Complete scheme of work for Coraline, Neil Gaiman.
Contains 32 resources:
Lesson 1-Predictions, blurb and chapter 1
Lesson 2-Foreboding
Lesson 3-Chapters 2 and 3
Lesson 4-Chapter 4 S&L
Lesson 5-Chapters 5 and 6
Lesson 6-Chapters 6 and 7
Lesson 7-Chapters 8 and 9
Lesson 8-Chapters 11,12 and 13
Lesson 9-Subversion
Assessment- lower and higher ability.
Includes differentiated resources for both a higher and lower ability class.
Two fully annotated lessons on War Photographer. I currently use this with my top set year 10/11, but I have also attached a differentiated version which I have used with a bottom set year 9/10.
Includes: starter activities, information on the poet/context, fully annotated, to grade 9, poem, SMILE analysis comparison sheet, AQA grade descriptors, teacher model, writing frame and self or peer assessment plenary.
Everything you need to teach War Photographer, AQA Literature Paper 2- Power and conflict.
A one off revision lesson on the complex character of Gerald in An Inspector Calls.
Starts off with discussion questions about Gerald and a piece of writing about his character that they have to evaluate.
2 pages of quotations with analysis are provided which allow pupils to write up an essay style response exploring how and if he takes responsibility.
Included a hypothesis statement to start off their essay response.
2 excellent workbooks addressing Literacy. Can be used as homework over a term, or as class starters. Total of 88 pages!
Includes activities on:
Vocabulary
Spellings
Synonyms and antonyms
Reading comprehension activities
Nouns/Pronouns
Verbs
Commas and subordinate clauses
Sentences types
Apostrophes
Homophones
Dictionary work
Past, present, future tense
Two fully annotated lessons on My Last Duchess. I currently use this with my top set year 10/11, but I have also attached a differentiated version which I have used with a bottom set year 9/10.
Includes: starter activities, information on the poet/context, fully annotated, to grade 9, poem, SMILE analysis comparison sheet, AQA grade descriptors, writing frame and self or peer assessment plenary.
Everything you need to teach My Last Duchess, AQA Literature Paper 2- Power and conflict.
This resource was designed to support form time reading.
It contains:
Pre reading activity
Lesson on context
Comprehension questions for each chapter
Final activity- ‘To what extent do you agree?’
Two fully annotated lessons on The Prelude. I currently use this with my top set year 10/11, but I have also attached a differentiated version which I have used with a bottom set year 9/10.
Includes: starter activities, information on the poet/context, fully annotated, to grade 9, poem, SMILE analysis comparison sheet, AQA grade descriptors, writing frame and self or peer assessment plenary.
Everything you need to teach The Prelude, AQA Literature Paper 2- Power and conflict.
This resource was designed to support form time reading.
It contains:
Pre reading activity
Lesson on context and author
Comprehension questions on each chapter
Final activity- What can the Government do to help child refugees?
This resource was designed to support form time reading.
It contains:
Pre reading activity
Lesson on context and author
Comprehension questions on each chapter- 41 slides long
Final activity- The protagonist of the novel, the woman in black, refuses to submit to Victorian patriarchal values by attempting to reclaim her illegitimate child. Even though she repeatedly inflicts suffering on families by causing the death of their children, we still feel some sympathy towards her.
I agree/ disagree with this statement because……
Complete Scheme of Work/ Learning- War and Conflict. Aimed at KS3 year 8/9. Higher and lower ability- fully differentiated with separate lessons, models, sentence starters, success criteria and activities.
Includes 18 lessons on:
Images of war and key vocabulary.
2 and 3- Propaganda posters. Writing PEEDL.
4- Jessie Pope ‘Who’s for the Game?’ poetry analysis. Includes structure strips for pupils to structure their PEEDLs effectively.
5 and 6- 2 lessons on Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est.’ Introductory lesson to the SHC, PEEDL lesson includes full higher ability PEEDL model, success criteria and sentence starters.
7- Using Owen’s poem as a springboard for pupils to create their own war poem.
8- Comparison lesson- comparing and contrasting Owen and Pope’s poems. Designed to prepare pupils for the Power and Conflict AQA poetry analysis in KS4.
9- Hardy ‘The Man he Killed’ poetry analysis lesson.
10- Saving Private Ryan cinematography lesson: How does Steven Spielberg convey war in the opening twenty minutes of ‘Saving Private Ryan’? Analysing camera angles and shots. Pupils storyboard their own war film opening.
11- Descriptive writing.
12- Zulu War- analysing ‘Rourke’s Drift’.
13 and 14- End of term assessment- Nothing’s Changed (higher ability) Nettles (Lower ability).
Extra lessons:
15- Vietnam blog lesson.
16- S&L lesson.
17- Letters from the front lesson.
18- WW2 Non-Fiction lesson.
All lessons are fully differentiated for both higher and lower ability. Lessons include: Try this activity, starter, main, plenary, teacher models, structure strips, sentence starters and success criteria. Each lesson is to observation standard.
Also includes a higher and lower ability homework project.
Two fully annotated lessons on Charge of the Light Brigade. I currently use this with my top set year 10/11, but I have also attached a differentiated version which I have used with a bottom set year 9/10.
Includes: starter activities, information on the poet/context, fully annotated, to grade 9, poem, SMILE analysis comparison sheet, AQA grade descriptors, teacher model, writing frame and self or peer assessment plenary.
Everything you need to teach Charge of the Light Brigade, AQA Literature Paper 2- Power and conflict.
Two fully annotated lessons on Poppies. I currently use this with my top set year 10/11, but I have also attached a differentiated version which I have used with a bottom set year 9/10.
Includes: starter activities, information on the poet/context, fully annotated, to grade 9, poem, SMILE analysis comparison sheet, AQA grade descriptors, teacher model, writing frame and self or peer assessment plenary.
Everything you need to teach Poppies, AQA Literature Paper 2- Power and conflict.
Two fully annotated lessons on Remains. I currently use this with my top set year 10/11, but I have also attached a differentiated version which I have used with a bottom set year 9/10.
Includes: starter activities, information on the poet/context, fully annotated, to grade 9, poem, SMILE analysis comparison sheet, AQA grade descriptors, writing frame and self or peer assessment plenary.
Everything you need to teach Remains, AQA Literature Paper 2- Power and conflict.
Bundle of 5 revision lessons which can be used in school or emailed out to pupils. Covers context of AIC
Mrs Birling as a likeable character
How Priestley uses the character of the Inspector to suggest the ways in which society could be improved
How Priestley explores social class in An Inspector Calls
How Priestley presents the older and younger generation.
1 lesson on revision of context and context, and 4 lessons on exam questions. They include the exam question, quotes to use, model paragraphs and writing frames. Everything you need for your AIC revision!
Complete scheme of work covering the entire play of Macbeth. I use this with my KS3 class, but can also be used with KS4 as it builds up to an AQA GCSE style assessment question on Lady Macbeth.
Lesson 1- Context carousel.
Lesson 2- Act 1 Scene 1 Witches.
Lesson 3- Act 1 Scene 2 The character of Macbeth.
Lesson 4- Act 1 Scene 3 Macbeth meets the witches.
Lesson 5- Act 1 Scene 4/4 Lady Macbeth.
Lesson 6- Act 1 Scene 6 Dramatic irony.
Lesson 7- Act 1 Scene 1 Dagger of the mind.
Lesson 8- Act 2 Scene 2 The murder.
Lesson 9-Act 3 Scene 4 The banquet.
Lesson 10- Act 5 Scene 1 Lady Macbeth.
Lesson 11- Act 5 Scene 5. Macbeth’s final soliloquy.
Extra lessons- Plot, Act 2 Scene 2, Act 3 Scene 1.
Includes a takeaway homework.
Full SOW for the new AQA Media GCSE .
Broken down into two half terms of teaching: Term 1- Analysing Magazines and Term 2- Creating Magazines.
Series of 15 lessons for Term 1 and 11 lessons for Term 2.
Term 1- Analysing Magazines- leads pupils through how to analyse magazine front covers using correct media terminology with exemplar answers. Looks in detail at: Anchoring and Bias, camera angles, signifiers and connotations, narrative theory, connotation and denotation, typography, target audiences, media institutions and sub-generic conventions. Leads up to a controlled assessment analysis of 2 magazine covers.
Term 2- Creating Magazines- Looks in detail at: magazine appeal, readers and advertisers, mode of address, media language, representation and stereotypes, visual codes and conventions, magazine composition and mastheads. Leads up to a controlled assessment of creating and evaluating a magazine cover.
Each lesson comes with a PowerPoint and resources.
I have also uploaded Unit 2: Cross-Media Study (Advertising and Marketing) and Unit 3: Practical Production and Evaluation (Moving Image) , but have kept them separate as you might want to teach something different from the list of choices.
Macbeth GCSE AQA.
Two lessons focusing on the theme of Guilt.
Contains an annotated extract on Act 2 Scene 2, a model, a writing frame and a selection of quotes, linked to the theme of guilt, from the whole play.
Takes pupils through how to structure their response, including a thesis statement at the beginning.
Everything you need to help your year 11 revise the theme of Guilt!
Theme lesson covering the main themes:
Redemption, Social Injustice/Poverty, Christmas, Charity, Greed and Materialism, Supernatural and Family.
Group work lesson- fantastic for revising!
In groups pupils discuss one of the following themes in ACC and consider how it relates to the novella. They then complete their theme worksheet with:
A summary of their key theme, including any motifs it links to and how their key theme links to which parts of the novella. They then have to add quotations and techniques to the worksheet.
Once all the worksheets have been completed, I photocopied them into booklets for their theme revision at home.
The resource includes a summary of each key theme, motifs linked to that theme and key quotes linking to that theme- everything pupils need to complete their worksheets.
Please also see my theme lesson on Macbeth and An Inspector Calls.
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Two fully annotated lessons on Ozymandias. I currently use this with my top set year 10/11, but I have also attached a differentiated version which I have used with a bottom set year 9/10.
Includes: starter activities, information on the poet/context, fully annotated, to grade 9, poem, SMILE analysis comparison sheet, AQA grade descriptors, writing frame and self or peer assessment plenary.
Everything you need to teach Ozymandias, AQA Literature Paper 2- Power and conflict.
Two fully annotated lessons on Emigree. I currently use this with my top set year 10/11, but I have also attached a differentiated version which I have used with a bottom set year 9/10.
Includes: starter activities, information on the poet/context, fully annotated, to grade 9, poem, SMILE analysis comparison sheet, AQA grade descriptors, writing frame and self or peer assessment plenary.
Everything you need to teach Emigree, AQA Literature Paper 2- Power and conflict.