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Eduqas NEW The Schoolboy by William Blake GCSE Poetry Anthology
A full lesson on The Schoolboy by William Blake
Students begin exploring some context before listening to and reading the poem. They record initial reactions, consider our modern education system and then annotate the poem (fully annotated copy included in the PPT on the last slide).
There are key quote analysis tasks, comprehension tasks and then an example GCSE style question just focusing on this poem at the end, with two creative tasks.

KS4 Literacy Booklet 1 AQA Style (details of contents in description)
Here is a 30 page Key Stage 4 Literacy Booklet which is designed for intervention for low ability KS4 students or in class use (there is lined paper to answer questions embedded). The exam board is AQA and this booklet is in the STYLE of this at the end. Below is what is in the booklet for you:
The booklet begins with students:
revising punctuation
identifying word classes
going over inference skills
And then the students have a quiz to recap what they have done. The booklet then continues with:
extract and language focus questions
quote exploding some quotations with language features
language focus question
comprehension skills on a Harry Potter extract
language match up table expanding language features
reading activities choices page
Then the booklet moves to:
more AQA style questions giving an overview of paper 1 and paper 2
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens focus by practicing paper 1 questions 1, 2 and 5
Extract from Jane Eyre and then tasks to follow with paper 1, questions 1, 2 and 5 focus
Then a final vocabulary gathering activity
My students found this helpful and communication with parents/carers was great over this. We started it in Year 10 and then went back to bits in Year 11.

Key Stage 5 Othello Homework + SECOND Independent Work Booklet Act 2
This booklet has been designed to assist Year 12/13 own learning at Key Stage 5 with Othello. The outline of tasks are below and I have found this has really pushed students within themselves and I have seen the embedding of research and completing of these tasks within their essay writing. This booklet is for Act 2 (all scenes) only.
AND it does include the annotations of all of Act 2 Scene 1 for students (or teachers) to catch up on if needed. These are screenshot and uploaded on a separate PDF for students.
Instructions for students:
Each week you will be set a homework and then you will also be set an independent study piece of work for you to complete in your study periods. Both of these are important as they will assist your reading, discussion and annotations within lesson, and these ideas should be brought together for when we complete an essay.
There are scanned pages on a PDF document of the annotated parts of the Act 2 of Othello. If you have missed a less/been away, you must ensure you complete your annotations to keep up to date.
CONTENTS:
Page 1 - Title Page
Page 2, Week 1 - Homework 1: Act 2 Analysis and Tasks
Page 3, Week 2 - Homework 2: Act 3, Scene 1 – Analysis and Tasks
Page 4, - Homework 3: Act 3 Scene 2 Analysis
Page 5, Week 4 - Homework 4: Act 3 Scene 3 Analysis
Page 6, Week 5 - Homework 5: Reflection Tasks

Literacy Booklet Autumn 1 2024
An updated version of the Literacy booklet - lots of activities within the booklet to assist students with literacy.
These I have used for a couple of years now to support students in what they should be doing day-to-day. They can be used stand alone, to support lessons or as a small task to break lessons up.
Pages 3-4: Capital letters
Pages 5: Using full stops
Pages 6-7: Capital letters and full stops
Pages 8-9: Nouns
Pages 10-11: Adjectives
Page 12: Verbs
Page 13: Improving your vocabulary
Page 14: Self-assessment after using the booklet

AQA A Level English Literature The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Crime x9 page Revision Task Booklet
Included in this booklet is:
Tasks and information on introduction and plot with quotations
Direct quotations that link to the crime elements
Key information on setting, characters, plot and themes/crime elements
Revision task ideas - specific to the novel
Chapter by Chapter summary of the novel
More quotations that could link to the investigation, revelations and the plot
Responding to an interpretation for the novel
Each section has tasks on them and these are for teaching or revision purposes. My Year 12 class found very useful before the mock exam and they will take this into Year 13. It has helped focus our attention on certain elements and chapters moving forward as well.

AQA A Level English Literature When Will There Be Good News & TMORA Revision x12 Page Booklet
This booklet was designed for my students to think about section B or C in Paper 2 and then consider section C and comparing When Will There Be Good News and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. The 12 page booklet contains information and tasks for the students to complete. The booklet contains:
A brief summary of WWTBGN
Chapter by Chapter task
Key quotations from WWTBGN chapter by chapter
Central theme in WWTBGN
Comparison of WWTBGN and TMORA
Links between crime elements in both WWTBGN and TMORA
There are multiple tasks to consider as students work through the booklet and my students found this very helpful for their mock exams and exams as they found it focused their attention more.

x8 Lessons Crime Poetry Peter Grimes by George Crabbe AQA A Level
Here are 8 lessons on Peter Grimes for A Level (annotating will have taken place within these lessons as well). There are a range of PowerPoint slides and worksheets to be completed (either in class, independent study or homework). The lessons focus on lines 1 - 153 with having looked at and annotated lines 1 - 200 in terms of annotating.
When teaching this poem for the first time, I found that if I concentrated and took it slowly up to line 153, the class could then feel confident about continuing their own annotations in small groups/pairs and then feeding back to one another.

AQA English Literature GCSE The Emigree Low Ability Lesson
Attached is a PowerPoint lesson that could stretch over 3 hours depending on the ability of your group. It goes over the first ideas of the poem, has an author study sheet, includes a terminology recap, questions for zoomed in parts of the poem and then a discussion about how it compares with other poems.
It took one of my lower ability groups just shy of 3 lessons and that includes a live modelled annotated poem from me. They did enjoy it and said it helped them break it down.

Key Stage 5 Enrichment Preparing for University Booklet
This booklet has been created to be used alongside a PowerPoint (which can be made from this booklet) or on its own. It contains a lot of information for Key Stage 5 or college students on what to do and expect when preparing to live independently.
Sections include:
Before you leave
When looking at halls of residence or renting
Cleaning and Hygiene matters
Saving on Utilities
Medical Matters
Duvet Togs Explained
Finances: basic information about which ID to need, a student account, ISA and savings account
Planning Meals
Laundry Labels
Top student accounts 2023/2024 ready for research
The sections include personal help and experiences alongside hints and tips of what to do to prepare and begin living away from home.
It was made to be used for a Key Stage 5 Enrichment programme once a fortnight and the feedback has been that it has proved very useful alongside a lesson and research with students being able to ask questions.

Literacy Booklet 1 - Term 1 2023
This booklet has been designed for KS3 (or maybe KS2) students to recap certain skills to cement their knowledge. This was designed for students struggling with skills for in class intervention and for homework.
There are a range of activities in this booklets like recapping adjectives, verbs, vocabulary, nouns and self-assessment at the end.

Exposure Poetry Low Ability Lesson
This lesson goes through the poem for a low ability group. It has activities about the soldier’s feelings, an overview of the poem and then some focused quotation analysis linking to technique finding and why Owen will have written it.
Students enjoyed this lesson before going into more detail later on in the year.

Kamikaze Poetry Low Ability Lesson
Adapted Kamikaze poem for my low ability sets.
Quote sheets and questions in the PPT - those slides will need to be printed off.

Literacy Booklet 4 - Term 4 2024
This is the FOURTH booklet in my Literacy series!
It has been designed for low ability KS4, KS3 (or maybe KS2) students to recap certain skills to cement their knowledge. This was designed for students struggling with skills for in class intervention and used for homework. It does mention Literacy Booklet 1, Literacy Booklet 2 AND Literacy Booklet 3 (available from my store).
There are a range of activities in this booklets like: finding the nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in the sentences and describe the images, sorting these 4 techniques into boxes (like the noun task but on a bigger scale), finding verbs within a text and then saying the effect of them, the use of adverbs and considering the effect of them, recap of similes by finding them in a longer text and then further work on metaphors - two pages - and explaining which parts of the text are actual metaphors and then identifying what bits are being compared…and FINALLY (as before) a self assessment at the end.

x9 Lessons The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie AQA Scheme A Level Crime Spec B
Attached is approximately a 9 lesson scheme for the teaching of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie.
There is also an 11 page revision booklet that takes students through key quotes linking to the crime genre, key character quotes, general quotes and all have tasks underneath them. The booklet also includes specific revision tasks linking to the crime genre, the investigation and Christie’s authorial intent and it also has activities on the back that link to the overview of the text.
Some lessons were substituted by reading and annotating the novel, and some lessons were PowerPoint based and some were worksheet based. After the first few chapters, the worksheets assist the analysis of chapters with clue or misdirections and there are some articles to read to analyse Christie’s writing and her lifestyle, considering how these affected the planning and writing of TMORA.

A Level English Literature Transition Work KS4 to KS5 Specification B Crime & Tragedy
Here is a small booklet including transition work for the open days of A Level English Literature - it is a small booklet to aid teaching the class for the new recruits!

AQA Power & Conflict Poetry London - William Blake Low Ability Lesson
A low ability lesson for Year 10 when starting to teach power and conflict poetry. Mine liked it due to the videos that aided the lesson.

GCSE Blood Brothers Revision PPT and Author Intentions
Here is a Blood brothers Year 10 into Year 11 revision PPT including themes, motifs, author intent and message and each slide has tasks. The first slide is blank for a ‘do now activity’ to be embedded, but then everything else is planned.
Has been used as two lessons alonside specific teaching and as revision activites which has taken two 75 minute lessons.

Implicit and Explicit Information Edexcel GCSE Introduction
An introduction lesson into explicit and implicit information for the Edexcel GCSE. Written for a set 4 group with a plenary of A Christmas Carol revision at the end.

Author Study - Jewell Parker Rhodes Ghost Boys, Black Brother
A quick literacy task on finding information on Jewell Parker Rhodes - author of Ghost Boys and Black Brother, Black Brother.

Year 10 A Christmas Carol Jacob Marley Mini GCSE Assessment
This resource was created and used in conjunction with the ‘normal’ ACC scheme of learning. Prior to this lesson I had created a list of standard questions and we were practicing using academic verbs, we had also quote exploded some quotes to do with Jacob Marley from Stave 1 and they knew this was going to be their assessment.
This is for quite early on in the ACC scheme for students to practice a mini exam so they know what to expect.