English Lesson Plans...
"My Lord, I have a Cunning Plan..." - Baldrick, 'Blackadder'.
Recent Additions : Y10 low ability Personal Writing stuff
(may need re-jigging to print on all printers, folks..!)
"I Remember..." - Huw's - Low Ability KS4 - Single worksheet with football stimulus getting kids to recall a significant moment in their lives - easy...
"Truly Yours, Your Biggest Fan..." - Huw's - Low Ability KS4 - Single worksheet with Eminem stimulus getting kids to write a fan letter to their hero - easy...
"When I'm 64..." - Huw's - Low Ability KS4 - 2-side worksheet with Beatles stimulus getting kids to think about their future lives
"Welcome To My World..." - Huw's - Low Ability KS4 - 2-side worksheet with Posh/Becks stimulus getting kids to think about designing a celebrity website... possibly shite, not sure...
Short Story Planner - Huw's - KS3/KS4 - single side worksheet, giving kids a 'multiple choice' approach to writing a short story
Victoria Beckham Autobiography - EXTRACT - Huw's - Low Ability KS4 - single side, culled from 'Hello' magazine (shamefully), for use with the following sheet :
Worksheets for Beckham extract - Huw's - Low Ability KS4 - 6-sides, 3x worksheets (2-3 lessons worth, with appropriate spiel), analysing Victoria Beckham's autobiography extract... which you can read to them, first... my lot quite liked this, 'cos it was so structured... some of the later questions might need editing, tho', since they were a bit obscure...
Ideas/briefing sheet for personal writing - Huw's - Low Ability KS4 - single side sheet to get them focused on writing their own stories
Personal Writing Planner - Huw's - Low Ability KS4 - single side worksheet (fill-in-the-gaps) getting them to focus on what they're actually going to write... after which, they're on their own...
Older Resources
Midsummer Night's Dream - Hayley's - KS3 - Complete scheme of work for the play - this is brilliant - there's so much here - you just have to take a look at it...
'Holes' lesson plan - Huw's - yr9 - this is just the first lesson plan thingy
that Anton made us do... (shite... but free..!)
Wendy Cope/grammar lesson plan - Huw's - yr9 - this is the grammar-y lesson plan,
also done for His Anton-ness... (it's pants, really, but hey...)
Student handout - Jean's - Y7..? - "Designing a new chocolate bar" handout
Student handout - Jean's - Y7..? - "Who would you have a one-to-one with..?" stimulus
Year 10 English/Media 'Advertising' SOW - Dom's - Y10 - it's about 'selling'
your school to potential pupils - could be easily adapted for different schools/groups...
Student handout - Dom's - Y10 - to go with the above...
Further Handout on Advertising - Dom's - Y10
(more orientated towards analysis of adverts, but still goes with above SOW)
Lord Of The Flies essay planner (a 'Searching Examination Of Human Nature'..?!) - Kate's - KS3(?)
Lord Of The Flies worksheet - on character analysis (ticketh ye thee boxes-type...) - Kate's - KS3(?)
Lord Of The Flies worksheet - 2 separate exercises on figurative language... interesting stuff... - Kate's - KS3(?)
Lord Of The Flies BLOODY ENORMOUS 8-page teacher's notes, with buckets of ideas for what to do with Your Little Horrors... this is really darned stonking, actually... - Kate's - KS3(?)
Lord Of The Flies worksheet - Worksheeteth getting kids to write a newspaper article about Simon's death in 3 different styles... - Kate's - KS3(?)
An Inspector Calls - bags of notes - blagged from somewhere else..? - KS4?
An Inspector Calls - bullet-pointy notes on the contribution of the Inspector... - KS4?
An Inspector Calls - Detailed essay-plan-y-type felleh for work on Mr Birling - KS4?
An Inspector Calls - Detailed essay-plan-y-type felleh for work on Eva Smith - KS4?
An Inspector Calls - Student guidance notes for doing comparitive questions... tasty..! - KS4?
An Inspector Calls - Adobe Acrobat file - Big SOW - blagged from Somewhere Else, but loads of ideas in there... hee hee..! - KS4
An Inspector Calls - Adobe Acrobat file - worksheets to go with the above - again, utterly blagged from Somewhere Else, but what the hell..! - KS4
Of Mice And Men - sort of wee essay-thingy... - Kate's - KS4(?)
Of Mice And Men - Notes on character & language - Kate's - KS4(?)
Of Mice And Men - Groovy 2-page fill-in-th'-gaps worksheet on main characters... nice..! - Kate's - KS4(?)
Of Mice And Men - Mega-colourful 1-page fill-in-th'-gaps worksheet on Curley's Wife... with scrummy clipart... - Kate's - KS4(?)
Of Mice And Men - Teacher's Essay notes on whether or not George is admirable... good stuff, this... - Kate's - KS4(?)
Of Mice And Men - Single-side sheet on metaphor analysis (all sounds v.complex to me... gosh..!) - Kate's - KS4(?)
Of Mice And Men - Another file of notes on whether or not George is admirable... see above... - Kate's - KS4(?)
Of Mice And Men - 2-page fact sheet for students, lots of lovely clip-art stuff, might need to be re-jigged so it looks nice, but it's all there, poptarts... - Kate's - KS4(?)
Of Mice And Men - 3-a-side kut-out-&-keep bulletpoint worksheet for kids on writing a newspaper report about the events in the book - Kate's - KS4(?)
Of Mice And Men - Single-side question sheet for kids on character and metaphor... with some jolly pretty background art... Mmmm... Good, this, actually... - Kate's - KS4(?)
Othello - V.detailed essay-planning sheet for work on Othello's flaws... - Kate's - KS4(?)
Othello - Student checkpoint sheet for writing a Nice, Meaty Essay (the lucky swines...) - Kate's - KS4(?)
Othello - Another one of the above - essay-plan breakdown for the kiddies... - Kate's - KS4(?)
Othello - Bleedin' 'ell, it's another one... on Othello being a black man in a white society... - Kate's - KS4(?)
Acrostic Poems Tiny wee student sheeteth of acrostics, for Y7 poetry folder - Huw's - Y7
Onomatopoeic (?!) Poems Poems/worksheet for Y7 poetry folder - Huw's - Y7
Onomatopoeic (?!) Poems Lesson Plan for use with the above... - Huw's - Y7
Acrostic Poems Lesson Plan ...go with worksheet (above... somewhere...) - Huw's - Y7
Opening Poetry Worksheet kick off with this during first Y7 poetry session - Huw's - Y7
Student Handout - for one-off Y8 lesson on using ICT to make poetry look beautiful. Or just less nasty. Huw's - Y8?
Lesson Plan - to kick off comedy SOW... looking at jokes and such... quite a larf. Huw's - Y8
Comedy SOW - to go with the above. V.rough and ready. Use your imagination. Huw's - Y8
Monty Python's "Parrot Sketch" ...as you do. I used it in a Y8 SOW on comedy. Lots of fun. No bloody use, but lots of fun. Hee hee..! - Huw's - Y8
Larry Miller Comedy Sketch More of the same, only rather much for Y8, I'd reckon (I never used this). Good for analysing stand-up with older kids, mind. - Huw's - 6th form..?
Student Worksheet for Analysing TV Comedy - again, never used, but I was going to use it with Y8 - get them thinking about... stuff. Hmmm. Huw's - Y8?
Student Worksheet - use this for getting your delightful Y8s to 'pitch' their comedy ideas at ruthless TV execs... Huw's - Y8
Lesson Plans - to use with the above... a bit informal. But hey. Huw's - Y8
Henry V 'Henry V' list of quotes, to do an abridged version of the play for SATs-y preparation-type stuff (like we did with 'Macbeth'...)
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