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Animal Farm
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Animal Farm

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A comprehensive scheme of work, including ASF tasks for Speaking and Listening, Reading and Writing.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

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A scheme of work and student worksheets covering a broad range of topics and assessments. Allows students to use historical knowledge to critically analyse the presentation of the characters in the book. Opportunities for debate, comprehension and writing.
Heroic Deeds: Poetry for the Olympics: Lessons
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Heroic Deeds: Poetry for the Olympics: Lessons

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This unit allows the students to read and enjoy a range of poems, including Ulysses by Tennyson, Invictus and contemporary poems by Grace Nichols, Muhhammed Ali and others! Some simple worksheets, activities with opportunities for research, speaking and listening and writing! The unit uses DeBono thinking styles although theses are not explicitly referenced Based on the Winning Words campaign to put poetry on permanent display in and around the Olympic village,
Scary Stories
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Scary Stories

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Looking closely at the scary stories genre, the genre worksheet is designed to work with the story Winter Pruning by Chris Priestley from the short story anthology Uncle Montague´s Tales of Terror. The other two sheets are generic genre or horror or scary story worksheets. For the characteristics sheet, I viewed lots of youtube clips of genres and looked at book covers to get the students to fill in the characteristics.
A Streetcar Named Desire Context
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A Streetcar Named Desire Context

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A lesson outlining the contextual information you will need for studying A Streetcar Named Desire for A level English Literature. This power point can be a useful teacher resource and can also be used as a self contained independent lesson for students. There is a swathe of information in here about New Orleans and the emergence of new American outlook as well as inclusion about Old Southern values and the idea of the Southern Belle. The final section of the lesson considers the beginning of the play and the significance of the stage directions in introducing the characters.
Gothic coursework
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Gothic coursework

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Worksheets to help support students in analysing Gothic texts (you will need a copy of the film Van Helsing for one exercise - you only need watch the first ten minutes!) Self and paired assessment sheets for when the students are ready to assess coursework.
Millay and Marvell
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Millay and Marvell

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Study booklet with lots of background information on Millay's life and the poem. There'sa suggestion for an exam essay style question with mark scheme guidelines based on guidance from the AQA website. There's a look at Marvell as well, in order to enable students to start looking at the historical context and literary tradition of poems about love and desire.
Elizabeth Jennings One Flesh and historicism
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Elizabeth Jennings One Flesh and historicism

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A comprehensive booklet with background information on Jennings and Rossetti (for contextual historicism links). There is also a Shakepeare poem to consider changing attitudes to love "through the ages". Lots of background information on jennings and Rossetti, exam style questions based on teh AQA guidelines, as weill as hints and tips on how to respond to this type of question using AQA assessment Objectives.
Touching the Void
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Touching the Void

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A resource that could be used for students studying this text for GCSE examination. There's a pre-reading activity, a look at chapter headings and their significance and detailed analysis of the first two chapters. There are ideas on analysisng extracts as well as advice on commenting on the form and structure of the novel. Finally, there's an overview of exam requirements for the current Lit Specification and a general revision document. Useful for current Lit spec and new spec.
HISTORICISM for the NEW AQA ENGLISH LITERATURE AS LEVEL - Poetry and Othello
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HISTORICISM for the NEW AQA ENGLISH LITERATURE AS LEVEL - Poetry and Othello

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a specific explanation of how to integrate a historicist perspective into the poetry and Othello in order to address AO3 effectively. Good range of historicist vocabulary specifically for poetry analysis and links, as well as an outline of Revenge Tragedy and ways in which students can give alternative interpretations of Othello based on gender/race/class changes in society.
Destruction of Love: Othello as gullible
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Destruction of Love: Othello as gullible

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A series of resources plus extract to tackle this essay style question based on the AQA guidelines and Assessment Objectives. Worksheet for students, self assessment sheet and power point. This could be left with a cover teacher to cover 3 one hour lessons (including 1 hour and 30 mins preparation, 45 minutes timed response and 30 minutes self or paired assessment)
Othello - exemplar question on Desdemona in Act One
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Othello - exemplar question on Desdemona in Act One

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Lesson plan, worksheets and power point presentation covering three 50 minutes lessons. Lessons use Assessment Objective criteria in analysing aspects of love and presentation of Desdemona in Act One Scene Three. Enough here for two lessons preparation culminating in a timed exam style assessment
Othello for AQA NEW ENGLISH LITERATURE AS or A LEVEL
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Othello for AQA NEW ENGLISH LITERATURE AS or A LEVEL

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a way for students to analyse Iago's growing influence on Othello in Act 3 Scene 3 of the play with a close look at language, structure and form. Key dramatic vocabulary used and potential exam style question at the end of the power point. Self contained lesson leading to possible timed essay task
Othello close analysis Of Act IV Scenes 2 and 3 for AQA English Literature AS or A level
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Othello close analysis Of Act IV Scenes 2 and 3 for AQA English Literature AS or A level

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Two power points with close reference to the assessment objectives outlines by AQA, with some specific focus on what my students always miss - the FORM and STRUCTURE within the extract and play as a whole. Some timed essay style questions and useful video clip of Emilia's speech "If wives do fall" which provoke the students to consider Feminist and Marxist interpretations of the play.