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

This unit has everything you need to teach ‘The Woman in Black’ at KS3. It is a fantastic gothic horror novel, and the children are genuinely enthralled by this novel as the secrets are revealed, complimented by the movie with Daniel Radcliffe as an end of unit treat! This unit of work includes 18 lessons and comes with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar paragraphs, activities to exploit drama, extracts from the text and opportunities for creative writing. Page numbers refer to the 1998 Vintage edition. Lesson 1: The gothic genre Lesson 2: Creating a gothic atmosphere Lesson 3: How Susan Hill uses pathetic fallacy Lesson 4: Tracking Arthur’s progress north Lesson 5: Creating mystery and expectation Lesson 6: Character reactions Lesson 7: Leaving clues Lesson 8: Creative Writing Lesson 9: Writing a formal letter Lesson 10: Hiding secrets Lesson 11: How Susan Hill creates tension Lesson 12: Using rhetorical devices Lesson 13: Using clues to form predictions Lesson 14: The letters Lesson 15: The Ending Lesson 16: Prepare your assessment Lesson 17: Write your assessment Lesson 18: Feedback and improvement There is an opportunity to assess the students’ progress at the end of the novel in an essay on how Susan Hill creates a sense of mystery.

Are you looking for an original way to hook visual learners into creative writing? This unit of work contains everything you need to teach Descriptive Writing at KS3 and is fantastic early preparation for English language descriptive writing. It includes 13 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, exemplar answers, IWB interactive resources, intriguing pictures, activities to exploit drama and poems. It uses classic art as inspiration, such as Bird in an Air Pump, Thomas Chatterton and The Lady of Shalott. Lesson 1: Bird in an Air Pump by Joseph Wright Lesson 2: Chatterton by Henry Wallis Lesson 3-4: The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse Lesson 5: Voice in Not My Best Side by UA Fanthorpe Lesson 6: Original Writing Lesson 7: How to create original characters Lesson 8: Describing alien planets in Star Wars Lesson 9: Describing The Iron Islands in Game of Thrones Lesson 10: Narrative Viewpoint in Assassin’s Creed Lesson 11: Planning your assessment on ‘The Scream’ Lesson 12: Writing your assessment Lesson 13: Assessment feedback

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 KS4. It is focused on essay writing skills, analyzing extracts for English Literature and bringing the play to life. It includes 31 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. Each lesson is focused on a scene from the play, so you can easily cut this unit down to focus specifically on a key scene and a theme from the play. I have designed this unit to make it relevant to teenage audiences, so we look at themes like: the role of women, both then and now expectations of masculinity in men the role of the theatre why set it in Verona? toxic masculinity in Act 1 Scene 1 the role of a father suppression and rebellion violence role models and much more…

Everything you need to teach Unseen Poetry at KS4. This unit of work is focused on AQA Paper 2 for English Literature. It includes 19 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, contextual information, exemplar material, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, activities to exploit drama and performing poems. Lesson 1: An introduction to unseen poetry Lesson 2: Poetic techniques Lesson 3: Rhyme, rhythm and meter Lesson 4: Reviewing poetic techniques Lesson 5: Mother any distance by Simon Armitage Lesson 6: Before You Were Mine by Carol Ann Duffy Lesson 7: Comparing family relationships Lesson 8: Anne Hathaway Lesson 9: Miss Havisham Lesson 10: Comparing marriage Lesson 11: Mid point assessment Lesson 12: On My First Sonne by Ben Jonson Lesson 13: Mid Term Break by Seamus Heaney Lesson 14: Autumn by Alan Bold Lesson 15: Comparing Autumn and Today Lesson 16: Blessing by Imtiaz Dharker Lesson 17: Island Man by Grace Nichols Lesson 18: Comparing Blessing and Island Man Lesson 19: What is Pink? by Christina Rossetti

This unit contains everything you need to teach speech writing at KS3. It is solid foundation for AQA Paper 2 for English language and the Spoken Language module at GCSE. The students analyse speeches by Emma Watson, Muhammad Ali, Leonardo DiCaprio, John F Kennedy and more. It includes 14 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, exemplar speeches, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, activities to exploit drama and opportunities to exploit online research. Lesson 1: Sentence structure in JFK’s speeches Lesson 2: How to talk formally Lesson 3: Writing a protest speech Lesson 4: Body language with Malala Jusef Lesson 5: Feminism with Emma Watson Lesson 6: Equality in education Lesson 7: Arguing for or against capital punishment Lesson 8: Defending Derek Bentley Lesson 9: Let him Have It! Lesson 10: Analysing a court case speech Lesson 11: Formal writing Lesson 12: Planning your speech Lesson 13:Writing your speech Lesson 14: Presenting your speech to the class

If you are teaching Frankenstein, this unit contains everything you need to allow students to connect an 19th century Romantic novel with the great issues of today, such as the environment, artificial intelligence and what makes us human. This unit has everything you need to teach Frankenstein at KS4. It contains over 25 lessons that take you through the text chapter by chapter. It is fully resourced with context readings, theme discussions, chapter analysis, persuasive writing opportunities, online research on The Romantics, example essays, critical articles and opportunities to practice extract into essay writing. The page numbers refer to the Penguin Classics edition. Lesson 1: an introduction to the themes of Frankenstein Lesson 2: context: grave robbers, Gothic horror and Mary Shelley Lesson 3: the Epistolary opening Lesson 4: Victor and Elizabeth as character foils Lesson 5: good and evil in Frankenstein Lesson 6: foreshadowing Lesson 7: the importance of setting Lesson 8: the creature comes to life! Lesson 9: extract analysis Lesson 10: the role of women in Frankenstein Lesson 11: the psychology of child killers Lesson 12: acting out Justine’s trial Lesson 13: the Gothic and the Romantic Lesson 14: Romantic poet research Lesson 15: Romanticism on the ice field Lesson 16: the importance of parenting Lesson 17: education and influences Lesson 18: serial killers Lesson 19: appearance vs reality Lesson 20: revenge Lesson 21: revolting monsters Lesson 22: comparing Victor and his creature Lesson 23: the dangers of science Lesson 24: who is the real monster? Lesson 25: the trial of Victor Frankenstein

This Unit of Work has been designed as a way through the novel ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar. It contains 19 lessons and is designed to exploit areas like descriptive writing, writing a summary, analyzing characters, constructing the plot, the format of a letter, how writers build tension and designing a film storyboard. It also contains two assessment opportunities on Stanley Yelnats and the significance of the title. The page numbers refer to the Bloomsbury edition. Lesson 1: An introduction to Holes Lesson 2: Chapters 1-3: Camp Green Lake Lesson 3: Chapters 4-6: Impressions of Stanley Yelnats Lesson 4: Chapters 7-9: Use of flashback in literature Lesson 5: Creating a factfile Lesson 6: Survival guide poster and plot quiz Lesson 7: Chapters 10-12: Writing a letter home Lesson 8: Chapters 13-15: The Warden Lesson 9: Chapters 16-18: Kate Barlow’s lipstick Lesson 10: Chapters 19-21: Building tension Lesson 11: Chapters 22-24: Using flashbacks Lesson 12: Chapters 25-28: Kissin’ Kate Barlow Lesson 13: Chapters 29-30: Using pathetic fallacy Lesson 14: Chapters 31-33: Zero’s escape Lesson 15: Chapters 34-36: Comparing Stanley and Zero Lesson 16: Chapters 37-39: Climbing Big Thumb Lesson 17: Chapters 40-43: Formulating an escape plan Lesson 18: Chapters 44- 47: Buried treasure Lesson 19: Chapters 48-50: The End

Everything you need to revise Unseen Poetry at KS4. This unit of work is focused on AQA Paper 2 for English Literature. It includes 12 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, exemplar answers, IWB interactive resources using SMART Notebook, quizzes, activities to exploit drama and examiner advice. This unit is best if you have already taught the skills for Unseen Poetry and are revising just before the exam. Lesson 1: Analysing a Child’s Sleep by Carol Ann Duffy Lesson 2: Comparing A Child’s Sleep with The Night Feed by Evan Bolan Lesson 3: Analysing Rejection by Jenny Sullivan Lesson 4: Comparing Rejection with Years Ago by Elizabeth Jennings Lesson 5: Analysing Tramp by Rupert Loydell Lesson 6: Comparing Tramp with Decomposition by Zulfikar Ghose Lesson 7: Analysing I See You Dancing, Father Lesson 8: Comparing I See You Dancing with Coat Lesson 9: Analysing Woman Work by Maya Angelou Lesson 10: Comparing Woman Work with County Sligo by Gillian Clarke Lesson 11: Analysing Yew Tree Guest House by Phoebe Hesketh Lesson 12: Comparing Yew Tree with Goodwill Store by Ted Kooser

Ideally for KS3 students, this unit of work has been designed to teach students the skills to analyse a variety of texts, and form an opinion on different topics that affect teenagers. There are 16 lessons which allow students to explore topics such as: perceptions of teenagers, graffiti, school shootings, anti social behaviour orders, gang violence, computer games and negative press coverage. It is fully resourced with ppts, articles, podcasts, storyboards and assessment opportunities. Lesson 1: Perceptions of youth culture Lesson 2: Is graffiti a form of art? Lesson 3: School shootings Lesson 4: anti social behaviour orders - do they work? Lesson 5: gang violence Lesson 6: the influence of computer games Lesson 7: fighting back through charity work Lesson 8: negative stereotypes in the press Lesson 9: YouTube challenge Lesson 10: writing a speech on knife or gun crime Lesson 11: Fallout Lesson 12: an open letter by Lennie James to stop the violence Lesson 13: Gang violence in The Outsiders Lesson 14: Designing an anti violence poster Lesson 15: Writing your commentary Lesson 16: Panorama video reward

This Literacy Support unit has been created to support students’ spelling and grammar at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills needed to be successful at KS3. Each unit of work comes with 6 lessons and an easy to follow workbook. This unit works well with small support groups. Lesson 1: Using capital letters Lesson 2: Writing a summary Lesson 3: Improving your vocabulary Lesson 4: Similes and metaphors Lesson 5: Using persuasive devices Lesson 6: Writing to argue

This Literacy Support scheme of work has been created to support students who need extra support at KS3. It gives an overview of the skills and themes often taught at KS3. This unit of work is specialised to target travel articles and diaries, with both reading and writing skills, and works well with small support groups.

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 scheme of work contains everything you need to teach Descriptive Writing at KS4. This unit of work is focused on AQA Paper 1 for English language. It includes 18 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson ppts, exemplar essays, IWB interactive resources, quizzes, activities to exploit drama, fiction extracts and opportunities to exploit online research. It focuses on tense changes, structure, linking paragraphs, grammar and different approaches to tacking the question. Lesson 1: Using ‘On The Road’ to describe a desert Lesson 2: How to create characters with depth Lesson 3: Describing a beach with sophisticated language Lesson 4: Describing place in ‘Lord of the Rings’ Lesson 5: Describing a funfair with a focus on structure Lesson 6: Writing ‘An Ode to Christmas’ Lesson 7: Changing Narration to Description Lesson 8: Sustain, develop and contrast your paragraphs Lesson 9: Focus on grammar Lesson 10: Using metaphors to describe a school canteen Lesson 11: Describing a playground with a focus on language Lesson 12: Describing an old person with originality Lesson 13: How to choose a question Lesson 14: Describing a mansion with flashbacks Lesson 15: Describing Paris through ‘Perfume’ Lesson 16: Describing a market with ‘Game of Thrones’ Lesson 17: Vocabulary Challenge Lesson 18: Focus on punctuation

Ideally for Year 8 or low ability Year 9, this unit of work contains 25 lessons covering the whole of the text. It focuses on writer’s use of language, how the writer uses structure, evaluating a statement and creative writing. It comes fully resourced with contextual information, Auschwitz survivor stories, chapter extracts, freeze frame cards and IWB activities. This is perfect to embed the skills needed for GCSE Literature Paper 1 preparation at KS3. Lesson 1: Context Lesson 2: Boyne’s narrative style Lesson 3: Exploring sibling relationships Lesson 4: Descriptive writing Lesson 5: The importance of Bruno’s father Lesson 6: Good and evil Lesson 7: Pavel as a symbol of Jewish struggles Lesson 8: Uniforms Lesson 9: Exploring Lesson 10: Friendships Lesson 11: Bruno and Shmuel Lesson 12: Shmuel’s background Lesson 13: Using inference Lesson 14: Writing a TV script Lesson 15: Lieutenant Kotler Lesson 16: Radicalization and the Hitler Youth Lesson 17: Bruno’s mother Lesson 18: Bruno’s world Lesson 19: Writing the ending Lesson 20: Poetic justice Lesson 21: The end Lesson 22: Interview with John Boyne Lesson 23: Planning your assessment Lesson 24: Writing your assessment Lesson 25: Feedback and improve

This unit contains everything you need to teach Othello at KS5, and will save you hours of preparation time! It includes 26 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson PowerPoints, contextual information, exemplar material, IWB interactive resources, quizzes and opportunities for extract analysis. The page numbers refer to the Cambridge School Shakespeare edition. This unit of work has been designed for the AQA A-level course but is adaptable to fit other exam board specifications. Lesson 1: Plot overview and key lines Lesson 2: Shakespearean language and use of sounds Lesson 3: Context reading and application Lesson 4: Iago, Roderigo and Brabantio in A1S1 Lesson 5: Impressions of Othello in A1S1 Lesson 6: Challenging stereotypes in A1S2 Lesson 7: Othello’s use of verse and prose in A1S3 Lesson 8: Focus on Iago in A1S3 Lesson 9: The importance of Cyprus as a setting Lesson 10: Iago in A2S1 Lesson 11: Cassio in A2S3 Lesson 12: Shakespeare’s use of body language in A2S3 Lesson 13: Analysing Cassio’s actions in A3S1 Lesson 14: Iago’s tactics in A3S3 Lesson 15: Focus on essay writing Lesson 16: Analyse how and why Othello has changed Lesson 17: Comparing Bianca, Desdemona and Emilia Lesson 18: Iago’s use of manipulation in A4S1 Lesson 19: Othello and colour prejudice - GK Hunter Lesson 20: Desdemona’s plea in A4S2 Lesson 21: Extract to essay in A4S2 Lesson 22: The willow scene in A4S3 Lesson 23: Street fight in A5S1 Lesson 24:Desdemona’s death in A5S2 Lesson 25: Essay marking Lesson 26: Poetic justice in A5S2

Do you find it difficult to engage teenagers, especially boys, with creative writing and story telling? This unit includes everything you need to teach Fantasy Writing at KS3 . It includes 10 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, exemplar paragraphs, IWB resources and extracts. This unit works well with boy heavy groups who are interested in fantasy worlds and science fiction such as Lord of the Rings and A Game of Thrones. Lesson 1: Verb-Noun collocations in Lord of the Rings Lesson 2: How fantasy writers create characters Lesson 3: Describing a market in Game of Thrones Lesson 4: Structuring a story in an enchanted forest Lesson 5: How George RR Martin uses language Lesson 6: How George RR Martin uses structure Lesson 7: Designing a presentation Lesson 8: Describing an alien planet in Star Wars Lesson 9: How to describe a castle Lesson 10: The Weird Sisters in Macbeth

This unit of work is focused on short stories with original endings. The students analyze these stories, then have an opportunity to analyse an original ending in their final assessment. The unit of work contains 14 lessons and is mainly focused on how a story is structured and uses foreshadowing to lead the reader towards the ending. Lesson 1-3: The Landlady by Roald Dahl Lesson 4: The Raven by Edgar Alan Poe Lesson 5: Analysing structure in The Raven Lesson 6: An introduction to Sherlock Holmes Lesson 7-9: The Case of the Engineer’s Thumb by Arthur Conan Doyle Lesson 10: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie Lesson 11-13: The Cone by HG Wells Lesson 14: Structure in The Cone There is also an opportunity for a KS3 SATS style exam to analyse structure in ‘Pick Your Poison’.

This unit is a great way to teach AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 . This unit of work is focused on Heroes by Robert Cormier. The students are given repeated practice of questions 1-4 through a literature text. The main focus is Q2 writer’s use of language, Q3 writer’s use of structure and Q4 evaluation of a statement. It includes 23 lessons and is fully resourced with lesson powerpoints, exemplar answers, quizzes, extracts and opportunities to exploit online research. This would suit a lower group who are aiming for G4 G5 or G6. Page numbers refer to the Puffin Books Edition. Lesson 1: WW2 context and Frenchtown Lesson 2: Writer’s use of language with Francis Cassavant Lesson 3: Using flashbacks Lesson 4: Evaluating how the writer uses flashbacks Lesson 5: Structure in Francis’ memories Lesson 6: Language to describe WW2 veterans Lesson 7: Describing the Rec Centre Lesson 8: Language to describe Larry LaSalle Lesson 9: Mood and atmosphere Lesson 10: Language to describe a sports story Lesson 11: Flashbacks and memories Lesson 12: The effect of Pearl Harbour Lesson 13: Creating expectation Lesson 14: Writer’s use of contrast Lesson 15: Evaluating Larry LaSalle Lesson 16: Creating sympathy for Francis Lesson 17: Writer’s use of grammar Lesson 18: Planning a story Lesson 19: Structure in chapter 14 Lesson 20: Language in chapter 14 Lesson 21: Creative Writing Lesson 22: The Ending Lesson 23: Evaluating the ending

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