This is a concise 2-page summary of key critics from 17th, 18th, 19th , 20th and 21st century critical schools of thought about Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’.

This resource provide comparative quotations and commentary on themes that link ‘Doll’s House’ and ‘Paradise Lost Books 9&10’ such as patriarchy, blame, death, revenge, temptation, the objectification of women and more.

These comprehensive step-by-step, easy-to-follow slides enable students (and teachers) to write confidently using dashes to extend noun phrases, using brackets for embedded / ‘drop-in’ clauses, using semicolons to replace connectives and using colons for lists and for emphasis. These lesson slides will also enable students to confidently use complex sentences and to vary sentence openers. Students will gain increased marks for technical accuracy and SPaG after completing this range of engaging tasks. This resources can be used in class or it can be set as punctuation and creative writing homework.

This is an in-depth analysis of the story, structure, themes, language and context of From Wordsworth’s ‘Prelude’. This would constitute as 1, 2 or 3 full lessons, depending on student engagement and attainment.

This teaching sequence has been designed to boost the confidence of both teachers and students and enable them to harness their descriptive power. The slides provide a step-by-step teaching and learning sequence which covers: sensory description, imagery and figurative language, semantic fields, zooming, contrast, cyclical structure and other structural techniques, varying word order and varying sentence openers, punctuation variety and description based on images.

This teaching sequence has been designed to boost the confidence of both teachers and students and enable them to write engaging and unique stories. The slides provide a step-by-step teaching and learning sequence which covers: establishing genre through character, action, setting and theme, character roles and functions, indirect characterisation and ‘show-don’t-tell’, unreliable narrators, omniscient narrators, intrusive narrators and limited third-person narrative viewpoints, the 5-point narrative arc and three advanced structural techniques as well as how to write suspense paragraphs and how to write action paragraphs.

Here is a user-friendly checklist of key terms for language and structure with brief examples. It has subject terminology for words and phrases, language features and techniques, sentence forms and structural devices. There are also helpful, memorable mnemonics for each set.

Here is an essay planning grid for a ‘Macbeth’ essay that covers AO1, AO2 and A03 for an extract-style essay question.