I provide resources mainly for English (IGCSE and GCSE content), but also post useful Drama resources. There are also brand new English-with-Media resources to choose from, and many materials such as assemblies and certificates that could prove useful to Head of Years. All resources are differentiated appropriately and labelled with key year groups.
I provide resources mainly for English (IGCSE and GCSE content), but also post useful Drama resources. There are also brand new English-with-Media resources to choose from, and many materials such as assemblies and certificates that could prove useful to Head of Years. All resources are differentiated appropriately and labelled with key year groups.
Lesson One: Word of the Week (Cultural Identity)
Lesson Two: Analysis and key concepts
Lesson Three: Write up of analytical paragraph, and low-stakes multiple choice quiz.
Lesson One: Students will be looking at the word of the week (impoverishment) and studying the context and key themes of the poem.
Lesson Two: Students will be completing a guided and structured analysis of the poem, stanza by stanza.
Lesson Three: The students will be finalising their study of the poem by filling a revision table, and writing a critical paragraph response to an exam-style question
First lesson: Word of the Week and Context
Second lesson: Guided structural and poetic analysis
Third lesson: Planning and writing a critical analysis, and a 10- question multiple choice low stakes quiz.
Lesson One (1984 Lesson): This lesson explores the concept of totalitarianism, and has the students analyze the opening scene of 1984 in order to detect evidence of totalitarianism in the environment.
Lesson Two (O’Brien and the rats): This lesson focuses on the idea of false consciousness, and the character of O’Brien. The students will explore how O’Brien uses torture and fear to brainwash and control Winston, and in the end, students will write a paragraph analyzing O’Brien’s character.
Lesson Three (Key Concepts): This lesson focuses on understanding the key concepts in 1984: The War, Doublethink/speak, and Hate Week. By the end the students will be writing their own polemical pamphlet using doublespeak, promoting hate towards the new enemy (Eastasia) and promoting Eurasia as an ally.
5 lesson SOW including a word of the week lesson, key concepts, and a low stakes quiz. Students will be trained to analyze articles relating to current affairs, and produce a critical paragraphs recording their findings. Focus of the week is ‘disparity’.
Lesson One: WOTW (Emancipation) and study of key concepts and context connected to the poem.
Lesson Two: Analysis and pair annotation lesson
Lesson Three: Creation of revision resource and analytical paragraph. Finishes with a fun Kahoot quiz.
Lesson One: Word of the Week (Monotony), context and key themes
Lesson Two: Guided analysis of techniques and deeper meanings
Lesson Three: Creation of revision table, and writing of critical analysis paragraphs
4 PSHE lessons on wellbeing. The focus is mental health, becoming mindful, learning how to identify and control emotions, and learning how to deal with cyberbullying.
Lesson one: Introduction to the dystopian genre, key concepts and terms
Lesson two: Understanding Dystopian character archetypes
Lesson three: Context behind dystopian fiction (understanding the link between history and literature)
Lesson 1: King Cnut and Æthelred the Unready, the Viking presence in England, Edward the Confessor’s early years
Lesson 2: The reign of Edward the Confessor, his relationship with Godwine, the failures of his rule.
Lesson 3: The claimants to the throne after the death of Edward the Confessor, class research and presentation task.
This IS A three lesson SOW that introduces the students to the origins of the tragic genre.
Lesson 1: In this lesson, students become familiar with vocabulary associated with the tragic genre, with a particular focus on Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex.
Lesson 2: In this lesson, students analyse the origins of the tragic genre. Students will analyse and become familiar with the themes and characters of the play ‘Medea’.
Lesson 3: In this lesson, students will become familiar with different tragic solilquies throughout history: from Antigone, to Othello, to Death of a Salesman. The students will choose to analyse one of six soliloquies, and then get into pairs so that they can present a comparative analysis.
This is the third week in a SOW combines both Media and English in order for students to construct a film review during their assessment week. In this scheme, students have the chance to explore elements of cinematography, scriptwriting and analysis of ambiguity and sensationalism in film.
Lesson One: What is sensationalism?
Lesson Two: Identifying persuasive devices
Lesson Three: Implementing persuasive devices
Lesson Four: Writing a sensationalist review
This is the second week in a five week scheme that is available on my shop, but this can easily be a stand alone week of work.
Lesson one: what is ambiguity? Ambiguous versus obvious film trailers comparative analysis
Lesson two: Imagery in film and using descriptive imagery
Lesson three: Emotion in film and learning to describe emotion
Lesson Four: Planning our own ambigous trailer
This SOW combines both Media and English in order for students to construct a film review during their assessment week. This is week one of a five week scheme - please see my shop if you would like to purchase the next week, or to buy the whole scheme.
This SOW includes the following lessons:
Lesson One: How to write a film review
Lesson Two: Camera shots and angles and writing an analysis
Lesson Three: Pathetic fallacy in film and writing an analysis
Lesson Four: Colour in film and writing a comparative analysis
5 lesson scheme of work focusing on analysing non-fiction texts (mostly autobiography extracts, one letter). Includes a word of the week (adversity) and a 12 question end of week quiz and extra recap/filler lesson.
Many key concepts are covered including tragedy, trauma, phobia, desensitisation, etc.
Lesson 1: Intro to Dystopian Environments
Lesson 2: Dystopian Character Archetypes
Lesson 3: The Context Behind Dystopia
Lesson 4: Analysing the Setting of 1984
Lesson 5: Analysing the Character of O’Brien in 1984
Lesson 6: The Key Dystopian Concepts of 1984
Homework Sheet 1: Creating a Dystopia Worksheet
Homework Sheet 2: Dystopian Verbs
3 lessons on Commedia Dell’Arte.
Lesson One: Introduction Lesson
Exploring the comedy genre
Introducing Commedia as a whole
Introducing Commedia characters
Lesson Two: Practice Lesson
Focus on center of leading and tension states
Improvising a performance
Focusing on two characters in particular
Lesson Three: Test and Performance Lesson
Recapping the weeks’ knowledge of comedy types and commedia with a low stakes multiple choice quiz
Finalizing with a guided Lazzi performance.
