50 suggestions and links to ideas and resources to help students prepare for AQA Literature Paper 1 and 2 7712/1 and 7712/2 Option A. Easily adaptable.

A series of between 15-20 lessons to accompany The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis. Suitable for KS3 The SOW contains contextual activities, literature comprehension, language skills development, and a final AQA Literature Paper 1 Style Extract based assessment question.

A condensed sheet to help support students in writing A-level essays for the 7712 AQA Love Through the Ages specification. Uses a combination of ideas I’ve taken from marking with AQA and from various revision guides (where used, they are referenced). Othello, The Great Gatsby, Poetry pre-1900s and Unseen Poetry all feature. (Paper 2 of the 7712/1 Specification - WW1 focus to follow shortly)

SOW with powerpoints, critical reading, and various associated activities for teaching Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. Suitable for GCSE or adapting for A-level. Some lessons may need editing or reviewing to fit best as they have been chopped and changed to accommodate revision, but still full of good content.

An extended powerpoint broken into sections to cover all AOs and aspects of Pat Barker’s post-2000 novel Life Class. Journal articles, videos, and exam style questions all included to be used and adapted. Originially created to be used as a comparative text for the AQA A-level Literature 7712/1 specification but can be used across several specs.

My Boy Jack AQA A-level SOW for specification 7712/1 - powerpoints, critical essays, worksheets, and activities.

This series of lessons is created to introduce students to the basis of empires and how the stage was set for WW1. It looks at the origins of colonialism, the legacy of empires and the factors that contributed to the world we live in today. It seeks to bring in contemporary questions and frame them as non-fiction tasks loosely based on AQA Language Paper 2 - Non-fiction. The series of lessons is intended as a precursor to our study of Journey’s End with Year 9, but could be used anywhere from Y9-Y11 onwards. A selection of video clips, diary extracts, and mini-debates. There are between 10-15 lessons worth of work in here. English Language. All in ppt. There are some additional lessons and starter tasks that relate to Dunkirk and the evacuation of it that are taken from one of my other previous schemes of work.

AQA A-level Literature 7712/2 Specification - Up the Line to Death Anthology. Outline of teaching activities and suggestions for the whole anthology and select poems. Suitable for use as a Core Text or for the comparative section.