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AQA A-Level English Language and Literature: Othello - Lesson 1
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AQA A-Level English Language and Literature: Othello - Lesson 1

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A reintroduction lesson that should be taught with the understanding that the students have read the text beforehand. Designed as an entry point into year 13; ideal for new teachers looking to get the measure of a new class (as in my case). I found this lesson particularly useful when combined with FAR marking the material surrounding the quotations. You should view this as a starting point - future lessons will get much more specific.
AQA English Language Data Collation Spreadsheet aka "The Machine"
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AQA English Language Data Collation Spreadsheet aka "The Machine"

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Attached is a spreadsheet that does an awful lot of work for you. To summarise, it does the following: Allows for easy collation of GCSE Language marks on a paper by paper basis AND as a whole examination Allows for easy identification of various student demagraphics - EAL, PP and so on Allows you to measure progress against students best, average and last marks across both papers Works out "how many marks" until you hit target grades for individual students Colour codes grades and marks to allow for at a glance progress checks Once you buy this spreadsheet, you will not need to get another LANGUAGE spreadsheet. The document contains instructions on the ARRAY tab as to how to update . Oh, and if you do get this, I suggest you LOCK the individual spreadsheets ASAP: the document is set up to allow you to do this and still enter the data, you just won't be able to accidentally delete any of the coding, thus removing any brain overloads that might ensue. I am using this at my current school and there are several other schools who are using this system with good reports. Happy spread-sheeting! PS - Yes, there is a page that reads exactly the same but for a version that caters for the AQA Literature course. The spreadsheets are different. Here's the link/address to the LITERATURE version: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-english-literature-data-collation-spreadsheet-aka-the-machine-11405407
AQA English Literature Data Collation Spreadsheet aka "The Machine"
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AQA English Literature Data Collation Spreadsheet aka "The Machine"

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Attached is a spreadsheet that does an awful lot of work for you. To summarise, it does the following: Allows for easy collation of GCSE Literature marks on a paper by paper basis AND as a whole examination Allows for easy identification of various student demagraphics - EAL, PP and so on Allows you to measure progress against students best, average and last marks across both papers Works out "how many marks" until you hit target grades for individual students Colour codes grades and marks to allow for at a glance progress checks Once you buy this spreadsheet, you will not need to get another LITERATURE spreadsheet. The document contains instructions as to how to update the spreadsheet. Oh, and if you do get this, I suggest you LOCK the individual spreadsheets ASAP: the document is set up to allow you to do this and still enter the data, you just won't be able to accidentally delete any of the coding, thus removing any brain overloads that might ensue. Happy spread-sheeting!
Creative Writing: Experimental poetic forms
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Creative Writing: Experimental poetic forms

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I enjoy teaching this lesson in and around poetry units of work. Essentially, it demonstrates three different approaches to creating poetry, culminating in the students creating their own Shakespearean Sonnets (you'll struggle to get this done in a single lesson - I designed this for a double period). You'll need the following to complete this lesson: 2 different coloured paper types Glue Scissors The students to have prior knowledge of the Shakespearean Sonnet Form Enjoy.
KS4 Creative Writing Pack - inspired by "Your Shoes"
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KS4 Creative Writing Pack - inspired by "Your Shoes"

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I wrote these lessons a while ago, but I remember getting some positive responses to the story AND the creative writing tasks. For this, you will need some of those old AQA anthologies (the one that came BEFORE Sunlight on the Grass) - one of the short stories was called "My Shoes". The content, for those who don't remember, is rather more orientated towards KS4 than KS3, but the creative writing that comes from this resonates with the kids I taught at the time. Hopefully you'll find this useful.
Exploring Political Speeches (based around the old AQA English Language Spoken Language criteria)
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Exploring Political Speeches (based around the old AQA English Language Spoken Language criteria)

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I had SO much fun with this unit of work! It helped that the TA in my class went on to become a local MP for Labour (still is as far as I can tell...). Essentially, this series of 5 lessons - which, by the way, totally went over the 5 lessons I gave myself to teach this - explores a number of different political speeches. Included in the pack are a number of transcripts - Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, Alex Ferguson's farewell speech, Bush's post-911 address to the nation and the transcripts of Clegg, Cameron and Brown from the First Televised General Election Debates (heavy stuff). I was a little tentative at teaching this to a bottom set year 9 class, but they totally got on board with the debates (they tore shreds out of Brown...) and engaged well with the controlled assessment task at the end. I know that the controlled assessments are now null and void (a shame really), but the exploration of speeches might be useful to someone out there in the teaching ether...
Transitional Lesson: KS2 to KS3
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Transitional Lesson: KS2 to KS3

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One of my old schools did a great job of communicating with their feeder Primary Schools. We would be invited in to teach the incoming Year 7s. We took this a stage further by collaboratively teaching lessons with people from other departments. This lesson is designed to be taught to Year 6 students and combines Art and English. It's quite easy to change this to meet the needs of your own school's transitional needs. You'll need to download some Manga style pictures and also, somewhat unsurprisingly, you'll need Art resources too.
AQA English Language Resource Bundle
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AQA English Language Resource Bundle

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A collection of resources that will aid you in the teaching of the AQA English Language specification. This is weighted more towards Paper 2 than Paper 1 at the moment - something I will rectify as soon as possible.
AQA English Literature Resource Bundle
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AQA English Literature Resource Bundle

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A collection of schemes that will aid in the revision and teaching of the AQA English Literature examination. PS - I intend to upload a Romeo and Juliet scheme of work too (as soon as I have finished making it).
The Whole Lot
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The Whole Lot

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I've put my best premium resources in one place. You get a mixture of KS3 and KS4 (AQA) resources all in one at 30% off.
Character and Voice Revision Book
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Character and Voice Revision Book

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A bit out of date now(hence the reduced price). This is a booklet that provides a copy of each of the old AQA Moonlight on the Tides poems with a series of questions and an exam question. This is a stand alone resource you can print out (It's a whopper! Loads of pages, so check your departmental print budgets) for individuals or whole classes. Might be useful as an Unseen Poetry resources for the new AQA English Literature GCSE (Just saying...)
The complete AQA pack
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The complete AQA pack

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All of my resources for AQA's English Language and English Literature exams covered. In one nice neat pack.
AQA English Literature: Introduction to Unseen Poetry lessons
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AQA English Literature: Introduction to Unseen Poetry lessons

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Lessons designed to engage and interest my year 10s as they step into GCSE-land for the first time. They enjoyed the analysis of the song lyrics a lot. I found that my previous classes found it very hard to engage with the poetry element. These lessons (combined with a couple of others that don't belong to me) worked well.
AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A Mock Exam - My Polish Teacher's Tie
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AQA English Language Paper 1 Section A Mock Exam - My Polish Teacher's Tie

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I've found another use for all that knowledge we have about the old AQA English Lit anthology (The Sunlight on The Grass anthology). I have started to turn them into English Language Paper 1 Section A Mock Exams! This is one of them. There is no mark scheme, but if you use the Paper 1 mark scheme from the AQA website you should be fine. This one uses the opening of My Polish Teacher's Tie.
KS3: Introduction to KS3 Reading skills - Harry Potter focused
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KS3: Introduction to KS3 Reading skills - Harry Potter focused

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An introductory unit suitable for Year 7 students - I taught it to top and bottom set (with differentiation) classes. It is designed to get kids using the basic PEE style structure to create a reading assessment-worthy response. I don't include all of the extracts I used - I photocopied straight from the texts in all honesty - but this is more than enough to get going. Hope you find this useful.