Students need to complete the timeline of Eva Smith’s life in ‘An Inspector Calls’.

An A3 sheet designed for students to annotate and analyse Old Major’s speech.

-An A3 revision sheet for Wordsworth’s Extract from the Prelude. -An annotated copy of the poem. -A student version of the above with boxes to complete.

Designed for Year 7 (but adaptable), the lesson is about introducing students to What/How/Why - or PEE). Students need to match up 3 PEE burgers and then write their own paragraph.

A GCSE lesson to scaffold an essay on the presentation of Mr Birling in Act 1. It contains a full PowerPoint, a scaffolding table for students to complete, and a model intro / body paragraph / conclusion.

A detailed PowerPoint (and resources) to scaffold an essay on the theme of men and women in the play. Included within the lesson: A context quiz which covers some of the key parts of AO3 A scaffolded essay table for high ability students An alternative version for lower ability pupils A teacher version containing detailed recommended answers A model introduction and conclusion.

A lesson to scaffold an answer to AQA Paper 1, Question 5 (creative writing). It begins with a slide to prepare for AO6 (punctuation and grammar). There is a slide of different methods to help students to make create an original answer. The PowerPoint then talks through how to plan and write an answer. Finally, there is an alternative picture. (The lesson was designed initially for 1 lesson, but the final slide could extend into 2.) A model answer is included also.

A series of 5 overview sheets, each one covering an Act of Othello. The students complete them to amalgamate the key ideas, quotations, and aspects of character-development that take place across the play. I provided them as homework but they could also be a classroom activity.

A PowerPoint containing annotations for Jane Weir’s ‘Poppies’ (It is to be used for the Power and Conflict GCSE Anthology.)

A KS3 Scheme of Work to cover Aristotle’s three strands of rhetoric. This was originally designed for Year 9 but has since been used with Years 7 and 8 as well. Each lesson goes through a famous speech and analyses in relation to ethos, pathos and logos. Lessons are fully-resourced and easy for the teacher to follow.

A detailed PowerPoint to prepare students for a question on morality in Act 1. The resource include 2 versions of student planning sheets and a model introduction, body paragraph and conclusion.

A Scheme of Work studying Steven Spielberg’s film ‘Minority Report’. This was taught to a middle-ability Year 10 group. Things covered include: -Understanding of plot, -Understanding of character, -Analysis of individual scenes including mise-en-scene, costume, lighting, camera angles and shots, -A model essay, -A scaffolded coursework essay outline -Teacher versions of student sheets.

A copy of the inspector’s final speech in J.B. Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’. Contains key questions for students to answer. It is designed to guide students’ own annotations of the speech.

A completed character-theme table for Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’. It’s an excellent revision resource which can be adapted as a classroom activity (for students to complete) or provided to students to prepare for their examination.

A PowerPoint lesson that goes through foreshadowing and dramatic irony in Mr Birling’s speech at the start of Act 1. A detailed model paragraph is included.

A lesson designed for Year 7 or Year 8 but easily adapted to a primary group.

A complete model essay comparing ‘Ozymandias’ with ‘Extract From the Prelude’. The topic is the power of nature. It’s on Word so you can edit as you wish.

A complete lesson pitched at a Yr 8 or Yr 9 class. It could be used for lower ability Yr 10 also. It begins with revision of language features, tasks are differentiated and there is a body paragraph also.

Mr. Birling’s speech in Act 1, annotated with questions.

An annotated copy of the poem.