Hamlet - A Level Edexcel - Full lessons

Hamlet – Full Scheme of Work/Resources (A-Level Edexcel)

Complete, high-quality lesson slides. Fully editable, engaging, and rigorous. Some dual-coding for visual learners.

This comprehensive and fully resourced Scheme of Work/lessons (Hamlet) is designed for A-Level English Literature (Edexcel) but is easily adaptable for AQA, OCR etc. The scheme supports in-depth textual analysis, critical thinking, and every lesson has modelled essay writing while ensuring students meet the demands of AO1, AO2, AO3 and AO5.

Perfect for experienced teachers looking to save planning time or early career teachers seeking a clear, structured approach.

What’s Included:

Five for Five starters and answers
Strive task
Some dual-coding – aiding instructions/tasks
Key vocabulary on every slide
Frayer model to deepen understanding of abstract terminology
Detailed context slides focusing on social, cultural, religious, literary, historical, Aristotelian and Shakespeare specific context
Reading slide summarising the act and scene(s), themes and motifs, quotations and effects
Critics task - pupils are given quotations from the scene and need to match them up with the correct critic and then justify reason for match
Talk and turn questions to drive paired duscussions
Pit Stop post-reading task – Students complete tasks for quotations,
techniques, analysis, context and critics
Answers provided for PIT STOP table linking each quotation to techniques, analysis, context and critics
Show me task of five questions and answers
We Do task – further analysis of chosen quotation with engaging questions
I DO task - Model response demonstrating high-level analysis and covering AO1, AO2, AO3 and AO5 - All lesson model paragraphs follow PEZEDAL structure (Point, Evidence, Zoom (technique), Effect/ Explain, Develop, Additional interpretation embedding the critic, Link to context. Model paragraph also covers the lesson’s inquiry question with full AO1 , AO2, AO3 and AO5 coverage.
You Do task – Essay planning/writing task with scaffolded sentence openers
Plenary – Peer or self-assessment with success criteria and an additional Plenary task

Each lesson is structured for clarity, challenge, and progression while encouraging critical engagement with the text.

Suitable for:

Edexcel A-Level English Literature (Component 1: Drama)
Teachers delivering Shakespeare’s Hamlet- Easily adaptable for AQA/OCR etc.
KS5 literature classrooms aiming for high engagement and top-band responses
Format:
Fully editable PowerPoint slides that are ready to teach
Professionally structured, ready to teach or adapt for your cohort