Thank you for visiting my shop. My aim is to provide high quality teaching resources that reduce the
need for hours of planning and help learners to achieve their potential in English and English Literature.
Please feel free to email me at sdenglish18@gmail.com with any queries, requests or comments.
Thank you for visiting my shop. My aim is to provide high quality teaching resources that reduce the
need for hours of planning and help learners to achieve their potential in English and English Literature.
Please feel free to email me at sdenglish18@gmail.com with any queries, requests or comments.
A lesson on ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ for lower ability learners.
It includes:
Starter multiple choice question
Context sheet and storyboard activity
Suggested annotations for lower ability learners
Discussion: how is this a power and/or conflict poem?
Article writing task
A lesson on Jane Weir’s ‘Poppies’ in the AQA Power and Conflict Anthology. It is aimed at a lower ability set and includes:
A true or false starter about the important of the poppy (answers provided)
A double-sided activity worksheet to enable comprehension
Role on the wall activity
Letter-writing extension task
Review Learning
Expected time: 1.5 - 2 hours
This is a Language Paper 1, Section A-style series of questions based on an extract from the Peter Benchley novel ‘Jaws’.
I obtained the extract here:
http://www.geoffbarton.co.uk/files/teacher-resources/Teaching Tension/Jaws text.doc
A PPT that enables an exploration of ‘War Photographer’ by Carol Ann Duffy. It includes:
Lesson starter that encourages learners to think about the role of the war photographer
Feedback slide
Basic contextual information
Suggested annotations aimed at lower ability learners
A summary sheet and worksheet
Comparison task with ‘Remains’
Review
An introduction to unseen poetry for middle ability learners working towards AQA English Literature 8702/2.
The Do Now task is a series of multiple choice questions focusing on Tupac’s ‘The Rose that Grew from Concrete’. This is self-assessed.
After this, learners examine the requirements of the AQA 870 Literature course in order to determine how and where unseen poetry fits in.
This is followed by a return to Tupac’s poem and a focus on some of the poetic methods used. The methods are pre-identified so that learners need only consider the effects.
After feedback, there is the opportunity to review learning.
Estimated time = one hour
Having come across these practice papers:
http://www.dstc.kent.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/Language-Paper-2-Exemplars.pdf
I’ve prepared sample answers in note form for **Text Set 6, Railway Accidents.
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My thanks go to the Littlehampton Academy for providing these texts.
Please note that I’ve adapted questions 2 and 4 These questions are different on the original PDF.
I created a storyboard version of ‘A Christmas Carol’ for lower ability learners. However, it could also be used as a revision tool for middle-upper ability learners as well.
This resource contains 5 storyboards: 1 for each stave of the novella.
Just a simple look at shared themes in the Power and Conflict Poetry. Could be used as a starting point for group work in terms of creating points and finding relevant quotes.
This is a newly differentiated version of this resource:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-annotated-act-two-11875453
This lower ability version contains:
The full text of Act 2, translated (same as original)
Scene summaries for Scenes 1-4
Scene 2 (the immediate aftermath) full text with corresponding questions
5 Worksheets to be carried out alongside the reading of Act 2.
This unit contains fewer resources than the corresponding unit for Act 1, but this reflected in the price. It was created with the issue of time pressure in mind.
This is a newly-differentiated version of the following resource:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/macbeth-annotated-act-one-11875448
This lower-ability version contains:
The full text of Act 1, translated (same as original)
Several key extracts for study
Scene summaries for Scenes 2-7
A range of activities to develop understanding.
Simplified contextual notes with a corresponding worksheet
Key information with corresponding worksheet.
This resource is aimed at lower-middle ability learners.
Having come across this booklet of Paper 2 resources…
http://www.dstc.kent.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/Language-Paper-2-Exemplars.pdf
…I’ve put together some notes in response to the Text Set 3: Homelessness. HOWEVER, I’ve tweaked the questions a little so please note the separate sheet with the adapted questions.
I would also recommend you find Source A by following the link on the attached file, ‘Homelessness Sources’. This is because the text as it is printed in the original source booklet may cause confusion.
I’ve endeavoured to create a mark scheme for the Power and Conflict poetry with indicative content, similar to the Language papers for AQA 8700/1 + 2. I’m not an examiner for this course so would be grateful for any constructive feedback.
This is a ‘crash course’ that teaches the main events in Act 3. Could be used as revision or to promote understanding in lower ability learners.
There are three scene summary files:
Scenes 1 and 2
Scenes 3 and 4
Scenes 5 and 6
These should be read before undertaking the activities:
Activity 1 = storyboard (learners describe what is happening in each square based on the image and the quotes)
Activity 2 = extended storyboard (some missing descriptions, some missing quotes)
Activity 3: Focus on Lennox’s speech.
A lesson that follows on from this introduction to speech writing for KS3:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-introduction-to-speech-writing-for-ks3-12049010
This is a speech-writing lesson based on the issue of arming teachers, similar to the US. It includes:
Starter - learners examine four related images and say how they are similar and different
A keywords match-up task with extension
A link to a relevant article which serves as useful research/pre-reading
A summary of the main arguments and some key statistics about gun crime in the US versus the UK
Sample GCSE question (AQA-style)
WAGOLL
Writing time
Peer assessment and review
This lesson is aimed at lower-middle ability learners and should take about two hours.
If you like this lesson, please consider other lessons in the KS3 speech writing series, as and when they are published. For example:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-speech-writing-the-plastics-debate-12058293
UPDATE: Corrections made to Teacher/Pupil Keywords sheets.
Having come across these practice papers:
http://www.dstc.kent.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/Language-Paper-2-Exemplars.pdf
I’ve prepared sample answers in note form for Text Set 2, Children in Prisons.
My thanks go to the Littlehampton Academy for providing these texts.
A way of teaching how to link inferences to quotations. Use in conjunction with a reading text from which quotations need to be derived. Students should write the question in the central circle and then find up to six relevant quotations.
These are Level 4-5 WAGOLLS for the November re-sit for AQA English Language 8700/1 and 8700/2.
In order to access the reading inserts, you will need to go onto E-AQA and download them. Please ensure that you have access to E-AQA before downloading.