This is an exemplar paper I made using Gatsby and Vile Bodies with an A* model answer.

For OCR Language Paper 2 - an exemplar exam paper I put together from Cider with Rosie and A Room with a View, with an A* model answer for Q4

The Lottery - Shirley Jackson lesson

A practice paper for CIE IGCSE English Language 9-1, based on David Copperfield for questions a-f. Challenging but a good introduction to working with 19th century texts.

This is an ambitious but detailed two year course for the OCR English Language GCSE, teaching around 1 lesson a week for 2 years. It contains a PPT with all the lesson plans and resources (Around 45-50 lessons) and lots of worksheets, activities, texts and resources for the course. It's ambitious but could be further scaffolded and differentiated for all learners. (Some copyrighted material is omitted but can be found online or in books).

This is a collection of essay plans for 10 different whole-text questions on The Merchant of Venice.

Practice for writing intros for the Pre Unseen paper/ other papers, using the Matthew Prior poem (from a past paper)

The openings of various novels to analyse for narrative techniques

A practice paper for CIE IGCSE English Language 9-1, based on The Hound of the Baskervilles for questions a-f. Challenging but a good introduction to working with 19th century texts.

Waiting for Godot and the Theatre of Cruelty

A practice paper for CIE IGCSE English Language 9-1, based on The Woman in White for questions a-f. Challenging but a good introduction to working with 19th century texts.

A practice paper for CIE IGCSE English Language 9-1, based on Dracula for questions a-f. Challenging but a good introduction to working with 19th century texts.

The beginning of a unit of work on Paradise Lost - around the first five or six lessons are planned. Also included is a Consolidation booklet, dividing the poem into sections, with themes and quotations banks - all blank for pupils to fill in as they go. There's also a useful section on Milton's biography with key quotations from his other works, critical quotations, and quotations from the rest of the poem in the teachers' version of the pack.

A short scheme of work with I teach to Year 9 and at GCSE. PPT scheme with accompanying worksheets on: 1. Fiction openings 2. Developing description 3. Atmosphere 4. Creating narrative and plot 5. Concision and tweet stories 6. Diary writing 7. Speech writing 8. Letter writing 9. Magazine articles 10. Creative writing esp. "show not tell"

A practice paper for CIE IGCSE English Language 9-1, based on Ethan Frome for questions a-f. Challenging but a good introduction to working with 19th century texts.

Model answer to the task "Write a speech as a new headmaster addressing the teachers at your new school."

Waiting for Godot quiz and answers

Worksheet on 1.1.

A practice paper for CIE IGCSE English Language 9-1, based on The Island of Doctor Moreau for questions a-f. Challenging but a good introduction to working with 19th century texts.