Hamnet - The Complete Teaching Pack (HL, Single Text)

Everything you need to teach Hamnet as a Leaving Certificate Higher Level Single Text, in one place. This pack removes the preparation, not the teaching.

Preview the Teaching Pack

It takes you across 21 lessons, from the opening chapter and the real history behind it, through a guided reading, to a timed 60-mark answer. The reading is staged, the braided timeline is handled in class rather than left to confuse, and the exam work is concentrated at the end, when the novel is securely known. Two running artefacts, a key-moments grid and a quotation bank, are fed every lesson and become the machine students plan their essays from.

What is included

• A Teacher Overview and sensitive-content protocol
• A reading guide for your own preparation
• Chapter-by-chapter cheat sheets
• A focused bank of fifteen key moments and quotations, organised by exam use
• A detailed Scheme of Work: the full 21-lesson pathway, the reading method, the assessment map and the exam coverage
• The 21 lesson plans, supplied as a separate file with the pack: one folder per lesson, each with a ready-to-teach plan and an editable slide deck
• Model paragraphs at H1, H3 and H5 with PCLM commentary
• An exam question bank by type
• An assessment architecture with low-burden marking notes
• Catch-up sheets students can use independently after an absence
• A vocabulary and phrasing bank
• A standalone revision pack

Why teachers choose it

• Built for the real exam: Single Text, Section I, Paper 2, 60 marks, marked on PCLM, with worked answers in H1 to H8 language
• Built to teach from, not hand to the student
• Absence-proofed, so a student who misses a week is not lost
• Honest about a moving text, planning for the illness and grief at its centre rather than glossing over them

Preview the Teaching Pack

Higher Level; designed for use alongside your own copy of the novel.