This unit of work is fantastic for introducing the crime genre and detective stories to KS3 students. It includes 18 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, exemplar answers, activities to exploit drama, debates, creative writing opportunities and short stories. This works well with a boy heavy group, who get very excited when they use the clues to solve the crimes before the ending is given away! Lesson 1: An introduction to crime Lesson 2: How writers use narrative hooks Lesson 3: Crime Scene Investigation Lesson 4: Captain Murderer by Charles Dickens Lesson 5: Using Voice in Captain Murderer Lesson 6: Writing feedback Lesson 7: About His Person by Simon Armitage Lesson 8: Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl Lesson 9-11: The Darkness Out There by Penelope Lively Lesson 12: The Trial of Mrs Rutter Lesson 13: Perform and peer assess Lesson 14: The Red Room by HG Wells Lesson 15: Planning your own detective story Lesson 16: Writing your own detective story Lesson 17: Writing feedback and improvement Lesson 18: Who killed Vic Timberlake?

This unit works really well with a Year 7 or Year 8 group. They get really excited about the characters, especially The Artful Dodger! The unit consists of 17 lessons covering the whole of the play. It is fully resourced with PowerPoints, newspaper articles, character descriptions, extracts and diary entries. The page numbers refer to the Heinemann Edition by Nigel Bryant. Lesson 1: Oliver’s feelings Lesson 2: The workhouse Lesson 3: Mr Bumble Lesson 4: Oliver’s diary Lesson 5: Apprenticeships Lesson 6: Crime and Punishment Lesson 7: Dodger and Fagin Lesson 8: Writing a newspaper article Lesson 9: Mr Brownlow Lesson 10: Creating settings Lesson 11: Designing Fagin’s hideout Lesson 12: Solving the mystery Lesson 13: Nancy Lesson 14: The End Lesson 15: Acting out the play Lesson 16: Writing your assessment Lesson 17: Assessment feedback

This 21 lesson unit of work for Wonder, by R.J. Palacio, contains comprehension by chapter, vocabulary challenges, creative writing opportunities, the trial of Jack Will, camp planning, friend dilemmas and much more! This literature unit is teacher and student friendly. It contains a wide variety of activities, along with open-ended questions and role plays that will enthrall your students, especially those who have just started at a new school, as Auggie overcomes the challenges students face on a daily basis. The unit ends with an assessment evaluating Jack Will’s role as a friend and his relationship with Auggie. It is supported by extracts and important pages in the novel, so the students don’t have to trawl through 400 pages looking for a quote! Lesson 1: First day at middle school Lesson 2: Treacher-Collins syndrome Lesson 3: Jack, Julian and Charlotte Lesson 4: bullying Lesson 5: write your own precept Lesson 6: Halloween Lesson 7: Via’s perspective Lesson 8: the trial of Jack Will Lesson 9: Summer Lesson 10: Jack Will Lesson 11: the parents Lesson 12: Justin Lesson 13: dealing with bereavement Lesson 14: losing friendships Lesson 15: the camping trip Lesson 16: the fight and social acceptance Lesson 17: the aftermath Lesson 18: graduation Lesson 19: prepare your assessment Lesson 20: write your assessment Lesson 21: assessment feedback

This unit of work has been designed to prepare A-level students for their AQA Paper 2 Unseen Prose exam. The students have to incorporate context into their answers, so the unit contains 13 lessons ranging from Victorian Literature to more modern, multi-cultural texts like White Teeth. Each lesson will take you about an hour to prepare their answer and a further hour to write an essay if you wish to do so. It comes fully resourced with PowerPoint lessons, exemplar essays, guidance on how to write introductions and conclusions, extracts, and examiner advice. The lessons include extracts from: The Heart of Darkness I am Charlotte Simmonds Brick Lane Digging to America White Teeth Gone with the Wind Catcher in the Rye Revolutionary Road Everything I Never Told You Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit I have used this unit with very high achieving A-level students who have gone on to study English Literature at Oxford and Cambridge, so it is definitely targeted towards the top end.

This unit contains everything you need to teach the Love and Relationships anthology and will save you hours of preparation! It is focused on AQA Paper 2 for English Literature. It includes 23 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, examplar essays, past papers, introduction examples, mark schemes, quizzes and opportunities for self-assessment. It is extremely thorough and allows the students multiple points for reflection to ensure they are confident of which poems to compare on which themes when they sit their GCSE English Literature. Lesson 1: An introduction to poetry Lesson 2: Poetic techniques Lesson 3: Scansion: rhythm, rhyme and meter Lesson 4: When We Two Parted by Lord Byron Lesson 5:Love’s Philosophy by Percy Shelly Lesson 6: Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning Lesson 7: Sonnet 29 by Elizabeth Browning Lesson 8: Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy Lesson 9: Letters from Yorkshire by Maura Dooley Lesson 10: Quote quiz Lesson 11: The Farmer’s Bride by Charlotte Mew Lesson 12: Comparing Farmer’s Bride with Porphyria’s Lover Lesson 13: Walking Away by Cecil Day-Lewis Lesson 14: Eden Rock by Charles Causley Lesson 15: Comparing Walking Away and Eden Rock Lesson 16: Follower by Seamus Heaney Lesson 17: Mother any distance by Simon Armitage Lesson 18: Before You Were Mine by Carol Ann Duffy Lesson 19: Comparing Before You Were Mine and Walking Away Lesson 20: Winter Swans by Owen Sheers Lesson 21: Singh Song! by Daljit Nagra Lesson 22: Climbing My Grandfather by Andrew Waterhouse Lesson 23: Which poems compare well

Are you teaching Myths, Legends, Fables and Fairy Tales? This unit will help you teach folktales and traditional tales, and it will save you hours of preparation! This unit of work includes 10 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar answers, quizzes and the classical stories. The unit includes: Lesson 1: The Norse World Lesson 2: Analysing settings Lesson 3: Asgard Lesson 4: Thor, Loki and Odin Lesson 5: Comparing Thors Lesson 6: Loki’s children Lesson 7: Hel Lesson 8: Thor and The Frost Giants Lesson 9: Ragnarok

Do you want to study a novel that teaches students about both the allure and the dangers of gangs? This unit of work works well with mid to high ability Year 8 or 9 students, and could serve as a basic introduction to the American Literature canon. It comes resourced with PowerPoints, worksheets, contextual information, IWB activities, character analysis, opportunities for creative writing and ideas for an assessment. Lesson 1: Gang culture Lesson 2: How Hinton creates character Lesson 3: Hinton’s use of stereotypes Lesson 4: How writers build tension Lesson 5: The Socs and The Greasers Lesson 6: Using inference Lesson 7: Narrative perspective Lesson 8: Robert Frost “Nothing Gold Can Stay” Lesson 9: Analysing the character of Ponyboy Lesson 10: Writing a newspaper article Lesson 11: Dual narratives Lesson 12: Use of foreshadowing to build tension Lesson 13: Building tension in “The Rumble” Lesson 14: Character foils: Jonny and Dally Lesson 15: Analysing the character of Ponyboy Lesson 16: Formal speeches in The Courtroom

Are you looking for a fresh and creative way to teach Romeo and Juliet? I recently studied for my Certificate for Teaching Shakespeare at the RSC in Stratford and it has revolutionized the way I teach the bard. This unit contains everything you need to teach Romeo and Juliet at KS3 . It is focused on essay writing skills, analyzing extracts for English Literature and bringing the play to life. It includes 30 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, extract analysis and opportunities for online research. Page numbers refer to the Cambridge Shakespeare edition. Lesson 1: Writing Elizabethan context quizzes Lesson 2: Shakespearean language Lesson 3: The main characters Lesson 4: Acting out the play Lesson 5: Plot and key lines Lesson 6: The prologue and sonnets Lesson 7: Masculinity in A1S1 Lesson 8: Romeo’s masculinity in A1S1 Lesson 9: Our first impressions of Mercutio in A1S4 Lesson 10: Staging A1S5 Lesson 11: Courtly love in A2S2 Lesson 12: Friar Lawrence’s advice in A2S3 Lesson 13: Review of Acts 1-2 Lesson 14: Character discussion and debate Lesson 15: The death of Mercutio in A1S1 Lesson 16: Who is to blame for Mercutio’s death? Lesson 17: Conflict in A3S1 Lesson 18: Juliet’s growing independence in A3S2 Lesson 19: Impressions of Lord Capulet in A3S5 Lesson 20: Act 3 Review Lesson 21: Juliet’s equivocation in A4S1 Lesson 22: Soliloquys in A4S3 Lesson 23: Staging A4S3 Lesson 24: Juliet fakes her death in A4S5 Lesson 25: The role of the Apothecary in A5S1 Lesson 25: Staging A5S3 Lesson 26: The End Lesson 27: The Trial of Friar Lawrence Lesson 28: How Juliet develops as a character Lesson 29: Plan your Juliet assessment Lesson 30: Write your Juliet assessment

This unit contains everything you need to teach non-fiction writing (letters, speeches, articles, essays, reviews and leaflets) at KS4. This unit of work is focused on AQA Paper 1 for English language and teaches the students how to argue, advise and persuade. It includes 23 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson Powerpoints, exemplar answers, newspaper articles, leaflets, essays and speeches. Lesson 1: Introduction to transactional writing Lesson 2: Coronavirus response Lesson 3: How to counter-argue Lesson 4: Tough love Lesson 5: Raising children Lesson 6: Travel Writing Lesson 7: Charity speech Lesson 8: Letter of application Lesson 9: Write your letter of application Lesson 10: Technology Lesson 11: Fame Lesson 12: English teacher application Lesson 13: Health leaflet Lesson 14: Mobile phones Lesson 15: Parents are over-protective Lesson 16: Who would you vote for? Lesson 17: Film censorship essay Lesson 18: Writing your essay Lesson 19: Protecting the countryside Lesson 20: Virgin Atlantic complaint letter Lesson 21: Meghan and Harry Lesson 22: Writing your opinion Lesson 23: Foreign holidays

This unit is ideal as an introduction to non-fiction texts at KS3. It has 18 lessons focusing on evaluating non-fiction texts, opinion writing, describing travel destinations, writing a letter of complaint and more. It comes fully resourced with PowerPoints, travel guide extracts, example answers and newspaper articles. Lesson 1: Introduction to travel writing Lesson 2: The Road to Manali by Melissa Bell Lesson 3: The Red Dust Lesson 4: Describing Antarctica Lesson 5: Writing a speech to reduce tourism Lesson 6: Pole to Pole by Michael Palin Lesson 7: Narrative tenses in The Beach Lesson 8-9: Designing a travel advert Lesson 10: Designing the ultimate trip Lesson 11: Describing holidays Lesson 12: Holiday web quest Lesson 13: Holiday narrative writing Lesson 14-15: Holidays from hell Lesson 16: Designing a promotional video Lesson 17: Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks Lesson 18: Travel TV Shows

This unit contains everything you need to teach Streetcar at KS5. It includes 22 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar material, quizzes, extracts and critical articles. Each lesson targets a scene in the play, a theme or a character. I have used it forthe last 5 years to teach top students who have gone on to achieve A* grades and study English Literature at Oxford and Cambridge. Page numbers refer to the Penguin Modern Classics edition. This scheme of work has been designed for the AQA A level course. It looks at areas like: Lesson 1: Naturalist and Expressionist theatre Lesson 2: Context research on the deep south, the civil war, post WW2 immigration, 1940s New Orleans, The Southern Gothic and Tennessee Williams’ family Lesson 3: Context presentations Lesson 4: Impressions of Blanche Lesson 5: Intertextuality with Ulalume Lesson 6: The significance of Belle Reve Lesson 7: Williams’ use of staging Lesson 8: The Poker Game and Sonnet 43 Lesson 9: Blanche and The Southern Belle Lesson 10: The allure of aggressive men Lesson 11: Comparing Blanche and Stella Lesson 12: The Southern Gent and Shep Huntleigh Lesson 13: Violence in Streetcar Lesson 14: Essay writing Lesson 15: Fantasy and self-deception Lesson 16: Elia Kazan’s influence Lesson 17: Is Stan a victim or a villain? Lesson 18: The relationship between Blanche and Mitch Lesson 19: Essay marking Lesson 20: Sherman’s march through Georgia Lesson 21: Blanche’s lament for the South Lesson 22: Themes and critics

This unit of work is designed as a pathway through the text Wild Boy at KS3. The unit contains 21 lessons and looks at areas such as plot structure, character relationships, aspects of a detective novel, the author’s use of pathetic fallacy and more. It is fully resourced with an extract assessment, descriptive language worksheets, plot quizzes, contextual information and assessment writing frames. Page numbers refer to the Walker Books edition. Lesson 1: The Prologue Lesson 2: The Circus: setting the scene Lesson 3: Fairground characters Lesson 4: Clarissa Everett Lesson 5: The author’s use of animal imagery Lesson 6: Creating mystery Lesson 7: Character foils: Clarissa and Wild Boy Lesson 8: Escape through the sewers Lesson 9: Designing a WANTED poster Lesson 10: Use of pathetic fallacy Lesson 11: Analysing the murder scene Lesson 12: Discovering the hidden room Lesson 13: A Victorian Workhouse Lesson 14: The Church Lesson 15: How the writer builds tension Lesson 16: The Machine Lesson 17: Circular Structure Lesson 18: The Suspects Lesson 19: The Finale Lesson 20: Planning your assessment Lesson 21: Writing your assessment

Do you need your students to have an overview of English Literature canon? From Beowulf to The Bard? This unit of work is dedicated to the progress of language from Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare and The Romantics to modern day speakers like Muhammad Ali and Malala Jusef . This unit works well with mid to high ability KS3 students, and could serve as a basic introduction to language change. It is fully resourced with extracts, gap fills, cartoon strips, timeline sorts, games and drag and drop activities. Lesson 1: Timeline of English Literature Lesson 2: The origins of English Lesson 3: English pronunciation Lesson 4: The Romantics Lesson 5-7: Beowulf Lesson 8: The Magna Carta Lesson 9: The Wife of Bath by Chaucer Lesson 10: Write your own Canterbury Tale Lesson 11: Shakespearean Language Lesson 12: The Witches in Macbeth Lesson 13: The Great Fire of London Lesson 14: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Lesson 15: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Lesson 16: JFK speeches Lesson 17: Muhammad Ali speeches Lesson 18: I am Malala Lesson 19: Emma Watson’s speech on feminism

Everything you need to revise Streetcar at KS5. This unit includes 12 revision lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, extracts and critical articles. The lessons cover character and theme questions. Page numbers refer to the Penguin Modern Classics edition. This unit of work has been designed for the AQA A-level, but is adaptable to fit other exam board specifications. Lesson 1: The American South Lesson 2: Tragedy as a genre Lesson 3: Structure of the scenes Lesson 4: Style and idiolect Lesson 5: betrayal and desire Lesson 6: social class Lesson 7: Stella Lesson 8: men and women Lesson 9: Stella and Stan Lesson 10: Steve and Eunice Lesson 11: Belle Reve Lesson 12: Gone With The Wind

A unit of work dedicated to poetry that explores the natural world. It includes 19 lessons with activities to help students comment on the effect of language techniques, comparison and contextual research opportunities on the British poets. It is fully resourced with fun facts, quizzes, support notes, essay frames and creative writing opportunities. The lessons cover a range of subjects such as poetic techniques, rhythm and rhyme in conjunction with with poems by: Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Lord Tennyson, William Blake and many more. Lesson 1: Poetic techniques Lesson 2: Poetic techniques review Lesson 3: How poets use rhythm Lesson 4: The Eagle by Tennyson Lesson 5: The Jaguar by Ted Hughes Lesson 6: The Tyger by William Blake Lesson 7: The Hyena by Edwin Morgan Lesson 8: View of a Pig by Ted Hughes Lesson 9: Sonnet by John Clare Lesson 10: Spring by Hopkins Lesson 11: Daffodils by William Wordsworth Lesson 12: Inversnaid by Hopkins Lesson 13: Little Trotty Wagtail by John Clare Lesson 14: Seamus Heaney research Lesson 15: Death of a Naturalist by Heaney Lesson 16: Blackberry Picking by Heaney Lesson 17: Planning your assessment Lesson 18: Writing your assessment Lesson 19: Assessment feedback

Everything you need to teach the Pearson Edexcel IGCSE Anthology. This unit of work is focused on Paper 1 non-fiction texts . It includes 12 lessons, but the amount of material could easily cover 22 lessons with 2 lessons per extract. It is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar answers, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, extracts and opportunities for online research. Lesson 1: An introduction to non-fiction reading Lesson 2: The Danger of a Single Story Lesson 3: Passage to Africa Lesson 4: The Explorer’s Daughter Lesson 5: Explorers or boys messing about? Lesson 6: Between a Rock and a Hard Place Lesson 7: Young and Dyslexic? Lesson 8: A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat Lesson 9: Beyond the Sky and Earth Lesson 10: H is for Hawk Lesson 11: Chinese Cinderella Lesson 12: Revision activities

Everything you need to revise Blood Brothers at KS4. This unit includes 13 revision lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, extracts and essay structure. The lessons cover character and theme questions. Page numbers refer to the Metheun Drama edition. This unit of work has been designed for the AQA GCSE, but is adaptable to fit other exam board specifications. Lesson 1: Comedy and tragedy Lesson 2: Sympathy Lesson 3: Character posters Lesson 4: Context Lesson 5: Mrs Johnstone and motherhood Lesson 6: Who is responsible? Lesson 7: The narrator Lesson 8: Remembering key quotes Lesson 9: Act 1 review Lesson 10: Act 2 review Lesson 11: Mrs Johnstone as a strong character Lesson 12: Linda Lesson 13: Planning your answer

This scheme of work is designed as a pathway through the play and an introduction to drama at KS3. It includes 12 lessons that are easy to follow and focus on aspects like staging, character development, creative writing, the history of the holocaust and more. Lesson 1: elements of a fable and context Lesson 2: narrative voice Lesson 3: descriptive techniques Lesson 4: vague language and inference Lesson 5: reading between the lines Lesson 6: character analysis of Pavel Lesson 7: comparing Bruno and Shmuel Lesson 8: writing analytical paragraphs Lesson 9: Comparing Lieutenant Kotler with Nazi Germany ideology Lesson 10: Discussing the message of the novel Lesson 11: Designing a book cover Lesson 12: Analysing Jackson’s use of staging

This Midsummer Night’s Dream unit is lots of fun and fantastic for stretching high ability KS3 students. It contains 18 lessons, focusing on the playwright’s use of language, how the playwright uses dramatic devices, creative writing and the effect of staging. It comes fully resourced with PowerPoints, contextual information to illuminate understanding of the text, extracts and IWB activities. The page numbers refer to the Cambridge School Shakespeare edition. The unit includes: Lesson 1: Elizabethan context Lesson 2: Online research Lesson 3: The Globe Lesson 4: The Characters Lesson 5: The language Lesson 6: Plot and Characters Lesson 7: Act out the play Lesson 8: Set design in A1S1 Lesson 9: Creating characters in A1S2 Lesson 10: Exploring fairies in A2S1 Lesson 11: Oberon and Titania in A2S1 Lesson 12: Persuasive language in A2S1 Lesson 13: Shakespeare’s language Lesson 14: Writing spells in A2S2 Lesson 15: Insults in A3S2 Lesson 16: Analysing character in A4S1 Lesson 17: Themes review at the end Lesson 18: Blockbuster revision

Make public speaking fun and interactive! Help your students conquer their fear of standing up by getting them to explore subjects they love, and are desperate to tell the world about! This unit of work would suit Grade 7 or Grade 8. There are 10 lessons covering a variety of speeches and rhetorical devices, as well as a final activity for students to write their own inspirational speech. It is fully resourced with ppts, contextual information to illuminate understanding, extracts and activities to promote positive body language. This is perfect for early Speaking and Listening preparation. Lesson 1: persuasive devices Lesson 2: debating Lesson 3: Emma Watson’s speech at the UN Lesson 4: George Bush’s defense of America after 9/11 Lesson 5: using body language and voice Lesson 6: your future ambitions Lesson 7: how to spend money on your school Lesson 8: analyzing persuasive speeches in movies Lesson 9: planning a speech Lesson 10: writing and performing a speech to go to Mars