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.

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 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 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.

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

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 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.

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 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 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 creative writing lesson for KS3 or KS4, on the topic of Snow, following the first snow falling of the year 2018 during a week of The Beast from The East blizzard. Pupils have to work with pictures, AQA GCSE style. You have a series of images to pick from, a worksheet, as well as guidance for how to add Passing of Time techniques, as well Story Opening techniques, if they are choose to do a story and not a description.

This is 17 slides PPT containing 3 lessons designed for a quick assessment on Romeo & Juliet - KS3 on the topic of Juliet’s relationship with her parent and focusing on the question: How does Shakespeare present Lord Capulet’s relationship with his daughter Juliet? You will be visiting Act 1, scene 3, but the focus is on Act 3, scene 5. Hints: Lady Capulet’s relationship with Juliet (impressions) / patriarchal society / PEED analysis on various Points about Lord Capulet’s relationship (with a teacher’s model!).

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 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 PPT helping KS4 students to write a Compare & Contrast type of essay (eg. for poetry). There is a preparatory lesson to understand what types of essay can be used for this Compare & Contrast task, with an explanatory video, but also with the acknowledgement of the Block Method using the Temple of Knowledge formula (from 5 paragraphs, downgraded for KS3 to only 4). The second lesson, they will have to start focusing on completing a Venn diagram, which will then be reflected in their PEEL paragraphs, following the Block Method. I hope you will find it useful.You can spend a number of 3-4 lessons using this PPT for writing the essay.

This presentation includes 3 lessons with 30 slides in total, explaining differences between Utopia and Dystopia, with application to a short film, as well as rummaging various scenarios from films, creating their own scenarios and culminating with writing their own utopian/dystopian story.

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.