A jam-packed set of 4 fully resourced lessons to get students ready for 19th Century Fiction - A Christmas Carol. 3 pre-reading lessons including context (industrial revolution, factory act, new Poor Law), knowledge sort activity, fully animated Dual Coding the Life of Charles Dickens (with full teacher script), exploration of the Victorians, social class pyramid, printable topic slides for pick-n-fan student activity with role cards (Topics: Christianity & morality, crime & punishment, ghost stories, middle class values & status, Malthus, A Victorian Christmas). Each lesson also starts with memory platform tasks. Also includes 4th lesson on AQA Language Paper 2 question 1 linked to Dickens’ interests in the poor/education and modern similar issues, with 4 original practice paper tasks.

Helping students unlock unseen poetry. 15 lessons including resources, two practice questions and a final assessment. Designed for use with the AQA Unseen Poetry Teacher Guide, but can be used as a standalone set of lessons too. Easily adapted for other exam boards (Eduqas, Edexcel)

Lesson includes: step by step analysis of poem (title exploration, prose summary, poet bio, archetype, context, structure, form, meter, iambic pentameter, spondee, dynamic verbs, alliteration, voiceless sounds, caesura, enjambment, metaphor, personification, reification, abstract attributes), thinking prompts, think/write/pair/share activities, and comparative essay question.

This lesson introduces Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘How Do I Love Thee’ (Sonnet 43) from the Eduqas GCSE anthology. It includes a non-fiction reading activity, dual coding timeline for context, and close analysis of structure, form, imagery and language techniques. The lesson concludes with an essay question, which could be done in a second lesson or as homework. Also works well if followed by another poem and a comparison task.

Full lesson resource for analysis of Cozy Apologia, Eduqas poetry anthology. Includes: step by step analysis of poem (title exploration, key vocabulary, context, prose adaptation for students, structure, meter, end stopped lines, enjambment, caesura, symbols, metaphor, simile, cliché, personification, asyndeton, sounds - alliteration, sibilance, plosives, assonance) , thinking prompts, pair/share activities, and **comparative essay question ** with planning task.

Full lesson resource for analysis of Dulce et Decorum Est, Eduqas poetry anthology. Enough material to use over two lessons. Includes: step by step analysis of poem (title exploration, key vocabulary, poet bio, context with link to IWM, structure, vivid imagery, imperatives, repetition, amplification, ambiguity, ellipsis, simile, simile to metaphor, shifts in focus, rhyme scheme and identical rhyme, looping, conditional sentence and resolution), thinking prompts, pair/share activities, explorative essay question and additional device display printouts.

The 4 AQA style practice papers each include both parts of the unseen section of the exam: One unseen followed by an unseen comparison. Two of the papers have similar question for both parts - to support and enable students in their preparation.

This peer assessment sheet is great to get students reviewing and enjoying each other’s work while becoming more familiar with some of the GCSE English Language assessment criteria. Made for AQA, but also works with Eduqas and Edexcel specifications. This has helped my students to improve their writing and be much more aware of simple things they can do to increase the variety of techniques used in their writing.

Ready to LEARN class expectations. Use as wall or door display. Make your expectations for learning clear. Includes fully adaptable powerpoint slide and easyprint pdf.