38 pages of activities based on Australia. Geography: mapwork, oceans, continents and time zonesSpelling: words ending in ED and ING AU wordsGrammar: Proper and Common nouns Punctuation Homophones Opposites Direct and reported speechComprehension skills - several activitiesAlphabetical orderWriting : Arranging sentences into paragraphsProof reading a textVocabulary building activities.

www.tes.co.uk/victorianliteratureStudy pack to support study of Victorian Literature at A Level. AQA English Literature Specification A. Unit 1 - Texts in Context: Victorian Literature (LITA1A)

I made this last year when teaching 'Frankenstein&' at AS for the OCR English literature spec (although could be adapted). I kept it to myself for a year but I think it&';s time to share the love. It's very detailed - could give to students as there are loads of activities but also would be useful if you&'re tackling the text for the first time - as a PGCE/NQT in particular, as many bits could be adapted into lesson activities. Fly free, Frankenstein.... into the &';darkness and distance'!

Small pamphlets (c. 3000 words) on Christmas Carol, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Our Mutual Friend, Old Curiosity Shop, Nicholas Nickleby, Bleak House, Dombey & Son, Little Dorrit, Hard Times, Great Expectations, Martin Chuzzlewit, Edwin Drood, Barnaby Rudge

Reading Holes? This basic novel study of the book Holes by Louis Sachar includes several vocabulary lists, 8 quizzes on the book, one end of book test, and a list of good websites to use when teaching the novel Holes. Keys included. - HappyEdugator

This is all the resources I’ve used for the lit and lang GCSE coursework on Jekyll and Hyde. The question I used was: How does Robert Louis Stevenson create mystery and suspense in the first three chapters of ‘The Stranger Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’? I started with the powerpoint and research homework. Then, analysed the chapters. Chapters 2&3 are broken up by questions and glossaries, whereas chap.1 has seperate questions. Moving on to language analysis and finally the essay plan. My class is a bit mixed, so some of them are voluntarily using chapter 4 in the essay as well. Hope this all makes sense! And is of some use to you!

My Basic Thousand Words by Lonnie Dai Zovi is a complete 105 page workbook containing a comprehensive word list for absolute beginning novice low to intermediate English vocabulary learners. The book contains graduated lists (from the most simple to the more complex, as well as an alphabetical list ) and related exercises (puzzles, word scrambles, sentences writing, fill in the blank) of one thousand of the most frequently occurring words with accompanying exercises for EAL/EFL students. Rather than an English frequency word list, it is a merging of various frequency word lists. The words chosen are simple yet vital for successful reading and writing for beginning and intermediate English learners. These words and exercises are good for group or independent study. They can be used for weekly spelling words, vocabulary teaching, reviewing,or just reinforcement or enrichment to an already existing program. Regular classroom teachers can give these worksheets to their EAL/EFL students for extra practice.The word list is a compilation of many old and respected high frequency word lists (Dolch, Fry, Dale-Chall,Spache to name a few). Some of the lists were too short, others contained a few words not used as much as perhaps they were in the past. (“hiss” and “steamer”, for example, were purged) My Basic Thousand Words, then, is a merging as well as an update of other lists in addition to a few changes. Thematic words that usually appear in beginning English picture dictionaries (Perfect Pics,© for example) were not included. Colours, most numbers, family, animals, months, days, household items, school supplies etc. were not usually included. Many of the excluded words, though quite useful, are not as frequent as those words chosen for this list. You may use this list and the exercises as occasional reviews, worksheets for substitutes teachers, extra credit, or as part of an organized and structured curriculum. This list starts with – The, man, it, now, bed, you, he, is, do, me and ends with character, immediate, especially, principle, appreciate, extreme, receipt, annual, decision, recommend, emergency.

A full lesson or so focusing on Weimar and Nazi Germany. A great resource for all KS5 students (may be more suitable for higher level KS4 students too) but here is being used as part of my Weimar and Nazi Germany topic - I have other resources connected. Suitable for both British curriculum and the international curriculum. GCSE/ IGCSE/ A Level/ IB. Attached is a great learning resource - very straight forward and easy to use. Can be used for any exam and as a fantastic supplement to whichever textbook you are using. Excellent for PGCE students / NQTs / non-specialists as all the work has been done for you. Thanks for stopping by! Raising money to teach English in Asia. Please visit my shop https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/sam2104 :)

A series of fact sheets I received from the Danish Embassy in London prior to undertaking our International schools week. They were incredibly helpful as you can see. I thought I would share them to save resources for the embassy :D PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK :D

This resource pack from the National Theatre contains free downloadable pdf resources for teachers, students, researchers or anyone interested in discovering more about the National Theatre's productions of &'She Stoops to Conquer&'; and 'A Laughing Matter&'.

A collection of power points that I have adapted from various sources.

This is a scheme of full lessons and assessment material that that I wrote for GCSE controlled assessment for comparing Shakespeare's work with poems. The poems being used are Education For Leisure, Hitcher and Stealing and the assessment is about comparing disturbed characters. Lots if language analysis of Shakespeare and teaching pupils how to link themes and ideas. Each lesson is separate with resources embedded at the end.

Covers plot, characters, theme and context. All extremely detailed and includes 'did you know?' interesting facts. Please note that not all powerpoints have learning objectives on as I am going to add these on at a later date and have not had time as of yet as I have spent hours making these. All decorated and covers exam practice. Please leave feedback. Thank you.

In preparing the Reflections on Life Slide Shows I researched quotations from many different sources. This is a great collection of Native American ones. I pasted onto this file from many sites and will, when time, try to include references to the original websites. There is a lot of material here including part of an autobiography by Chief Black Hawk, dictated to a government interpreter in the region, and edited by John B. Patterson, an Illinois journalist, who published it in 1833. As always, any rating and comments would be appreciated.

201 page COMPLETE unit on the novel! Focuses on LITERARY DEVICES (allusions, anaphora,connotation,comic relief,denotation,diction,flashbacks, foil,personification,simile,paradox, metaphor,narrative structure,tone, types of questions), SKILLS APPLICATION, and LITERARY ANALYSIS. Original photographs of South Africa on handouts. * over 200 READING/ANALYSIS SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (based on Bloom's cognitive levels) * over 150 READING/LITERARY ANALYSIS MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS * 14 FOCUSED ACTIVITIES (Individual or group work):Characterization,Figurative Language,Foil Characters,Syntax,Writing About,Psychiatric Evaluation,Significance of Names,Transformation Through Communication,Point of View,Symbols,Motifs * over 15 READER RESPONSE ESSAY QUESTIONS * 3 FIVE-PARAGRAPH ESSAY PROMPTS * 4 AP STYLE PROMPTS * 67 VOCABULARY WORDS DEFINED/HANDOUTS * 2 AP STYLE PASSAGE TESTS (analysis/application of skills) * STUDENT ESSAY REVISION ACTIVITY

Encourage students in Key Stage 3 English to read for pleasure. In these two 45-minute lessons, raise students' awareness of context in literature by considering the time and place of writing and the author's life and opinions. Show them how background pre-reading and trying to predict content makes reading more enjoyable, and helps them understand works which are distant from them in time and/or place. These lessons introduce students to the American author Christopher Morley and his short novel The Haunted Bookshop. Materials are provided for those who wish to follow the lesson by reading it.

Continuation of blog started in September 2011. As a practising theist, who tries to respond to all the ups and downs of life from a spiritual perspective, I feel that my life experiences may be a useful resource. Some have been kind enough to encourage me with this. A few people tell me that they read it regularly, so for them and any other casual readers I continue. The one on 29th and 30th includes 2 photos of the kitties aged 4 weeks best wishes and love to all DMC

Complete notes (basically like a textbook) for AS students. It is written as a chronological account, building in key debates. The reason for chronological rather than thematic focus is because the course has been taught in discrete sections and this is designed to bring it all together. It is not the final, proofed draft and some of the footnoting still needs to be done, but I thought I would upload it in case anyone finds it useful for the imminent exams. I'll post a revised copy when it is complete.

This 137-page Workbook Edition of ‘The General Prologue’ is built around a full copy of the original text, with a new inter-line modern translation, and together with the other versions of the resource available at LitWorks.com offers access to the text in a variety of ways. Principally, it is a page-by-page reading guide, drawing students’ attention, by means of illuminating comments and challenging questions, to significant details in the narrative. It suggests a structured way of approaching the text, using the highly effective SCASI (Setting, Character, Action, Style and Ideas) framework. It also carries a series of essay prompts in the style of external examinations (GCE A Level, IB and AP) which encourage students to take a wider view of the work and relate it to fundamental literary and critical concepts.

This 137-page Workbook Edition of ‘The General Prologue’ is built around a full copy of the original text, with a new inter-line modern translation, and together with the other versions of the resource available at LitWorks.com offers access to the Prologue in a variety of ways. Principally, it is a page-by-page reading guide, drawing students’ attention, by means of illuminating comments and challenging questions, to significant details in the narrative. It suggests a structured way of approaching the text, using the highly effective SCASI (Setting, Character, Action, Style and Ideas) framework. It also carries a series of essay prompts in the style of external examinations (AP, IB and GCE A Level) which encourage students to take a wider view of the work and relate it to basic literary and critical concepts. The resource effectively supports the Common Core State Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1-6 and CC.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11.12.1-6.

A close analysis of Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale with source materials, social and church history both serious and irreverent, and outlines of Chaucer's contemporaries.