This is a 34 slides ppt with the poem BLESSING by Imtiaz Dharker, taught as an Unseen Poem. It follows AQA exam board. You have group work included.

This is a PPT with 53 slides for the poem BLACKBERRY PICKING by Seamus Heaney, to include: Context, Structure and Analysis, each with homework tasks. You can link a follow up poem - Death of a Naturalist by the same poem - next (see my PPT for this other poem!) and then do a compare/contrast assessment on it. This PPT matches AQA new specification (2015 onwards) and can be used at both KS3 & KS4.

This is a complete lesson (8 slides) where students will practice various narrative perspectives, using a picture stimulus. They first work with an exemplar photo and aim to identify all possible perspectives, then they have a go at one picture of their choice and write a description using a character’s perspective. They can peer assess at the end. You can use this for the Creative Writing task of your GCSE exam qualification.

This is a lesson’s worth of work after the initial reading of Chapter 9 in Jekyll & Hyde novel. The pupils will have the opportunity to re-visit parts of the chapter and evaluate ideas using PEED paragraphs.

This folder contains a complete SOW for the module ORIGINS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE targeted at KS3 year 7 & 8. There are 20 complete lessons with PPT, worksheets and video files, as well as a Reading Assessment in lesson 11 (Middle English) and a Creative Writing assessment, which the pupils will really enjoy. I have run these lesson as part of our online learning time during lockdown 2020 and they are created to keep the students focused all the time, with short tasks expanding into longer ones… The content of the lessons will go from the Evolution of English Language to Middle English and a focus of a few lessons on Chaucer, as well as the Reading Assessment, and later to Michael Rosen and Language Evolution, as well as Semantics, Idiolect, Sociolect, Degrees of Formality, and Accents and Dialects. I hope you will find them useful, if you are teaching this module.

This is a PPT with Preparation lesson and Reading Assessment on Midsummer Night's Dream, focused around the encounter between Titania and Bottom and the power of persuasion implemented by the Queen of Fairies. The PPT has PEEL frame build in and it should take you around 4 lessons to finish it, as well as peer-assess it. This PPT can be followed by my other PPT about FAIRIES for a Creative Writing assessment, in any other you like.

This PPT has 2 whole lessons that can be used as a Creative Writing assessment while studying A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This PPT can be used with year 8 onwards and it is lined up with the new AQA specifications for English Language (descriptive writing with a picture stimulus). I hope you will find it helpful.

This is a PPT with 2 whole lessons about the first encounter with Lady Macbeth in Act 1, scene 5, while reading Macbeth's letter, wishing to make pupils anticipate possible courses of action from that point, but also choose one of them and develop her response. The action taken will be a reply letter, focusing on English Language skills (Purpose, Audience, Form and Tone).

This is a 22 slides ppt with 2 lessons on How to Analyse the Character from “An Inspector Calls” play (1 lesson) + How to analyse the character of SHEILA (2nd lesson - in 6 paragraphs). You can use this teaching pupils how to write 6 paragraphs essay on analysing a character or just as revision. The lessons are targeted at AQA, but can also be used for Edexel exams.

This homework booklet has 15 tasks on the following topics: Victorian Literature Horror Writing A Christmas Carol It has been created for year 8, but can be used for upper years, too, as some tasks have a high degree of difficulty, therefore challenging.

AQA GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 1 Reading (from September 201 5 onwards - linear exam). This is a SOW & Power Point with all lessons done. Further resources for this paper are published on AQA’s website (Paper 1: Explorations in Creative Writing and Descriptive pdf file with lessons plans done, containing a few extracts for Story Openings, Transition points and endings, Presenting people, places and action, as well as a Complete Story). This was the first resource published after the exam qualification changes in 2015. It was as guidance about the exam and this PPT will be updated soon. However, for all the other resources mentioned, I do not hold the copyright, therefore a little research you might need to do. There are lessons plans provided by AQA with their booklets of extracts, but these have not been yet translated into PPTs…

AQA GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 1 Writing SOW from September 2015 onwards (linear exam). All lessons are incorporated in the PPT for 5 weeks of study. Further resources are added: Story Openings with Picture Stimulus or Narrative and Descriptive Task.

This is a lesson type assessment at the end of the study of the novel “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, focused on writing an investigative article exposing the case, as a non-fiction writing task mirroring English Language Paper 2 (non-fiction) for AQA.

This is an essay plan for the question: How does Shakespeare depict the power of Lady Macbeth over Macbeth? It contains 4-5 lessons of writing the essay following the Block Method (argumentative) with a minimum of 5 paragraphs (one PEEL paragraph per lesson). Works great for a year 9/10 Reading Assessment on MACBETH.

This is a PPT of 69 slides on The DEATH OF A NATURALIST by Seamus Heaney with lessons on Context, Structure and Analysis. At the end of each lesson there is a homework piece, too. It would be great if you can teach this poem after BLACKBERRY PICKING by the same poet, as the Context lesson is built on that... (see my PPT on Blackberry Picking). A compare/contrast assessment can be done, for which I will put a new PPT online soon. This poem can be taught at both KS3 (year 8 - Nature Poetry/Growing Up) or KS4...

This is a 35 slides ppt with 3-4 lessons on EXPOSURE poem by Wilfred Owen, as follows: Context, Power and Conflict, Analysis (can be done in 2 lessons.) KS4

This is a lesson on Chapter 8 of Jekyll and Hyde, focusing on an exam style question about Mr. Utterson. An extract is included in the ppt & students can answer both parts of the exam question, if there is time.

This is a 5 lessons ppt (52 slides) showcasing the Reading Skills for AQA exam on English Language, focused around AO1 - AO4. The main topic is applied to is BUGS, like snails. Two of the lessons have opportunity for Reading Assessment. You can run these lessons with year 10, as a first encounter with AQA style of questions. If you want a Writing Assessment around the topic of bugs, like snails, please see my Snails creative writing ppt in the shop.

These are 2 full lessons (28 slides) introducing the exam with several examples of speeches embedded in the slides, as well as exam examples applied to the mark scheme.

This is an old PPT from TES, improved and updated for a Reading assessment on Film Studies with year 7. The PPT contains 2 lessons, the original one analysing the movie posters of ARGO and the second one analysing various action movie posters. I hope you can find it useful.