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Humble English Teacher hoping to cut down on teachers' workload by providing high quality resources (from primary to secondary - mostly English but some other subjects too). Please share and review if you like what you see here.
History
Animal Farm: Context
This 21-slide lesson offers a fantastic introduction to George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’, including everything that students need to know about the novella’s historical context.
Included is information on the Russian Revolution, Orwell, anthropomorphism, satire, and much more.
This resource is ideal for GCSE students or KS3 classes.
PowerPoint saved as PDF.
Who's For The Game?: Jessie Pope
Explore Jessie Pope’s famous jingoistic poem ‘Who’s For The Game?’ in this comprehensive and engaging 20-slide lesson.
Perfect for KS3 students with some introductory knowledge of World War I, but this could just as well work for a KS4 group who are analysing poetry.
Questions, key vocabulary, and tasks are included, as well as some biographical information on Pope and context on the First World War. Exemplar analytical paragraphs on the poem are also included.
PowerPoint saved as PDF.
Dulce et Decorum Est: Wilfred Owen
This 32-slide lesson on Wilfred Owen’s harrowing portrait of the First World War, ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’, contains a detailed and comprehensive exploration of the poem.
The lesson includes context on the war, propaganda, and Owen himself, as well as analysis and questions on each stanza of the poem, including structure and form. Questions and tasks are included, with a final essay question for students (and two exemplar paragraphs) at the end.
A copy of the poem is included too.
This lesson is ideal for KS3 (particularly HA) and GCSE students, but could be easily adapted.
PowerPoint saved as PDF.
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Animal Farm: Complete Lessons
This bundle includes lessons for all 10 chapters of George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ as well as a detailed introduction to the novella’s social and historical context.
Lessons analyse the novella’s key characters, themes, and ideas, while offering close scrutiny of Orwell’s language. Close attention is paid to the novella’s function as an allegory of the Russian Revolution and subsequent rule of Stalin over the Soviet Union.
Questions, discussion points, and tasks are included for students throughout. Extract-based questions are also featured, as well as creative tasks.
This bundle also includes a crossword on ‘Animal Farm’, to be completed as an engaging revision/starter/homework task, and a ‘Seven Commandments Tracker’ for students to analyse when and how each commandment is broken as the novella progresses.
These lessons are ideal for KS3 or GCSE students (ages 12-16).
PowerPoints saved as PDFs.
Buyers of this bundle save 65% of the resources’ combined total price.
Ancient Egyptians: Word Search
This word search is a fantastic activity for pupils studying the Ancient Egyptians.
It is a fun and engaging task which helps to consolidate vocabulary, spelling, and understanding of the key features of Ancient Egypt.
Dinosaurs: Word Search
This word search on DINOSAURS is a great activity for Primary students to familiarise themselves with and recap important dinosaur vocabulary and spellings.
World War 1: An Introduction
Designed to introduce a unit on World War 1 Poetry for KS3, this 22-slide lesson includes a brief outline of the Great War and aims to teach critical vocabulary.
Ideas introduced include propaganda, pacifism and patriotism.
Students are encouraged to think about and analyse World War 1 propaganda.
Also included for analysis is the popular wartime song: ‘Your King and Country Want You’.
This lesson could also be used for a general contextual introduction to World War I in History lessons.
The Soldier: Rupert Brooke
This 18-slide lesson explores Rupert Brooke’s ‘The Soldier’.
The poem introduces students to ideas about patriotism and propaganda at the outbreak of the First World War, before exploring Brooke’s life and work.
After reading the poem together, students are encouraged to think critically about its language, imagery, form, structure and rhyme. Discussion prompts and targeted questions guide students through the poem. There is also a ‘game’ for students to identify linguistic techniques in the poem.
Annotations of the poem are modelled for students before thinking about the poem’s message and its status as a problematic poem from our 21st century perspective.
The lesson ends with an essay-style question for students, with an exemplar paragraph provided to demonstrate effective analysis.
The resources includes both an editable PowerPoint and a PDF to retain the aesthetic design.
Macbeth: James I & Kingship (Speech to Parliament)
An excellent companion resource for studying the context of ‘Macbeth’, James I’s speech to Parliament in 1610 elucidates his views of the monarchy and the Divine Right of Kings.
Studying this speech will provide a solid understanding of attitudes to Kingship in Shakespeare’s time.