Students Self Reflection and Progress Bundle – cut down your marking This resource contains: 1x Pupil Progress Chart 1x Passport to Success (behaviour management) 1x Steps to Success (students use Blooms Taxonomy to create their own questions for other students) This bundle consists of three different sheets which all focus on the students reflecting on what they have learnt in class and how they can develop their understanding further. These also help the teacher to speed up their marking and setting of homework as if a student cannot answer what another student asks they must find the answer for homework. There is a small box for a teacher comment at the end of each topic or after a number of lessons. If you would like to see what he Pupil Progress Chart looks like you can download it for free by following the link: Students Self Reflection Sheet: Pupil Progress chart

How did conditions change for women in the 19th century? (Women’s Suffrage) This resource contains: 1x PowerPoint 3x Information Sheets This lesson focuses on the secondary order concept of ‘change over time’ and questions how did conditions change for women in the 19th century. Students use the information sheets to create a timeline of the key changes in four key areas and then assess how much change there was and whether the change was positive or negative.

What political factions were present in Ancient Rome? - Lesson 5 (Politics of the Late Republic) This resource contains: 1x PowerPoint 1x Revision Quiz 1x Homework sheet (required to be completed for the lesson) This lessons work well with the OCR Classical CIvilisation textbook - ‘Politics of the Late Republic’. This lesson reflects on what students have learnt about Ancient Roman society and politics. Students are to discuss their findings from their homework research task and think about the impact on the senate and the people of Rome and other consequences. Finally students are handed a table with the different ‘factions’ in Rome and are required to put Romans they know about in each category. This lesson works well with lessons 3 and 4 on politics of the late republic which can be found here: How was Rome’s Hierarchy Structured? - Lesson 3 How was the Roman state structured? - Lesson 4

This resource contains: 1x PowerPoint 1x Key Terms Glossary 1x Key Terms Test 1x Essay Planning Sheet This lessons work well with the OCR Classical CIvilisation textbook - ‘Politics of the Late Republic’. In this lesson students recap all the information they have learnt about the background to the Politics of the Late Republic and write an answer to an essay question. First students recap the key terms they have learnt by completing a key terms test. After students plan an answer to a question about the political powers of the people outside of the senate. Students do this by splitting into groups and going through their notes and then team teach other groups. This lesson works best with my other resources created on the Politics of the Late Republic, these can be found here: How was Rome’s Hierarchy Structured? - Lesson 3 How was the Roman state structured? - Lesson 4 What political factions were present in ancient Rome? - Lesson 5 Why was patronage so important in Roman life and politics? - Lesson 6

Homer’s Odyssey – Book VIII: The Phaeacian Games (key events) This resource contains: 1x PowerPoint Presentation 1x Key Events worksheet 1x Demodocus and Oral Poetry worksheet This lesson introduces students to Book VIII (The Phaeacian Games) of Homer’s Odyssey first by recalling the promise Alcinous gave Odysseus in Book VII. Students are then required to summarise the key events question the impact of Book VIII on the plot and audience. Finally students develop the theme of oral poetry through focusing on the character of Demodocus.

Homer’s Odyssey – Book VIII: The Phaeacian Games (characters & themes) This resource contains: 1x PowerPoint Presentation 1x Characters & Themes Worksheet 1x Plot, Language and Theme Homework Revision Questions This lesson examines the characters and key themes in Book VIII (The Phaeacian Games) of Homer’s Odyssey. The students focus on the character of Odysseus and link the characteristics he shows in Book VIII to the key themes of the Odyssey. Finally students begin to question the importance of the Phaeacian episode to the Odyssey as a whole.

Homer’s Odyssey – Book X: Circe (characters & themes) This resource contains: 1x PowerPoint Presentation 1x Characters and Themes Worksheet This lesson examines the characters and key themes in Book X (Circe) of Homer’s Odyssey. The students first reflect on the key events of Book X by playing matching pairs to link characters and events together. Students then examine the Odysseus’ leadership, the character of Circe and the theme of Xenia. A worksheet is included for students to map out their ideas in an effective way.

Homer’s Odyssey – Book IX: The Cyclopes (characters & themes) This resource contains: 1x PowerPoint Presentation 1x Characters and Themes worksheet This lesson examines the characters and key themes in Book IX (The Cyclopes) of Homer’s Odyssey. The students focus on the characters of Odysseus and Polyphemus and then the two main themes shown in Book IX, Xenia and leadership.

Homer’s Odyssey – Book XII: Scylla and Charybdis (key events) This resource contains: 1x PowerPoint Presentation 1x Key Events worksheet 1x Plot, Language & Theme Homework Questions This lesson introduces students to Book XII (Scylla and Charybdis) of Homer’s Odyssey. Students first recap the events of Book XI through pictures and then summarise the events of Book XII using the worksheet provided. Finally, students reflect on why Odysseus would spend the time telling this story and prolonging his journey home to Ithaca.

A PowerPoint and series of worksheets which cover the Battle of Marathon in 490BC, the interwar period and the Battle of Salamis in 480BC. Most of the worksheets can be completed with any textbook which has information on the Persian Wars (I used Pamela Bradley - Ancient Greece) and a single worksheet of questions is based on Herodotus' account of Marathon. All the worksheets can be edited to fit your classes ability but they are automatically differentiated with different sections in which different pupils fill out to teach each other (some harder than others).

An excellent revision tool for revising Kleisthenes' reforms when studying Athenian Democracy. The cards can be printed onto different colours to show the different reforms and once grouped discuss the positive and negative consequences of each reform to promote higher thinking and analysis. My Year 12 students found these excellent as a quick revision toll to trigger their knowledge of Kleisthenes' reforms.

This is a revision guide created for the AQA Athenian Democracy AS Level Course, however it is good for any exam board covering Athenian Democracy. Also, top end GCSE students. This booklet covers how Athens was before the reforms of Solon, the reforms of Solon, the Peisistratids and Kleisthenes. It has key information and is set out in a way that is extremely friendly.

This resource consists of two lessons on the Berlin Wall: 1) Why was a wall built to divide Berlin? This lessons introduces the reasons why the USSR built the Berlin Wall and also recaps the problems already encountered in Berlin between 1945-49. It introduces the topic through an excellent source and gets the students to think of what could have happened to explain that source. 2) Who came out of the Berlin Wall incident the best? This lesson gets students to assess who came out of the incident the best by getting them to group a number of different consequences. After that they use their grouping to write an answer to the question using the writing frame on the Ppt. Finally, students recap the Berlin Wall issues by creating a poster to go onto the Wall from either a Soviet or American perspective showing different interpretations - developing these for their exams.

This resource is a fun game activity to revise the key events of Homer's Odyssey. I have done this with my Year 12s and they really enjoyed it, it create great discussion and also showed them where they need to focus their future revision to fill gaps they had. For each group I ensured the resources were also on their own colour so they no cards got mixed up.

This resource is to work in unison with the musical-movie of Les Miserables. It has sheets on all of the main characters and gets the students to analyse them and how their portrayal changes throughout the musical. Through this the teacher is able to discuss and link back to prior learning of the French Revolutions about the reasons why the 'people' were planning to revolt against the new king of France.

This resource consists of 1 PowerPoint and 7 sources. This revision lesson focuses on why the Tsar was forced to abdicate in March 1917 and also revises source skills too. Students are required to analyse sources to answer three different styles of questions, each of which they will face in their exams.

How did women campaign for the right to vote? (Women’s Suffrage) This resource contains 1x PowerPoint 2x Cartoon Sources (for source task) This lesson introduces students to the two main groups that fought for women’s suffrage in Britain, the Suffragettes and Suffragists. The lesson begins using two clips which are hyperlinked In the PowerPoint for students to make notes from about the two groups. Students then use these notes in their next two tasks which include a source cartoon analysis. The tasks are accessible for all abilities and have ‘aim higher’ sections to push the most able in your class.

What were the consequences of Hitler rearming Germany in the 1930s? (Causes of WW2) This resource contains: 1x 1hr PowerPoint 2x Worksheets This lesson focuses on the consequences caused by Hitler rearming Germany in the 1930s against the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. Students first recap why Germany were frustrated with the Treaty of Versailles and reflect on how might countries feel about Germany rearming. Students next complete the worksheet thinking about what Hitler did and the impact on him in Germany and international relations. Finally, students use what they have learnt from the lesson to complete a source based exam style question.