Starter activity using a 'Jekyll and Hyde' extract. Guided questions are provided to help students analyse structure.

Lesson focused on students making realistic and manageable New Year’s ‘Resolutions’.

An English Language Paper 1 exam (reading section) based on the Inspector in 'An Inspector Calls'.

As it’s International Women’s Day, I thought it would be fitting to create an exam paper to celebrate :oP. Sources from Mary Wollstonecraft’s ‘A Vindication of the rights of Women’ and Malala Yousafzai’s speech to the UN Youth Takeover. Enjoy! Let me know how it goes :o)

Detailed lesson looking at the presentation of witches and their role in the play ‘Macbeth’. Lesson includes: -spelling test -guided questions to help students analyse the scene -explode the quote language analysis task -homework tasks (my YouTube video focusing on the context and exam question)

Detailed PowerPoints focusing on question 1 and 2 of the English Language Paper 1 examination. Lesson 1: Introduction into English Paper 1, using an extract from 'The Hunger Games' Lesson 2: Understanding the differences between implicit and explicit information using 'The Hunger Games' and visual aids. Lesson 3: Group based lesson/activities focusing on language techniques Lesson 4: Breakdown of Question 2 using 'The Sign of Four' Lesson 5/6: Understanding more ambitious language techniques, such as antithesis and Satire using 'Tale of Two Cities' and 'Animal Farm'. Lessons provide scaffolding for lower ability students, including sentence starters and activities to suit needs of different abilities.

A lesson focusing on character development. Students explore key techniques used by writers to shape convincing characters. Through analysis of a short animated film (GiveInToGiving) , students will construct a character profile for the protagonist and craft a descriptive piece of writing to bring the character to life. The lesson also offers a writing model and success criteria to support students with their writing.

First lesson for A Christmas Carol SOW. Big Question: Who was Charles Dickens? Lesson includes: What is AO3? A brief exploration of AQA Assessment Objective 3 Fact sheet about Charles Dickens and questions Activity focusing on students making connections between the novella and the context What inspired Charles Dickens to write ‘A Christmas Carol’? Independent writing task with sentence prompts.

Eight weeks worth of revision activities for AQA English Literature (Macbeth, A Christmas Carol, An Inspector Calls, Power and Conflict poetry) and Language. Each activity is centred around one of the assessment objective to help students focus their revision. You can find a range of paid and free resources at www.thehappyteacherhub.co.uk

The second lesson in ‘A Christmas Carol’ SOW. Big question: What are the typical conventions of a ghost story, and to what extent does ‘A Christmas Carol’ align with these genre expectations? The lesson includes: what is genre? Exploration of conventions suited to ghost stories. questions to aid students’ analysis of the preface read, re-read, read again the opening of the novella analysis questions big question revisited: indepedent writing task

A lesson exploring the character Sheila Birling. The lesson includes: questions about Sheila Birling character tracking activity. class discussion question and sentence starters

An introduction to ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’. The lesson includes: Big question- Who was Tennessee Williams? To what extent might the play ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ be an expression of his identity? Research into Tennessee Williams (questions provided) Inference and prediction tasks using the ‘Poker Night’ painting by Thomas Benton and synopsis Homework task (Tennessee Williams Interview with Mike Wallace in 1958)

A set of homework tasks for ‘Macbeth’. This includes: - literature exam style questions -other exams questions using ‘Macbeth’ as a stimulus, e.g. using a scene from Macbeth to look at how structure interests a reader (Question 3 of the English Language Paper 1)

Detailed lesson looking at AQA English Language Paper 1 Question 3. The lesson includes: -class structure game -revision flashcard -2 Jekyll and Hyde extracts (class work and homework) with guided questions

Useful worksheet for A-level students. Students will use questions focused around the Assessment Objectives to provide more effective revision notes. Lesson idea: Add document to Google Docs Put students into pairs and give them a different AO question to focus on Sit back and watch the students work! View their responses live on Google Docs and provide questions to aid them when necessary At the end of the lesson, the students would have positively collaborated to create revision notes.

An English Language Mat that students can use each time they want to tackle section A of the English Language Paper 2 paper. It breaks down each question into steps to help answer the questions successfully. It also lists techniques and connectives they can use to help with question 2-4.

Introductory lesson for 'The Sign of Four'. The lesson breaks down the English literature paper and the Assessment Objectives for the exam. Students will then act as detectives using images, video clips and a summary of the novel to make their own predictions of the novel.

A series of questions for students to complete exploring the social, historical context of the novel. The workbook has website links to help students and extended writing tasks to complete. The workbook looks at the following areas: - Crime and policing -Jack the Ripper -Class -British Empire (importing and exporting) -Women -Drugs

Questions for each act of 'An Inspector Calls', with an exam question for act 3. To stretch pupils, most questions require them to make their own interpretations of characters and the language they use. In addition, questions focused on Priestley's use of dramatic irony and foreshadowing.

Some key quotes exploring themes of guilt, bravery and masculinity in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'. Students should 'explode' the quotes by analysing words and phrases.