Of Mice and Men, Our Day Out, Other Cultures 2 and English 2010 Ready resources

As English teachers enjoy a well earned rest and recharge the batteries ready for the challenges of the new academic year, here at Teacher-of-English.com we've been beavering away on a host of new resources to help take some of the sting out of September.

Brand new this week are two resources for widely used GCSE texts, Our Day Out (Willy Russell) and Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck).

These two new resources signify something of a change in how our materials are presented. Each resource comes as a package which includes three items: a PowerPoint, an 'English 2010 Ready' medium term plan and a series of photocopy friendly worksheets. I would love to know what English teachers think about the idea of offering resources as a package, if you have a comment, please let us know.

Regarding the new 2010 English curriculum, we are currently updating existing resources and creating new ones which will ensure that from the start of 2010 anything you download from the site will fit into the new framework.

We hope you will find our new resources a great help in the classroom. Our Day Out includes a 100 slide differentiated PowerPoint, a Reading APP for use at KS3, an essay plan for GCSE Literature, a booklet of photocopy friendly worksheets in PDF format and a medium term English 2010 ready plan. Take a preview by clicking Our Day Out.

Of Mice and Men includes a 272 (!) slide differentiated PowerPoint, a booklet of photocopy friendly worksheets in PDF format and a medium term English 2010 ready plan. Preview by clicking on Of Mice and Men.

Whilst Our Day Out and Of Mice and Men are available to download now, we are currently working on cluster 2 of the Poems from different Cultures, starting with Search For My Tongue, so expect to see that popping up on the site in the coming week.

If you would like to add a comment to the blog please do. We rely on teachers to make the site a success and the more feedback we get the better. Is there a text you would love to have more resources for? Do you think a forum would be a worthwhile addition to the site? Let us know what you think.

You can drop me a line anytime at serviceteam@teacher-of-english.com or add a comment to the blog.

Until next time..


Regards


Martin Grundy