Revision key quotes from the following AQA texts:
Power & Conflict
Romeo and Juliet
An Inspector Calls
A Christmas Carol
Used alongside lots of highlighters and felt tips to explode the quotations, identify the characters, themes, words classes, language techniques and any relevant contextual links.
11 fully planned and resourced schemes of work suitable for KS3 in English. Designed to last a term each. Each lesson includes a starter, activities, plenary/assessment and an extension task. Each unit also has homework fully planned for the term. Includes lots of different strategies. They cover lots of the skills required for the new AQA language and literature specifications.
Titles of schemes are:
19th century children's lit
American Lit
Intro to Dickens
Class gothic lit
European Lit
Detectives and Sherlock Holmes
Intro to Shakespeare
Monologues / poetry / speaking and listening
KS3 detectives
Women's non-fiction writing
Creative writing
Introduction to plays and drama
Introduction to AQA's evaluating a statement Q4
A fully planned and resourced scheme/unit on AQA's new English Language paper 1 Explorations in creative reading and writing. This only covers questions 1-4 and not the creative writing question 5.
Made for a very weak year 11 set. Texts covered include: Jekyll & Hyde, Harry Potter, Jane Eyre, Christmas Carol, Alice in Wonderland, The Jungle Book, The Wizard of Oz and Rebecca. This took my bottom set year 11s 7 weeks to get through.
Everything you need is ready to go and planned. All lessons include starters, resources, activities, plenaries and extension tasks.
A fully planned and resourced English scheme of work designed for KS3 on Genre. Assessment at the end is creative writing based and lessons build towards this. Also has some anaylsis and a speaking and listening lesson.
Includes lessons on: fantasy, detectives, travel writing, biographies, horror, dystopia, sci-fi & children’s literature. Includes all homework. Each lesson has a starter, main activities, plenary/assessment and extension tasks. Has an assessment activity at the end of the unit.
A resource with two powerpoint lesson presentations that have a letter writing activity and a creative writing activity based on Roald Dahl’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
12 powerpoints on the theme of 19th century childhood. Good to introduce these types of texts to KS3 before they reach GCSE. Could be taught to years 7-9 depending on ability.
Includes all the extracts and resources. Each lesson is fully planned and ready to go. There is also a term's worth of homework and every lesson has an extension task.
Texts include:
Great Expectations, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, Emma, Jane Eyre, Water Babies and Oliver Twist.
A sheet with the final lines of Romeo and Juliet with analysis questions. Based on language, structure and techniques. Ideal for revision and closely looking at language, meaning and effect. Made for AQA English Literature.
A sheet with 15 poetic techniques linked to each of the Power and Conflict poems. Revision for language and poetic techniques. Works well for revising the poems too.
The opening scene of An Inspector Calls worksheet for close language analysis and character analysis. For revision and to look at the stage directions. Mark scheme included and an exam style question.
This is a scheme of work I made for low ability year 9s. The theme is American Literature. It covers skills from both of the new AQA English Language papers. it would work for much of KS3 as an intro to some of the new GCSE tasks and skills.
It includes homework for the whole unit.
Writers covered in this unit are:
Poe, Maya Angelou, Harper Lee, Michael Crichton, Adam Richman, Truman Capote, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck and Stephen King. There are also some extracts from speeches by Michelle Obama, Trump, FDR, MLK and Hillary Clinton.
Everything is here - all the powerpoints and resources. Some powerpoints have hyperlinks embedded in them. It is all clearly labelled, all you need to do it print and go.
A grid for revising key quotations for An Inspector Calls. Includes spaces for the quotes, the characters, language techniques, contextual links, effect on the audience and the meaning.
A revision sheet which includes work on language, structure, imagery and context. Made specifically for a student with ADHD. Lots of small tasks to keep them focused and on track.
10 fully planned and resourced lessons for the Cambridge IGCSE English Language. Helps students to improve and develop their speaking and listening skills as well as planning their final assessed pieces.
All lessons have learning objectives, starters, activities and plenaries.
A fully planned and resourced scheme/unit of work designed for year 8 on Gothic literature. Texts included: Dracula, Frankenstein, Macbeth, Rebecca, Jekyll & Hyde and Jane Eyre. Everything you need is provided including homework tasks. All lessons have starters, activities, resources, plenaries and extension tasks.
This could be used for any KS3 group. It also makes lots of reference to the new AQA English Language paper 1.
