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 the poem Bayonet Charge by Ted Hughes.
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 war
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 modelled 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.
18 slides.
All additional resources are embedded within the PPT.
A lesson that explores the poem Tissue by Imitaz Dharker.
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 representation
Links to video clips to enhance understanding
A first impression grid for students to use
Language analysis activities
Modelled annotations with questions to scaffold annotation
Contextual information
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.
19 slides.
All additional resources are embedded within the PPT.
A lesson that explores the poem War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy.
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 war
Links to video clips to enhance understanding
A first impression grid for students to use
Consideration of viewpoints activity
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.
19 slides.
All additional resources are embedded within the PPT.
A lesson that explores the poem Poppies by Jane Weir.
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 war
Links to video clips to enhance understanding
A first impression grid for students to use
Consideration of viewpoints activity
Modelled annotations with questions to scaffold annotation
Contextual information
A sample essay question with success criteria linked to AO’s
A model paragraph
A making links grid
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.
18 slides.
All additional resources are embedded within the PPT.
A lesson that explores the poem Remains by Simon Armitage.
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 war
Links to video clips to enhance understanding
A first impression grid for students to use
Consideration of viewpoints activity
Modelled annotations with questions to scaffold annotation
Contextual information
A sample essay question with success criteria linked to AO’s
2 model paragraphs that show students how to create comparisons
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.
23 slides.
All additional resources are embedded within the PPT.
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 full set of lessons covering all 15 poems from the AQA anthology- power and conflict.
The learning journey is linked to the AQA assessment objectives and develops students’ analytical skills.
The lessons comprise of activities such as:
Starter activity linked to the idea of viewpoints/types of war/representation
Links to video clips to enhance understanding
A first impression grid for students to use
Modelled annotations with questions to scaffold annotation
Contextual information
Linking grids
Sample essay questions with success criteria linked to AO’s
Modelled paragraphs
Comparison paragraphs
This lessons are 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.
Each lesson is between 15-22 slides.
A lesson that explores the poem The Emigree by Carol Rumens.
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
Quick fire annotation challenge
Modelled annotations with questions to scaffold annotation
Contextual information
A making links grid
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.
18 slides.
All additional resources are embedded within the PPT.
A bundle of lessons on poems from the anthology that are clustered together to make links between power & conflict and culture & identity.
The learning journey is linked to the AQA assessment objectives and develops students’ analytical skills.
The lessons comprise of activities such as:
Starter activity linked to the idea of viewpoints/identity/representation
Links to video clips to enhance understanding
A first impression grid for students to use
Modelled annotations with questions to scaffold annotation
Contextual information
Linking grids
A sample essay question with success criteria linked to AO’s
Modelled paragraphs
This lessons are 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.
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 practise their scanning skills and then apply this to the four mark question. They also focus on the difference between implicit and explicit meaning.
This is also an opportunity to introduce students to the genre conventions of different texts. The aim is to ensure that students have a toolkit of devices that they will look for dependent on the genre of the unseen text that they are presented with in the exam. This lesson covers the conventions of the crime genre.
A bundle of lessons on poems from the anthology that are clustered together to make links between power & conflict and modern war.
The learning journey is linked to the AQA assessment objectives and develops students' analytical skills.
The lessons comprise of activities such as:
Starter activity linked to the idea of viewpoints/types of war/representation
Links to video clips to enhance understanding
A first impression grid for students to use
Modelled annotations with questions to scaffold annotation
Contextual information
Linking grids
A sample essay question with success criteria linked to AO's
Modelled paragraphs
This lessons are 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.
