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I have been an English Literature and Language Teacher for about 10 years now. I am now a Leader of Learning in English in my current school. I have taken several GCSE classes through and had full success. I have a PGCE in English and MA in Applied Linguistics for Teaching English as a Second Language. I currently teach at a secondary school as an English Teacher and Leader of Learning in English.

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I have been an English Literature and Language Teacher for about 10 years now. I am now a Leader of Learning in English in my current school. I have taken several GCSE classes through and had full success. I have a PGCE in English and MA in Applied Linguistics for Teaching English as a Second Language. I currently teach at a secondary school as an English Teacher and Leader of Learning in English.
A Christmas Carol GCSE Paper Part A
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A Christmas Carol GCSE Paper Part A

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Whilst Christmas maybe over, some of us are still teaching the details of A Christmas Carol to our GCSE Classes. In order to start practicing the exam paper questions with my class, I created my own version of the paper with answers. In this pack, I have included lesson slides that take the students throught the extract using highlighters and questions to help them think about different ways in which Scrooge is presented. I also get the students to rate the quotations they have chosen so they can start thinking about which quotation are better qualities than others. You can use the 'Quote Answers' sheet to guide your students towards the correct points and quotations to answer Part A of the question paper. This lesson and practice paper really helped my students. I hope it helps yours too. Happy Teaching!
Language Techniques - Tables and tasks
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Language Techniques - Tables and tasks

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Well here is a little number to help your classes with those all important language devices for creative and persuasive writing. It will also help them learn all the language techniques ready for identifying them in novels and poems. In this pack there is a full table with the Language Teachniques, definitions and examples. The other two sheets are for the students to fill in during the lesson to help them build a work bank of these language techniques. I did this with my class and then set learning them for homework. They then were tested to see if they could spot examples of techniques and their meaning. Really simple, but beneficial resource.
Language Teachniques for Low Ability
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Language Teachniques for Low Ability

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Well here is a little number to help your classes with those all important language devices for creative and persuasive writing. It will also help them learn all the language techniques ready for identifying them in novels and poems. This one is different from my other worksheets as this one is for low ability. Extra help and fill in the blankets is used here to help those struggling with these techniques. In this pack there is a full table with the Language Teachniques, definitions and examples. The other two sheets are for the students to fill in during the lesson to help them build a work bank of these language techniques. As I said, there is extra help in these ones as opposed to the others I have uploaded. I did this with my class and then set learning them for homework. They then were tested to see if they could spot examples of techniques and their meaning. Really simple, but beneficial resource.
Persuasive Letter Planning Work Sheet - Low Ability
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Persuasive Letter Planning Work Sheet - Low Ability

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Here is a really adaptable planning worksheet for low ability students to plan or complete their letter writing assessment. This has all the guidance needed to help your students who need that extra bit of scaffolding. Happy Planning!
PEE Paragraph Bundle - A Christmas Carol
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PEE Paragraph Bundle - A Christmas Carol

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Teaching A Christmas Carol and PEE paragrahs? Well, here is the package for you. Here we have a 10 page booklet on PEE with sentence starters and specific structure questions for general PEE, and 'A Christmas Carol' focused PEE paragraphs. As well as a mark scheme with two different graded model paragraphs to show your students. There is even a word bank section at the back. We also have the power point lesson which goes with the booklet. That's two lessons on PEE focusing on 'A Christmas Carol' sorted. Finally, we have 'A Christmas Carol' Planning sheet with extra scaffolding to help low ability students. Or edit this out and use it as a planning sheet for higher ability students. All of these resources have done me wonders in the past, from Year 7 high ability to Year 10. This pack is a must have!
Refugee Boy: Context and Culture
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Refugee Boy: Context and Culture

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This is a great lesson on the contextual and cultural links to the book Refugee Boy. It has a great little booklet that goes with the presentation that the students can work on throughout. It also includes selected pieces of information that can be stuck around the class for the students to pick the contexts that links and put it on the outlined hand. It worked really well with my Y8 class as it got them up and about finding out the relevant information and then moving onto using language techniques from Alem's point of view from the book.
PEE paragraph layout sheet
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PEE paragraph layout sheet

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Literally what it says in the title here. This is to get those students who struggle with PEE writing in the correct layout first.
Writing Mark Sheet
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Writing Mark Sheet

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This mark sheet is a quick and easy way to mark students work for writing skills. It also encourages students to respond and could be used for DIRT.
The Tempest Mark Sheet
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The Tempest Mark Sheet

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This mark sheet is great for doing DIRT with your students on The Tempest. You can adapt it by changing the characters if necessary. It is a quick way of marking a baseline assessment. I usually print it on green paper so it stands out as marking in the exercise books.
The Tempest - PEE preparation lessons
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The Tempest - PEE preparation lessons

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This power point is great for preparing your class to write an essay on The Tempest. The question that I have focused on is 'How does Shakespeare present Prospero and his relationship with one other character in the first act of ‘The Tempest’? Included are PEE questions, success criteria based on the new 9-1 scale, and a model paragraph on Prospero and Caliban. There are about three lessons in this one power point in order to prepare your students. This lesson goes really well with The Tempest Planning sheet (which can be used to plan their assessment after these lessons). '
A Christmas Carol - annotating/planning/models/writing
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A Christmas Carol - annotating/planning/models/writing

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A Christmas Carol annotation, analysis and essay writing for beginners! Two developing lessons here - starting with the teacher showing how to annotate the first extract (description on Scrooge), and then getting students to use questions on the second extract (Fred extract) which then leads them onto annotating the final extract alone. Once all this is completed, go onto the second PPT which contains an essay plan with models of the plan and of a paragraph. Then students can have a go. Lots here - a full week of lessons which helps you get students independently thinking about extract analysis and planning in a structure. This really helped my Y10 get stuck into analysis and showed them they could do it without me. The plan and model then helped them create some 5+ essays on their first attempt. Enjoy! Please note - extracts and images are not included in the price - these do not belong to me - you’re paying for the lesson structure, plans, models and questions on extracts.
Macbeth QUIZZES
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Macbeth QUIZZES

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Three mixed quizzes - great for checking how much content students remember. I use these on a weekly basis with my classes - repeating them helps them to remember for the exam.
'An Inspector Calls' - Themes and Context
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'An Inspector Calls' - Themes and Context

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This is a great starting lesson for students who are just about to start studying 'An Inspector Calls' it introduces all the context and the themes of the play. It also goes through the exam requirements for Edexcel. It also has video links to BBC Bitesize revision videos that help students to fill in the Themes and Context sheet attached. (Internet needed for the links) This helped my students get down the basics and start making links to the themes that run throughout the play.
How to Give and Analyse a Speech
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How to Give and Analyse a Speech

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In this collection of resources there are two powerpoint presentations that focus on speech writing. There is also a model speech that you can use as an example of good speech writing and structure. When teaching students how to write a speech, I found that it was important that they knew what I wanted, so created this speech on Queen Elizabeth I, as seen attached. This speech goes with Analysing a Speech as it tells students what to look for and then gets them to pick apart their own speeches, identifying what is good in their own. Writing a Speech could be used as a follow up lesson or a preparation lesson before they analyse, as it helps students build a speech. Extra details below: Writing a Speech About Your Contributions to the World is a lesson that helps students prepare a speech in which they take on the role of a famous person from history, and then defend their position in an overburdened hot air balloon. A speech, 'written by Queen Elisabeth I' is attached, that the teacher can use as an example of one of these speeches. Analysing A Speech is a lesson that helps the student first analyse Queen Elisabeth's speech, and then each other's speeches.
Coraline and her two mothers
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Coraline and her two mothers

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This lesson prepares students to analyse quotations comparing Coraine's two mothers from the book Coraline by Neil Gaiman. The analysis is done through the analogy of a house, as you look at the outside and explain the ideas generally, and then when you look in more detail inside the house you gain a further understanding of the language used by Neil Gaiman. There is a booklet resource that fits with the lesson to help students follow this ideas, as well as top tips.
Romeo and Juliet Introductory Lesson
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Romeo and Juliet Introductory Lesson

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This introductory lesson starts with the all important Prologue in Romeo and Juliet. There are several activities that you can do with your students in the power point using the Prologue attachment as well. Then as you continue through the lesson there are PEE structure questions and a model PEE paragraph on the tragedy of the play Romeo and Juliet. In addition, there are some great music links (internet access needed) that will get your students excited and engaged in analysing Romeo and Juliet. I had students from other classes trying to come into my lesson when I played these music gems.
Halloween Lesson - Persuasive techniques
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Halloween Lesson - Persuasive techniques

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This is the THE Halloween lesson of the year. In this pack you have a lesson plan with a step by step guide of what you need to do when in the lesson; a power point slide for the lesson; cut out resources and... a booklet to print which is where the students do all the work. (Booklet is file: Handout 1 and Handour 2 printed separately and then copied double sided) This lesson is planned for an hour and looks at persuasive devices with a Halloween theme. All slides are about Halloween and all the model texts focus on the upcoming festival. There is even a fun clip link to tell students the true historical story of Halloween - definitely worth a watch. I know what I'm using for my classes on the 31st October. Buy it now and use it for this last week in preparation or on the day of the BIG event!!! Happy Teaching!!!
Sentence Structure Lesson - Gothic Creative Writing
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Sentence Structure Lesson - Gothic Creative Writing

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This sentence structure lesson is designed to show students how using a variety of sentences can create a certain effect on the reader. Here I have used 'The Boy' horror movie trailer to create my own descriptive piece of writing which focuses on building an image using descriptive language and a variation of sentences. Once students have read the description and discussed why this description is effective you move on to watching the trailer (access to the internet needed), and then get the students to continue the original description using the success criteria, trailer, their imagination, and the original descriptive piece of writing for aid.