As retirement looms again, I am sorting my old folders and have come across some ACC teaching materials which may be of use. I am uncertain of their provenance - certainly I wrote some but I suspect that my wonderful …
Category: GCSE support
P2Q5: transactional viewpoint for AQA
So we know it is going to be a news article... that is helpful for our students who must be fed up to the back teeth with the amount of news articles they have been shown... p2q5-revisionDownload Anyway, here is …
Exam prep : AIC for AQA
A PowerPoint slide deck which will be used in the run up to the exams to reinforce techniques used in answering questions at GCSE. Work in progress, but feel free to use. aic-exam-prep-1Download Related articles: Considering Gerald Croft… the original cad …
Approaching an unseen poem for GCSE: video
Another post trying to help students to engage with unseen poetry. This is aimed predominantly at GCSE students but could be used in the L6th to begin to explore the use of SCASI before tackling longer prose extracts. https://www.loom.com/share/d673e01028ea4ed5bf765458c236fcc3 https://www.loom.com/share/d673e01028ea4ed5bf765458c236fcc3 …
Macbeth character shift essay: brief give back
I recently set my Year 11s an essay using the passage from 5.5 printed below. MACBETH I have almost forgot the taste of fears;The time has been, my senses would have cool'dTo hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hairWould …
A model response to P1Q4 for year 10
Aimed at my current y10s at WSE, but feel free to use. Based on a section of Birdsong which I found on LitDrive - the site which never stops giving and none of the best things to happen to English …
Newspaper articles for AQA P2Q5
relevant to all for the ideas about Newspaper articles, this is the chosen topic for a lesson with Y10 before their mock GCSE paper 2 exam on Friday. It is, as ever, subject to change, but please feel free to …
Macbeth : model response
Beginning with this passage from Act 3.2, explore the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth through the whole play. LADY MACBETH How now, my lord! why do you keep alone,Of sorriest fancies your companions making,Using those thoughts which should indeed …
On Macbeth: Link
I may be simply absurdly late to this party, but i found this today on twitter and can't recommend it enough. https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/daggerdrawn/2022/01/12/macbeth-in-terror-which-of-you-have-done-this-3-4-43-49-daggerdrawn-slowshakespeare/ I hope you find it useful. Read More "On Macbeth: Link"
Discursive writing – for y11
My teaching slides for y11 as we begin to ramp up the prep for GCSE... (includes a slide using a short film found on #LITDRIVE - brilliant but had to search for the clip because the youtube link had stopped …
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