I provide high quality, tried and tested materials, developed over 17 years of teaching KS3-5. There is material to support G3/4 students as well as material to push for G8 and G9s.
I provide high quality, tried and tested materials, developed over 17 years of teaching KS3-5. There is material to support G3/4 students as well as material to push for G8 and G9s.
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
Everything you need to teach this fantastic novel! Ideally for Years 7-9, this unit has 20 lessons covering the whole of the text, focusing on writer’s use of language, evaluating a character statement and creative writing. It comes fully resourced with PowerPoints, contextual information on Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome, chapter extracts and IWB activities. This is perfect for developing early English Literature essay skills. Page numbers are based on the 2004 Vintage edition. The lesson themes focus on:
Lesson 1: Autism research
Lesson 2: How to produce Chris’s style
Lesson 3: Understanding emotions
Lesson 4: Character profiles
Lesson 5: Habits and rituals
Lesson 6: The Monty Hall Problem
Lesson 7: Splitting up
Lesson 8: Chris’ mother
Lesson 9: The letters
Lesson 10: Running away research
Lesson 11: Chris runs away
Lesson 12: Eidetic memories
Lesson 13: Interpreting dreams
Lesson 14: Analysing Chris’ mother
Lesson 15: Designing a front cover
Lesson 16: Writing an extra chapter
Lesson 17: Character profiles
Lesson 18: Book reviews
Lesson 19: Describing a train journey
Lesson 20: Questions to the author
There is also an opportunity for assessment on Chris’s dad with feedback and a marking sheet.
Everything you need to revise Jane Eyre at KS5. This unit includes 8 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 World Classics edition.
Lesson 1: Oppression
Lesson 2: Essay Writing
Lesson 3: Religion
Lesson 4: Integrating context
Lesson 5: Integrating critics
Lesson 6: Love
Lesson 7: Freedom
Lesson 8: Essay feedback
Featherboy is a fantastic text to teach KS3 students about bullying, and the unseen struggles others may be going through.
This unit is ideally for Year 7 or a lower ability Year 8, and will save you hours of preparation time! It contains 20 lessons covering the whole of the text, focusing on Robert’s journey from zero to hero. It is fully resourced with PowerPoints, bullying articles, newspaper templates and opportunities for drama role play. It also has an assessment essay on Robert’s changes with essay frames and quote quests. This is perfect for early English Literature preparation as well as building English writing skills. Each lesson focuses on a different aspect and chapter of the text.
Lesson 1: Use of the fairy tale genre in Featherboy
Lesson 2: Characterisation
Lesson 3: Finding your own narrative voice
Lesson 4: Singer’s use of Robert’s imagination
Lesson 5: Use of sound
Lesson 6: How to build tension
Lesson 7: Drama and the hot seat challenge
Lesson 8: Community debates
Lesson 9: Precepts and life wisdoms
Lesson 10: Writing a dramatic monologue
Lesson 11: Bullying
Lesson 12: Symbolism of The Firebird
Lesson 13: Writing a film script
Lesson 14: Using the passive voice in reports
Lesson 15: Writing a letter
Lesson 16: Writing a newspaper article
Lesson 17: Analysing Robert
Lesson 18: Singer’s narrative style and voice
Lesson 19: The Trial of Jonathan Niker
Lesson 20: Assessment
This unit contains everything you need to make The Great Gatsby fun, exciting and relevant to the students’ world. It includes 21 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar material, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, extracts and critical articles. Page numbers refer to the Wordsworth Classics edition. The lessons focus on a different chapter and aspect of Gatsby, such as:
Lesson 1: The American Dream
Lesson 2: Gatsby contextual research
Lesson 3: 1920s research
Lesson 4: Alternative titles and the epigraph
Lesson 5: East Egg vs West Egg
Lesson 6: A Superficial Society
Lesson 7: Comparing Jordan, Daisy and Myrtle
Lesson 8: The Outsider
Lesson 9: Conspicuous Consumption
Lesson 10: The Great Gatsby Debate
Lesson 11: Illusion and Reality
Lesson 12: Analysing structure
Lesson 13: Themes, symbols and motifs
Lesson 14: Idealism and Romanticism
Lesson 15: James Gatz
Lesson 16: Analysing Daisy
Lesson 17: Daisy and Tom
Lesson 18: Religious references
Lesson 19: Gatsby’s funeral
Lesson 20: The Ending
Lesson 21: The Outsider
Lesson 22: Desire
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
This unit contains everything you need to teach Chronicle at IB level. It includes 22 lessons to help guide the students through the text, investigating Marquez’s use of magical realism and the detective genre. It ends with essay planning lessons to help them link the themes to other IB texts, and begin to consider a topic for their extended essays and oral presentations. Page numbers refer to the Penguin Books edition.
Lesson 1: Designing context presentations
Lesson 2: Sharing context with the group
Lesson 3: Marquez’s style
Lesson 4: Attitudes to the murder
Lesson 5: Chapter 1 Review
Lesson 6: Bayardo and Angela
Lesson 7: Attitudes to marriage
Lesson 8: Angela Vicario
Lesson 9: Honour
Lesson 10: The Vicario Brothers
Lesson 11: Men and Women
Lesson 12: Heroes and Villains
Lesson 13: Who is the victim?
Lesson 14: The Detective Genre
Lesson 15: Reader suspicions
Lesson 16: The end
Lesson 17: Chapter 4-5 Review
Lesson 18: The Trial of Santiago Nasar
Lesson 19: Character Reviews
Lesson 20: Overall text revision
Lesson 21: Choose your activity
Lesson 22: Class presentations on themes and links
This unit has been designed for teaching the ‘Mean Time’ option for the AQA poetry section C for A-level English Language and Literature. It has 20 lessons and covers every poem in the anthology. It is fully resourced with past papers, exemplar answers, poetic technique quizzes, mark schemes and notes on the poems.
Lesson 1: An introduction to poetry
Lesson 2: Rhyme, rhythm and meter
Lesson 3: An introduction to Carol Ann Duffy
Lesson 4: Context reading and research
Lesson 5: Context quiz
Lesson 6: Captain of the 1964…
Lesson 7: Nostalgia
Lesson 8: Before You Were Mine
Lesson 9: Beachcomber
Lesson 10: First Love
Lesson 11: Valentine
Lesson 12: Planning an essay
Lesson 13: The Biographer
Lesson 14: Litany
Lesson 15: Stafford Afternoons
Lesson 16: The Cliche Kid
Lesson 17: Small Female Skull
Lesson 18: Never Go Back
Lesson 19: Close
Lesson 20: Mean Time
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 contains everything you need to teach myths and legends at KS3, 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: Online research of classic fables
Lesson 2: Echo and Narcissus
Lesson 3: The Illiad
Lesson 4: The Odyssey
Lesson 5: Theseus and The Minotaur
Lesson 6: King Midas
Lesson 7: Arachne
and much more…
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 Mean Time at High School. It includes 17 lessons covering ‘Mean Time’ and allows ample opportunity to compare poems and themes. It is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar essays, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, extracts and critical articles. Each lesson covers one of the poems, or gives the students the chance to reflect and build on previous learning by linking themes and style.
Lesson 1: an introduction to poetry
Lesson 2: rhyme, rhythm and meter
Lesson 3: an introduction to Duffy
Lesson 4: context research
Lesson 5: context quiz
Lesson 6: Captain of the 1964….
Lesson 7: Nostalgia
Lesson 8: Before You Were Mine
Lesson 9: Beachcomber
Lesson 10: First Love
Lesson 11: Valentine
Lesson 12: Essay planning
Lesson 13: The Biographer
Lesson 14: Litany
Lesson 15: Stafford Afternoons
Lesson 16: The Cliche Kid
Lesson 17: Small Female Skull
Lesson 18: Never Go Back
Lesson 19: Close
Lesson 20: Mean Time
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
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
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
Do you want to teach a play that will demystify the language of love and relationships?
This unit of work is fantastic for stretching high ability KS3 students. 18 lessons covering the whole of the play, focusing on playwright’s use of language, how the playwright uses structure, creative writing and the effect of staging. It comes fully resourced with PowerPoints, contextual information to illuminate understanding of the text, chapter extracts and IWB activities. Page numbers refer to the Cambridge School Shakespeare Edition.
Lesson 1: Elizabethan context quizzes
Lesson 2: Shakespearean language
Lesson 3: the theatre
Lesson 4: act out the play
Lesson 5: the soldiers return in A1S1
Lesson 6: the relationship between Beatrice and Benedick in A1S1
Lesson 7: Don John in A1S3
Lesson 8: the masked ball in A2S1
Lesson 9: deception in A2S1
Lesson 10: focus on the villain in A2S2
Lesson 11: focus on Benedick in A2S3
Lesson 12: appearance and reality in A2S3
Lesson 13: review of Acts 1-2
Lesson 14: Beatrice is tricked in A3S1
Lesson 15: Claudio is tricked in A3S2
Lesson 16: the marriage in A4S1
Lesson 17: Beatrice and Benedick in A4S1
Lesson 18: Leanato and Antonio in A5S1
Lesson 19: the ending
A whole scheme of work dedicated to Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Excellent context work for supporting appreciation of Shakespeare using context. It includes an introduction to the Globe, life for men and women, Shakespeare’s family life, Machiavelli and a Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England. Fully resourced with fun facts, quizzes and creative writing opportunities.
Lesson 1: Context
Lesson 2: Library and online research
Lesson 3:The Globe
Lesson 4: The Plays
Lesson 5: Shakespearean language
Lesson 6: Mid term assessment
Lesson 7: Designing a movie trailer
Lesson 8: Tudor women
Lesson 9: John Shakespeare
Lesson 10: Designing a theatre
Lesson 11: Staging A1S5 of Romeo and Juliet
Lesson 12: Machiavelli
Lesson 13: The Taming of the Shrew
Lesson 14: The Witches in Macbeth
Lesson 15: The Tempest
Lesson 16: Love poems and sonnets
Lesson 17: Origins of English
Lesson 18: Elizabethan beliefs
Lesson 19: Planning your assessment
Lesson 20: Writing your assessment
This scheme of work is designed as a pathway through the play and an introduction to drama at KS3. It includes 16 lessons that are easy to follow and focus on aspects like staging, character development, creative writing, autism research and more. Page numbers refer to the Metheun Drama edition.
Lesson 1: Autism research
Lesson 2: Creating Chris’ voice
Lesson 3: Metaphorical and literal
Lesson 4: Siobhan as the narrator
Lesson 5: The detective genre
Lesson 6: Perceptions of Chris’ mother
Lesson 7: Perceptions of Chris’ father
Lesson 8: Stephen’s use of staging
Lesson 9: Research on why children run away from home
Lesson 10: Eidetic memories
Lesson 11: Staging Chris’ journey to London
Lesson 12: Judy and Roger
Lesson 13: Creating coping strategies
Lesson 14: The crime genre
Lesson 15: Assessment on Siobhan
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
If your students find Shakespeare dull and inaccessible, this is the unit for you. The lessons are focused on staging a shipwreck, costume, props, bringing the play to life and contextually understanding Elizabethan views of slavery, love, revenge and violence.
This scheme of work designed as a way into Shakespeare at KS3. It includes opportunities for online research and extract analysis from the most popular plays. It is fully resourced with fun facts, quizzes and creative writing lessons. It also works well with Roland Emmerich’s 2012 ‘Anonymous’ , as the plays studied match the plays performed in the film, allowing the students to see the words come to life on the stage.
Lesson 1: Othello
Lesson 2: Othello feedback
Lesson 3: Romeo and Juliet
Lesson 4: Agony Aunt writing for Juliet
Lesson 5: Romeo and Juliet movie analysis
Lesson 6: Anthony and Cleopatra
Lesson 7: Sonnet 130
Lesson 8: Macbeth witches
Lesson 9: Iago
Lesson 10: Midsummer Night’s Dream
Lesson 11: Midsummer Night’s Dream
Lesson 12: Hamlet
Lesson 13: Richard III
Lesson 14: The Tempest
Lesson 15: Caliban
Lesson 16: Staging
Lesson 17: Henry V
Lesson 18: King Lear plot
Lesson 19: King Lear A1S1
Lesson 20: Midsummer Night’s Epilogue