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Teacher of English to 11-16 year olds at an outstanding school. A keen creative writer with a popular blog and some published pieces of original literature. Resources cover a wide range of topics and texts and are created to the highest possible standard to ensure maximum progression and challenge. Each lesson features a well-designed PowerPoint presentation and all accompanying resources.

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Teacher of English to 11-16 year olds at an outstanding school. A keen creative writer with a popular blog and some published pieces of original literature. Resources cover a wide range of topics and texts and are created to the highest possible standard to ensure maximum progression and challenge. Each lesson features a well-designed PowerPoint presentation and all accompanying resources.
Creative Writing
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Creative Writing

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A Harry Potter themed creative writing lesson focusing upon creating an effective description of setting. Pupils begin by exploring several descriptions of famous locations on Diagon Alley which they use to gather examples of how the five senses are used. Following this, pupils are challenged to create their own description of their chosen location on Diagon Alley before completing a peer-assessment which helps to reduce teacher marking! All resources are included and provide examples of shops, higher level vocabulary and examples of language devices in action to offer additional assistance and guidance.
Sonnet 43
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Sonnet 43

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A fun and interactive lesson for pupils to explore Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett-Browning. Focusing on the Eduqas specification requirements the lesson explores context, language and structure before culminating in students creating their own PEEZL paragraph. All resources included.
Private Peaceful Fiction Writing
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Private Peaceful Fiction Writing

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A fiction writing lesson that helps pupils identify ways to include the senses in their writing to make it as vivid as possible. Links to the film trailer, a short extract, senses grid and glossary are also included to help with differentiation. My class particularly enjoyed being able to engage with the topic of war in a variety of different ways and some rich whole class discussion prior to the main activity of continuing the narrative proved extremely powerful!
Lord of the Flies - The Pig's Head
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Lord of the Flies - The Pig's Head

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A lesson that provoked a lot of thought in my middle ability pupils as to the struggle for power and significance of the symbol of the sacrificed pig's head in chapter 8 of the text. A focus is placed upon higher level vocabulary (as Eduqas award 5 marks for that skill on this question!) along with a thorough exploration through discussion of the metaphorical nature of the pig's head. My pupils particularly enjoyed annotating the image of the pig's head with information from our whole class discussion before using a different colour to add quotations and analysis of language. All resources are include at the end of the PowerPoint.
LOTF - Ralph and Piggy's relationship
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LOTF - Ralph and Piggy's relationship

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A lesson that explores the complexities of Ralph and Piggy's friendship. Pupils are engaged in a wide variety of activities which help them to explore an extract and what it reveals about these key characters independently before completing an initial piece of analysis on Piggy and Ralph. Pupils later complete a PEEZL paragraph plan which is then swapped with another member of the class thus testing their planning skills.
Lord of the Flies Character Development Booklet
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Lord of the Flies Character Development Booklet

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A handy revision guide to help pupil track the main characters and their individual development through the narrative. Has worked really well with a range of year 10 and 11 classes I teach as they can contain all their notes on the main characters in one place an easily track their progression.
Gothic Literature Mini Scheme
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Gothic Literature Mini Scheme

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A mini scheme of work focussing on some creative writing and EDUQAS fiction reading style questions of gothic texts. These lessons helped my low ability year 9 class access the texts and make informed inferences about them.
Valentine
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Valentine

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In depth analysis of the poem, Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy. Explores all requirements of the Eduqas specification by analysing context, language, form and structure. All resources included.
Dystopian Literature
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Dystopian Literature

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An introductory lesson enabling pupils to explore dystopian literature through a range of activities that appeal to a range of different learners.
Vultures
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Vultures

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An interactive and engaging lesson exploring Chinua Achebe's poem, Vultures. Students explore images related to the poem and engage in a whole class reading of the poem before exploring different aspects of the work through speed dating. All resources included.
A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
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A Christmas Carol - The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

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A simple and chunked lesson that steadily builds on pupils' skills to develop their confidence - particularly well suited to lower ability students. All resources are differentiated with different levels of challenge for pupils to choose from and provide them with extra ownership over their learning. Whole class discussions and readings can take place within this lesson to provide checks on learning whilst there is also a focus on modelling to ensure pupils are provided with some additional support for more difficult tasks like selecting and retrieving appropriate quotations.
Jane Eyre Chapter One
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Jane Eyre Chapter One

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An interactive and engaging lesson to introduce pupils to the first chapter of Jane Eyre. An edited version of the text allows pupils to independently explore key issues raised in this section of the text along with literary features employed by Bronte. The lesson opens with an active group challenge entailing pupils to match the correct book cover to the famous opening line. Following this pupils complete a shared reading of the edited text in small groups with each section clearly marked and including a question requiring a detailed response. Two built in mini-pitstops allow the teacher to circulate and target specific pupils/groups while ensuring all pupils are making effective progress. All resources included!
Things Fall Apart Extract (Fiction Reading)
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Things Fall Apart Extract (Fiction Reading)

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A lesson that explores the select and retrieve skills essential for WJEC Fiction Reading paper. The lesson was delivered successfully to a middle ability year 9 class who enjoyed the exploration of a different culture, consideration of African proverbs and development of key exam skills needed to gain confidence before tackling the more challenging questions later in the paper.
Things Fall Apart (Fiction Reading - Mood and Atmosphere)
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Things Fall Apart (Fiction Reading - Mood and Atmosphere)

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This lesson helped my middle ability year 9 class to consider their observation skills in exploring a 5 mark mood and atmosphere style question from the WJEC fiction reading paper. The lesson developed to build pupils' confidence with a text we had previously explored for select and retrieve questions by building the layers of their response through discussion, embedding quotations and 'walking through' the extract. The brief sample response at the end of the PowerPoint provided further reassurance to pupils who felt the task was more difficult than they could manage by highlighting strengths of the response and illustrating how the embedded quotations they had previously selected could be used as a starting point to a more developed response.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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This lesson worked really well with my high ability year 7 group and gained some excellent feedback following an observation. The lesson explores the real life tragedy that struck Jean-Dominique Bauby and uses this to challenge pupils to consider their communication skills. The lesson is carefully chunked with short amounts of time allocated to each activity to extend the challenge further. It also provided some great opportunities for SMSC links to be made in class too.
Flag
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Flag

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A fun and interactive lesson for pupils to explore Flag by John Agard. Pupils focus upon the symbolic nature of flags, develop their analytical skills through independent analysis and consolidate this by teaching fellow pupils. All resources included.
Hawk Roosting
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Hawk Roosting

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A fun and interactive lesson that promotes independency by encouraging pupils to work in small groups to explore the poem, Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes. All resources included.
End of year quiz
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End of year quiz

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A fun and engaging end of year quiz! There are seven different rounds including one with an English twist. All the correct answers are included in the notes for the teacher's reference.
2017 End of Year Quiz
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2017 End of Year Quiz

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This quiz was used in the final days of term before we broke up for the summer and proved really popular with students. It can be easily adapted to make it more up to date or could be a fun form time activity in the mornings.