There’s not much out there for solid, simple english language revision tips - so I made my own!

AQA Poetry Section B Model Answer - Level 7: Comparing Love’s Philosophy to The Farmer’s Bride

Exploring all female characters with summaries, mind maps, links to further reading and videos.

Writing Structure Strip q5 Language paper 2 Speech Letter Article - Higher ability

Ambitious vocabulary colour wheels for descriptive writing

Jekyll and Hyde Retrieval tasks for Each Chapter. Includes a basic knowledge test for every chapter complete with answers. Various videos and retrieval tasks to aid memory and spark schema. Great for remembering key quotes but zooming into quote explosions too.

Linking Noughts and Crosses prologue to Romeo and Juliet’s prologue. Including free N+C knowledge organiser. Black narratives. BLM lessons.

Jekyll and Hyde knowledge checker quiz - Chapters 1-4. Full lesson/ homework/revision. Thorough questions for chapters 1-4.

2-4 hours worth of lessons on ‘We Ate the Children Last’ short story. Contains the usual recall and retrieval goodness but includes a non-fiction article and the short story attached too (plus link to the engaging short film). Literacy skills of predicting, comprehension, creating a news article, homework task, mini quiz and digging into language methods and effects.

Introduction to dystopia for KS3 using Maze Runner, with extract and video links. Focus on using a flashback and its effectiveness. Focus on using extract to inspire your own writing.

A nice hour (minimum) lesson on hands in Macbeth.

HER-STORY: Her voice from History! This is a mega introductory lesson to feminism, gender roles and gender stereotypes - encouring generation Z to be even more woke about how gender stereotypes are all around from birth! Explores Duffy’s Mrs Darwin too. This is part of a two-week introductory SOW for introducing female voices and female representation in literature to year 9 though it is suitable for all ks3 and possibly ks4. Starting with Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife - other lessons available for more World’s Wife poems, Duffy’s Havisham and Rupi Kaur’s Progress. All lessons link with retrieval, recall, specific method and vocab explicit teaching and a variety of engaging tasks and thought-provoking feminist notions. Knowledge organiser is available for this mini SOW too.

This is part of a two-week introductory SOW for introducing female voices and female representation in literature to year 9 though it is suitable for all ks3 and possibly ks4. Starting with Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife - other lessons available for more World’s Wife poems, Duffy’s Havisham and Rupi Kaur’s Progress. All lessons link with retrieval, recall, specific method and vocab explicit teaching and a variety of engaging tasks and thought-provoking feminist notions.

Great for use with knowledge organiser or just for quick retrieval topics of your choice. 9 different starters that will show instant progress in the first 10 mins of every lesson.

Analysing Stormzy's 'Blinded by Your Grace' lyrics to understand semantic fields, using the terms 'lexis' and 'lexicon' and allusion.

Introduction lesson to Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman BLM Black Narratives. Explores the front cover, blurb, foreword and preamble.

Seven Deadly Sins introduction - Good Context for Jekyll and Hyde, Macbeth, An Inspector Calls - AQA English GCSE. Includes videos, songs and drama activities.

Will easily last a week (5 lessons, if not more!) Very engaging and interesting Powerpoint to cover the full context of Jekyll and Hyde - Victorian Britain, Freud, Jung, Darwin and Stevenson. 35 slides including videos, quizzes, creating mindmaps, tasks and a song.

Up to chapter 50 of Noughts and Crosses - Exploring the bombing scene, linking to non-fiction Manchester bombing article and linking to resilience. Writing a poem about resilience after.

1-2 hours of lessons on There Will Come Soft Rains - analsying and echoing the themes and style of writing to create their own writing skills.