This is a full unit of work suitible for KS3 and will also offer plenty of ideas for teaching the Victorian text at KS4. This unit covers a massive range of Victorian texts, largely based on the core authors from the new GCSE specification for Literature, Unit of work includes detailed focus on the Victorian period and asks students to explore GCSE writers such as Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol), Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (The Hound of the Baskervilles) as well as introducing the unit with Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and also allowing a focus on how a writer in the 20th Century creates setting (Daphne Du Maurier). There is absolutely loads on here and this will make for a full half term’s worth of work. This is aimed at introducing KS3 students to the authors that they will likely study later on at GCSE and helps to expose some of the contexts and typicality of writers. Included is a PowerPoint (lesson by lesson) and the resources needed.

Updated 2020: A series of lessons that cover the Up The Line To Death anthology for AQA A Level Literature. Powerpoints and resources for a good range of poems that provide enough scope for students to write about in their exam for WW1 and its aftermath. Poem PowerPoints and activities include: The Rear Guard Anthem for Doomed Youth England to her sons Happy is England now The General In Flanders Fields Mesopotamia O Jesus Make it stop Peace Strange Meeting The Call The Dead Before Action The Sentry Two Fusiliers Drilling in Russel Square Field Manoeuvres Soliloquy Tipperary Days Into the Grass Noon The General Returning We HEar the Larks Break Of Day In The Trenches The Dying Soldier Trench Duty Two Fusiliers Each comes with contextual information. Sheets are also provided for students to explore the poems. Poetry chosen from beginning, middle and end of war to cover shift in attitude.

This is a full Scheme of Work, made brand new in December 2018 and will take a full half term to teach. All on one powerpoint with Word and PDF/Internet resources attached. This is aimed at pushing KS3 students in Y7 & 8, but would also be suitable for Year 9 activities, and some resources could be transferred to lower end GCSE. There are success criteria and objectives for every lesson on here. The unit focuses on the requirements of AQA English Language Paper 2: Brief overview: Advertising (not on the exam board spec, but historically this has gone down well with students and is one of the few chances they get to look at English as a way in to media, so I wanted to keep the bigger picture open to them). There is an opportunity for a Speaking and Listening Dragon’s Den task here too. This should be a nice introduction and will hook the students in. Students look at television and print adverts as well as creating their own product and justifying their choices. Newspapers, tabloid and broadsheet . Broadsheet opinion articles (students to write up a piece to argue on school holidays. Leaflet analysis (Fox hunting - looking at Language and Presentational features). Writing a letter to explain to a celebrity. Website link for addresses to celebrity.

Brand new updates resource and series of lessons for the pre-1900 AQA Love Through the Ages component. PowerPoints for each poem, structured by Assessment Objective.

Full scheme of work aimed at introducing Year 7 students to Victorian Literature with some focus also on early 20th Century texts. Lessons are complete and there are 162 page on the PowerPoint. This scheme covers writing skills, reading skills and develops contextual analysis. Texts included are: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland A Christmas Carol Sherlock Holmes Treasure Island Rebecca I really enjoyed teaching this unit to Year 7s and found it to be really useful in developing their skills.

A full scheme of work, newly created in December 2018. Unit of work may need a copy of An Idiot Abroad for one lesson, otherwise, all other resources are here. Two powerpoints here as full sechemes for reading task and some written tasks to bulk out this unit of work, focusing on the skills required for Section A and B of the English Language Paper 2.

New, summer 2019. An introductory scheme that covers contextual information alongside supporting materials for a range of A Level texts on the current WW1 and its aftermath unit. This can be used to support any of the A Level texts due to the nature of the overview. This covers the outbreak of the war, a focus on propaganda and a call to arms, activities based on a range of current AQA A Level texts. The purpose of this is to give students a good overview of the unit which can then be used to enhance their understanding of the text that they are studying. All on one PowerPoint and clearly split in to individual lessons with comments in the bottom margins.

Full scheme of work for KS3. Based on AQA syllabus with tasks for Language and Literature throughout. Scheme includes work on extracts from Dracula, Frankenstein, The Woman in Black, The Woman in White, Wuthering Heights, and has a simplified version of The Red Room for students. Includes opportunities to answer a range of questions and complete activities for media and written tasks.

Some useful resources put together for Romeo and Juliet for GCSE students. I mark Literature at GCSE, so some of these resources should come in useful for the core ideas and teaching/revision of characters. These resources will help to lead several lessons and enhance your teaching of aspects of the play. There are things here on Romeo, Capulet and Tybalt, a really useful quotebank for all characters which students have always found invaluable for their religion. Quotes are banked by character and theme. There is also a good booklet for students to work through on Capulet, which serves well over a series of lessons with his key scenes identified (can be taught alongside a showing of the Luhrmann film). Hopefully students will get quite a bit out of this and it will make your planning nice and straightforward.

A workbook on Romeo and Juliet for GCSE English Literature. This allows for detailed exploration of character, theme and contexts, providing the opportunity for essay writing through scaffolds and independent tasks. This booklet is useful to accompany teaching and as a revision/independent study support booklet.

This is a brand new Scheme of Work (summer 2019) that will last for a full half term. The scheme is based on AQA English Language paper 1 and paper 2 skills for Question 4. This is a detailed scheme with a full range of literary fiction and non-fiction that will help to support students and their understanding from Year 9 upwards. There is enough challenge here to still use at Year 10 and 11. I was very eager to try and push a student’s cultural capital with this, so there are many references that will help introduce them to fiction extracts by Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle. There are also extracts from Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness. For paper 2, I have used extracts that AQA have supplied in their own KS3 suggestions. These are still very challenging and will stretch all students. Extracts include David Livingstone, Scott of the Antarctic, Labour and the London Poor. I have also put in some research tasks on the Franklin expedition. As said above, the scheme is designed to expose students to achievements and issues in the 19th Century. The unit is based on the themes of Gender, European views of other cultures and 19th Century exploration. Each will support issues regarding contextual teaching for the range of AQA Literature KS4 texts. Homework is included and all lessons are fully complete with full lesson objectives, starters, main tasks and plenaries. There are directions for teachers under some of the slides.

This is a full scheme of work on Private Peaceful suitable for any KS3 group. This is largely tailored around the new AQA GCSE specification, so will offer useful opportunities for students to work towards assessments. This is detailed enough to keep going for a full term.

A series of lessons on the Lyrical Ballads poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This does not contain any information on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - these poems are used to explore his wider works and to help enhance understanding of his contributions to Lyrical Ballads. This contains the following lessons: An introduction to Coleridge’s contributions The Foster Mother’s Tale The Dungeon The Nightingale Lessons contain ideas linking to wider writings and theories from Locke, Rousseau, Kant. This was used to support our Y12 and Y13 NEA for AQA A Level Literature.

This resource is a simple grid with question prompts for Romeo and Juliet for KS4 and possibily for KS3 too. This should be a useful revision tool. I can’t claim to have come up with this idea - I simply modified a resource made by Stuart Pryke @SPryke2 on Twitter who has made some excellent resources.

There’s very little out there on the internet in terms of resources for Blackadder. This is by no means perfect or enormously detailed but there’s 50 odd slides that should help you develop some further resources. Hopefully, this will help with A Level AQA English Literature WW1 and its aftermath.

Quotation bank for Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Colour coded by chapter and split between characters and themes.

A workbook for Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. The booklet is made up of tasks, key extracts and wider readings from the British Library.