An Inspector Calls character posters
With GCSE classes approaching that point in the year, I made these to advertise some key AIC quotes. A3 in size, but could be made into postcards instead. Click on them to enlarge each, and then right click to save it to your computer by selecting "save image as".
Revision Sessions
We begin our GCSE countdown on Monday with Revision sessions happening every week. I laminate these and write on them with dry wipe board pen, put them up around our corridors and students can then check out what's coming up in the next two sessions. When those are over, I wipe them down and put the next two sessions up. Help yourself if of use.
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A2 Critical interpretations
After feedback from our exam board training, I began to worry I wasn't including enough critical interpretations of literature in my teaching, so have spent a little time putting together the attached posters/postcards and some broad findings which I thought might be of interest. Students might make reference to one of these ways of reading in their exams responses.
Affect vs Effect
I probably get asked about once a week "Sir, what's the difference between affect and effect?" so to ease my repetitive answering (and to give students a visual aid) here's a little poster instead.
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Tip-top paragraph table top coasters and poster
My deputy head spotted table corners covered in a prompt when he visited another school recently so I began to think how we might adopt this idea in our own practice. I decided, as our rooms have a variety of teachers visit when we are not teaching, that a literacy across the curriculum approach might be best, and in order to cover a number of themes I would rotate these term by term. First up is an old favourite- Tip Top paragraphing, inspired by a clear need for some revision (having just marked a Y9 assessment!). Feel free to help yourself if you're interested to try this yourself; there's a template to download just beneath the photo the tables.
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SMILE Structure strips
I was taken aback (but really pleased!) by the positive reaction on Twitter to these, so here are my SMILE structure strips in full colour. I've saved them as a word document (to the right) so you can alter the text in each box if you so choose. Pretty sure I pinched the idea from one of Twitter's finest, Caroline Spalding, so if you like these, be certain to follow her! Hope they're useful to anyone who uses them.
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I also made these larger wall prompts for the classroom so students could remind themselves of the content. Apologies they aren't in the correct order to spell SMILE!
GCSE Macbeth quotes
Punctuation posters
Above: Roy Lichtenstein inspired comma rules posters and, below, Marvel & DC superheroes helping out with apostrophe use.
Encouraging Students as independent learners.
Below: A series of nurturing independence posters designed to promote self sufficiency in the classroom
Below: Attitude to Learning posters created for Churchill Academy
A View from the Bridge
Below: A series of posters promoting key quotes from Arthur Miller's "A View From The Bridge". I loved teaching this!!
Romeo & Juliet GCSE quote posters
Below: A series of posters promoting key quotes from Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. Be warned: The large prologue poster doesn't always pay close attention to the scan of each line.
A Christmas Carol quote posters
Below: A series of posters promoting key quotes from Dickens' A Christmas Carol
Lord of the flies quote posters
Below: Quote posters for Lord of the Flies
Various literary techniques and processes
Produced over the years. Some might not be so relevant. Some will be back in fashion again soon...
Eduqas Poetry Anthology posters
Below: Poetry Anthology quotes linking various poems
Below: A display of notable texts and authors in the literary world. The Largest poster, with the underground logo used, charts the 100 most cited literary works of importance in history. Click to enlarge each image for more detail.
Timeline of English display
This looked great displayed against a bricked wallpaper as backing paper. Thanks to everyone who has left kind comments about it.
Of Mice and Menopoly
Below: "Of Mice and Men-opoly" board game- with apologies to Hasbro- used in class and then displayed in the classroom.
Growth Mindset
These posters are pretty, but aren't considered to be especially effective in actually encouraging students to adopt a Growth Mindset according to data and research. That said, if it's a message you want to embrace, by all means help yourself.
Using the senses to describe
We've all encouraged students to use their senses to describe; here are some examples, both figurative and literal, of that technique in use in the once popular Twilight series.