Detailed and complete notes on Mr Birling in “An Inspector Calls”, from his first to his last appearance in the play. 6 pages, 2699 words. This is both a set of lesson plans and a set of notes for your students: use the notes to take your students through Birling’s appearance and role in the play. Covers: theme, context, relationship with other characters, how to answer an essay on Birling, key quotations. Everything your students need to know about Birling.

This resource is both a sequence of lessons and detailed notes for your students. 5 pages, 1731 words. The notes go through Gerald’s every appearance in “An Inspector Calls”; characterisation, theme, context, Gerald’s relationships with other characters are all covered, as is essay technique on the play at GCSE. Page references are to the Heinemann edition.

All the notes your students will need on the character of ERIC and his function in the play “An Inspector Calls”. 7 pages of notes, 2928 words take your students through Eric’s every scene in the play. Notes on characterisation, them, interaction with other characters, context, essay technique on the character and the play. This is a sequence of lessons as well as a resource: just go through the notes with your students. Page references are to the Heinemann edition.

8 pages, 2447 words. Everything your students need to revise “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”: CONTEXT - novels, short stories and novellas defined; shilling shockers and penny dreadfuls; gothic fiction; character of Mr Utterson; Soho; appearance and reality; Science, Darwin, evolution and devolution; recommendation of translation of the text into modern English, available from this author.

Everything your students will need to revise AN INSPECTOR CALLS for GCSE English Literature: how to write about context; family units; gender roles; the Conservative Party of the period; the Labour Party of the period; revision and exam technique; how to write about style (to answer the question, “How does Priestley do X Y and Z in the play?”). 8 pages, 2400 word resource.

This resource clearly explains, for A level and GCSE Literature students, the difference between verse and prose in Shakespeare: differences in form; why Shakespeare uses verse and prose at different times; iambic pentameter.

This new reading of “The Handmaid’s Tale” puts the novel into the context of feminism in the 1980s and the dystopian novel. This article is ideal for the Dystopia option of OCR English Literature A level. The article considers"The Handmaid’s Tale"'s reputation as a cult novel, as a satire of male power and Christianity and the debt it owes to Orwell’s “1984”. Attwood’s prose and structure are analysed. The author argues that “The Handmaid’s Tale” is not the greatest novel of the twentieth century or the greatest dystopian novel: it is a fine novel, written in excellent prose, but it has flaws. This article will help to engage your A level students and to give them something to argue with or against. It will thus encourage them, as the A level specifications require, to engage with critical views rather than simply to read them passively. It is written by Frank Danes, who wrote many of the materials to support OCR English Literature A level on the OCR website; Danes taught English for 30 years in English secondary schools and was Head of English in three schools.