A one/two part lesson which introduces the AQA Love and Relationship poetry to students. The lesson involves students working in pairs on ONE poem, and complete a prompt booklet to try to get an initial idea about their poem. After about 20/25 minutes they start to feedback to the rest of the class, with everyone completing the grid. A basic overview, but useful revision resource and is great for getting students to see they can understand a poem and select things to say about it even if they had not been taught it. Worked really well with a number of classes and abilities.

A lesson (or really a couple of lessons) exploring the poem When We Two parted. The first part is a series of prompts to encourage the students to explore the poem independently (but with specific focus and guides) to support their developing poetry analysis skills and enforce the kind of things we look for in both seen and unseen poetry. We then explore a bit of Byron’s background before annotating the poem as a class which leads into some guided written analysis work.

A lesson on the Roald Dahl short story ‘Genesis and Catastrophe’ with a focus on foreshadowing and building to a twist. Story is abridged from the original for the purposes of the lesson and to suit the KS3 class it is mostly aimed at.

A series of lessons using the short Story ‘Chemistry’ to explore narrative and structural features.

The first lesson in a scheme of work on travel writing with a focus on writing letters about new experiences.

A lesson for some of the last lessons before the AQA language paper 2 GCSE exam. We have done practice papers to death, so tried to create some activities to explore possible themes and get thinking about viewpoints/perspectives and comparisons in a different (and maybe slightly more ‘fun’ way.

A full walk through of the AQA language paper 1 exam - adapt to suit 2026 style exam. Using the AQA Nov 2018 exam ‘Sound of Thunder’ (the T-Rex one). Space for teacher to do a ‘we do’ task together, but there is a prompt in the notes of the AQA band 4 indicative content. Insert and questions taken from AQA past paper. The creative writing task is the one from that paper (light through the station windows) and includes some planning stages including helping students develop extended metaphor. Also a self assessment sheet to help students evaluate their own creative writing.

A walk through to support students learning/revising the unseen prose element for AQA English literature exam. Whilst it is specifically relevant to AQA A specification, it should be equally useful for all unseen prose elements from all specs Using the exam from 2017, I Am Charlotte Symonds, there is guided support for writing and planning an answer. In addition, there is elements exploring specific context, and applying it.

A walk through of AQA GCSE language paper 2 based on the Mountaineering past exam. Section A only, but full guidance on planning and answering the question, as well as exemplar answer and student response opportunity.

A guided walk through using the past exam paper from AQA A A-level English Literature called ‘The Village’, exploring presentation of barriers. Lesson includes guided focus on annotating, crafting a thesis/intro, applying context and writing/drafting an Alevel essay.

A lesson (with basic lecture notes/prompts) exploring the motif of clothing in Taming of the Shrew. Specifically aimed at AQA A specification, but could fit to any TOTS exam board. Article is not mine - but found on free access at the British Library.

A revision lesson based on the servants in Taming of the Shrew. Made for a class following AQA-A Alevel specification, but not really specific to that.

A lesson exploring features of persuasive writing using extract from Malala’s speech to the UN. Develops understanding of persuasive methods and how to use in own writing.

A lesson exploring how to write a persuasive speech using part of Emma Watson’s HeForShe speech to the UN. Analysing the methods used and their effect, as well as applying to own writing.

A full walkthrough based on the AQA GCSE Language paper 2 exam. Section A only, but clear examples for each question, along with self assessment criteria and modelling opportunities. Extract is AQA exam from 2023 (I think) THe camping one.

A walk through of the AQA language paper 2 section A for the SAiling paper (I think it was June 2020?) includes hints and tips, modeling opportunities, guidance and practice time.

Really useful resource for year 11 students to revise the set poems. Worksheets to revise each of the Love and Relationship poems from the AQA spec. I use them for homework mainly and I Have designed it so there should be something for all abilities to be able to answer. I have put all the poems onto one word document for ease of downloading, although it has done something to the question numbers (nothing to do with the actual resource) - I can send the individual sheets if required.

PPT and resources (some adapted and some differentiated). Lesson judged as outstanding previously. Introducing Shakespeare's life.

Lesson aimed at year 7 students introducing the idea and difference of comedy and tragedy.

A lesson, with all resources, on the pome 'Stealing' in preparation for the unseen part of the GCSE exam. This lesson includes reference to EDUQAS spec, but is equally relevant to all specs.

A revision presentation (took a few lessons to go through) on themes in Hamlet and linked to contexts of production and reception. Great for any board that studies Hamlet, although written specifically for EDUQAS' outgoing A level. Lecture notes on sex and sexuality included too.