Lesson designed to support students to write creatively and accurately in the character of Richard the Third. Includes model answers from students to show imaginative and creative uses of language. Year 8 Shakespeare's villains unit- bringing the character to life.

A series of lessons which focus on the dramatization of the FIRST WORLD WAR. Uses Journey's End and Blackadder extracts to reveal the use of black humour to students. Drama activity included. Students encouraged to write their own World War One script in the style of selected pieces and to perform.

A resource designed to help my students understand the 20th century context of the selected poems. A grid designed for flexibility - for the students to complete and add as they wish with any relevant historical events, poetic and literary movements and the dates of famous writers. In addition- the poets from the Anthology are placed on the timeline so that students can more clearly understand the contextual background to the poems. Students found this very helpful.

LOVE THROUGH THE AGES AQA AS/A LEVEL LITERATURE POST 1900 POETRY THE LOVE POEM by Duffy. Includes background info, the poem and the poetry mentioned in the poem itself. Copy of poem included and questions to focus students responses.

A lesson designed to give students an introduction to the early development of the genre of love poetry with a focus on Ovid, Dante and Petrarch. Includes poems to consider and trace the themes.

Lessons to support the teaching of a range of short stories including "Hey you down there", The Monkey's Ear by Anthony Horowitz, and Your Shoes by Michele Roberts. Includes questions and lesson objectives with a focus on understanding the writer's creation of suspense and tension.

Lesson, extract from the play and scaffolding for students to help them improve an essay based upon the first appearance of Gerald in the play. Includes ideas for analysis, focus on improving writing by using Feedforward.

Lesson plan and resources to support the teaching of the poem. Designed for the Legacy Spec of AQA poetry for the Anthology- would be useful for the unseen section of the new Spec. Also includes other poems - The hunchback in the Park, Alison- Case history, Give. Les Grandes Seigneurs, Portrait of a Deaf Man. Also includes activities to teach understanding of poetry.

AQA English Literature A Level Poetry Anthology Love through the Ages Information on the poets referred to by Duffy in the poem. Questions for class discussion Biographical information Copy of the poem for display in the classroom without and with annotations Suggestions for analysis

A series of lessons based upon an introduction to the play for HPA GCSE students for their literature exam. Some focus for discussion on the theme of witchcraft and beliefs throughout the ages. Series of images for the main characters for students to create their own character files. Some resource notes for the focus of creating a GCSE essay How far can John Proctor be seen as a Tragic Hero in the play?

Uses the art of Paul Nash and group work to enable students to create a vivid recreation of the battlefield conditions and emotions of the war. Uses a range of paintings and quotes from Nash to bring the realities of war into their creative writing.

From the new AQA English Literature Love and Relationships Cluster. Neutral Tones provides the poem with annotations to help the students focus their ideas. It provides questions to help the students unpick the emotions and provides a comparison grid to link the poem to "When we First Parted" by Byron

AQA A LEVEL LOVE THROUGH THE AGES post 1900 poetry ANTHOLOGY ANNE SEXTON - To My Lover Returning to His Wife Lesson plans and resources with contextual information about the poet, annotated poem and notes with questions to explore. Also includes a sample essay (first half) for class marking and exemplar use.

Resource which explores the Romantic background and the influence of this upon Byron. Some biographical information which considers the attitude towards love and women in the selected two poems. Text of the two poems: "She Walks in Beauty like the Night" and "When we First Parted" with annotations and areas for discussion and questions to focus the students ideas.

Background information for the poet and display of the sonnet with areas for discussion in class. Includes some of the images from the sonnet with controversial ingredients to stimulate a range of ideas in class. Includes some notes to support writing about the sonnet. Annotations of the sonnet to help appreciation and understanding.

Dystopian Fiction- a series of lessons helping students to identify a range of literary techniques. They then use the chapter where Thomas meets the Grievers as a stimulus for a creative writing piece-can they create their own monster? Can they use a range of literary devices? Will require extracts from the novel.

Historical background to Oscar Wilde's Plays and poems- an exploration of the Aesthetic Movement illustrating the main features of the movement and its influences on literature of the age.

Resources to teach 3 unseen poems - Ninetieth Birthday, Manhunt and Sonnet 116. Originally designed for old spec- but can be easily adapted to help support students with looking at a range of unseen poems. Includes annotated copies of the poems for classroom display and discussion. Images accompany the slides to illustrate the use of metaphors in the poems. Includes sample plans to approach an unseen poem.

Cryptoids- animals and creatures from fantasy. Students are given a range of ideas for discussion and argument in class. They have tasks to accomplish based upon creative writing and investigative journalism style. The Cryptoids include Bigfoot, UFOS, Mermaids and the KRAKEN.

A series of lessons designed to support students understanding of the character of Caliban in The Tempest by Shakespeare. Designed for a year 9 class with resources to help them appreciate Shakespeare's use of language and description to bring his characters to life.