Based on the Edexcel specification. A Complete ‘walking, talking mock’ for GCSE English language paper 2, both sections. Includes lots of exemplars and model answers as well as examiner tips and writing frames.

Based on the Edexcel specification a complete ‘walking talking mock’ based on the Dracula exam paper. Using exemplars and models throughout alongside tips from the examiner.

A full five week SOW, focusing on preparing students for GCSE Jekyll and Hyde. Designed for Edexcel specification, but could be adapted to AQA. The lessons are focused on revising the novella and answering extract and whole text questions. There are model answers and a range of revision activities.

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.

A detailed 55 slide powerpoint, which breaks down in depth all of the ideas that students need to prepare them for ‘Hamlet’, from A-Level English paper one. The slides go through ideas from the play, themes, characters and devices. There are a range of activities such as close readings of Hamlet’s soliloquies and the use of Shakespeare’s imagery and motifs. There is a focus on each of the assessment objectives, and then an exam focus, with ideas of potential questions, essay plans and exemplars.

An in depth analysis of Wuthering Heights, Chapters 10-17, looking specifically at Heathcliff’s return and the impact of Cathy’s death. Students will consider whether Heathcliff can be considered a byronic hero, and then a hero or a villain overall, using evidence from these chapters to support their views. Covers the Assessment objectives for A-level study.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.