A free 3 slide power point focussing on the language used to describe utopias/dystopias.

A whole lesson contextualising the school system (secondary modern/grammar) with questions based on extracts from the play.

This is a whole lesson on explicit and implicit skills aimed at lower ability children. The lesson is based on text Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s/Philosopher’s Stone CHAPTER ONE ‘THE BOY WHO LIVED’ and also contains a physical activity that allows pupils to infer and ‘act’ out the image.

Mini activities on point of view, descriptions and explanations. Questions based on H G Wells The Red Room.

A KS3 lesson designed to get pupils thinking about how punctuation shapes meaning. The main activity is based around Stave 3 of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

A few lessons on comparative poetry skills focusing on WW1 poetry.

A lesson introducing students to sentence structures (simple, compound, complex) as as well as sentence types (imperative, declarative, exclamative and interrogative.

This is a lesson introducing pupils to structure through the notion of story mountains (they have the opportunity to create their own) as well as a look at Todorov’s Narrative Theory before moving on to analysing an extract from Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder.

Focussing on Mercutio and Tybalt fight scene with gifs, images and chunked text and targted differentiated questions.

Lesson includes context and work sheet to support pupils study the poem.

This lesson introduces pupils to reviewing and crafting their writing in response to films. Main activity involves a film review in response to Pixar’s Paperman with modelled examples.

A look at the perception of motherhood in Blood brothers with an essay question and sample response.

A comprehensive lesson that looks at the narrator’s role with questions, essay question and a sample response with key extracts from the play.

A short scheme of work examining Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley’s poems also containing creative lessons on poetry as well.

A look at different types of structure in Blood Brothers with a modelled response. Foreshadowing Analepsis Juxtaposition Repetition Cyclical structure Motif Focus Prolepsis

A lesson which covers staging terms as well as poses questions on tension and superstition with a sample response.

This is a lecture that I delivered for third year undergraduates at the University of Leicester on various approaches to Oscar Wilde. This lecture takes a historicist perspective so there’s lots of raw primary material on Wilde and the various editions of The Picture of Dorian Gray. You can use this for A-LEVEL pupils, or University graduates.

Introductory unit on Poetry. Poems used include Flanders Fields and Exposure.

Free lesson on how to write a PETER or exam response.

A fun interactive resource on semantic fields with a peer assessed activity at the end. Includes an additional activity if time permits.