Relax...
All of the resources have been created to ensure that students are engaged and inspired by their learning.
Each lesson has a clear learning journey to enable all students to make progress and to help them to understand the skills required for them to be their most successful.
The aim:
to create independent, perceptive and creative learners.
Relax...
All of the resources have been created to ensure that students are engaged and inspired by their learning.
Each lesson has a clear learning journey to enable all students to make progress and to help them to understand the skills required for them to be their most successful.
The aim:
to create independent, perceptive and creative learners.
A lesson that explores Act 1 Scene 2.
Students consider how they can use powerful verbs to create atmosphere.
They then think about the qualities/personalities/connotations of a father and daughter and a magician and their magic.
They then apply these ideas and look at how Miranda converses with her father and analyse her language use. They they move on to focus on Prospero and choose from one of three arguments to focus their extended writing on. Students then produce a PEAL paragraph/extended response based on their selected essay question. There is also a PEAL/PEE support table mat to scaffold learning that includes a sample paragraph and quotation bank.
A series of lessons on AQA Language Paper 1 Section A.
The PPT contains 38 slides that take students through questions 1-4 using an extract from The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.
The activities in the lessons include:
Exam worded questions
Modelled annotation
AO breakdowns
Modelled paragraphs for each question
Peer Assessment- with guided criteria
Questioning
Planning Grid
Timings for each question
Planned for high/middle abilty year 10/11 group but easily differentiated for your needs.
A lesson that explores the poem The Prelude by William Wordsworth.
The learning journey is linked to the AQA assessment objectives and develops students’ analytical skills.
The lesson comprises of:
Starter activity linked to the idea of power and conflict
Links to video clips to enhance understanding
Modelled annotations with questions to scaffold annotation
Contextual information
Group work activity
A sample essay question with success criteria linked to AO’s
A modelled paragraph
A summary grid for students to use
This lesson is planned for a year 10 middle/high ability group and can be easily differentiated to suit the personalised needs of your students.
Yellow lightbulbs on slides mark out stretch and challenge questions that have been included.
24 slides.
All additional resources are embedded within the PPT.
A full lesson on the poem to encourage students' independent analysis and annotation of the poem.
AQA Literature Moon on The Tides Anthology- Conflict.
A full lesson on the poem to encourage students' independent analysis and annotation of the poem.
AQA Literature Moon on The Tides Anthology- Conflict.
A lesson designed for KS3 as an introduction to poetry.
The lesson explores the imagery and themes presented in the poem and aims to enhance their love of poetry.
An overview of the six language levels for A Level Language study:
Lexis and Semantics
Grammar
Phonetics, phonology and prosodics
Graphology
Pragmatics
Discourse
Can be used for any exam board.
These can be used as displays or for revision prompts/notes in student folders.
Each language level has: a definition, a list of key questions to ask about a text and a list of key terminology.
The terminology is listed and can either be used in conjunction with each exam board's glossary or, as I do with my students, a list for them to use to research each definition with an aim to creating their own glossary.
A lesson to introduce the poem and encourage an independent approach to analysis. The poem is from the New Spec AQA English Literature Anthology- Love and Relationships Cluster.
A series of lessons on AQA Language Paper 1 Section A.
The PPT contains 39 slides that take students through questions 1-4 using an extract from Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows.
The activities in the lessons include:
Exam worded questions
Modelled annotation
AO breakdowns
Modelled paragraphs for each question
Peer Assessment- with guided criteria
Questioning
Planning Grid
Timings for each question
Planned for high/middle abilty year 10/11 group but easily differentiated for your needs.
A lesson to introduce the poem and encourage an independent approach to analysis. The poem is from the New Spec AQA English Literature Anthology- Love and Relationships Cluster.
Three lessons that explore the language and structure of Suicide in the Trenches.
Students learn to annotate a poem looking at:
-Language
-Structure
-Context
-Connotations and Meaning
-Writer's message
They then bring their ideas together to write an analytical PEEL paragraph and use a success criteria to peer assess their work.
A lesson designed for KS3 as an introduction to poetry.
The lesson explores the imagery and themes presented in the poem and aims to enhance their love of poetry.
A lesson that introduces the new specification AQA English language Paper 1.
The lesson focuses on an extract from The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Students consider what AQA means by critical opinion and then begin to apply their knowledge to the text. The lesson is structured so that students annotate the text as they work and begin to plan a response. They build on their knowledge from Q2 & Q3 and begin to pull all of their ideas together to create a response using a planning grid.
A model answer is included for students to consider as well as guidance on how to form the paragraphs for the 20 mark response.
A lesson that explores the poem Checking Out Me History by John Agard.
The learning journey is linked to the AQA assessment objectives and develops students’ analytical skills.
The lesson comprises of:
Starter activity linked to the idea of identity
Links to video clips to enhance understanding
A first impression grid for students to use
Modelled annotations with questions to scaffold annotation
Contextual information
A sample essay question with success criteria linked to AO’s
A model paragraph
This lesson is planned for a year 10 middle/high ability group and can be easily differentiated to suit the personalised needs of your students.
Yellow lightbulbs on slides mark out stretch and challenge questions that have been included.
27 slides.
All additional resources are embedded within the PPT.
A lesson that explores the poem Kamikaze by Beatrice Garland.
The learning journey is linked to the AQA assessment objectives and develops students’ analytical skills.
The lesson comprises of:
Starter activity linked to the idea of viewpoints
A letter from a Kamikaze pilot
Links to video clips to enhance understanding
A first impression grid for students to use
Modelled annotations with questions to scaffold annotation
Contextual information
A paper plane activity for kinaesthetic learners
A sample essay question with success criteria linked to AO’s
This lesson is planned for a year 10 middle/high ability group and can be easily differentiated to suit the personalised needs of your students.
Yellow lightbulbs on slides mark out stretch and challenge questions that have been included.
21 slides.
All additional resources are embedded within the PPT.
An Introductory double lesson for the study of the A Level paper Paper 1 Language, The Individual and Society, Section A- Textual Variations and Representations. New Specification 2017
Aimed at Year 12 students but could be adapted for other year groups.
Using Jamie Oliver as a stimulus, students begin to consider how they investigate a text. This lesson is aimed to spark their interest and begin to develop their inquiry skills before the later lessons which begin to introduce more detailed terminology and the language levels for closer and more detailed analysis.
Brief overview of topics covered in this double (21 slides):
What the exam question looks like/number of marks
Jamie Oliver's school dinners transcript for students to analyse
Mini activities on synonyms, antonyms, euphemism, hyponymy, dysphemism
Jamie Oliver sugar tax Facebook post for students to analyse
Discussion on the role of media/social media in creating meaning and representation
Additional guidance for some of the activities has been written in the notes sections of the PPT slides.
More lessons on each of the language levels will be available.
A lesson designed for KS3 as an introduction to poetry.
The lesson explores the imagery and themes presented in the poem and aims to enhance their love of poetry.
A lesson to introduce the poem and encourage an independent approach to analysis. The poem is from the New Spec AQA English Literature Anthology- Love and Relationships Cluster.
A scheme of work focusing on chapters 1-11 of the novel Goodnight Mister Tom.
Aimed at 11-14 year olds but can be adapted to suit younger students. This scheme is aimed at middle ability students but does use challenge questions (sub-titled on the slides) to enable you to stretch and challenge your most able.
The scheme aims to build reading skills to prepare students for the new specification examinations. The skills that they develop during this module are linked to their ability to differentiate between explicit and implicit information and infer meaning and the writer's message. Students will also be able to develop their contextual knowledge and learn how to apply this to their reading to aid understanding.
Each powerpoint should complement the reading of each chapter.
Each lesson has a mini starter linked to the text. There is then a SPAG/Literacy starter to compliment the lesson. Most lessons are focused on the reading of a chapter, this is then followed by an activity based on the students' reading and then a developmental activity to consolidate their learning.
There is also a Scheme of Learning Document (see FJO shop) available that may be useful if the scheme is being used for a whole department. This clearly details the overall learning journey of the module and clearly shows the differentiation strategy.
A lesson to introduce the poem and encourage an independent approach to analysis. The poem is from the New Spec AQA English Literature Anthology- Love and Relationships Cluster.