I'm an experienced English teacher, senior leader and examiner with a wealth of experience teaching English across all key stages. Having examined for AQA and WJEC, I have a precise knowledge of how to support students so they can make maximum progress in their learning.
I'm an experienced English teacher, senior leader and examiner with a wealth of experience teaching English across all key stages. Having examined for AQA and WJEC, I have a precise knowledge of how to support students so they can make maximum progress in their learning.
This is a detailed A3 revision grid that has information on all 15 poems from the love and relationship cluster for AQA. It includes points on the theme of love/relationships, five key quotes for each poem, comments on the form/structure and points on context for each one.
Use this as a revision tool so that students have a secure understanding on the main ideas linked to each one.
A booklet full of retention exercises to help develop pupils’ knowledge of the play, key characters and the plot. There are a range of activites to help boost pupils’ memory of critical ideas - perfect for a homework booklet or an intervention pack.
The resource includes 20 key quotes linked to the themes of: fear, appearance vs reality, violence and ambition. Students need to explode the key quotations using two layers of meaning, links to context, writer’s intentions and references to subject terminology.
A fully differentiated lesson for the theme of violence that links to the AQA GCSE Literature examination. The extract and question are included at the back of the PPT.
Includes - bell task,
Starter
Main 1
Reflection point
Main 2
Plenary
The resource includes 20 key quotes linked to the themes of: violence, love, friendship and fate. Students need to explode the key quotations using two layers of meaning, links to context, writer’s intentions and references to subject terminology.
A fully differentiated and focused lesson on the theme of men and women in the play 'An Inspector Calls.' The lesson includes, bell task, interactive starter, main and plenary.
A Grade 8+ Model answer for the character of Mrs Birling.
To achieve a high mark in the exam, students need to create a convincing, perceptive argument about the character where they can thread a critical stance through their response.
The thread through this response is - could we pity Mrs Birling for her bourgeoisie, supercilious attitude instead of the initial dislike we have for her.
After reading the model answer and assessing it using a bronze, silver gold differentiated task, students need to plan their own response and add in the higher level terminology included: hubris, allegorical, supercilious, proletariat and bourgeoisie.
This handy A3 resource is ideal for revising key themes and characters from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
The sheet has 12 questions linked to the AQA spec (but could be adapted for other specs easily) and has 12 extracts, which provide key moments from across the whole of the novella.
I am using this myself to prepare my year 11s for their Literature examination.
A revision sheet that helps students analyse key quotations within four core themes in the play: social responsibility, class, gender and age. The students need to use two layers of meaning, make links to Edwardian context, and identify and comment on writer’s methods. There is an extension task - students need to comment conceptually on Priestley’s intentions. I get students to annotate around the quotes.
A large collection of revision resources for the text. Key quotes, model answers, questions and extracts, lessons, learning mat - everything your year 11 needs before their exam.
The character that teachers forget to focus on in detail! An important set of lessons all focused on the influence Macduff has on the play. They are fully differentiated and will focus students on exam skills.
A model answer for the question of loyalty for the whole play. It is differentiated and includes a PYT (extension task - push your thinking to challenge the most able).
I have used this for an activity in a lesson or you could use it for a homework task.
Model answers all with activity tasks attached. I have used these as activities in class or for flipped learning style homeworks where they had the model answer before a test so they could use some of the points they’d read.
The questions covered are:
Supernatural
Macduff
Appearance Vs Reality
Lady Macbeth
Loyalty
A progressive, age-related assessment system that has been created working up from KS2 with the raised expectation of the new SATS 2017, and then up to the assessment objectives at KS4. The assessment grid offers guidance on how to use it, and also includes how students could be assessed across the year. This will focus your KS3 curriculum so the skills are developed ready for the increased expectation of the Grade 5 at GCSE.
A question and an extract that students can use to prepare for the examination. Spend at least 5 minutes highlighting the extract (remembering to identify subject terminology which is needed) and then get students to write up their response on the extract. Then spend 5 minutes considering how to answer the question with regards to the whole play.
A fun and interactive lesson on the poem that uses videos and collaborative tasks to get students to consider the meaning of the poem. This is fully differentiated to challenge all learners.
A simple resource to be used in lessons for revison or could easily be given for homework.
This is ideal to get your students to think about five key moments for each character/ theme and for them to find quotes, which link to these.
A great revision sheet that includes three model answers for an exam question on Scrooge. The students have a differentiated task linked to asnwers, with the opportunity of then writing their own response.