Originally published by OCR, Danes’s introduction to Dystopia for A level has been used successfully by students and teachers. It considers: the history of Dystopian literature; its opposite, Utopian literature. It focuses in detail on such texts as “The Time Machine”, “1984”, “The Day of the Triffids”, “The Children of Men”. Includes student activities and meets the requirements for AO5: other interpretations. 4600 words: ten packed sides of essential reading. (Re-edited for TES, this guide is no longer available on the OCR website and the copyright has returned to the author, Frank Danes.)
This bundle includes:
A 13 page revision document containing all the necessary information for the characters. This is organised in a highly useful table. The characters in the document include; King Hamlet/the Ghost, Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, Polonius, Laertes, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Osric. The table is colour-coded to highlight different performances of the play and critical interpretations which are essential for the part b question.
A essay plan for a part b question on Claudius
A part b 15/15 model essay on Hamlet’s delay
A part b 15/15 model essay on Hamlet and Claudius
A table on the theme of masculinity
These notes were created for my own revision for OCR English Literature A-Level in which I got an A*.
A chapter by chapter teaching resource for ‘Dracula’, following the OCR A Level English Lit Assessment Objectives and including essays tasks & revision.
Mr L’s OCR Conflict GCSE Poetry Anthology Study Guide is a comprehensive 173 page study guide that covers all the poems in the OCR Conflict cluster. It includes detailed explanatory notes on the poetic devices used in the poems and their effects. There are also notes on the poem’s meaning and biographical notes.
Also included is advice on the Assessment Objectives matrix and how to maximise points. There are 20 practice GCSE exam questions, a compare & contrast chart and a 50 question multiple choice test on all poems (which takes 20 mins). A valuable A4 colour poster aide memoire about the poem has also been included.
Mr L’s GCSE study guide is packed with information to maximise the student’s exam performance.
Updated for 2024-2025.
A fully annotated version of Hamlet for A Level OCR English Literature paper as used by myself when teaching it. This is ideal for Paper 1 and the Hamlet questions if you need to top up annotations or likewise.
This resource is a course booklet for the Language in the Media unit for OCR A Level English Language designed to be used by students in class. This unit is best delivered as a final module in Year 2 as it revises first and second year conceptual work. [Also available from my shop is a series of 4 booklets for Child Language Acquisition and Language Change as well as a series of 15 booklets for Year 1 of the A level on which this work builds.]
This booklet prepares your students for the exam question on Language in the Media which relies on them having studied how gender and power is represented in language (in Year 1) as well as how technology is a key contextual influence on language change. As such, this is a revision module which stresses the importance of the concept of representation which is reiterated in the exam question itself.
Contemporary media texts and students’ responses to them are offered for analysis and key contextual aspects of audience, and purpose are revised.
The booklet encourages students to examine representations in language systematically through lexical, semantic, grammatical and graphological choices offered by producers. Texts enable students to focus their analysis on representations of gender, power and technology in turn. Concepts encountered in their study of language change (informalisation, marketisation, deference, synthetic personalisation) are also revised and students are shown how these can be marshalled in support of their textual analysis on this exam question.
Students are offered structured tasks and exam style questions to help prepare them for the language in the media task in the A Level exam.
The booklet contains both subject content and language examples for students to analyse. Exercises can be worked on by students individually or collaboratively and in class or at home.
The booklet is accompanied by a series of videos (not professionally made) that can be used by teachers new to teaching the specification to help them prepare for lessons in advance as they contain suggested solutions to exercises. The playlist of these videos is included in the resource bundle.
NB: Specifications do change from time to time so please ensure that specification information, detail and guidance is relevant at the time of teaching.
A selection of OCR extracts which have not appeared on past papers from Act 1, Act 4 and Act 5, ideal for revision, including:
Section A unseen extracts
linked (b) theme/character questions
1 model answer included
Word doc and PDF formats
An editable Word document designed to help A Level Literature students to respond to the exam task from Paper 1, section 2 from the June 2019 exam paper comparing Ibsen´s A Doll´s House and Chaucer´s The Merchant´s Prologue and Tale.
The instinct to control others is natural in humanity.
In the light of this view, consider ways in which writers explore control and authority.
In your answer, compare one drama text and one poetry text.
This 12 pages Word document includes:
mark scheme overview
key quotes
context
critics´ quotes
comparative points
topic sentences
essay plan
brief model answer with examiner comments
extended model essay with examiner comments
two more extended model essays
Comparison notes for help with subject knowledge, discussion, handouts, essay topics, and revision. PDF files. (See free download for an example.)
English literature → A-level → OCR → Paper 2: Comparative and contextual study → The Gothic →
Dracula and Beloved
Dracula and The Bloody Chamber
Frankenstein and The Bloody Chamber
The intellectual and historical context of The Picture of Dorian Gray
Outer Dark
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dracula
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Beloved
The Wasp Factory
What ‘Gothic’ means
Exam answer guidance for OCR A Level - top tips, AOs and how to structure answers. Includes examples for The Tempest, A Doll’s House/Rossetti poetry and Gothic, but can be applied for any chosen texts.
51 page,Things Fall Apart (OCR- can be used with any other spec) Revision Guide
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Context
Plot Overview
Characters
Analysis of Major Characters
Themes, Motifs and Symbols
Chapter Summary/ Analysis
How to structure the essay answer
Essay Questions
These 16-page resource booklets contain a wide range of challenging and engaging comprehension activities for use throughout the reading of all 15 of the OCR ‘Conflict’ poems from the newest anthology. Teachers have found the activities particularly useful throughout teaching, or for exam revision or guided reading sessions. They are perfect for aiding the progress of students towards meeting the key English Literature assessment objectives. Students have found these resources extremely engaging, and it is clearly highlighted within each task regarding which assessment strands the task is designed to demonstrate.
Each booklet is provided in both Word (to allow for easy editing) and PDF (to ensure for consistency of formatting between computers).
Activities across the booklets are as consistent, to provide an equal understanding of each poem, and include (amongst many others):
‘Analysing Context’ - helping students to ‘Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written.’
‘Analysing Subject Matter, Language and Structure’ - to help students to ‘Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate.’
‘Diary Entry’ - to help students to ‘Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation. Make an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these.’
‘The Speaker’ - to help students to ‘Read, understand and respond to texts. Students should be able to: maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations.’
A Level English Language and Literature OCR EMC Anthology Non Fiction
A bundle of Non Fiction texts from the A Level English Language and Literature Non Fiction Anthology including Feel Good Review, Luke Healy Americana Graphic Non Fiction, Off Menu Podcast with Motsi Mabuse and the John Locke essay.
A complete pack is included for Feel Good Review, Luke Healy Americana Graphic Non Fiction, Off Menu Podcast with Motsi Mabuse and the John Locke essay.
Each pack includes:
• A two page student worksheet with a selection of activities and questions.
• A teacher’s suggested answers version of the worksheet.
• A 20+ slide activity PowerPoint reflecting all activities on the worksheet. Includes activities for the paired text.
• A paired text that can used as a comparative activity or timed writing or homework with the non fiction text from the anthology.
• A ten question PowerPoint comprehension quiz that can be shown on a whiteboard and students can mark their own answers.
• A lesson plan guide with the tasks split into three 30 minute sections. Work can, of course, be extended for longer sessions or 30 minute sessions can be put together for an hour lesson.
Each resource encourages close reading, critical writing, discussion and retention of important ideas and quotations from the review of the non fiction compulsory text from OCR’s EMC English Language and Literature A Level anthology. Students can be set the work independently or the work can be presented in a more collaborative class atmosphere.
The text is available in the OCR English Language and Literature Non-Fiction Anthology. Digital and print copies are provided by the OCR examining board for the teaching of this resource on the English Language and Literature A-Level.
All the images and texts used in the pack are available for commercial use. Please note, this resource does not reproduce the OCR examination questions as examination questions are the copyright of OCR.
Also available:
Bundle of Desert Island Discs with Liz Carr, Art Lab YouTube video, Roxane Gay speech and Lady Ann Fanshawe letter.
A bundle of Non Fiction texts from the A Level English Language and Literature Non Fiction Anthology including Lady Ann Fanshawe, Educational YouTube Show Art Lab, Desert Island Discs and Roxane Gay’s speech.
A complete pack is included for Lady Ann Fanshawe, Educational YouTube Show Art Lab, Desrert Island Discs with Liz Carr and Roxane Gay’s speech.
Each pack includes:
• A two page student worksheet with a selection of activities and questions.
• A teacher’s suggested answers version of the worksheet.
• A 20+ slide activity PowerPoint reflecting all activities on the worksheet. Includes activities for the paired text.
• A paired text that can used as a comparative activity or timed writing or homework with the non fiction text from the anthology.
• A ten question PowerPoint comprehension quiz that can be shown on a whiteboard and students can mark their own answers.
• A lesson plan guide with the tasks split into three 30 minute sections. Work can, of course, be extended for longer sessions or 30 minute sessions can be put together for an hour lesson.
Each resource encourages close reading, critical writing, discussion and retention of important ideas and quotations from the review of the non fiction compulsory text from OCR’s EMC English Language and Literature A Level anthology. Students can be set the work independently or the work can be presented in a more collaborative class atmosphere.
The text is available in the OCR English Language and Literature Non-Fiction Anthology. Digital and print copies are provided by the OCR examining board for the teaching of this resource on the English Language and Literature A-Level.
All the images and texts used in the pack are available for commercial use. Please note, this resource does not reproduce the OCR examination questions as examination questions are the copyright of OCR.
Also available:
Bundle of Feel Good Review, Luke Healy Graphic Non-Fiction, Motsi Podcast and John Locke Essay.
Complete OCR A Level scheme on The Great Gatsby; context, chapter-by-chapter analysis, AO-focused tasks, and critical perspectives.
A fully resourced scheme of work for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, tailored to the OCR A-Level English Literature specification, but adaptable to other A-Level exam boards. This unit blends detailed textual analysis with rich contextual study, critical perspectives, and exam-focused tasks.
What’s included:
Introductory lessons on the Jazz Age, Roaring Twenties, Prohibition, organised crime, and Fitzgerald’s biography
Chapter-by-chapter PowerPoints for the entire novel (Acts 1–9 equivalent) with guided discussion, close analysis, and AO1–AO5 coverage
Thematic explorations of The American Dream, wealth, class, gender, morality, and symbolism
Detailed contextual studies including women in the 1920s, the Midwest, old money vs new money, realism and modernism, and key historical references
Symbol analysis: the green light, cars, the Valley of Ashes, and the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg
Standalone resources such as Cars in Gatsby, Fitzgerald biography and thematic seminar notes, and a complete critical essay on the perils and possibilities of the American Dream.
Critical interpretations from key scholars woven into lesson materials
AO2-focused close reading activities and model responses
OCR Section B exam guidance, including example questions and essay planning
Ideal for:
OCR A Level English Literature (Component 2: American Literature 1880–1940)
First teaching of The Great Gatsby
Revision and exam preparation
Stretch and challenge for high-attaining students
Why it works:
Designed with OCR assessment objectives in mind, this scheme provides the knowledge, skills, and confidence students need for top-band responses. It balances historical and literary context with opportunities for independent critical thinking, ensuring students can engage with both the novel’s artistry and its social critique.
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Powerpoint providing background to Milton's Paradise Lost. Taught on OCR F663 in year 13 as comparative text with Doctor Faustus... see other resources! (only Book I)
could be adapted though
8 lessons that hopefully will help with the OCR Shakespeare and film controlled assessment. I used Macbeth and the Doran 1999 RSC version, however as you can see you can use Polanski as well. Thanks x
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