A practice paper for CIE IGCSE English Language 9-1, based on Dorian Gray for questions a-f but a good introduction to working with 19th century texts.

Breaks down the comma rule into 5 main contexts or "ball-games"

Game to introduce the idea of there being "no art to find the mind's construction in the face" - psychopath or genius. It's good fun.

"A Night Piece" and looking at Dorothy's journals

Looking at form and the organic, spotaneous process of composing poetry in Romanticism, looking at Keats, Austen and Wordsworth, with critics

The beginning of a unit of work on Paradise Lost - around the first five or six lessons are planned. Also included is a Consolidation booklet, dividing the poem into sections, with themes and quotations banks - all blank for pupils to fill in as they go. There's also a useful section on Milton's biography with key quotations from his other works, critical quotations, and quotations from the rest of the poem in the teachers' version of the pack.

The worksheet has general advice regarding P2B with some guidance on reading the question and the types of questions which might be asked. Pupils then write two plans for a question “The Last Train Home” and then develop their favoured idea. There’s then a PPT with examples to improve grammar but pupils can also rewrite the examples to develop interest and ambition.

A short scheme of work with I teach to Year 9 and at GCSE. PPT scheme with accompanying worksheets on: 1. Fiction openings 2. Developing description 3. Atmosphere 4. Creating narrative and plot 5. Concision and tweet stories 6. Diary writing 7. Speech writing 8. Letter writing 9. Magazine articles 10. Creative writing esp. "show not tell"

Four lessons which can be done independently, designed for remote learning. Takes pupils from traditional attitudes to war in Byron through to propaganda in WW1, then WW1 anti-war poetry. There’s also a selection of non-fiction accounts of experience of war which pupils analyse.

A set of worksheets on War Poetry. Pupils can complete the work remotely.

Two worksheets which can be set for remote learning to practise analysing and writing speeches