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Fourteen worksheets based on the GCSE Media (Eduqas) specification that suit a range of abilities and challenge HAPs. The first worksheet is aimed more towards A Level, I was exploring theoretical viewpoints. This is the first year I have taught Media Studies so any feedback would be helpful.

A triplet in persuasive writing involves grouping three related ideas or adjectives to emphasize a point and make it more memorable. This technique, often referred to as the “Rule of Three,” is commonly used to enhance the impact of arguments. A starter activity with answer sheet.

A resource to help teachers promote the competition organised by the English Speaking Union.

A handout with a skills focus: Skills: • Rhetorical skills • Outlining and Transitions • Introducing quotations/citation and paraphrasing • Conclusions Grammar: • Agreement

Play script

Student Knowledge Booklet

Unit of Inquiry - Student Knowledge Booklet - Year 8

First week’s lessons.

First week’s teaching Curriculum scope and sequence Copy of the play

A short unit of inquiry about poetry with a focus on dramatic readings, literary festivals and creative writing. The unit follows the MYP curriculum.

Year 8 Winter term 2 Adventure Fiction & Satire Holes by Louis Sachar Knowledge Booklet with tasks.

A resource for running an after school club to promote mindfulness. The activity focuses on a Sanskrit chant.

A lesson study of short story writing displayed in the English classroom.

Literacy week and World Book Week resources focus on: Extreme Reading Extreme Writing Genre Triptych Display Boards

Is all the world a stage? I’ve put this Year 7 MYP English Language and Literature Knowledge Booklet together using the play, Sparkleshark by Philip Ridley Feel free to adapt the assessments

Powerpoints to support the student knowledge booklet. Lesson 6-10 The summaries are wordy but the assessments are meaningful!

PowerPoints on the first five chapters. These lessons support the Knowledge Booklet and can be adapted. The lessons are structured around the IB DP Language and Literature English course - Intertextuality.

Why are we learning this? You will learn about the Area of Exploration – Intertextuality. This is not a literary or rhetorical device, but rather a fact about literary texts – the fact that they are all intimately interconnected. This applies to all texts: novels, works of philosophy, newspaper articles, films, songs, paintings, etc. To meet the IB’s assessment criteria, you will practice evaluating and interpreting the connections between texts. Significantly, The English Patient (1992) is considered as a postmodern novel since the text is manipulated to pass on spread identities of different characters through narrative shifts, intertextuality and mini narratives. In other words, The English Patient is a model of intertextuality. For example, Kipling’s Kim, Herodotus’ Gyges and Candaules Scene, The Last of the Mohicans, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Daphne de Maurer’s Rebecca, and Caravaggio’s painting of David and more.

Six lessons to accompany the student knowledge booklet.

I think the most important idea to grasp is the human condition, particularly, from the perspective of Nora who asks: “Has a woman really not the right to spare her dying father pain, or save her husband’s life?” At a turning-point in her life, Nora receives no solace from books, religion, the sanctity of family, nor her own conscience – she is unstoppable in seeking freedom and truth. “I believe that I am first and foremost a human being, like you (Torvald) –or anyway, that I must try to become one… I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer” (p.98). In studying A Doll’s House, you will analyse and interpret this preoccupation with the institution of marriage and its portrayal through Ibsen’s naturalism.