5 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on Power and Conflict Poetry. 17 x A4 printable Powerpoint slides (3 sheets per lesson, including poem and questions). Can be printed into a booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. A separate file is available to purchase, with correct answers clearly highlighted for all 5 poems. Tasks focus on comprehension, selecting relevant evidence, poetic devices analysis, writer’s ideas and themes. Poems: 1 - Wilfred Owen - Exposure 2 - Seamus Heaney - Storm on the Island 3 - Ted Hughes - Bayonet Charge 4 - Simon Armitage - Remains 5 - Jane Weir - Poppies

English Homework - Paragraphs 5 weeks’ worth of homework activities in an A4 Powerpoint editable and printable booklet. Easy and quick to peer or self-assess in class. Tasks focus on the following: Homework 1 – Shifts in Time or Place Organise the text in paragraphs by adding // to indicate a break in time or a change of place Remove any paragraphs you think are incorrectly placed and organise the text into functional paragraphs by adding // to indicate a break in time or a change of place. Homework 2 – Paragraphing for Effect Organise the text in paragraphs to entertain, amuse, or surprise the reader. Homework 3 – Speech Paragraphing Re-write the conversation, inserting paragraphs where they should be. Homework 4 – Developing and Contrasting Read the paragraph. Instead of maintaining the same style, develop the passage by writing your own second paragraph Read the dialogue. This time, instead of maintaining the same style, create a sense of contrast by writing your own paragraph that creates a strong sense of contrast with the dialogue. Homework 5 – Topic Sentences and Sentence Expansion Insert the appropriate topic sentence and discourse markers so the argument makes sense Expand these short sentences into longer ones or several by providing answers to the following questions: when? with whom? how? why? how much? what? or what do they do?

Answers Booklet 7 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on poetry. 23 x A4 printable Powerpoint slides (3 sheets per lesson, including poem and questions). Can be printed into a booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. A separate file is available to purchase, with correct answers clearly highlighted for all 7 poems. Tasks focus on comprehension, selecting relevant evidence, poetic devices analysis, writer’s ideas and themes. Poems: 1 - A Poison Tree by William Blake (1789) 2 - Romance by Edgar Allan Poe (1843) 3 - A Birthday by Christina Rossetti (1862) 4 - The Voice by Thomas Hardy (1912) 5 - The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (1915) 6 - Cedars by Grace Hazard Conkling (1920) 7 - Touched by An Angel by Maya Angelou (1993)

7 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on poetry. 23 x A4 printable Powerpoint slides (3 sheets per lesson, including poem and questions). Can be printed into a booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. A separate file is available to purchase, with correct answers clearly highlighted for all 7 poems. Tasks focus on comprehension, selecting relevant evidence, poetic devices analysis, writer’s ideas and themes. Poems included: 1 - A Poison Tree by William Blake (1789) 2 - Romance by Edgar Allan Poe (1843) 3 - A Birthday by Christina Rossetti (1862) 4 - The Voice by Thomas Hardy (1912) 5 - The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (1915) 6 - Cedars by Grace Hazard Conkling (1920) 7 - Touched by An Angel by Maya Angelou (1993)

5 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on Power and Conflict Poetry. 17 x A4 printable Powerpoint slides (3 sheets per lesson, including poem and questions). Can be printed into a booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. A separate file is available to purchase, with correct answers clearly highlighted for all 5 poems. Tasks focus on comprehension, selecting relevant evidence, poetic devices analysis, writer’s ideas and themes. Poems included 1 - Carol Ann Duffy - War Photographer 2 - Imtiaz Dharker - Tissue 3 - Carol Rumens - The Émigrée 4 - John Agard - Checking Out Me History 5 - Beatrice Garland - Kamikaze

Power & Conflict Poetry Part Three (Teacher Copy) Answer Booklet 5 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on Power and Conflict Poetry. 17 x A4 printable Powerpoint slides (3 sheets per lesson, including poem and questions). Can be printed into a booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. A separate file is available to purchase, with correct answers clearly highlighted for all 5 poems. Tasks focus on comprehension, selecting relevant evidence, poetic devices analysis, writer’s ideas and themes. Poems included 1 - Carol Ann Duffy - War Photographer 2 - Imtiaz Dharker - Tissue 3 - Carol Rumens - The Émigrée 4 - John Agard - Checking Out Me History 5 - Beatrice Garland - Kamikaze

Dickens’ vocabulary can be difficult for some pupils (and, at times, teachers too!). This powerpoint lists all those words and phrases that would typically present difficulties and offers easy translations into modern English, or into language that teenagers would more readily understand. Just display on a projector during guided reading so that pupils can look up any words they don’t understand, or even take notes in their own books if they wish.

LO: How do I plan and write a response to 27.1? A complete lesson including starter, unseen poem, exam question, model responses, plenary that explores a Paper 2-style AQA English Literature unseen poetry question based on the following poem: Thomas Hardy: The Voice. Powerpoint: 19 slides. AQA English Lit Paper 2 Section C Unseen Poetry Purpose of unit of work: To master questions 27.1 and 27.2 Form: Exam paper responses Assessment Objectives: AO1 - Read, understand and respond to texts, maintaining a critical style and developing an informed personal response, using textual references including quotations to support and illustrate interpretations (12 marks). AO2 - Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate (12 marks). AO2 - Comparison of AO2 (8 marks) STIMULATE AND GENERATE Focus on engagement, discussion and building cultural capital CAPTURE, SIFT AND SORT Sifting the outcomes from the first phase to fit where we are heading. What skills do pupils need to learn in order to be successful in the next phase? Focus on teaching, modelling and developing key skills and processes linked to success criteria CREATE, REFINE AND EVALUATE More independent application of skills learnt. This is the stage that needs most differentiation and allows/enables writers to work at different rates and pitches. Self, peer and teacher review happens throughout this phrase. Write extended responses to exam questions, provide feedback and refine work Starter: How do these images link? Blue dress and autumn leaves. Both blow in the wind. Key question: what language form and structural techniques can I analyse? Recap: AO1 and AO2 Exam question: In The Voice, how does the poet present the speaker’s feelings about loss? Unseen poem: Thomas Hardy: The Voice. Glossary. 7 steps to understanding an unseen poem AO1 and AO2. The Introduction: 3 sentence model. I DO: Model introduction YOU DO: Use this model to help you write an introduction focusing on The Voice. SELF-ASSESSMENT: Use this model to help you improve your own introduction. WE DO: How do I write an analytical language? Model paragraph analysing language. YOU DO: Use this model to help you write your own paragraph analysing language. Plenary: Peer Assessment - Read through your partner’s response. Highlight and annotate their response to show where they have demonstrated WHAT WHERE HOW WHY. Write a brief commentary below their work in which you explain the following: What went well (WWW). What do they need to do in order to improve? (EBI).

Unseen Poetry AQA English Literature Paper 2 Section C - 27.1 and 27.2 Powerpoint including over 100 slides split into 7 lessons and final exam style questions 27.1 and 27.2 Typically, lessons include: starter activity, lesson objective (linked to AOs), one unseen poem (or two for comparative lessons), glossary, practice exam questions, model responses, WHAT, WHERE, HOW, WHY analysis, pupil tasks, plenary. Lesson objectives: How do I develop an informed, personal interpretation supported by textual references? How do I read, understand and respond to an unseen poem? How do I analyse the form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects? How do analyse the language used by a writer to create meanings and effects using relevant subject terminology? How do I compare language, form and structure used by writers to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology? How do I plan and write a response to 27.1? How do I plan and write a response to 27.2? Exam practice: Unseen poetry questions 27.1 and 27.2

Dickens’ vocabulary can be difficult for some pupils (and, at times, teachers too!). This powerpoint lists all those words and phrases that would typically present difficulties and offers easy translations into modern English, or into language that teenagers would more readily understand. Just display on a projector during guided reading so that pupils can look up any words they don’t understand, or even take notes in their own books if they wish.

Stevenson’s vocabulary can be difficult for some pupils (and, at times, teachers too!). This powerpoint lists all those words and phrases that would typically present difficulties and offers easy translations into modern English, or into language that teenagers would more readily understand. Just display on a projector during guided reading so that pupils can look up any words they don’t understand, or even take notes in their own books if they wish.

Dickens’ vocabulary can be difficult for some pupils (and, at times, teachers too!). This powerpoint lists all those words and phrases that would typically present difficulties and offers easy translations into modern English, or into language that teenagers would more readily understand. Just display on a projector during guided reading so that pupils can look up any words they don’t understand, or even take notes in their own books if they wish.

Dickens’ vocabulary can be difficult for some pupils (and, at times, teachers too!). This powerpoint lists all those words and phrases that would typically present difficulties and offers easy translations into modern English, or into language that teenagers would more readily understand. Just display on a projector during guided reading so that pupils can look up any words they don’t understand, or even take notes in their own books if they wish.

Dickens’ vocabulary can be difficult for some pupils (and, at times, teachers too!). This powerpoint lists all those words and phrases that would typically present difficulties and offers easy translations into modern English, or into language that teenagers would more readily understand. Just display on a projector during guided reading so that pupils can look up any words they don’t understand, or even take notes in their own books if they wish.

Stevenson’s vocabulary can be difficult for some pupils (and, at times, teachers too!). This powerpoint lists all those words and phrases that would typically present difficulties and offers easy translations into modern English, or into language that teenagers would more readily understand. Just display on a projector during guided reading so that pupils can look up any words they don’t understand, or even take notes in their own books if they wish.

7 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on extracts from classic supernatural texts. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. Tasks focus on comprehension, inference, vocabulary, sentence structures and punctuation. Extracts from: 1 - The Vampyre by John William Polidori (1819) 2 - The Lifted Veil by George Eliot (1859) 3 - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890) 4 - The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen (1894) 5 - The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (1898) 6 - The Wendingo by Algernon Blackwood (1910) 7 - Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker (1914)

6 weeks’ worth of reading homework tasks based on extracts from texts set or written in the 1920s. 23 x A4 printable Powerpoint slides (2 to 4 sheets per lesson, including extract and questions). Can be printed into a booklet. Easy and quick to self-assess in class as responses are chosen from multiple choices. Tasks focus on comprehension, inference, vocabulary, sentence structures and punctuation. Extracts include: 1 - A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf 2 - The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 3 - Just William by Richmal Crompton 4 - All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 5 - A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 6 - Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne