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I am KS3 Co-ordinator for English at a large secondary school in the South West of England. I have been teaching for nine years now, having taught both English and Media Studies across several GCSE specifications. I specialise in Language and Literature resources for the new AQA Specification.

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I am KS3 Co-ordinator for English at a large secondary school in the South West of England. I have been teaching for nine years now, having taught both English and Media Studies across several GCSE specifications. I specialise in Language and Literature resources for the new AQA Specification.
An Inspector Calls: Act-by-Act Quizzes
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An Inspector Calls: Act-by-Act Quizzes

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Two quizzes for the first Act, and one quiz for each of Act Two and Act Three. Each quiz comes in a printable version too. Perfect for repetitive revision or starter activities in lesson.
Romeo and Juliet - The Language of Love
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Romeo and Juliet - The Language of Love

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The eighth lesson in a scheme of work on Romeo and Juliet aimed at lower ability KS4 students. This lesson deconstructs Romeo and Juliet's first meeting in preparation for analysis. Some resources and PowerPoint slides adapted to fit AQA specification requirements.
Power and Conflict Revision
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Power and Conflict Revision

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A bundle collecting together all of my Power and Conflict resources into one all-through unit of work. Includes lesson-by-lesson PowerPoints as well as printable and editable resources for each poem.
AQA English Language Paper 1: Christmas
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AQA English Language Paper 1: Christmas

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A collection of three lessons with Christmassy extracts, for students to practice their Question 2, 3 and 4 skills over the festive period. A bonus worksheet shortening each lesson into a simpler task is included - handy for cover, supply or the slow December afternoons!
Powerful People - KS3 full scheme of work
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Powerful People - KS3 full scheme of work

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A fully-resourced unit of work that takes pupils through time in a study of different powerful characters, including Achilles, Miss Trunchbull, Lord Voldemort, and the powerful townspeople of The Lottery. Powerpoints, worksheets and other various resources all included.
AQA English Literature Starter Mat
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AQA English Literature Starter Mat

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A sentence starter mat created with AQA English Literature in mind. Useful for lower ability groups, this mat is designed to make writing exam-style paragraphs as easy as 1-2-3. Could be used as a table mat, stuck in exercise books or as part of a display.
Romeo and Juliet - Love Assessment
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Romeo and Juliet - Love Assessment

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The eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth lessons in a scheme of work on Romeo and Juliet aimed at lower ability KS4 students. These lessons take pupils through planning, writing and reflecting on a mock GCSE question, styled after the AQA exam paper.
Of Mice and Men Role Playing Game
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Of Mice and Men Role Playing Game

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A lesson-long role playing game in which pupils imagine themselves as an itinerant worker in 1930s America. They need to make difficult choices, and manage their finances, in order to achieve the American Dream and buy their own house by the end of the game. Great for introducing pupils to contextual concepts around the text, or as a pre-reading activity.
Jekyll and Hyde - Chapter Posters
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Jekyll and Hyde - Chapter Posters

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A hand-made set of posters detailing the key event from each chapter of Jekyll and Hyde. These high-quality images come with some key quotes from each chapter to aid revision, as well as space on each poster for pupils to add their own notes or quotes if desired. An excellent resource for either display, revision, or end-of-term colouring in!
GCSE Literature Knowledge Organisers Pack
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GCSE Literature Knowledge Organisers Pack

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A bundle of Knowledge Organisers for Jekyll & Hyde, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth and Animal Farm. Can be used as table mats, revision resources or learning aids. Each mat is colour-coded to different ideas, and can be easily edited to suit different classes.
Romeo and Juliet - Friar Lawrence
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Romeo and Juliet - Friar Lawrence

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The tenth lesson in a scheme of work on Romeo and Juliet aimed at lower ability KS4 students. This lesson looks at the reasons for Friar Lawrence's decision to marry the lovers in secret, along with some language analysis. Some resources and PowerPoint slides adapted to fit AQA specification requirements.
Full Scheme of Work: Power and Conflict Anthology
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Full Scheme of Work: Power and Conflict Anthology

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A unit taking pupils through each of the poems in the Power and Conflict AQA cluster. Each lesson is broken into “Four Minutes of Focus” sections where pupils will learn the most important concepts for each poem, punctuated by linked tasks to suit all abilities and styles of learner. These lessons would work perfectly as revision towards examination time, or as a “first look” for newer classes. A bundle of all of my poetry resources, including this scheme, is here
AQA Power and Conflict: Pre-Exam Warmup
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AQA Power and Conflict: Pre-Exam Warmup

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Workbook and sixty accompanying lesson slides that were designed with a short, sharp revision period on no more than three poems, building up to a final assessment piece on Ozymandias. The workbook and lessons cover five hour-long lessons. Perfect for internal assessment prep and the lead-up to final exams.
Animal Farm - Full GCSE Scheme of Work
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Animal Farm - Full GCSE Scheme of Work

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A full scheme of work taking pupils through a reading of the text, as well as analytical work, contextual lessons and two essay-based assessments. Some lessons and materials adapted to suit AQA specification.
A History of Vampires - A Level study
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A History of Vampires - A Level study

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These lessons were designed for an introduction to A Level Literature, with Edexcel’s paper 2 (prose study on gothic fiction) in mind. However, they would work well with some adaptations as extract analysis for high-level GCSE students, too. The lessons build up to an essay on Polidori’s The Vampyre
Recovery Curriculum: Reading Lessons
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Recovery Curriculum: Reading Lessons

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These three lessons have been designed as a “back to basics” mini-unit, to be delivered at the start of the new academic year. The lessons were originally designed with the coronavirus lockdown in mind, assuming that pupils would start from very different points and with different experiences of lockdown learning. They have been made with another potential lockdown in mind, with each PowerPoint resource mindful of not overwhelming pupils with too many extra bits, should the lesson need to take place through online platforms. The lessons cover the three core reading skills of reading for meaning/inference, reading different text types, and commenting on how a writer uses language. Extracts are taken from Coelho’s The Alchemist, Martel’s The Life of Pi, an article on tiger poaching, and Dickens’ Hard Times Suitable for middle- to lower-ability Key Stage Three classes.
AQA Language Paper 2 - Persuading Trump
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AQA Language Paper 2 - Persuading Trump

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This is a series of lessons designed for Year 11, working up to writing a letter to Donald Trump, persuading him not to “push the big red button” and start a war. There are 5 lessons included, complete with all required resources. The two “sources” included to give pupils a little background information are Greta Thunberg’s 2019 speech to the UN on the climate crisis, and Siegfried Sassoon’s 1917 letter in protest of the continuation of World War One. Perfect practice for the weeks leading up to the final exams.
Summer Reading - Jekyll and Hyde Extracts
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Summer Reading - Jekyll and Hyde Extracts

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This workbook is designed for pupils to independently learn the key plot points of Jekyll and Hyde, with a summer holiday homework task in mind. Each chapter is covered in a single page, with a summary, a small extract from the original text, and some challenge questions for pupils to attempt. Really useful for bottom sets who would struggle with the whole original text. Could also be used as a revision resource for those who have already studied the novel.
Jekyll and Hyde - Starter / Recall Tasks
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Jekyll and Hyde - Starter / Recall Tasks

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These small, short Jekyll and Hyde extracts require pupils to fill in the gaps in order to help them memorise key quotes and events from the novel. There are eleven different tasks in total, taken from different key events in the novel. This task is perfect for a starter, or as quickfire revision to fill an empty 10 minutes in a lesson. They are also great, when completed, as the focus of some more in-depth annotation and analysis.