3 with a plan to help them explore quotations used in the novel. Perfect for Cambridge iGCSE (0475).

This is a lesson on the poem Ozymandias. This was used with a mixed ability year 8 class but can be adapted to fit different classes / abilities. The lesson uses the SMILE approach to poetry.

This is a resource that can be adapted to fit the needs of the students in the class. It contains a table with themes and their descriptions already completed. Students are required to find quotations that relate to each theme. The descriptions can be removed for higher ability classes and some quotations can be filled in for lower ability classes.

This is a PowerPoint with lessons and tasks focused on every chapter of Purple Hibiscus. This can be used to study the whole novel or can be used for revision. It includes summaries of the chapters, guided questions for each chapter, key words and definitions, exam questions and writing tasks to help study the text. There are also tasks that focus on characters and themes.

This is a full PowerPoint that could be used over a few lessons. It focuses on persuasive writing. The PowerPoint has tasks to help students understand persuasive techniques, identify them in writing and create their own speech (in a creative and different way). I use this resource with Y7 students, but could be used with Y8 and adapted for Y9.

This is a PowerPoint that can be used over a number of lessons to focus on descriptive writing. I use this with KS4 students. It focuses on imagery, figurative language, punctuation, sentence structures, vocabulary and structure of a response.