Resources Index

KS3 KS4 KS5

Key Stage Three
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Key stage 3 strategy objectives (Word documents):
year 7 8 9

Tags for these objectives (Word documents):
year 7 8 9

Year 9 Key Objectives

Year 9 Objectives (html)

Marking grids for longer writing task and short task

Writing module which sits alongside the Shakespeare play

Writing module which sits alongside the reading of 'Manifold Manor'

Language Works (Video clips):

Translating the News

Accent and Dialect

Tim's Story

Sevim's Story

Received Pronunciation

Language and Belonging

Proud of your Accent

Teenagers Talking

Texts for Tots

 

Poetry

Beside the Reservoir
Haiku

The Drowned Book

Haiku

The Eyes

Prose

Travel writing: Kathleen Jamie

Travel writing: starters and resources

Diaries and Letters: London Calamity

Hardy

Hardy: Tess as a film

Shakespeare

Much Ado about Nothing 2005 extracts; character templates; Benedick's monologue; quote table for 2005

Writing Tasks

Fireworks letter

Shorter Writing Tasks: 1

Letter task (pdf): first letter
Opening a novel

Starters: B1.1

SATs

SATS revision

Key Stage Four
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Resources for GCSE Coursework:

Pre-1914 prose

The Fiddler of the Reels (Hardy) (Text)

Stills from films of 'Tess'

'Tess' for coursework

'The Withered Arm' (Hardy) (Text)

'Hard Times':

Bounderby character sketch
Coketown
Index page

'Far from the Madding Crowd': Gabriel's hut

Media

Ten things I hate about you (Essay guidelines)

Using the video on poetry for a media essay

Analysing openings

Original Writing

Billy Collins poetry project
Bernadette Mayer Writing Class
Examples of 'Pace and Style'
Write your own Ballad

Writing unit

The music of the primes

Skateboarding articles (1) (2) (3/ abridgement of (1))

Writing about holidays with images

A Departure

An art lesson to inspire writing about relationships

Cave paintings (Berger) images

Chocolate images

Four speeds (for the Rendezvous film)

Hardy The Victory

Poetry

John Burnside 'Pentecost'
John Burnside 'Annunciation with zero point field.'
John Burnside 'Haar'
Thomas Hardy 'At Day-Close in November'
Thomas Hardy 'Neutral Tones

Billy Collins project
S T Coleridge 'Frost at Midnight'

'Here, Bullet'

Philip Gross 'Ben's Shed' with images
Ted Hughes 'Wind'
'Matty Groves'

Andrew Motion 'Fresh Water'
interview with Andrew Motion

Selection of sonnets
Wordsworth 'On Westminster Bridge'
Shakespeare: Sonnet 29
Wordsworth from 'The Prelude' ("One evening...")
Ballad: 'Bonny Kate'

Wordsworth 'Daffodils'

Punctuation of speech, Kundera

Shakespeare

Folder of images: 'The Taming of the Shrew

'Romeo and Juliet'

Twentieth Century Drama

Blood Wedding

Workbook
Two Lorca poems
Study web-pages

Speaking and Listening Coursework

Work Experience Talk and guidelines

GCSE English Paper One

GCSE Persuasive writing

GCSE English Paper Two

Examples of pace and style

More about style

Style model: from 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'

Beginnings and endings

Poems from other cultures

The Cleveland Wrecking Yard from Brautigan's 'Trout Fishing in America'

Two rooms (images)

Two portraits (images)

GCSE English Literature examination

Armitage notes (2003)

Anthology (2003)
Darkness out there
Index/ revision

'Homecoming' worksheet

Your Shoes

Comparing 4 poems

Guidelines for comparing poems

Worksheet on sonnets

Using paintings to practise description, appreciation, interpretation and selection of materials on the theme of how do writers (poets/ painters) explore the relationships between characters?

Rites of passage template

Other

Glossary of Literary Terms
GCSE Revision sheet 2002

Jake's Story

Writing and reading dramatic monologues

Key Stage Five
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A-level English Literature

Congreve: 'The Way of the World'

Revision notes
Web-pages

LRB Sarah Churchill

Poetry

Carol Ann Duffy 'Anne Hathaway'
Dante, from 'La Vita Nuova'
Don Paterson, 'Waking with Russell'

Lavinia Greenlaw, 'The Long Day Closes'
John Burnside, 'Pentecost'
Dorothy Molloy, 'French Hotel'
Norman MacCaig, 'Moorings'
traditional ballad: 'Matty Groves'
Andrew Motion, 'Cost of Life'
Simon Armitage, 'Hearing You Out'
Simon Armitage, 'The Tyre'

Shakespeare's sonnets:

key themes
overview
range of criticism
Paulin's review of Vendler

Sonnet 12
Sonnets 30 and 40
Sonnets 42, 62, 65
Sonnet 62
Sonnets 71, 73
Sonnets 94, 106, 116
Sonnet 121

John Cage

A-level English Language and Literature

A2 coursework guidelines

Model answer to question (b) on unit 6 exam

Outline of critical approaches for unit 6 exam

Heroes

from 'Henry V'
from 'Ivanhoe'
Anglo-Saxon poetry