I am an English, Media and Film Studies Teacher. All my resources aim to be inclusive and exciting for students and for teachers. With my love of educational research, I have tried to apply pedagogical practices to the resources created. Please leave me review and comment - would love to make improvements!
I am an English, Media and Film Studies Teacher. All my resources aim to be inclusive and exciting for students and for teachers. With my love of educational research, I have tried to apply pedagogical practices to the resources created. Please leave me review and comment - would love to make improvements!
This mini booklet aims to gives students a flavour of what English Language Paper 2 involves. Each of the readings is focused on true crimes that are wholly appropriate for teenagers. It’s 20 pages of building skills for AQA’s assessment objectives. This booklet is structured per question:
Question 2: Summary
Question 3: Language
Question 4: Comparison
Question 5: Writing
The writing section has 5 writing tasks, with a structured planning sheet attached.
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With a range of different extracts, this booklet aims to support reading session and library lessons. Students have the opportunity to read a range of texts with the aim to deduce meaning. Interleaved throughout the booklet is activities in using adjectives, verbs and adverbs.
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This booklet is jam-packed with 45 pages of revision activities. From beginning to end this booklet aims to support students revising each character, understand each of the assessment objectives and practice a range of exam questions with scaffolds to facilitate.
This booklet includes:
5+ exam questions
Quotation analysis
PEEZL scaffolds
Thematic analysis
Flashcards
Character analysis
30 day revision challenge
SO MUCH MORE!
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Here is the first session for introducing AQA’s Extended Project Qualification. There are opportunities to engage with research (links attached) as well as get the logbook started.
I will be using this very presentation with students this year too!
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Tried and tested in the classroom! This character profile for Lady Macbeth allows student to get all their notes in one place!
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Printable on ONE A4 sheet, these character flashcards focus on three areas:
Summary
Quotations
Contextual Links
There is one bonus flashcard with a mini-glossary of poetic terms.
These flashcards have been designed to support weaker learners grasping key information for the AQA English Literature Paper 2 exam.
This 13 page revision booklet focused on pairing quotations for:
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Supernatural
Ambition
Below each, students have the opportunity to use a paired quotation set in responding to and exam style question.
There is one AQA style question with planning sheet attached with a BONUS Macbeth QUIZ!
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Get creative with a range of activities for students to learn about Guy Fawkes and The Gunpowder Plot. In this 12 page booklet, students will have the opportunity to:
Read an English folk tale
Creative task: writing your own poem
Writing a newspaper article
Reading activity
Research tasks
Creating a wordsearch
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Check out this range of 15 poems that focus on wars from different cultures. From World War One to the Iraq war, this anthology aims to capture the thoughts, feelings and emotions of individuals across the world. Each poem has information about the poet. PLUS! There are pages dedicated to contextual information, where students can research and better understand the wars that have impacted the poets.
See the selections of poems below:
Anthem for Doomed Youth, Wilfred Owen
Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen
Who’s for the Game?, Jessie Pope
The Gift of India, Sarojini Naidu
Untitled, Takijiro Onishi
War Baby, Pamela Holmes
We are Not Blessed, Nikolay Mayorov
The Butterfly, Pavel Freidmann
High Flight, John Gillespie Magee
All of Us or None, Bertolt Brecht
Songs of Love and War, Sayd Bahoudine Majrouh
The Brutal Game, Alex Cocker
Helmand, John Hawhead
Landays, Rashila Mushka
War Sees No Colour, Donna Zephrine
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Printable on ONE A4 sheet, these character flashcards focus on three areas:
Summary
Quotations
Contextual Links
There is one bonus flashcard with information on Dickens.
These flashcards have been designed to support weaker learners grasping key information for the AQA English Literature Paper 1 exam.
This 12 page mini-booklet gives students the resources to plan, draft and write their opening to a story titled ‘The Poisonous Pumpkin’. This booklet includes:
Designing the pumpkin
Drawing a map
Language features
Opening of stories
Structural features
Story development questions
SO MUCH MORE!
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Don’t want to get the full booklet? Get this mini exam booklet with all the key exam questions.
FIVE exam questions
Planning sheets
Scaffolded practice
PEEZL
Sentence starters
Writing support guide
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There are collection of worksheet: a breakdown of the essay question, context sheet (relevant to the essay question) and an example exam question. Each have been designed to warm up exam skills. This lesson works well as a development of the previous sheets, but can also be used independently to scaffold students skills before exams.
The exam question is: **Starting with this extract, how does Dickens present the theme of charity and Christmas Spirit? **
Included is:
Extract from Stave One
PEE structure and guidance
Scaffolded PEEZL structure
Context sheet: Poor law, workhouses, social class and industrial revolution.
Planning sheet focused on each AOs from AQA
This structural feature quiz aims to support students recalling structural features and write an write an example from texts they have read or create one of their own.
Get students colouring in which stave they think each of these quotations are from. This resource is great for revision and can ensure that students check their quotations against the story.
This 30 day revision challenge boasts a whole range of ways for students to revisit the play. From re-watching scenes and summaries, to re-reading, extracting quotations and SO MUCH MORE! As a part of each activity, students can tick off what they have achieved!
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Get students naming the characters that have said the following lines. This worksheet is a great revision tool that can be used after reading the play!
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