A chapter by chapter summary, clear and concise. Includes comprehension style questions for every chapter. Ideal for the busy teacher as a recap of the novel and the questions could be your starters/plenaries.

Four rounds, each including 10 questions on Macbeth. Assumes knowledge of the play. Rounds include: Plot Who said that line? Complete the line Context There's also a PowerPoint included with the answers and a summary task. I'm using as a carousel in small groups, but could just as easily be used as an individual quiz/test.

Designed as practice for AQA - Texts in Shared Contexts: Modern Literature from 1945 to the present day (A Level English Literature Paper 2B) Unseen Prose Question. This resource includes a worksheet including the extract from ‘I Am Charlotte’ from the June 2017 paper with prompt questions. The PowerPoint takes students through a possible plan.

A worksheet style resource, which includes a table with detailed comparative analysis of Du Maurier’s ‘Rebecca’ with Blake’s ‘The Garden of Love’ and Keats’s ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’. The table is followed up with a task which prompts students to do the same thing with the remaining poems. (I’ve not included the two Hardy poems as I don’t think they’re great together, but you could differentiate by getting weaker students to just compare with one Hardy poem at a time in a similar fashion. Or, could be a homework/follow up task). The main detail is on Blake, Keats and the novel. References to AOs are specifically tailored to AQA A-level ENGLISH LITERATURE A (7712/1) Paper 1: Love through the Ages

A carousel activity aimed to take a lesson of 1 hour. Using key letters, students answer a range of questions to annotate some of the key moments from the novel. The questions are focused on the Assessment Objectives for AQA A Level English Literature: Paper 2B: Texts in Shared Contexts: Modern Times: Literature from 1945 to the Present Day (Drama and Prose Contextual Linking) Some comparisons are made with 'A Streetcar Name Desire', but these could be easily edited to the play of your choice. (The letters aren't included, I photocopied the extracts from the novel onto A3 for my classes). You could repeat the activity with different letters.

A PowerPoint introducing the comparison question for AQA A Level English Literature (Modern times: Literature from 1945 to the present day). The question focus is Isolation and the resource prompts discussion and independent thought. I have included in the notes section suggestions for directing the discussions. Includes group activity task and should prepare students nicely for answering the sample examination question.

A series of discussion based questions, which prompt student to compare the presentation of 'truth and deception' in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'The Color Purple'. The presentation ends in an exam-style question for AQA English Literature (A-level ENGLISH LITERATURE A (7712/2B) Paper 2B: Texts in Shared Contexts: Modern Times: Literature from 1945 to the Present Day) I'm using this as a lesson to prepare the students to write the essay.

Created for A-level ENGLISH LITERATURE A (7712/2B) Paper 2B: Texts in Shared Contexts: Modern Times: Literature from 1945 to the Present Day , Option 1, this is an example modern unseen extract taken from Ralph Ellison’s 'Invisible Man’ and includes a question on the extract itself, and the follow up question where students need to compare prose and drama.

Outline for possible group task based on Dowd's 'The London Eye Mystery', where students are placed into differentiated groups and asked to complete witness statements, collect evidence, make a missing person's poster and prepare to feedback to the rest of the class on their findings.

Designed specifically for AQA A Level English Literature, Modern times: Literature from 1945 to the present day, this resource offers four short extracts from unseen modern texts followed by tasks based on critical views of Walker’s The Color Purple and Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire . Four practice questions included. Could be used as a discussion PowerPoint or as a group activity, using the slides as worksheets. I’m using it with my Year 13s as a revision activity, leading up to them writing responses to the questions included.

PowerPoint format to save on photocopying, this presentation takes your class through writing a review in stages, with opportunities for discussion and for class interaction. Probably a 30-45minute task, depending on the enthusiasm of your class. A handy first lesson after the holidays lesson for key stage 2/3, or for days that celebrate books and reading as a one off lesson.

A 12 page selection of many of the key/interesting quotes from the novel. The pack includes two Word documents, one with the quotes in chronological order, the other with quotes grouped in themes. You could give this to students as a hand out, or as a cut and stick activity where they decide which themes the quotes belong to (many of them really belong to more than one category, but I've not duplicated them within categories to make the file more user-friendly). You could also just give students the quotes for a specific theme to aid them in essay writing, either as a starter or as the basis for an essay plan. If you like this resource, you might also like the display resource in my shop, which includes 16 of the quotes presented visually for display purposes.

A detailed PowerPoint presentation with several hours worth of material exploring chapters 16 and 17 and the significance of the fancy dress ball. The slides include analysis and interpretation, discussion questions, a group debate and writing tasks. Designed with AQA A Level English Literature in mind, but could easily be adapted to suit other exam boards.

Exploration of descriptive writing in Pullman's 'The Ruby in the Smoke', leading to students writing descriptively based on images (preparation for new GCSE English Language Specification AQA). A good hour, if not more, of lesson activities here.

A feedback Powerpoint for the English Language Paper 1 Silk Factory paper from AQA. The feedback from my class after their Mock. Provides a summary of the advice from the examiner’s report in an easy and accessible format. Hopefuly will save you a little bit of time!

Empty Facebook template. Could be used to fill in character details or even as a PSHE activity.