A series of lessons, acting as a walking talking mock, guiding students through the Edexcel Literature GCSE. Students will examine the questions from the 2023 paper, look at tips, model answers and then there are opportunities for timed responses. Text choices are Macbeth and An Inspector Calls.

Suitable for KS3 learners, tension and scary story writing based on a clip.

Lesson designed to educate students of the context of Shakespeare’s Othello.

A power point and resource designed to give students an essential historical context to the way in which Shakespeare plays were originally performed in The Globe.

A complete scheme of work and full lessons focused on teaching act one of Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House. Lessons focus on language analysis, context, characters and themes. Teaching based on AQA’s social and political protest module.

Power points and resources for A Level teaching of the second and third acts of Henrik Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’. Lots of analysis of characters, themes and language, with a focus on the A Level assessment objectives.

A one off creative writing lesson that allows the students to create tension and suspense in their writing. Interactive and visual. Used with low ability KS3 learners but easily adapted.

Students learn the importance of stage directions in Shakespearean plays by adding stage directions into a scene from Romeo and Juliet.

A power point that introduces students to William Shakespeare by providing historical context and information about life in Elizabethan England. Students then complete a creative writing task based on what they have learnt in the lesson.

A step by step guide to introducing students to iambic pentameter. Guides students through identifying iambic pentameter and then they write using the poetic style themselves.

The first three lessons designed to introduce students to the text, the context and to Henrik Ibsen as a dramatist.

Two weeks of complete teaching lessons and resources for Act One of ‘An Inspector Calls’. The lessons begin with focusing on the context, then move onto analysing Priestley’s dramatic methods and his construction of characters throughout the first act of the play. Lessons focus on AO1, AO2 and AO3 skills, and at the end there is a mini assessment using a previous exam question from the 2017 paper.

A one off, differentiated power point looking at the importance of stage directions in An Inspector Calls.

A complete set of lessons to accompany the teaching of An Inspector Calls. Lessons include context, character analysis, the analysis of language and the representation of themes. Designed for teaching to the new AQA literature syllabus but suitable for all exam boards.

Power point and resource introducing key stage three learners into the study of Shakespeare by considering autobiographical information and the historical context of his works. Aimed at a mixed ability year 8 class but can be adapted easily to suit other learners.

Students will consider Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ as a tragic play. They will then analyse an extract from the text in depth and begin to plan a timed essay response. This lesson is designed for A-Level English Literature AQA B - Aspects of Tragedy questions 1&2, however can be adapted for other students who are studying Othello.

A lesson designed to equip A-Level students for analysing Tess of the D’Urbervilles as a tragedy. Students will revise the aspects of tragedy, consider how these are shown in the text and will then analyse how Hardy uses setting in his novel to reflect the genre of tragedy.

A mini scheme to guide students through the Roald Dahl short story 'The Swan'. The scheme focuses on language features and is in accordance with the new 9-1 GCSE.

An entire scheme of work devised for preparing students for the 're-creative' coursework piece in the AQA Literature course. Scheme includes exemplars, sample texts that the students may choose to re-create and examples of re-creative work.

Lessons to guide students through the first act of their study of Othello. Range of analysis activities included as well as opportunities for homework and assessment. Links to wider tragedy genre, context and Shakespeare’s dramatic methods.

Complete teaching scheme for Act 4 of Othello. Full lessons and guided notes through the text.