An A Level SOW to teach Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’.
It is designed to prepare students to write an NEA essay, and to be ready to teach.
Each section has comprehension or extract questions.
The starters are on Othello.
A series of 5 overview sheets, each one covering an Act of Othello.
The students complete them to amalgamate the key ideas, quotations, and aspects of character-development that take place across the play.
I provided them as homework but they could also be a classroom activity.
-An A3 revision sheet for Wordsworth’s Extract from the Prelude.
-An annotated copy of the poem.
-A student version of the above with boxes to complete.
A KS3 Scheme of Work to cover Aristotle’s three strands of rhetoric.
This was originally designed for Year 9 but has since been used with Years 7 and 8 as well.
Each lesson goes through a famous speech and analyses in relation to ethos, pathos and logos.
Lessons are fully-resourced and easy for the teacher to follow.
AS Level Scheme of Work for Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons’.
The detailed pack includes:
Lessons that take students through every section of the play
PowerPoints for the teacher to follow
Model answers (including 3 complete model essays)
Scaffolding tables
Questions
Answers for the teacher
Two links to Kahoot quizzes
A wide variety of activities to keep the students engaged
A step-by-step guide to essay writing
Relevant contextual resources.
A complete model essay comparing ‘Ozymandias’ with ‘Extract From the Prelude’. The topic is the power of nature.
It’s on Word so you can edit as you wish.
A completed character-theme table for Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’.
It’s an excellent revision resource which can be adapted as a classroom activity (for students to complete) or provided to students to prepare for their examination.
A GCSE lesson to scaffold an essay on the presentation of Mr Birling in Act 1.
It contains a full PowerPoint, a scaffolding table for students to complete, and a model intro / body paragraph / conclusion.
Designed for Year 7 (but adaptable), the lesson is about introducing students to What/How/Why - or PEE).
Students need to match up 3 PEE burgers and then write their own paragraph.
A fully-resourced ‘Romeo and Juliet’ scheme of work for Year 9 (although easily adapted for a high ability Year 8 group).n
The scheme includes:
A powerpoint for each key section of the play.
A variety of activities including: reading and analytical work; creative writing tasks; drama; group and individual tasks; annotating, etc.
Model paragraphs (on slides).
(NOTE:
-The page references are in accordance with the Oxford School Shakespeare Edition.
-The film is the 1968 version.
-This is a Key Stage 3 SOW, not for KS4.)
A full scheme of work to teach Andrea Levy’s ‘Small Island’ at AS Level.
It includes questions and activities for every chapter of the book. The activities are varied to ensure that your students remain engaged.
The pack includes a mixture of general essay questions and extract-based questions at the end.
The pack can be used for lessons or for homework activities.
A complete lesson pitched at a Yr 8 or Yr 9 class. It could be used for lower ability Yr 10 also.
It begins with revision of language features, tasks are differentiated and there is a body paragraph also.
A fully-resourced, detailed SOW designed for Key Stage 3 and focused on allusions.
There are 12 lessons in total.
Each one links to a Biblical or classical tale. There are multiple model paragraphs provided (What-How-Why-Extend) and video links to keep students engaged.
All extracts are included.
A lesson designed for the section when the audience discover Mrs Birling’s involvement with Eva Smith.
Students are given significant extracts to annotate and key questions for each extract are posed on the board.
Mini-essay scaffolding for the question: How Does Dickens Present Social Responsibility in this Extract?
This resource includes:
-A very short extract
-A differentiated version with key questions
-A teacher version with key annotations
-A scaffolding table for students to complete.
A detailed PowerPoint to prepare students for a question on morality in Act 1.
The resource include 2 versions of student planning sheets and a model introduction, body paragraph and conclusion.