Macbeth key scenes and themes. Contains summaries of each act with key scenes, exam style questions and themed questions. act 1 act 2 act 3 act 4 act 5 Relationships betrayal and loyalty tragedy guilt evil Contains a breakdown of markscheme for WJEC Eduqas. Suitable for year 10 and year 11.

here is a booklet I created with unseen poetry. WJEC/Eduqas style exam questions. But could be used for AQA too. Focussing on themes of: nature relationships childhood power family. Year 10 or year 11

A cover lesson I used for year 9, but could be used for any KS3 class. Lesson consists of understanding features of the gothic genre. Feature spotting from a dracula trailer on youtube. Vocabulary and expression when using descriptive writing. An extract for Jekyll and Hyde as an example and a creative writing task in which students create their own gothic monster description. Engaging and fun.

A fun lesson to introduce the topic of Heroes and Villains. I created this for a year 6 transition lesson up to year 7. Would be a fun KS3 cover lesson or introduction to topic. Students discuss with oracy tasks the effectiveness of Heroes and villains. Students start with a fun task of getting their own monster to turn into top trumps cards for a later battle royale preliminary task. And creating a basic description of their monster. Then there is a creative writing task to use their description in the introduction to story. Ending with peer assessment and battle royale top trumps. Do it now task drill comprehension Top Trumps Task descriptive writing task self/peer assessment.

Education for leisure by Carol Ann Duffy. Full lesson on the poem.

A lesson on Heaney’s poem Digging.

A fun end of scheme lesson. Teams have to work through the tasks to get a list of clues and then use debate and problem solving to solve the murder.

A good lesson for unseen poetry. Education for Leisure by Carol Ann Duffy

A scheme of work for Othello up to act 2 scene 1.

An English language skills lesson for bottom sets working on reading comprehension. I capture the Castle text.

Short poetry lesson on John Agard’s Coffee in heaven. Useful for unseen poetry.