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A WHOOSH! drama activity for “Twelfth Night” by William Shakespeare. The teacher narrates a story summary and calls in students from the circle to mime the characters, be props and create settings. Teacher script and student lines included. You can also download a free "WHOOSH! How to" guide from @MrRoyTeach on TpT

An abridged script of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet for a 1 hour student performance. Trimmed and structured for fast flowing scenes. Excellent for supporting study of Romeo and Juliet for GCSE/Alevel English or Drama. Maintains Shakespeare’s original language, rhythm/meter and all key scenes and characters. Pages, scenes and lines numbered for ease of reference and rehearsal. Scenes are broken up into sub-scenes to aid rehearsal. Outlines for optional movement/mime/physical theatre seque

A WHOOSH! drama activity for “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare. The teacher narrates a story summary and calls in students from the circle to mime the characters, be props and create settings. A great activity to introduce the story and themes, or summarise as a fun revision activity. Great for engaging students with Shakespeare and proving it’s FUN! Teacher script, student lines and character cards included. You can also download the 'Whoosh!-How To" free from @MrRoyTeach. If you enjoy, plea

A WHOOSH! drama activity for “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare. The teacher narrates a story summary and calls in students from the circle to mime the characters, be props and create settings. Teacher script, student lines and character cards included. You can also download a free "WHOOSH How To" guide from @MrRoyTeach on TpT

An abridged script for A Midsummer Night’s Dream for a 1 hour student performance. Maintains Shakespeare’s original language, rhythm/meter and all key scenes and characters. Includes a scene summary page to aid student understanding, reference and rehearsal schedule - with suggestions of opportunities to create ensemble involvement. Pages, scenes and lines numbered for ease of reference and rehearsal. I directed a cast of students all the way from year 7-13 (ages 11-18), with SEN and MAGT

An abridged script of Shakespeare’s Hamlet for an 80 minute student performance. Trimmed to approx 40% original length and structured for fast flowing scenes. Excellent for supporting study of Hamlet in English or Drama. Maintains Shakespeare’s original language, rhythm/meter and all key scenes and characters. Pages, scenes and lines numbered for ease of reference and rehearsal. Scenes are broken up into sub-scenes to aid rehearsal and scene summaries are given at the start of the script. O

A WHOOSH! drama activity for “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare. The teacher narrates a story summary and calls in students from the circle to mime the characters, be props and create settings. A great activity to introduce the story and themes, or summarise as a fun revision activity. Great for engaging students with Shakespeare and proving it’s FUN! Teacher script, student lines and character cards included. You can also download the 'Whoosh!-How To" free from @MrRoyTeach. If you enjo

A 3 lesson crash course on transactional (non-fiction) writing for GCSE English. Suited to AQA or Edexcel exam boards (and easily adapted to others.) I originally taught this to a higher ability year 11 class (target grades 6/7/8) as a focused booster to their transactional writing quality, aiming to push them into higher levels and focus them on strategies which really make a difference. Includes rhetorical and persuasive techniques, adapting to purpose, audience and form, structuring an

Full Bundle. Worksheets which show the Shakespearean text of key extracts alongside questions to support comprehension. Numbering helps students to know where to look for the answers and demonstrate that they can understand Shakespeare’s language better than they first realise. Questions highlight memorable quotations and imagery, key themes and links to context & genre. 9 extracts from Act 1, 10 extracts from Act 2 & 3 and 10 extracts from Act 4 & 5, plus answer sheets included. Excelle

Full scheme lesson resources for studying Romeo and Juliet at GCSE level, featuring prompt questions to guide students to examine key details of each scene, recall and retrieval activities and analytical writing practice. 29 powerpoint presentations clearly structuring 35 lessons for detailed study of all Romeo and Juliet and exam analytical writing, with accompanying resources. Includes: Recall, retrieval, recap activities. Model analysis. Peer/Self assessment and improvement. Regular

A 7 lesson scheme of work exploring ‘Macbeth’ by William Shakespeare and applying a range of explorative strategies, good for building character development and devising skills. Includes lesson powerpoint, handouts file and potential homework tasks. The SOW features practical tasks each lesson, a WHOOSH! to summarise the play, practical and written starters to settle lively classes (or which could be set as homework), steeped learning objectives, sentence starters for effective peer feedb

A WHOOSH! drama activity for “A Christmas Carol” by William Shakespeare. The teacher narrates a story summary and calls in students from the circle to mime the characters, be props and create settings. A great activity to introduce the story and themes, or summarise as a fun revision activity. Great for engaging students with Shakespeare and proving it’s FUN! Ideal for students studying A Christmas Carol at GCSE, covering key scenes and characters and including key quotations. Lots of char

A 4 lesson crash course in strategies for imaginative and creative writing for GCSE English Language. (Suitable to AQA and Edexcel exam boards, and easily adaptable to others.) I originally taught this with a higher ability year 11 class (target grade 6/7/8) as a 1 week crash course to raise the standard of their writing and lift their ambition and sophistication. Included Covers strategies for planning, lots of potential exam prompts, strategies for structuring the narrative/imaginati

Worksheets which show the Shakespearean text of key scenes alongside questions to support comprehension. Numbering helps students to know where to look for the answers and demonstrate that they can understand Shakespeare’s language better than they first realise. Answers Included Scenes covered: Prologue, A1S2 (Romeo’s first appearance), A1S5 (first meeting), A2S2 (balcony), A3S1 (the fight) Excellent for introducing scenes and establishing understanding, or GCSE revision cementing understan

A WHOOSH! drama activity for “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding. The teacher narrates a story summary and calls in students from the circle to mime the characters, be props and create settings. A great activity to introduce the story and themes, or summarise as a fun revision activity. Great for engaging students with the story and proving it’s FUN! Lots of quotations woven into the narration and students’ lines for revision. Great for GCSE students. Teacher script and student lines includ

A display/graphic of sophisticated Happy-Sad emotional vocabulary intensity ranked. For developing emotional literacy, empathy, description, effect on the reader etc. Could also be printed as a bookmark. Use the PDF files to preserve fonts as seen. Resolution sufficient for at least 2m tall. If you enjoy, please leave a review and share to help others find this resource.

Support mat for creative writing in English and Literacy. Also great for use during DIRT/ improvement/ acknowledgement tasks and for developing literacy skills. Includes support for varying sentence structures and vocabulary, reminders of imagery techniques, senses, ‘show don’t tell’ and story structure. (Aristotle’s model / freitag’s pyramid / story mountain.) Suitable for Primary and Secondary students. Works well laminated on student desks, available to collect when needed, or as part

Two ppt lessons reviewing and practising comparative analysis, building skills for both English Language and English Literature GCSEs. Lesson 1 analyses a single poem, focusing on analytical writing style relevant to both GCSE Language and Literature. Lesson 2 works on comparative analysis with a second poem, and includes model comparisons in both the style of AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 and AQA GCSE English Literature Paper 2 (unseen poetry). Questions written in the style of AQA GCS

A 30 page work book teaching how to plan, write and evaluate an essay for GCSE English Literature. Excellent for revision, exam preparation, independent study or home school. Explores the theme of family in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Focusing on an exam question about family in A Christmas Carol, the work book steps students through unpacking the question, exploring the extract, generating ideas, planning, writing, and offers model paragraphs and full model essays at a range of

A one-off lesson teaching debating and oracy skills, and discussing the achievements and impacts of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Originally created to support study of ‘Blood Brothers’ by Willy Russell. Easily adapted for a PSHE or Politics lesson. OracyDebateSpeaking and ListeningBlood BrothersPoliticsIncludes PPT lesson resource and selected edited research sources