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 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 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 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 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 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 develop their word class/semantic field analysis skills.
Brief overview of topics covered in this double (12 slides):
Jamie Oliver Fifteen Website blurb for students to analyse
Semantic fields
Word Classes activity with prompt sheet
Idiom activity
'How to analyse a text' guided model
Discussion of how context affects meanings and representations.
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 that explores the themes, context and characters of the scene from Romeo and Juliet.
Students are provided with a clear learning journey that is linked to blooms skills and the assessment objectives from the new spec AQA. The lesson follows a clear structure where students are introduced to the main idea, the theme/character analysis is developed and students then have the opportunity to apply their own skills independently.
Learning objectives and activities are clearly differentiated using RAG and stretch and challenge opportunities are in the form of 'Shakespeare Challenge' questions to help encourage students to extend their ideas.
This lesson is aimed at KS4 but could be adapted for use with KS3 students.
Planned as a double (2 hour lesson) but could easily be split into two separate 1 hour lessons.
A lesson that explores the story of A Christmas Carol while developing KS3 descriptive writing skills.
This is ideal to use with students in the Autumn term and the lead up to Christmas as they are able to get the flavour of the text while also developing key GCSE creative writing skills.
Students will consider how Dickens uses character names to reflect personalities.
Students then read an extract from the novel which contains Scrooge and his nephew. Students consider how they would perform this section on stage thinking about body language. They will then create a character thinking about how they can describe body language to reflect a character's personality.
A lesson that explores the story of A Christmas Carol while developing KS3 descriptive writing skills.
This is ideal to use with students in the Autumn term and the lead up to Christmas as they are able to get the flavour of the text while also developing key GCSE creative writing skills.
Students will be prompted to work together to research Victorian christmas.
There is also a challenge question that looks at how Christmas is represented in a poem.
Students will reflect on the differences between the rich and the poor in preparation for their reading of the novel.
A lesson that explores the story of A Christmas Carol while developing KS3 descriptive writing skills.
This is ideal to use with students in the Autumn term and the lead up to Christmas as they are able to get the flavour of the text while also developing key GCSE creative writing skills.
Students will consider how a writer can use symbolism to convey meaning in a text. They will study the difference between the Cratchits and Scrooge. They will them explore how colour and objects can be used to convey ideas and create a description using a particular object as a stimulus.
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 learning mat that can be displayed on the wall or laminated and used on desks. Ideal as a scaffolding tool or for students to use when reflecting on marking and correcting their work.
Topics Covered (double sided):
Figurative Langauge
Sentence Starters
Apostrophes
Connectives
Homophones
Punctuation Marks
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 to introduce the poem and encourage an independent approach to analysis. The poem is from the New Spec AQA English Literature Anthology- Conflict & Power Cluster.
A lesson to introduce the poem and encourage an independent approach to analysis. The poem is from the New Spec AQA English Literature Anthology- Conflict & Power Cluster.
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 that explores the themes, context and characters of the scene from Romeo and Juliet.
Students are provided with a clear learning journey that is linked to blooms skills and the assessment objectives from the new spec AQA. The lesson follows a clear structure where students are introduced to the main idea, the theme/character analysis is developed and students then have the opportunity to apply their own skills independently.
Learning objectives and activities are clearly differentiated using RAG and stretch and challenge opportunities are in the form of 'Shakespeare Challenge' questions to help encourage students to extend their ideas.
This lesson is aimed at KS4 but could be adapted for use with KS3 students.
Planned as a double (2 hour lesson) but could easily be split into two separate 1 hour lessons.
A full scheme of work is also available in my shop.
