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.

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 a lesson about how to prepare for writing a Dual Narrative for the PAPER 1, Question 5 of AQA GCSE exam (the creative writing task!). This is a 10 slides lesson, where pupils will work in pairs, then in groups of 4. I hope it will help them understand what a dual narrative is and how to go about creating one.

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 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.

JEKYLL & HYDE - Chapter 9 - Dr. Lanyon. This is a lesson building a strategy in steps for EAL & Cognition and Learning pupils, that can be used with bottom sets, as well. The strategy has 9 steps, but through practice this can be decreased to 6 and later to 4 (in the actual exam). Pupils are asked to build up a strategy of work and later will practice on different extracts from Chapter 9 of Jekyll and Hyde.

This is a lesson on Chapter 6 from Jekyll and Hyde novel, containing essay style questions for which pupils have the chance to answer and peer-assess.

This PPT contains a Draft lesson, as well as the Assessment Lesson with an Argumentative essay based on the Block Method for a Newspapers module than can run with either year 8 or year 9. We are currently testing this assessment on year 8 at our school and I have to say that at least my classes have been successful in completing the argumentative essay. Attached are also two articles reporting on the same story (a tabloid and a broadsheet). Pupils need to be able to spot similarities, but also differences and write a 5 paragraphs essay with at least 3 analytical paragraphs. You can run the assessment over at least 2-3 lessons, although I am not surprised if you will have pupils finishing it in their first lesson. I hope you will find it useful.

These are 3 lessons on the poem of WAR PHOTOGRAPHER, about Context, Analysis and the ideas of Power and Conflict. Lessons are aimed at GCSE level after the new exam specification.

This is a lesson for year 7, to get to know them better and to create a first class display. You will need some A5 coloured paper for the neat version of what they have to write and you can display it later on shaped like a cloud… I hope you’ll like it, as my pupils are loving it.

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.

A S&L lesson on Severn Suzuki use of structural and language devices.

This is a bundle for the poem DEATH OF A NATURALIST by Seamus Heaney, with separate powerpoints for Context, Structure and Analysis. Death of a Naturalist (context) - 21 slides Death of a Naturalist (structure) - 24 sides Death of a Naturalist (analysis) - 22 slides You can use this lessons as part of Nature Poetry modules or as an unseen GCSE poem to analyse, etc.

AQA GCSE - Poetry - Power and Conflict cluster. This is a 15 slides ppt tackling the Context of the poem Kamikaze by Beatrice Garland. 1 lesson worth. I will add the following lessons (power & conflict + analysis) later on.

These are 2 lessons on The Charge of The Light Brigade poem from Edexcel CONFLICT cluster, focusing on CONTEXT and ANALYSIS. I hope you like them.

These are 2 ppt for Act 1, scene 5 of MACBETH, where we meet Lady Macbeth. You can spread this in 2-3 lessons, depending on the ability of your class. You have the various extracts to print embedded in the powerpoints. I hope you’ll like it.

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 is a lesson that goes hand in hand with my Narrative Perspective lesson, as the students work with the same picture stimulus. I would do this lesson before the Narrative Perspective lesson.

This is a lesson focused on Second Person Narrative, as this is the most challenging for pupils to create for their creative writing task of GCSE exam. This is a 10 slides ppt and there is an extract attached, which is one short story written in second person. Pupils have a short exercise to change the narrative voice, then analyse the use of some interesting devices, then an application to a picture, which for this example is from An Inspector Calls.

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.