This overview includes my findings as an experienced examiner for each question of Paper 2. It also includes some worked models that guide students from level 2 to 3 and 3 to 4, and top tips for the teaching of this paper.

This bundle of 14 KOs includes everything students need to revise for their exams. They are designed to maximise crossover of themes, quotations etc to help students to build a revision schema: Macbeth Macbeth’s attitude to violence mbition Macbeth’s guilt / state of mind The supernatural A Christmas Carol Family Scrooge’s transformation Social responsibility Poverty / attitudes to poverty An Inspector Calls — 6 topics Set 1 Mr Birling – business & society Responsibility Set 2 3. Eva Smith – victim of society 4. Inequality Set 3 5. Sheila – character development 6. Truth vs deception Power and Conflict anthology Power of nature (Storm on the Island) Identity (Checking Out Me History) Power of nature (The Prelude) Effects of war on individuals (Poppies)

These knowledge organisers are designed to lead students through the most transferable themes based on 2026 predictions. Students have used them as essay support, to help develop plans or to support making quality revision resources. The are designed to reduce the number of poems for students to revise and ensure that all main themes are covered: nature, power of identity, individuals in conflict, wider effects of conflict, contrasting views of conflict.

These knowledge organisers are designed to lead students through the most transferable themes based on 2026 predictions. Students have used them as essay support, to help develop plans or to support making quality revision resources.

This series of KOs is designed to lead students through plans for the most likely themes based on 2026 predictions. I have used them in lesson and students have used them as essay scaffolds, to create revision or to create plans.

This collection of posters can be used as a display or as a work booklet. It guides them through how to write thesis statement, how to write topic sentences, how to choose the best quotations and how to write a conclusion. It then gives them an opportunity to have a scaffolded go at writing an essay. Questions: guilt in Macbeth redemption in A Christmas Carol Edna in An Inspector Calls

14 lessons that guide students through contextual information around Elizabethan society, then tracks how Shakespeare’s characters use powerful rhetoric in his plays. It includes a booklet of all the speeches. This scheme of work is a great way to introduce students to lots of Shakespearian characters and worked incredibly well as an introduction to then studying a Shakespearian play. We used it before studying Romeo and Juliet in Y8.

A unit of work that can be used after studying A Christmas Carol that guides students through how to use opening setting and character descriptions to establish theme and characters. Students then look at endings to show how setting and character description can be used to reflect a character’s change. The assessment that guides students through reading and understanding a narrative, and then they write the end of the story to reflect the character’s journey. This worked very well with Y10 students who had studied A Christmas Carol first, but could be easily adapted for students who had not read it.

This unit of work is designed to introduce students to powerful voices in the Elizabethan era and in a selection of Shakespeare’s plays. This includes a booklet of extracts from Elizabeth I’s Tilsbury speech to Henry’s V’s ‘band of brothers’. The aim of this 4 week unit it to introduce students to powerful voices in Shakespeare with lots of drama opportunities. The assessment is for students to then choose a speech, practice it and then perform. It include 14 core lessons with non-core suggestions. The unit is working incredibly well to push and challenge more able students.

This booklet is designed to help students navigate Lady Macbeth’s character through background reading, extracts and activities. It uses ideas from Jennifer Webb’s ‘How to Teach English Literature’. I have used this booklet to support my students to understand the character of Lady Macbeth. It has also been used as an effective intervention resource.

A booklet that focuses on the character of Macbeth and his development through key extracts throughout the play. This booklet is designed to help students to understand elements of Macbeth as a tragic hero.

This booklet contains all the key extracts to help students understand the development and relationships of the lovers. It includes quizzes for plot recaps throughout, activities, and an opportunity for formative assessments and models. It is everything the students will need in lesson to cover the lovers after reading.

This a report of my findings as an AQA examiner on June 2018 Paper 2. It includes top tips, models and some of the more useful things AQA gave us. This is useful in helping to develop the teaching of this paper and key strategies to help students move up the mark scheme.

Revise some key Englaish Language skills using Christmas adverts. They include models and get students to have a go at P1 Q2,3 and P2Q2. These are fun festive lessons where students still practice skills they will need for the exams.

This booklet has worked brilliantly in getting students to engage with the character of Lady Macbeth and how far students see her as a character as chages (November 2020 AQA question). It includes a sample essay 26/30, indicative content, articles curated to help students develop theit knowledge of the character and the big ideas. Students read this before they got their mock essays back, made notes and the ideas in the text, and then were able to re-write their essays. Students went up on average 7-10 marks after enaging with this booklet. It is aimed at HPA students but with scaffolding guidance, it was used successfully with students aiming for grades 4 and 5.

4 lessons based on World War One poetry. Students learn about what life was like for a soldier, then apply their knowledge through scaffolded descriptive writing. They then look at how to change their descriptions into war poetry. It uses the Sainsbury’s war advert as a prompt for their ideas.

These series of lesson use key extracts to track the development of Curely’s Wife. They also provide opportunities for students to practice responses using the 'What?‘How? Why?’ approach.

This intervention scheme of work consists of 3 lessons and assessment (using Nov 2019) and includes specific guidance from AQA and my findings as an examiner. There is also a booklet of articles for students to read for homework to help them develop a convincing voice, complex ideas and the AQA suggested planning methods.

5 complete lessons introducing the themes of the Gothic. These lessons are planned to help students develop a knowledge of the conventions of the Gothic, female archetypes, Gothic settings and how to analyse an extract and write a response using TEAL paragraphs. I have used this with my Y8s and the mastery of the concepts of Gothic conventions then helped them develop a greater understanding of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

7 complete lessons (including a DIRT/ feedback lesson) that focus on students being able to plan and write an effective piece of writing around the theme of adventure. It includes quizzes, checklists, models etc.

As an AQA examiner, I have developed this common approach for the language papers. It follows the What? How? Why? approach and includes diagrams, models and challenges to help push students to Level 4.