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Secondary English Teacher - KS3, KS4, KS5.
I believe my resources are of a high quality; they are created using the TEEP cycle and are popular with my students and teachers.
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Context and Themes Revision 'Clock' Organiser: AQA English Literature
This excellent revision resource allows pupils to revise the key themes and contextual features of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
The ‘clock’ is split in half, with one half focused on context and the other on key themes.
All key themes and contextual headings are listed, with clear chapter numbers given for pupils’ reference. Copies of the text will be required if pupils are using the template to find ‘killer’ quotations.
This activity encourages independent revision, but also ensures that the revision is focused. Further independent reading can also be used to develop their notes.
Once the activity is complete, I would encourage pupils to anticipate how these key themes may be phrased as a question and how they could apply their contextual understanding to this.
Frankenstein Plot Revision Lesson: AQA English Literature
This resource will allow pupils to thoroughly revise the plot and narrative framing of Frankenstein. Easily differentiated.
The PowerPoint includes the following activities:
Starter with a fill in the gaps activity for key quotations from the novel. Answers included in notes section.
A detailed plot sort activity (including summaries which can be printed) of the whole novel
A quotation hunt activity
A fill in the gaps activity about the narrative framing of the novel
Key quotations about the narrative framing from the novel which has been adapted as a fill in the blanks activity. Answers included in notes section.
Narrative framing consolodation questions
Exam style question about how Shelley uses narrative framing in the novel
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Power and Conflict Poetry: Planning an Exam Response: AQA English Literature
An excellent revision resource which includes the following:
Whole lesson for teaching how to prepare for the new Section B English Literature Power and Conflict 2017 examination including:
Starter activity to invite meta-cognition about the importance of planning and the rating activity allows students to visibly demonstrate their understanding at the beginning and end of the lesson (AfL)
Review activity to revise language/structure/form terminology (teacher to provide)
Review of exam format and top tips
Assessment Objective grid phrased as questions
2 x exam style question (1 for Power and Conflict; 1 for Love & Relationships) for class deconstruction.
4 x options for planning an exam response
Revision activity: Create a text profile
Revision grid
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Love and Relationships Poetry: Blank Revision Grid: AQA English Literature
Clear blank revision grid for the new AQA Love and Relationships cluster of poems.
Great to use whilst studying poems or as a revision aid in the lead up to AQA English Literature Paper 2 .
The grid allows pupils to visually display the following information:
Key Themes (AO1)
Poems to Compare each poem with (AO1)
Summary (AO1)
Language Features (AO2)
Form/Structural Features (AO2)
Context (AO3)
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
The Beginnings of Child Language Acquisition
Resource to support beginnings of teaching Child Language Acquisition, providing
Mehler - French babies
Fitzpatrick - Biological effects of language
Pre-verbal language development stages
Desmond Morris - Babbling Stage (6-12 months)
Proto-Words
Halliday’s functions
Match-up activity - match up the proto-words to the appropriate contextual information
Match up activity - match up the contextual information to Halliday’s functions
Power and Conflict Poetry: Introductory Lesson: AQA English Literature
Introductory lesson for the new Power and Conflict Unit (AQA 2017 exam onwards) including:
Starter activity asking pupils to consider what they associate with power and conflict with challenges to prompt thinking.
An overview of the 4 English AQA exams and of the exam format
References to key themes.
Slide to encourage pupils to consider how a poem can be successfully analysed which encourages them to link this knowledge to the Literature Assessment Objectives from memory.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Social Interactionism Theory of Child Language Acquisition: Key Theoretical Perspectives
Key information about Jerome Bruner’s theory of social interaction, including key terms and the 3 modes of representation
Information about how to apply Bruner’s theory to an examination question
Key information about Michael Tomasello’s theory, including key information about intention reading and pattern finding
Macbeth: Plot Card Sort Revision Activity: AQA English Literature
A card sort activity which allows pupils to revise the plot of Macbeth in detail.
The cards are designed to be placed beneath each of the headers for the five acts on page 1 of the document. (Each header specifies how many cards should be placed beneath it)
There are 23 cards included in the revision resource that provide a detailed summary of each Act, with some including key quotations.
The cards are currently colour coded and in chronological order (numbered in brackets) for teacher’s reference, but this can easily be adapted when printing for students.
This would work well as an independent, paired or whole class task for all abilities.
As an extension, pupils could link the cards with key themes and contextual information.
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning Lesson: AQA English Literature
Whole lesson for teaching My Last Duchess including:
Starter activity to introduce My Last Duchess with a link to a news story to introduce the key themes of the poem. This is accompanied by quotes from Browning to promote thinking.
Key contextual information about Robert Browning and Renaissance Italy.
A poem dictionary.
A clear summary of the poem and its key themes.
Identified language and structural techniques
Review to identify key quotations that fit the key themes of the poem.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Poppies by Jane Weir Lesson: AQA English Literature
Whole lesson for teaching Poppies including:
Starter activity based around a quote from Jane Weir (link with Duffy’s poetic ideals as she commissioned the poem). The starter also includes a challenge and prompts pupils to consider the significance that Weir’s textile business may have in relation to the poem.
Key contextual information about Armistice and Weir
Key themes and summary of the poem.
References to language and structural techniques.
Review activity to consolidate understanding.
Review to identify key quotations that fit the key themes of the poem.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Storm on the Island by Seamus Heaney Lesson: AQA English Literature
Whole lesson for teaching Storm on the Island including:
Starter activity with key images and a quote from Seamus Heaney to promote discussion about the content of the poem and to challenge pupils to consider the hidden metaphorical meanings.
Quiz on language/structural techniques (used in Storm on the Island). Another starter that tests pupils knowledge of other poems in the cluster
Slide to encourage pupils to infer what the poem is about based on key themes.
Clear mind-map slide for annotations for summary
Poem dictionary for unfamiliar words in the poem
Key contextual information about Heaney and Ireland
References to language and structural techniques.
Review to identify key quotations that fit the key themes of the poem.
Homework tasks for pupils to annotate another Seamus Heaney poem for unseen poetry practice.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
An Inspector Calls: Form and Genre Revision Lesson: AQA English Literature
Applicable to new AQA English Literature Paper 2 Exam: Modern Texts
A lesson exploring the features of form/genre within An Inspector Calls including:
A starter to encourage pupils to consider how An Inspector Calls is a morality/whodunit/well-made play with links to AO2.
Top tips on how to analyse form in relation to the play.
A grid activity with information stations to allow pupils to retrieve information about the three forms of the play, building on the starter activity and space for them to consider the effects of form.
A slide exploring the Three Unities - pupils to consider where these are evidence in the play.
A review comprised of questions to check understanding.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson Lesson: AQA English Literature
Whole lesson for teaching The Charge of the Light Brigade including:
Starter activity with quotes from the news report on the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava to allow pupils to infer what happened and link this with the poem.
Review activity that tests pupils’ knowledge of other poems in the cluster.
Homework tasks to research Tennyson
Key contextual information about the Battle of Balaclava and Tennyson
A clear summary of the poem and references to key themes
References to language and structural techniques.
Review to identify key quotations that fit the key themes of the poem.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Power and Conflict Poetry: Blank Revision Grid: AQA English Literature
Clear blank revision grid for the new AQA Power and Conflict cluster of poems.
Great to use whilst studying poems or as a revision aid in the lead up to AQA English Literature Paper 2
The grid allows pupils to visually display the following information:
Key Themes (AO1)
Poems to Compare each poem with (AO1)
Summary (AO1)
Language Features (AO2)
Form/Structural Features (AO2)
Context (AO3)
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
An Inspector Calls: Plot Summary Grid: AQA English Literature
A blank revision grid designed for revision for KS4 learners for the new English Literature Paper 2: Section A (Modern Texts)
Can be easily adapted for other plays or texts in this unit.
The grid has been designed for pupils to comprehensively revise each of the acts, with each column inviting them to consider different areas within each of the three acts, all linked with the Assessment Objectives.
The grid invites them to review/revise:
The plot
Key characters
Key quotes
Form, language and structure
Context
This would be great on A3 paper or double sided.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Behaviourism & Feral Child - Challenges to Nativism
Introductory discussion activity to promote thinking about how lack of interaction can impact children - linking to feral children
Lenneberg’s Critical Period theory information
Information and video about the case of Genie (‘feral’ child) from the 1970s in America, including key ideas and questions relating this to Lenneberg’s theory
Hart & Risley’s theory (1995) of academic progress of children from different socioeconomic backgrounds
Nature vs nurture information slide
For Behaviourism:
Information and videos about Pavlov’s dogs and the Watson & Rayner ‘Little Albert’ study
Key theoretical information about B/F Skinner’s theory of operant conditioning
Final slides includes criticism of Skinner’s theory
Cognitivism Theory of Child Language Acquisition: Key Theoretical Perspectives
Introductory activity relating to key aspects of cognitive theory
Introduction to Piaget’s theory of cognitivism: Slides outline Piaget’s 4 stages of development and a video showing a child that has not yet mastered object permanence relating to Piaget’s theory
Introduction to Vygotsky’s theory of the Zone of Proximal Development and the More Knowledgeable Other
Video to aid discussion and identification of cognitivism and key aspects of the theory in a parent-child interaction, with the parent acting as the MKO
Key review of Halliday’s 7 functions of language
Bundle
An Inspector Calls Plot, Context, Setting, Form and Genre Bundle
An Inspector Calls Plot Revision Grid:
A blank revision grid designed for revision.
Can be easily adapted for other plays or texts in this unit.
Form and Genre Revision Lesson:
A starter to encourage pupils to consider how An Inspector Calls is a morality/whodunit/well-made play with links to AO2.
Top tips on how to analyse form in relation to the play.
A grid activity with information stations to allow pupils to retrieve information about the three forms of the play, building on the starter activity and space for them to consider the effects of form.
A slide exploring the Three Unities - pupils to consider where these are evidence in the play.
A review comprised of questions to check understanding.
Context and Setting Revision Lesson:
References to Assessment Objective 3 using AQA wording
Questions to prompt thinking about society in 1912 and Priestley
Information on social class and how society changed between 1912 (set) and 1945 (first performance)
Information about the police force in 1912
References to ‘fallen women’ and a table activity to generate analytical thought
Information on politics and working life
Activities to encourage pupils to consider key settings, particularly the opening of the play with Priestley’s use of stage directions.
Child Directed Speech (CDS) - Key Aspect of Child Language Acquisition
Introduction to definition of Child Directed Speech
Key features of Child Directed Speech: Phonology, grammar & syntax, lexis and pragmatics
Slides 5-8 ask students to identify what features of CDS are present in the example utterances
Clarke Stewart’s theory of CDS
Criticism of CDS e.g. Papa New Guinea, Somoa and recent research into the benefits of CDS
Introduction to the concept of scaffolding used in CDS
Ozymandias by Percy Shelley: Revision Resource: AQA English Literature Power and Conflict
KS4 revision resource for the new AQA English Literature Power and Conflict poetry unit for Ozymandias by Percy Shelley
This 3 page resource provides pupils with different activities that will facilitate their revision of the poem, covering all 3 Assessment Objectives (AO1, 2 & 3) for this section of the exam.
Activities include:
A series of images that tell the ‘story��� behind the poem to help revise what the poem is about (AO1),
2 x tabula rasa (blank copy of the poem) for poem summary and annotations (AO1);
A list of key language/structure/form techniques (AO2);
Quotes, images and information to support and revise contextual knowledge (AO3);
‘Twist to fit’ activity for key quotations (AO1).
This allows pupils to rearrange their existing knowledge of the poem in a new format and visually displays their knowledge - very quick and easy to refer back to.
Activities are also differentiated to support mixed ability classes.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated